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We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Supply Chain Apprentice to join our Cicor Hartlepool site. This apprenticeship provides an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience across purchasing, procurement, production planning, customer order management, and supplier management while working towards a recognised qualification.
Requirements
- Assist with the purchase of electronic components, raw materials, and production consumables.
- Monitor supplier deliveries and update delivery schedules.
- Assist in monitoring and resolving material shortages to minimise disruption to production schedules.
- Place purchase requisitions on approved suppliers.
- Maintain accurate data within the SAP system.
- Assist with purchase order creation, expediting, and supplier communications.
- Support production planning activities through the accurate maintenance of planning data within SAP.
- Generate and analyse supply chain reports.
- Work closely with Purchasing, Planning, Program, Production, Engineering, Quality, and Warehouse teams to support operational objectives.
- Assist in identifying opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction.
- Ensure compliance with company procedures, quality standards, and health and safety requirements.
- Maintain accurate master data, purchase order information, and inventory records within SAP to support effective planning and procurement activities.
- Provide administrative support to the Supply Chain team as required.
- GCSE in: English (grade 6), Mathematics (grade 6), Science (grade 6).
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
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Responsibilities
- Manage the flow of fast-moving consumer goods products or services based on evolving and changing information.
- Use standard operating procedures.
- Support customers with supply chain enquiries.
- Use IT systems for the supply chain; Company and customer systems. Applies cyber security and GDPR regulations and policies.
- Use continuous improvement techniques in the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
- Lead and participate in problem solving activities: 5 whys, fishbone analysis.
- Use capacity planning to inform fast-moving consumer goods supply chain processes.
- Apply team working principles.
- Escalate issues and tasks.
- Analyse data against supply chain key performance indicators to identify trends and themes that affect the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
- Plan and adhere to customer lead times.
- Use data analysis outcomes to inform decision making in the supply chain function.
- Develop and implement a supply plan, for example, supply planning, production planning, demand planning, operations planning - logistics, commercial planning.
- Use order management tools to capture customer orders.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.
- Apply quality assurance procedures.
- Identify and document hazards and risks in the workplace. Apply control measures.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic; risk assessments, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, and any legal reporting requirements.
- Comply with sustainability principles and regulations including efficient use of resources, recycling, reuse and safe disposal of waste.
- Identify, organise and use resources, including team members, to plan and complete tasks, with consideration for cost and quality.
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Benefits
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Health Cash Plan
- Wage: £15,808 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age (National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices)
Application Process
- Closes in 17 days (Friday 17 July 2026 at 11:59pm)
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About Cicor
The Cicor Group is a globally active provider of full-cycle electronic solutions from research and development to manufacturing and supply chain management. Cicor has approximately 4,600 employees in 14 countries who are serving leaders from the medical, industrial and aerospace & defence industries. Cicor creates value to its customers through the combination of customer-specific development solutions, high-tech components, as well as electronic device manufacturing. The Hartlepool Site, which employs 130 staff, provides technology-focused manufacturing including PCB assembly, box build, test and the integration of design-led connectivity and power solutions. http://Cicor.com
Contact
- CICOR HARTLEPOOL LTD
- HR Department
- Hartlepool.HR@cicor.com
- Reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000039571.
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