Junior Quality Engineer Apprentice
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Company: Naim Audio
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Location: Wiltshire, SP1 2LN
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: £24,000.00 per year
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Sector: Business and administration
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Ref: NAS-2000046694
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Application Deadline Date: 20/08/2026
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Start Date: 01/09/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday to Friday, 7.5 hours per day, typically worked between the hours of 8.30am and 6.00pm. A flexible approach is essential as you may be required to work outside of normal hours to achieve organisational goals.
Brief Description
Join our Quality team as a Junior Quality Engineer Apprentice, developing the skills to inspect components, analyse quality data, investigate non-conformances and support continuous improvement. Working with engineering, production and suppliers, you will help ensure products meet the highest quality standards.
Training to be Provided
You will undertake a Level 4 Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship with an Ofsted rated Outstanding training provider, CSR Scientific Training, which will include:
- Fully recognised apprenticeship qualification- Level 4 Quality Practitioner
- On-the-job competency training
- Monthly online lectures
- A continuous improvement project
This apprenticeship is professionally recognised by the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) and successful completion of this programme provides opportunity for Practitioner registration with the CQI. CSR are an approved provider and when you enrol onto this apprenticeship, you are entitled to 50% discount off Student membership for the first 2 years with the CQI.
Future Prospects
- Junior quality engineer, with possible scope to progress to a quality engineer role in the future
Vacancy Detail
Purpose of the role and key objectives:
- Support the QEHS Manager for delivering all aspects of the Quality Assurance function
- Work in a team environment with suppliers and Naim production to develop and implement best practices that emphasise defect prevention, reduction in variation and waste and provide for continuous improvements in meeting all Product requirements
- Collect root cause analysis data and provide corrective feedback to prevent line stops due to supply issues. Responsible for ensuring that the products produced meet quality standards required to minimise quality costs and maximise customer satisfaction, whilst ensuring that procedures and processes are adhered to
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Incoming inspection of key cosmetic and functional components to a high level of detail and accuracy
- Recording inspection results and analysing data to drive improvement activities
- Assist with first off sample approvals and control
- Manage material review board for non-conforming parts
- Work with Engineering (Design and Manufacturing Engineers) teams to define process parameters and criteria to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet product and process requirements
- Resolve non-conformance issues with supplied materials and follow up with suppliers for completion of corrective actions
- Develop standards and requirements for purchased components
- Support new product launches, ensuring compliance with established standards
- Coordinate with purchasing department to provide data to monitor supplier performance, generating reports where appropriate and administering corrective actions as necessary
- Internal auditing of processes for quality improvement activities and monitoring
Other Information
- To give yourself the best chance, please ensure your application is genuine and written in your own words. Applications created solely with AI tools may not be accepted
- You must have been a UK resident for a minimum of 3 years to be eligible for apprenticeship funding