Quality Apprentice

Crosby Composites • Brackley, England, United Kingdom • £24.54k - £30.54k / year • 2w ago

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Quality Apprentice

Job Title:

Quality Apprentice

Reports to:

Quality Manager

Department:

Quality

Responsible for:

N/A

About the company:

Crosby Composites (established in 1982) is the number one composite manufacturer in the UK, excelling in the design and manufacture of high-quality carbon fibre parts. Our global customers cover Formula 1, motorsport but primarily automotive, making components and bodywork for some of the most prestigious and outrageous hyper cars in the world. Our services in supporting this include conceptual design, bespoke tolling and manufacturing (with inhouse state of the art spray painting, kit cutting and multiple large autoclaves).

About our employees:

As a member of the Crosby Composites team, we expect all our employees to:

Adhere to all Crosby Composites policies and procedures
Represent the Company in a professional manner at all times
Ensure workplace safety is practiced at all times
Maintain a clean and safe working environment

Core Values:

Teamwork – At the heart of everything we do

Reliability – Honesty and dependability in our everyday business

Accountability – It up to me and its up to us, we all take responsibility for our actions

Continuous Improvements – Always striving to improve all that we do

Exceeding Expectations – Never excepting the minimum standard

Driving Safety First – Looking out for ourselves and each other

Apprenticeship Scheme

Joining our apprenticeship scheme will give you a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and experience within our manufacturing team. We are committed to ensuring your professional success and our scheme will give you the opportunity to develop new work placed skills.

As an apprentice, you will fully commit to the 20% off-the-job training requirements of the role, alongside your normal day to day job. This is managed through the tutor providing fortnightly in person theory training.

You will have the opportunity to be apart of a high performing team and to develop the behaviours, knowledge and professional skills to be a part of that team. As part of the apprenticeship programme, you will commit to this professional development plan at the start.

Quality Apprenticeship - Job Description

Learning how to apply the customer standard to the manufactured product with the various measurement tools available within the business and support the development of the Inspection process to help the team to make the right decisions.

This role is part of an apprenticeship scheme which will lead to a qualification or company standard approval process.

You will learn to work to strict safety and quality requirements, help to achieve daily requirements in terms of quality and understand what is the Customer expectation.

Key Responsibilities (what you will learn):

Link between Quality department and Inspection department
Support in creating the Inspection criteria
Maintain the Quality standards to achieve our customer expectations
Core tools development – APQP/PPAP/MSA/PFMEA
Effective team player and communicator.
Good verbal communication and listening skills.

Communicate all non-conformances to appropriate personnel.
Record all non-conformances on internal quality management database.
Ensure that the inspection department is compliant with the quality management system and company procedures.
High proportion of inspection will be focussing on the cosmetic appearance of the panels.
Ensure all measuring equipment is kept in good working order and calibrated accordingly.
Maintain a clean and tidy working environment.
Validate Inspection reports on 1st off and development parts and ensure these follow the Customer given GD&T strategy

Expected Skills and Attributes: