About this role
- Producten Apprentice Quality Engineer Locatie: Blackpool Role: Apprentice Quality Engineer Location: Blackpool, FY4 4NW Hours: 37 hours per week | between 08:00 and 16:30 Monday to Thursday, and 08:00-13:00 Friday Hourly rate: £8.66 (£16,741.51pa) Kick‑start your engineering and quality career with a hands‑on apprenticeship You'll work within our Supplier Quality team , supporting both internal manufacturing teams and external suppliers to improve quality, prevent defects, and drive continuous improvement across our processes. From day one, you'll be learning on the job, supported by experienced mentors and structured training. What you'll be doing As an Apprentice Quality Engineer, you'll be involved in a wide range of quality and improvement activities, including: - Collecting and analysing quality data to help identify trends, issues, and improvement opportunities - Supporting investigations into non‑conforming or defective materials and helping to put corrective actions in place - Working with suppliers to assess quality, capability, and compliance - Supporting new product introduction and supplier verification activities - Taking part in cross‑functional improvement projects across the business - Learning and applying structured problem‑solving, Lean, and continuous improvement tools You won't be expected to know everything from day one - this role is about learning, developing, and building confidence over time. You'll learn how to: - Understanding data types, sources, architecture, and how data is managed, shared, and stored - Extracting, cleaning, validating, formatting, and combining data from multiple sources - Data quality, governance, and compliance considerations - Analysing data using basic statistical methods, databases (SQL), algorithms, and pattern recognition - Presenting insights through data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI/Tableau) and using AI tools effectively with data Training is delivered th...