2025 Professional Apprenticeship - Quality Practitioner (5777)
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England, United Kingdom
Freelance
30-03-2025
Job Specifications
Professional Apprenticeship – Quality Practitioner Trainee
We're looking for bright and committed applicants who will bring energy, new ideas and a fresh perspective to help us become the recognised leader and transform the construction and engineering industry.
Role Overview
The broad purpose of the Quality Practitioner role is to deploy effective Quality Practices to ensure we fulfil the contractual and regulatory requirements of our customers and other stakeholders alongside our own business requirements. This includes four main elements: 1. Quality Planning (planning a delivery system for consistent outputs, such as implementing Quality Management Plans), 2. Quality Assurance (providing confidence to stakeholders that Quality standards are maintained, such as conducting audits), 3. Quality Control (verifying a product or service is meeting agreed specifications, such as carrying out inspections) and 4. Continuous Improvement (preventing recurrence of poor quality through analysis and addressing the root cause of poor quality, such as conducting investigations).
In their daily work, you will interact with a variety of teams within the organisation (e.g. technical, procurement, manufacturing, and operational) and external organisations, such as customers, suppliers and certification bodies when required. The individual will be expected to be an advocate for implementing Quality Practice and Governance. A typical day will include internal meetings to review quality performance, such as gathering and analysing quality performance data, inspection or audit findings, carrying out audits or inspections, stakeholder visits, interacting with people from other functions to plan the quality delivery system for their area of responsibility. Individuals will also support and develop people within and outside the Quality Function.
They work within the Quality function in Dartford under the guidance of the central Quality team.
Quality Practitioners are part of the QA/QC Job Family and the parent Technical Function, which ensures technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery. The Technical function is part of our Engineering Enterprise and is aligned with our overall strategy to maximise DFMA, Digital Engineering, and Early Engagement.
Quality Practitioners will receive the appropriate on and off the job training to allow you to become an experienced Laing O'Rourke Quality Practitioner.
Key Deliverables And Accountabilities Of a Quality Practitioner Apprentice
Support Quality Leaders to formulate Quality Strategy
Contribute to the management of customer satisfaction and supplier performance.
Deploy Quality Policies and Governance
Guide and support others to improve quality competency and performance.
Plan and Conduct Audits and other assurance activities.
Develop Quality Control Plans for products/services.
Provide guidance on use of methods/tools to improve quality performance.
Solving Quality problems, such as non-conformances, and overcoming challenges to the implementation of solutions
Effective application of quality risk management and mitigation to drive new products/services development
Highly computer literate (MS Office including MS Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint, PDF Editors).
Location
Dartford, Oxford, Worksop, London
Apprenticeship Provider
Laing O'Rourke collaborate with trusted and approved training providers (Universities) for our apprenticeship delivery. Successful candidates will be required to make an application to our preferred provider for the apprenticeship route you have chosen.
Apprenticeship level and standard
Quality practitioner / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
Entry Grades
Applicants Must Have Either
3 A Levels or equivalent.
The Laing O'Rourke Professional Apprenticeship Programme - what can you expect?
Our professional apprenticeship programme has been developed to ensure you are supported throughout every step of your journey, combining work-based experience with off-the-job training. You will be stretched, challenged and supported by a business that views your professional development and formal qualification as a priority.
Our programme will provide a fully funded day or block release Level 4 (HNC) and/or Level 6 (degree) apprenticeship in your chosen vocation, while working as a full time Laing O'Rourke employee. It will also include a series of bespoke development modules, and technical training opportunities, strategically placed to support you at key stages of your apprenticeship journey. During the programme you will work across a range of projects, which will offer the breadth and variety to support your occupational competency and will contribute towards the achievement of your apprenticeship and professional accreditation.
Entry Requirements
We are looking for candidates who meet the following criteria:
You must be eligible to work in the UK with a valid work permit
Entry grades will be listed within each job description and they will differ from role to role
To qualify for this programme, you will need to have a minimum of three A-Levels/or equivalent
The Professional Apprenticeship Programme will commence in September 2025**
About the Company
Laing O’Rourke is an international engineering enterprise, with operations in Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Our purpose is to push the boundaries of what's possible in service of humanity. Together, with our values of care, integrity and courage, this is what makes us unique. We have a strong culture which stems from our family ownership and a passion to deliver projects that improve the lives of the communities they serve. Across our global business, we continue to build a reputation of adapting our business ... Know more
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