Inspection Apprentice in Brackley

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 hyper cars in the world. Our services include conceptual design, bespoke tooling and manufacturing with in-house state of the art spray painting, kit cutting and multiple large autoclaves.

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 is up to me and it is up to us, we all take responsibility for our actions
• Continuous Improvements – Always striving to improve all that we do
• Exceeding Expectations – Never accepting the minimum standard
• Driving Safety First – Looking out for ourselves and each other

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 workplace 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 part 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.

Inspection 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 the Customer expectation is.

Key Responsibilities (what you will learn):

• Link between Production and Inspection departments
• Maintain the Quality standards to achieve our customer expectations
• Effective team player and communicator
• Good verbal communication and listening skills
• Measure all the parts manufactured to drawings
• Ensure that all parts are inspected in line with the customer; carbon fibre and/or lacquer/paint standards both mid-process and prior to dispatch
• 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 focusing 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

Expected Skills and Attributes:

• Have a basic understanding of tools
• Be a team player
• Have a positive attitude
• Be able to follow written and verbal instructions
• Be practical and enjoy practical working
• Have a passion for Formula 1 and Automotive