Level 4 Manufacturing Quality Apprentice
MAGAL AUTOMOTIVE LTD.
Employment Date: Tuesday 1 September 2026
Duration: 3 years 6 months
Hours: Monday to Thursday, 08:15 - 16:45; Friday, 08:15 - 13:15 (37 hours a week)
Salary: £15,392 to £24,454.04, depending on your age.
Training Course: Engineering manufacturing technician (level 4)
Training Provider: DUDLEY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Responsibilities
- Carry out planned inspections and quality checks on automotive parts and assemblies, ensuring compliance with specification standards.
- Accurately record, analyse, and report quality data to support manufacturing performance and decision making.
- Support and contribute to structured investigations into quality issues, including root cause analysis and the identification of corrective and preventative actions.
- Apply quality control procedures and documentation to ensure consistent product quality and regulatory compliance.
- Support internal and external audits, contributing evidence, actions, and follow‑up where required.
- Work closely with production teams to maintain, monitor, and improve quality standards within manufacturing processes.
- Use manufacturing and quality data to support continuous improvement activities and reduce defects and variation.
Work location
Baldwin Road
Stourport-On-Severn
DY13 9BB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You will study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Course details
- Read and extract relevant engineering and manufacturing data and information (workplans, project plans, schedules, drawings, specifications, production data, quality reports, costing data, statistical information) to draw accurate conclusions and make informed decisions.
- Use project management tools such as SWOT, stakeholder matrices, risk mapping, radar chart and summary risk profiles.
- Use problem‑solving tools such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Fishbone, Practical Problem Solving (PPS) and Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).
- Analyse and interpret data to generate manufacturing engineering documentation such as Parts Per Million (PPM) quality adherence, cost analysis, and test data.
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience (formal and informal presentations, written reports, verbal, electronic, social media) incorporating relevant metrics.
- Use the approved process and quality compliance procedure to create or amend engineering or manufacturing documentation.
- Apply lean tools and techniques such as Six Sigma, 8 Wastes, 5S (sort, set in order, shine, standardise, sustain), Kaizen and Poka‑Yoke (error‑proofing).
- Apply documentation control processes and procedures such as format, location, access and authorisation.
- Use financial planning, recording and review processes and documentation such as departmental budgets, estimating, cost control, cost forecasting, and investment appraisal.
- Use computer‑based software systems or packages such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), Data Analytics and Databases.
- Attend Advance 1 Campus, Dudley College, DY1 4AD, one day per week in term time only.
- Upon successful completion of this apprenticeship, receive a Level 4 Engineering Manufacturing Technician (Mechanical) HNC Apprenticeship qualification.
- Be assigned an assessor who will visit you in the workplace every 6‑8 weeks to support your apprenticeship.
Requirements
- GCSE in English (grade C/4/Level 2 Functional Skills).
- Level 3 in Engineering/Maths & Science.
- Relevant A Levels, if you have them, the apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Understand Microsoft Software.
- Reliable.
- Responsible.
- Time Management.
- Knowledge of basic tools.
- Knowledge of measurement tools.
Other requirements
- Must be able to commute to Stourport easily for work and to Dudley College for day release.
About this employer
Magal Cables has been producing cables for over 80 years for the automotive and defence sectors. Since 2008 it has introduced transfer work of mechanical assemblies, pedals, winches and handbrakes, adding pressing and moulding facilities and gearshift mechanisms. In 2020 the company changed ownership, becoming part of Remsons Holdings Ltd, and in 2023 was renamed Remsons Automotive Limited.
- Career progression into Quality Engineer or Quality Inspector roles.
Contact
DUDLEY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Chloe Powell
Chloe.Powell@dudleycol.ac.uk
01384363158
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Closes in 9 days (Sunday 5 July 2026 at 11:59pm)
