Purchasing Quality Assurance Advanced Apprentice

On-site in Worcester·Full-time·Added 3 days ago (last checked 23 Oct)

Bosch

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Our summary

Work mode: On-site, Worcester
Contract: Full-time
Holiday: 25 days holiday + bank holidays

Skills

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Deadline for Applications: Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible.

Working Hours: 39 hours per week – standard working pattern of 08:00 – 17:00 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 – 16:00 Friday with a 1-hour lunch break

Working with us comes with the following benefits:

Office based role
25 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays (pro-rata for your first year)
Eligibility for our Company Performance Bonus (up to £2,000 gross per annum)
Enhanced pension contributions
Access to the Perkbox and My Benefits platforms giving access to discounts, group income protection and death in service benefits
Employee Assistance Programme and Virtual GP
Discounts on products from across the Bosch Group
Subsidised on-site café and canteen
Health & well-being support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions
Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events
Volunteering days
Policy to support growing families
Access to self-service training platform containing over 200 Bosch approved programmes
Networking opportunities across Bosch UK including a mentoring programme
And more!

The role

Your Purpose:

Support the Purchasing Quality Assurance team in their day-to-day activities.
Work with a national and international Purchasing Quality team and support the business of Home Comfort in developing the supply base.
Provide technical support to production and other departments regarding non-conformances.
Analysis, update and development of Purchase Quality databases as necessary.
Participate in the Continuous Improvement Process.
Other general projects or quality engineering duties as required.

Role Scope

Support the Purchasing Quality Assurance team in dealing with quality topics from purchased parts.
Support the problem solving and investigation of internal component complaints.
Dealing with internal and external cross departmental teams.
Dealing with external suppliers as required.
Support the returns to supplier & cost collection process.
Support the data management of quality complaints and supplier data.
General administrative work when required.

Key Focuses:

Support Production dealing with quality issues of purchased components.
Containment actions and problem-solving activities.
Inspection of delivered goods.
Returns to suppliers & reimbursement process.
Supplier data management in SAP.

Qualifications

Be the type of person people like interacting with, this role relies on great working relationships!
Very good communication and networking skills.
Determined and resilient, able to deal with challenges and find solutions. Attention to detail.
Possess strong analytical skills and critical thinking.
Be hands-on and have an agile mindset.
Proficient skills in MS Excel as a starting point, with experience / knowledge of more office and software applications.
Be target orientated, and able to meet deadlines.
Forward thinking, with strong organisational skills.
Proactive and self-motivated, able to work independently.
A University (academic) education, and studies in Engineering are a must to this role preferably HND or BEng in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering.

Hiring process

2 steps1 interviewa task to do2–6 weeks in all

Online application
Screening
Interviews
One or more interviews, by video or onsite.
Assessments or case studies
Not every role
For some roles: technical assessments, coding tasks, case studies or presentations.

Feedback after screening usually arrives within 1-3 weeks.
Interviews are held in the language of the job posting.
The recruiter shares assessment details in advance.

About Bosch

Industry: Automotive Technology
Founded: 1886
Employees: 100,000+
Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany
Website: bosch.co.uk

In their own words

About the company & team

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures. 

From boilers, hybrids and heat pumps to solar thermal and smart controls, we’re giving our customers plenty of choice. With cutting-edge tech and research, we’re right in the thick of the drive for a better future of home heating.

It’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering. 

As an organisation of more than 1,600 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out. 

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you. 

Come and work #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

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