Quality & Inspection Apprentice

Introduction

Develop your expertise in quality processes and inspection of PCB assemblies, learning how to ensure products meet the highest standards. You’ll also play a key role in delivering quality products to our customers, providing training and guidance.

About the Employer

ASK Technology is a long and well established Printed Circuit Board (PCB) assembly company based in the UK. Uniquely focused on high-tech, low to medium volume requirements offering fast turnarounds from 1 day and rapid service responses including quotes within 24 hours.

Primarily our proposition is uniquely targeted at supporting research and design, prototype and New Product Introduction (NPI) needs along with small to medium volumes or sporadic demand batch builds.

Our setup and ISO 9001:2015 certified processes are focused on giving our clients flexibility, agility and capacity even at the shortest notice period with the tightest timeframes. Utilising state of the art equipment we are able to offer a full machine build experience that one would expect from a high volume manufacturer. We also provide full Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) and X-ray of all hidden pads on all boards, ensuring a consistent and full quality check along with feedback through our Design for Manufacture (DFM) reporting on every job.

We are proud to partner with all types of clients from start-ups through small to medium enterprises and global corporations. We work closely with experienced teams encompassing a range of industries and applications, which only goes to emphasise our wide and varied expertise working across all levels of a business from engineering, project management, finance, planning, procurement and senior leadership.

What You'll Do

This position will offer training in learning all the

various processes around the post-build of PCB assembly, AOI, X-ray and final inspection along with Quality assurance processes to ISO-9001 requirements.

This would typically offer long term career paths in Quality, Operations, Design or Layout management.

Training Outcome

This would typically offer long term career paths in Quality, Operations, Design or Layout management.

Skills Required

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience
• Willingness to learn
• Focus

Qualifications

• Essential - GCSE - English - 4
• Essential - GCSE - Maths - 4
• Essential - GCSE - Science - 4

Course Information

Course: Engineering fitter (level 3)

Level: 3

Route: Engineering and manufacturing

Apprenticeship Level: Advanced

Working Arrangements

Working Week: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5pm plus day release. 30 minutes for lunch plus 3 10-minute breaks.

Expected Duration: 3 Years 6 Months

Training Provider: BASINGSTOKE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY