Quality Control Laboratory Technician Apprentice
Sicut Enterprises Ltd.
Middlesbrough (TS2 1DY)
Closes in 28 days (Monday 13 April 2026 at 11:59pm)
Hours: 08:00 – 17:00, 60‑minute unpaid lunch break each day. 40 hours per week.
Duration: 2 years
Work: Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands‑on experience.
What you’ll do at work
- Ensure that the raw materials delivered to the site fully meet the company’s quality standards by following an incoming testing and pass‑off procedure, ensuring products are approved and passed into stock in a timely manner through the company’s computer system.
- Follow and maintain the Standard Operating Procedures for all processes employed within the Incoming Quality Testing System.
- Support the Manufacturing Quality function by carrying out process audits, product compliance testing and final dispatch quality sign‑off.
- Ensure the quality process/functional areas and laboratory testing equipment are fully maintained in line with ISO accredited standards.
- Report quality performance utilizing reports, visual standards and uploading data onto company systems.
Where you’ll work
Sicut Enterprises Ltd. UK Manufacturing FacilitySnowdon RoadMiddlesbroughTS2 1DY
Training
- Comply with health and safety policies and procedures, including HASWA, COSHH, risk assessments, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), manual handling, and emergency procedures.
- Maintain excellent housekeeping in accordance with organisational Standard Procedures.
- Order and control stocks of laboratory materials where required.
- Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks, applying concepts of resource efficiency (e.g. energy, water and waste).
- Adhere to internal and external regulatory requirements, e.g. GLP, GMP, GDP.
- Prepare for, and perform, laboratory experiments, tests or tasks following any specified methodologies to provide reliable, accurate data (e.g. weighing, pipetting, filtering, spectroscopic techniques, chromatography techniques).
- Demonstrate technical competence in the use of specified instruments and equipment.
- Report faults and seek diagnostic advice to maintain equipment in good working order, including calibration where required.
- Complete documentation proficiently.
- Keep accurate records of laboratory work undertaken and results.
- Contribute to the preparation of reports.
- Use simple statistical techniques for data presentation and evaluation (e.g. calculation of median and standard deviation, production of graphs).
- Demonstrate problem‑solving techniques, including identification of sources of error and how to reduce them (e.g. human error).
- Use standard software packages and applications (e.g. Microsoft Office suite).
- Use Laboratory Information Management systems to support their work.
- Address non‑routine problems with samples and instrumentation within defined areas.
- Identify relevant information from scientific sources (e.g. supervisors, literature) in order to contribute to solutions.
- Participate in continuous performance improvement of systems and processes relevant to the work environment (e.g. workplace organisation techniques, accreditation such as ISO, UKAS and proficiency testing).
- Evaluate data, recognise and call attention to anomalous or unusual results.
- Training will take place at Middlesbrough College.
- One day a week day release.
Requirements
GCSE in:
- Math (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Ability to work safely
- Reliable
Other requirements
Please apply early to avoid disappointment, as this role may close early if sufficient applications are received.
About this employer
Sicut Enterprises is a company that manufactures and supplies sustainable infrastructure products, primarily focusing on composite railway sleepers and bearers made from recycled plastic. They are known for their Network Rail‑approved products and are actively involved in developing custom solutions for various track applications, including plain line, tunnels, bridges and more. Sicut’s products are designed to be sustainable, recyclable and have a longer lifespan than traditional materials like wood.
Potential for progression onto a full‑time role, depending on performance on the apprenticeship. Potential to work in other countries where the business has sites once qualified.
Contact
Middlesbrough College
nicole.james@northernskills.co.uk
01642333581
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000020735.
Apply now
Closes in 28 days (Monday 13 April 2026 at 11:59pm)
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