Location: Unit 5a, New Cut Ln, Woolston, Warrington WA1 4AG
Working for Plastic Closures Ltd
Plastic Closures Ltd is a leading manufacturer of high-quality plastic closure solutions, supporting customers across the packaging, food and drink, pharmaceutical, and industrial sectors. With decades of manufacturing expertise, the business has built a strong reputation for reliability, technical excellence, and customer-focused innovation.
Through continuous investment in modern production, tooling, and quality systems, Plastic Closures Ltd delivers a comprehensive range of caps, closures, and bespoke packaging components. From standard designs to fully tailored solutions, every product is developed to meet demanding performance, safety, and regulatory standards.
By working closely with customers, suppliers, and industry partners, Plastic Closures Ltd provides dependable packaging solutions that enhance product integrity, efficiency, and sustainability across the supply chain in the UK and international markets.
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What will I be doing as a Quality Assurance Technician apprentice?
As a Quality Assurance Technician Apprentice, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring Plastic Closures’ products meet required quality, safety and compliance standards before they reach customers. You’ll support the Quality function through inspections, testing, documentation and close collaboration with production and management teams, directly contributing to product integrity, traceability and continuous improvement across the business. Key responsibilities will include:
Carrying out routine quality checks across production, including visual inspections, weight and temperature checks, and inspection of raw materials and finished goods.
Verifying manufacture records, labels, batch details, packing activities and production documentation, ensuring all information is accurate, current and compliant.
Performing independent quality testing in line with specifications, including tamper band, CRC, tensile and heat sealing tests, recording results clearly and consistently.
Supporting product release, incoming goods checks, non-conformance management and non-routine testing, working closely with the Quality, Production and Management teams.
Maintaining quality equipment, sample plans and records, and ensuring all quality-related documentation is controlled, organised and easily retrievable.
Assisting with customer and supplier quality requests, certificates, samples and Quality Management System documentation, providing support both in the office and on the shop floor when required.
You’ll take part in ongoing training and development to build your technical skills, accuracy and confidence within a manufacturing QA environment. You’ll gain exposure across production, engineering, planning, suppliers and customers, developing a broad understanding of the full product lifecycle and preparing you for long-term progression in quality and manufacturing.
What could the future look like?
When you join Plastic Closures, the possibilities for your success are limitless. As a successful applicant, you have the potential to secure a full-time position within the company at the conclusion of your apprenticeship.
Through practical, on-the-job training, you will develop new skills and gain the competence and responsibility required for materials testing and analysis. This apprenticeship serves as a stepping stone towards a rewarding career in materials science, with the added opportunity for the apprentice to become a registered Science Technician (RSci Tech).
This programme opens up a variety of career pathways across industries including construction materials, civil engineering, geotechnical investigation, environmental consultancy, and infrastructure development, ensuring your materials science skills are in demand across multiple sectors.
This apprenticeship can also help pave the way for further educational and professional advancement. You may choose to pursue higher-level qualifications through one of our Degree Apprenticeships such as a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Applied Materials Science.
Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
About You
This is a practical, hands-on quality role, so you’ll need to be confident getting involved with inspections, testing and general lab work.
We’re looking for someone who can balance accuracy with working at pace. You should be able to follow procedures carefully, record reliable data, and still keep testing and inspections moving quickly to support production. You’ll be motivated, proactive and ready to adapt when priorities change.
You’ll have good health and safety awareness and be comfortable working to strict QA and H&S requirements in both the lab and operational areas.
Clear communication is key—knowing when to ask questions, share updates and work together to solve issues.
To succeed in this apprenticeship, you’ll bring enthusiasm, drive, a willingness to learn, and a strong commitment to doing things right the first time while keeping momentum.
Experience
We value attitude, curiosity, and commitment just as much as past experience. While previous experience can be helpful, it’s not essential — we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, especially those with a genuine interest in the field and the motivation to build a career.
You might be a school or college leaver, or someone looking to retrain. Either way, if you’re enthusiastic, proactive, and ready to learn, you’ll fit right in.
Qualifications
It’s about enthusiasm, not school results. In our experience the most successful apprentices are those who are driven to find out more about the sector, can be up front about what they do and don’t already know, are considerate, self-reflective, and impatient to learn the job role!
