Manufacturing Apprentice

Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller S.e.c.s.; SHREWSBURY; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run dairy business is offering an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Apprentice based in Shrewsbury. The role involves operating manufacturing machinery and understanding various processes within the dairy production environment. Candidates should have GCSEs in Maths, English, and Science, and be eager to learn and grow within a supportive team. This apprenticeship provides a structured career path, generous salary, and comprehensive training to thrive in the dairy manufacturing sector.

Benefits

Comprehensive training

Career growth opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Must be over 16 years of age.
• Must not be engaged in other full time education.
• Flexibility to stay and travel for project work.

Responsibilities

• Operate Manufacturing Machinery/Plant and understand procedures.
• Learn fault finding and engineering maintenance.
• Maintain hygienic standards in the production environment.

Skills

Technical curiosity

Collaborative mindset

Focus on consumer

Education

GCSE Grade C and above in Maths, English & Science

Job description

We’re Müller UK & Ireland, a family-run dairy business and we’re experts at what we do. Dairy is a key part of a healthy and balanced diet and we’re super proud to help meet the nutritional needs of millions of people, every, single, day. To do this, our business has been split into two areas: Müller Milk & Ingredients (MMI) and Müller Yogurt & Desserts (MYD).

Join MMI and step into a culture that’s fast-paced and full of opportunity. With great benefits, exciting challenges, a dream team of people, this is your chance to make a real impact.

Over here, we’re processing enough milk to make 66 billion cups of tea every year. And we’re so much more than just milk. This is the place to come for cream, butter, milk drinks and ingredients products (a lot, we know), all made from milk from over 1,000 supplying farmers in Britain.

Milk flows through everything at Müller – from farm to factory to fridge. But the true impact comes from our people, in each and every corner of the business, working hard and as a team to put smiles on faces everywhere, making each day delicious for our shoppers.

As the UK's most popular dairy brand, we’re always striving to make a real difference for our planet, our partners and our people, making sure we're helping to create a more sustainable dairy future. We’re growing to keep up with the millions of people reaching for our branded and private label products on shelves everywhere. Join a culture full of pace that’s bold and entrepreneurial, with opportunities that are yours for the taking – and even enjoy every benefit and bonus to sweeten the deal.

Start your journey of Growth with Müller Yogurts and Desserts (MYD) as a Manufacturing Apprentice

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs 26,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,500 farmers in Britain. It’s a family based business. In the UK we produce some fantastic brands and private label for the top UK retailers - Yogurts, Desserts, Butter and flavoured milk. Müller as brand is ranked at No.17 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and it is also Britain’s most chosen dairy brand, picked from shelves more than 182 million times each year.

Müller UK & Ireland is subdivided into 2 business areas:

We are recruiting Apprentices in Müller Yogurts and Desserts (MYD)

Our purpose, as a major food and dairy manufacturer, is to empower your personal drive and ambition to create your own success story. Our DNA is to be bold, reward courage, focus on the future and allow our business to grow whilst encouraging its most vital asset, its people, to excel. Our part in this partnership is to support and encourage that empowerment by providing opportunity and so our responsibilities are to work together, proudly as one team.

Where will this career journey take you?

This is an exciting opportunity to join Müller Yogurts and Desserts in a new upcoming Apprentice role as a Manufacturing Apprentice within our Manufacturing Academy. We are growing fast and we need future Technical Operators to grow with us!

We focus on continuous learning to develop not only our business but our people. This Apprenticeship program is an opportunity for you to learn about every aspect of our manufacturing process. As an apprentice at Müller, you will get full support, development and training to become one of our Technical Operators. Our Technical Operators keep the manufacturing process running through operating machinery, front-line fault diagnosis and resolution, asset care, and performing basic maintenance. A key focus for technical operators is food safety, through monitoring Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points and recording the results. In this role, you will gain the skills and knowledge of our end to end process within our manufacturing operations, producing our customer products such as Müller Corner, Müller Rice and Müller Light, all following given procedures to produce in the most efficient way. This is a fantastic opportunity to start your career in operations, with pathways of progression after your apprenticeship across a range of operational roles.

You will be working in a team environment at one of our three dairy locations all based in Shropshire, Market Drayton, Telford or Minsterley, spending time on the production lines and off-line while working on activities such as projects. You would be required to work shifts (age dependent), including weekends.

Your development journey will be strategically guided by Müller Yogurts and Desserts Operations teams to give you a thorough learning of all aspects of the business operation.

What’s in the Technical Operator Apprenticeship?

As an apprentice Technical Operator at Müller Yogurt & Desserts you will learn how to:

• Operate our Manufacturing Machinery/Plant, standard operation procedures, new trials and manufacturing methods and processes
• Understand how to do startups, close downs and changeover procedures
• Understand fault finding, engineering maintenance and asset care
• Gain a knowledge on legislation, Food safety, HACCP, Health & Safety, Risk Assessments and wider food and drink industry awareness
• Understand end to end process of raw materials and supply chain
• Quality Assurance and Compliance
• Maintaining hygienic standards of the production environment
• Health and safety in a production environment
• Process plants with standardising of mixes, Bulk liquids, Ingredient knowledge on how they change / react to meet a product specification

What we can do for you?

• Investing in our Technical Operator apprentices is critical to the future success of Müller Yogurts and Desserts. At Müller you receive the highest standard of training supported by our champions in the field.
• At the end of the Apprenticeship programme you will gain the L3 Standard Food & Drink Technical Operator Apprenticeship

What You will Need?

• GCSE Grade C and above in Maths, English & Science (or EU equivalent)
• Flexibility to stay and travel to accommodation for the purpose of project work or learning activities at other Müller sites work (expenses will be covered)
• Must be over 16 years of age
• Must not be engaged in other full time education
• Must be living in the UK

What to Expect?

• Hours: A full time role of 40 hours / week with some potential to experience shift working.
• Pay: £18,500 salary, with an increase after successful completion of your first year on the apprenticeship programme.

What you will bring?

• An infectious desire to drive your future and accelerate your career.
• A consistent focus on the consumer at the heart of all activities
• A collaborative mindset to support peers
• Be comfortable in managing the apprenticeship workload alongside business tasks against tight deadlines
• A technical curiosity to learn
• A mindset that is eager to make an impact on an enormous scale and looking for greatness.

Locations:

• Market Drayton
• Telford

If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to talk! Your journey begins here