Manufacturing Apprentice

Acu IT; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in the UK is seeking a Manufacturing Apprentice to join their team. This role is part of a dynamic program that focuses on developing future Technical Operators within the company. As an apprentice, you will work directly in the manufacturing process, gaining hands-on experience in operating machinery, fault diagnosis, and ensuring food safety standards. Successful candidates will receive comprehensive training and the opportunity for career progression after their apprenticeship.

Benefits

Investment in training

Career progression opportunities

Travel expenses covered for learning activities

Qualifications

• Must be over 16 years of age.
• Must not be engaged in other full-time education.
• Living in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Operate Manufacturing Machinery/Plant.
• Understand fault finding and asset care.
• Maintaining hygienic standards of the production environment.

Skills

Flexibility

Technical curiosity

Collaborative mindset

Education

GCSE Grade C and above in Maths, English & Science

Job description

Company Description

Mller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Mller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Mller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Mller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocers Top 100 list of Britains Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.

Mller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Mller which employs 26,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Mller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,500 farmers in Britain. Its 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. Mller as brand is ranked at No.17 in The Grocers Top 100 list of Britains Biggest Brands, and it is also Britains most chosen dairy brand, picked from shelves more than 182 million times each year.

Job Description

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

Mller UK & Ireland is Subdivided Into 2 Business Areas

• Mller Yogurts and Desserts (MYD)
• Mller Milk and Ingredients (MMI)

We are recruiting Apprentices in Mller 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 Mller 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 Mller, 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 Mller Corner, Mller Rice and Mller 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 Mller Yogurts and Desserts Operations teams to give you a thorough learning of all aspects of the business operation.

Whats in the Technical Operator Apprenticeship?

• 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 an 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 Mller Yogurts and Desserts. At Mller 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 Mller 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
• Minsterly

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