engineer Thrapston, England
Job description
About The Role
For the last 7 years Morrisons has continued to recruit and invest in our Engineering Apprenticeship Scheme and future talent. To date we have recruited a total of 104 successful candidates who are either on their journey to becoming a Multi Skilled Engineer or have successfully completed their course and are working in one of our 18 Manufacturing sites across the UK. This unique opportunity allows you to join our team and start your career with a leading fresh food manufacturer. This is the ideal springboard for an exciting career within the fast-paced world of food manufacturing.
Reporting into the Engineering team, you’ll get right into the action, in a paid role, whilst we fully support you with your studies. By the end of your apprenticeship you will be trained in both Mechanical and Electrical engineering maintenance, have successfully completed City & Guilds Level 3 in Food and Drink Engineering Maintenance and have strong knowledge of food safety, compliance and processing. This is a 4 year apprenticeship scheme and will have residential block release (periods of time away from home) for studies and exams.
Our Apprentice Scheme offers a very competitive salary and benefits package of which is subject to annual reviews. Not only that, you will have continued development and support through our mentoring and buddy system, offering you the tools to succeed and grow with our business.
The closing date for applications will be on Monday 13th March. Once all applications have been received we will then notify you if your application is to be progressed to the next stage of our recruitment process.
About The Company
About our Thrapston site:
At our fruit pack house in Northamptonshire, we supply our stores with 130 million packs of fruit and 40 million packs of nuts a year.
Our team of 740 colleagues uses new finger picking technology to get 30,000 cases of fresh food ready for our stores and Morrisons.com every week. We prepare everything from apples and pears to melons, tomatoes and those handy cucumber halves. This site operates a three-shift pattern and has a purpose-built distribution warehouse.
From a Bradford market stall to one of the largest supermarket chains and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer.
We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK at just under 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.
Every week, over 11 million customers pass through our doors and our colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver a great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our Morrisons.com service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.
We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.
About You
In order to be considered for our Engineering Apprenticeship you must be aged 18 or over and have achieved (or predicted) a Level 6 (Grade B) in Maths and Level 5 (Grade C) in English. It would also be desirable to have a Level 5 (Grade C) in Science.
We pride ourselves on our Colleagues, Culture and Ethos. Therefore we are also looking for Driven, Ambitious, Hard Working and like minded people who want to help us in our quest in Feeding The Nation. You must also have our all important customers at the heart of everything that you do.
