Engineering Apprentice

Overview

Are you passionate about problem-solving
? Excited about building a long-term career in engineering? And highly motivated to learn while earning?

If this sounds like you, our Engineering Apprenticeship could be the perfect opportunity!

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Atherstone
, we have a team of around 550 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, rolls, bircher pots and toasties for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Aldi, Shell, Costa & Cafe Nero.

The food industry is an exhilarating place to be an engineer! We use some of the most innovative, modern and technically automated equipment available to manufacture a wide range of food products for our customers.

Our 4 year Engineering Apprenticeship Programme
, delivered in partnership with our trusted training provider MGTS
, allows you to work towards the Level 3 Food and Drink Maintenance Engineering Apprenticeship
. This programme offers the ideal blend of hands-on experience and structured learning, helping you develop your skills and reach your full potential in the food industry.

You’ll work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, learning from experts while developing the skills and behaviours that will set you up for success.

Based at our Atherstone site, flexibility is key as our operation runs 24/7, so shifts may include early starts, rotating nights, and weekends.

By the end of the programme, you’ll be able to:

• Keep our food safe by following health, safety, and engineering standards.
• Maintain and optimise machinery to keep production running smoothly.
• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance.
• Support machinery changeovers and set-ups.
• Drive improvements through audits and performance reviews.

Alongside your day-to-day role, you’ll attend 15 study blocks of 3 weeks in MGTS’s training facility in Redditch (mostly during the first two years).

As part of these study blocks, you’ll gain hands on experience to gain the knowledge and skills required to be a food and drink maintenance engineer, before applying them in real working scenarios in the workplace.

A driving licence and access to a car is highly advantageous to support travel requirements.

Please note
:
Overnight stays will be required for those who are unable to commute to Redditch during study blocks. Due to Safeguarding policies set by our accommodation providers, we are unable to provide accommodation to those under 18.

• Starting salary: £25,700 per year
• Travel and accommodation expenses when attending study blocks
• Wellbeing benefits at no cost, including Virtual GP, annual health check, mental health and nutritional consultations, Adult Care helpline, and on-site physio
• Dedicated support, coaching and mentoring to support your career development
• Opportunities to develop through our Grow with Greencore offer, as well as dedicated Early Careers learning events
• A nationally recognised engineering qualification
• Time to meet the learning requirements of your apprenticeship
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Holiday buying
• Company share save scheme
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

We are looking for you to have a passion for engineering, food, and people. You will also be

• Highly motivated to grow their career, studying alongside doing a demanding day job
• Curious,…