Manufacturing Apprentice

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.

Job description:

Start your journey of Growth with Mller Yogurts and Desserts (MYD) as a Manufacturing Apprentice 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  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. 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? As an apprentice Technical Operator at Mller 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 an knowledge on legislation, Food safety, HACCP, Health & Safety, Risk Assessments and wider food and drink…