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Kickstart an exciting career in the food industry with our Food Technical Degree Apprenticeship!
Our manufacturing sites are looking for motivated individuals with a keen interest in food science to join our technical team as a Level 6 Degree Apprentice.
What You’ll Be Doing
- As a degree apprentice, you’ll have the exciting opportunity to work alongside our experienced technical team and dive into the world of food production and innovation.
- Key tasks include:
- Own Specifications: Review and maintenance of product specifications, ensuring accuracy and compliance with customer and legal requirements
- Support Product Launches: Check launch packs from NPD teams and ensure all technical details are correct
- Manage Complaints: Investigate and trend internal and external complaints, reporting insights to the business
- Approve Artwork: Be the first point of contact for technical approval of product labels
- Monitor Quality: Maintain supplier risk assessments and nutritional information databases
- Compile Reports: Prepare KPI reports and customer-specific documentation
- Drive Compliance: Support audits and ensure adherence to food safety, health & safety, and ethical standards
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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Training provider: SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Course contents:
- Contribute to the development, validation and implementation of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system.
- Establish process parameters and control requirements; measure the impact of process on product, set limits and take action to deal with process and product non-conformance.
- Interpret laboratory results; identify and analyse trends to diagnose or anticipate issues; define and implement action plans.
- Contribute to creating and implementing product specifications to meet customer requirements, identifying the key risk factors in product design.
- Contribute to the development of internal audits to ensure compliance with legal, industry and customer standards.
- Identify and promote tools to ensure a food safety culture within the organisation.
- Utilise tools to support the delivery of consistent quality of products.
- Establish and monitor integrated cleaning and hygiene programmes.
- Drive external audits including preparation, auditor interaction and corrective actions.
- Manage complaint performance through the identification of trends and the design of corrective action programmes.
- Design and implement site procedures to ensure legal compliance with current food law.
- Manage, influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Optimise and control parameters that influence common industry processes, for example: washing, mixing, heating, cooking, cooling and chilling, freezing, drying, freeze drying.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver new or existing product development projects.
- Apply project management tools to deliver projects to time, cost, specification and quality.
- Coordinate investigations into product non-conformances and implement incident management procedures.
- Review and select scientific techniques considering cost and practicalities and justifying the selection of service providers.
- Contribute to monitoring supplier performance and intake controls using supplier risk management processes.
- Design, implement and validate traceability systems to be fully compliant with customer and legal requirements.
- Lead, inspire and support the development of the team, providing technical guidance on food safety and quality.
- Identify, select and source relevant data and critically evaluate complex information to inform actions.
- Support and participate in environmental sustainability efforts by ensuring eco-friendly practices, such as waste reduction and energy optimisation.
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Essential qualifications: 96 UCAS points in any (grade predicted). Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
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