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Process Industry Manufacturing Technician Apprentice - Cargill PLC Cogent Ssc Limited
Summary
This role involves working as part of a process team to ensure operation of the rapeseed oil Crush & Refinery departments, working to high safety, quality, and efficiency standards. During the apprenticeship, you will participate in a recognised training programme in science manufacturing along with comprehensive on-the-job training.
Wage: £22,228 a year
Training course: Process industry manufacturing technician (level 3)
Hours: Day shift, Monday to Friday with potential for shift work as experience grows. 38.5 hours per week, working hours TBC.
Start date: Sunday 1 November 2026
Duration: 2 years 3 months
Positions available: 6
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Job Responsibilities
- Train towards and demonstrate competency in the safe and effective operation of process equipment across the plant
- Perform in-process quality control and analytical checks to ensure product quality and compliance with site standards
- Work towards and successfully complete the Level 3 Process Industry Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship
- Support plant operations through front-line maintenance, housekeeping, and other production-related activities as required
- Maintain quality systems, operational logs, and other required documentation accurately and in a timely manner
- Keep detailed training records to support apprenticeship progress, training activities, and studies
What you'll do at work
The role involves working as part of a process team to ensure the successful operation of the Crush and Refinery departments while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency. During the apprenticeship, the incumbent will participate in a recognised Science Manufacturing training programme alongside comprehensive on-the-job training. You will learn about the crushing and refining of rapeseed and soybeans, as well as the associated oil and meal products that are supplied to many household brands. You will be exposed to mechanical equipment, automated systems, and the chemistry behind the process of producing edible oils for supermarkets, restaurants, and takeaways, as well as animal feed (meal) for the farming community.
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider: COGENT SSC LIMITED
Training course: Process industry manufacturing technician (level 3)
What you'll learn
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- Review instructions or information to understand the task. Plan tasks.
- Identify and organise resources with consideration for safety, environmental impact, quality, and cost.
- Identify hazards and risks in the workplace and personal safety and mitigation measures.
- Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow environment emergency procedures.
- For example, make area safe, evacuate.
- Apply sustainability principles.
- For example, minimising waste.
- Apply standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Check equipment.
- Select, check, and prepare raw materials for process.
- For example, weighing, measuring, control and blending, conditioning, dissolving, and sanitisation.
- Set and adjust processing parameters such as temperature, pressure, speed, or time, distance.
- Monitor process.
- For example, take readings and conduct walk-arounds.
- Conduct the control of product streams to maintain specifics.
- Apply quality assurance procedures.
- For example, density checks, contaminant check, and take samples for laboratory testing.
- Apply intermediate or post-manufacturing procedure.
- For example, labelling, packing, storage, visual inspection, discharge.
- Manage waste streams.
- Clean equipment.
- For example, boil-outs, steam-outs, bake-outs, steam in place SIP, clean in place (CIP).
- Conduct calculations.
- For example, conversations, tare weight, charge weights, yield calculations.
- Store tools and equipment.
- Identify equipment for handover.
- Apply signage and access restriction measures.
- Shut down the process and equipment.
- Isolate process and systems.
- Complete isolation checks.
- Empty equipment.
- For example, drain, purge, vent, and de-pressure.
- Purge, fill, pressurise and leak test.
- Complete post maintenance equipment checks.
- Line-up equipment.
- Connect service connections such as water, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic for chemical or petrochemical processing.
- De-isolate process, mechanical and electrical systems.
- Complete pre-start up checks.
- Start-up plant and equipment.
- Re-start process.
- Record or enter information.
- For example, paper based or electronic.
- Interpret data.
- For example, process data, quality control and test procedure data.
- Interpret drawings and graphs.
- Identify issues.
- For example, defects, deviations, process variance, and maintenance requirements.
- Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Apply problem solving and fault-finding techniques.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Make a suggestion for improvement.
- Use information and digital technology.
- For example, management information systems, human machine interfaces, word processing, spreadsheet, email, virtual learning platforms, document sharing platforms.
- Comply with cyber security requirements.
- Produce written documents.
- For example, handover notes or emails, non-conformances, design change requests.
- Communicate with others verbally.
- For example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Apply team working principles.
- Plan how to meet personal development needs.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development (CPD) activities.
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Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in: 5 GCSE's including Maths and English (grade 4/C or above)
Desirable qualifications
- A Level in: At least 2 A-Levels (grade CCC or above)
The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
About this employer
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs, and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
Company benefits
- Holiday Allowance - 25 Days Holiday Allowance, plus Bank Holidays
- Pension - Employee 5%, Employer 10% (Cargill offers double the amount into your pension pot up to 10%)
- Private Medical Cover
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Discount Schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Onsite Parking and Canteen
- Paid Sick Leave
- Days off for volunteering
- Life Insurance
- Death in Service amount
- Employee recognition/awards
- Away days/company parties
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Potential to become a Site Support Technician or Process Technician.
Starting salary £22k per annum rising with training with the first increase being after 12-months and further thereon based on performance. Future potential salary earnings in excess of £60k.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is: COGENT SSC LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000052525.
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Closes in 7 days (Thursday 22 October 2026)
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