Manufacturing Process Apprentice
ESSITY UK LTD
Prudhoe (NE42 6HE)
Closes on Wednesday 2 July 2025
Posted on 23 January 2025
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Summary
• Excellent starting salary • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays • Benefits - cycle2work scheme, Healthshield, onsite canteen, pension scheme, sports and social club, health & wellbeing support and our online portal with access to discounts. • We will pay for the cost of public transport for the first 6 months of your employment
- Wage
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£17,000 a year
- Training course
- Engineering operative (level 2)
- Hours
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07:30 - 15:30 Monday to Friday, after 9 months in the training academy (depending on age) You will remain on dayshift or be assigned to a crew working a set shift pattern
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 2 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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12
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
As a Manufacturing Process Apprentice, you will be trained over 18 months to operate our papermaking or converting machinery both safely and effectively. This will include:
- Understanding the importance of health and safety
- Responsibility for your area of the machine ensuring safe running and the highest quality
- Carrying out preventative maintenance – clean, inspect, lubricate
- Completing audits – checking parameters, reading gauges
- Making mechanical changes with the use of hand tools
- Understanding key manufacturing systems, including an awareness of production costs
- Contributing to maintaining the quality of the products we manufacture
- Supporting the wider operational teams on site
Where you’ll work
Prudhoe Mill
Princess Way
Prudhoe
NE42 6HE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
ESSITY UK LIMITED
Your training course
Engineering operative (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
Your training plan
You will learn different skills, knowledge and behaviours within a dedicated training academy with the support of our dedicated on-site trainers, and on the job training with highly skilled mentors. On completion of this apprenticeship, you will be considered for appointment to a permanent role.
The Process Apprenticeship involves learning how to work as part of a team who are responsible for operating the machinery that produce our variety of products and taking ownership of the equipment.
Our Manufacturing Process Apprenticeship will equip you with the right skills, knowledge and behaviours you need to become an expert in your field.
This is a fantastic opportunity to earn while you learn within a world class company.
More training information
We’re looking for people who embody our values, aren’t afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and work in a fast-paced manufacturing site. We’re always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves.
So, if you have a passion for understanding how things work and are looking to secure a job in a world class company which will provide you with many future career opportunities, we’d love to hear from you.
At Essity, we embrace the individual and recognise the remarkable power that can be harnessed when different people with different ideas, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives come together. If you apply for a job at Essity, you can be sure that the only criteria we consider for selection is professional experience, qualification, key job-related attributes and working values.
At Essity, we believe everyone’s learning and professional development is unique and want to empower our employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture, motivated by a powerful purpose. Essity have a collaborative and Inclusive culture, empowering & engaged leaders, working with purpose and sustainable impact, learning and growing in your career, supporting wellbeing & sustainable working life, life-changing innovation with competitive total rewards.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
About this company
At Essity, we are dedicated to improving well-being through leading hygiene and health solutions. We contribute to better lives for individuals and communities around the world. We strive to minimise our environmental impact, and we are determined to develop products and solutions that use less resources and fit into a circular society. In the UK our manufacturing sites focus on the manufacture of our leading brands, Cushelle toilet tissue, Plenty kitchen roll and Tork.
After this apprenticeship
On completion of this apprenticeship, you will be considered for appointment to a permanent role. Many of our Apprentices have progressed into Process Operator positions and some have progressed onto the Technical Apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ESSITY UK LTD
Zara Dalton
zara.dalton@Essity.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000119205.
Apply now
Closes on Wednesday 2 July 2025
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