Food Industry Technical Professional Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

Would you like to see a product on a supermarket shelf and think that you played an important role in getting it there? Are you passionate about providing quality food products that are delicious, innovative, and healthy for our consumers? Then this opportunity could be for you.

Wage: £25,988 a year
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Training course: Food industry technical professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday - Friday. Shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Tuesday 2 September
Duration: 3 years
Positions available: 2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Once a new product has been developed by our chefs, the technical team then work towards bringing these recipes into production whilst maintaining the safety and integrity of the product. This could be:

Developing the production process
Ingredient specifications
Packaging information
Product life or the quality & safety of food at all stages of production
Monitoring and controlling our food safety standards, making sure that every single product reaches the consumer fresh, and safe to eat

During your programme you would have 3 x 1-year placements which are all real job roles with real responsibilities.

Where you’ll work

57-60 Dolphin Road

Shoreham-By-Sea

BN43 6PB

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Food industry technical professional (integrated degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Lead, develop and implement the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system and team on site
Interpret microbiological results; spot and analyse trends to diagnose or a nticipate issues; define and implement action plans
Develop product specifications taking into account the key risk factors in product design; ensure customer pre-requisites are implemented and followed
Manage, develop and implement internal audit schedule to ensure compliance with legal, industry and customer standards; keep abreast of new standards; credibly host third party audits
Select the most appropriate tools and methodology to demonstrate compliance, food safety culture and delivery of consistent quality of products
Establish cleaning and hygiene programmes and audit methodology; set up monitoring programmes; interpret data; identify different risk zoning in an operational area and the different hygiene requirements; manage internal and external cleaning contractors
Manage complaint performance through the identification of trends and the design of corrective action programmes to improve credibility with customer
Design and implement site procedures to ensure legal compliance with current food law; lead any investigation into legal contravention with the relevant enforcement authorities
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
Optimise and control parameters that influence common industry processes: washing, mixing, heating, cooking, cooling/chilling, freezing, drying, freeze drying
Be able to liaise and co-ordinate with other functions to deliver New Product Development projects. When appropriate take the lead and drive the project
Use project management tools to deliver projects to time, cost, specification and quality
Coordinate investigations into and responses to non-conformances and participate in incident management teams; implement incident management procedure
Review and select relevant scientific techniques taking into account cost and practicalities; experiment, collect and analyse data and formulate solutions
Manage supplier intake controls; carry out supplier a udit & performance reviews and risk assessment; maintain approved supplier, contractor and vendor performance process
Design and implement traceability system fully compliant with customer and legal requirements; monitor to verify validity of process
Lead and develop a small technical team on site
Develop and demonstrate critical evaluation/analysis of complex information and data

Your training plan

You attend Sheffield Hallam University on block release for 4 days at a time, 5 times a year
The degree award is BSc (Hons) Food Science and Technology

Requirements

Essential qualifications

A Level or equivalent in:

Science or Food Technology (grade BBC / Distinction Merit Merit)

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
Customer care skills
Presentation skills
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

As placements could be at any of our business locations, the flexibility to re-locate is key and we will provide you with relocation support.

About this company

Samworth Brothers are a 21st century food business creating high quality food products enjoyed by millions of people across the UK every day. We have grown to employ over 10,000 people across our group of businesses based mainly in Leicestershire but also with sites spread across the UK including Cornwall, Worksop, Shoreham-by-Sea, and Manchester. You may have heard of some of our branded products such as Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, and Ginsters, but we also make products for major UK food retailers. For four generations Samworth Brothers has been acting responsibly and doing the right thing. As a business, we exist to be a force for good in the lives of our communities, and to create greater opportunities for our colleagues, our customers and our suppliers. By being the very best at what we do, we can make profits to reinvest in a better future and a better world.

After this apprenticeship

We offer our apprentices a permanent contract of employment from the start so that you can be sure that we are fully invested in your success.

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