Maintenance Engineering Apprenticeship

2 Sisters Food Group

West Bromwich (B70 0EB)

Closes in 26 days (Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 2 April 2025


Summary

2 Sisters Food Group are offering an exciting opportunity for 2 Mechatronics Maintenance Apprentices to join their site located in West Bromwich. As an apprentice within the Engineering team you will become a key member to ensure the site runs smoothly while learning from some of the best in the industry.

Wage

£25,396.80 a year

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28 days annual leave (including bank holidays) Employee discount platform, offering savings of up to 60% with brands including ASDA, Morrisons, M&S and Tesco Fantastic development opportunities for promotion and career development

Training course
Engineering technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday- Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

4 years

Positions available

2

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

We will give you real tasks and empower you to make real decisions.

As an apprentice within our engineering department you will receive good all-round training in engineering practices. 

You will support our engineering team with general duties on site, as well as learning a well recognised qualification during your time with us.  You will roll your sleeves up and get stuck into life at 2 Sisters. 

As an engineer, you will be key to keeping our sites running and work with some of our equipment. 

You will have exposure to people at all different levels and learn from some of the best in the industry.

You will be trained to a very high standard in areas such as:

  • Mechanical engineering
  • Electrical engineering
  • Automation engineering
  • Fault finding skills
  • Adjustment and setting of machines to a good operating standard

Where you’ll work

5 Dial Lane
West Bromwich
B70 0EB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

IN-COMM TRAINING AND BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED

Your training course

Engineering technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Your training plan

  • This is a 4 year Level 3 Engineering Technician Apprenticeship, with the first year being full time at the training provider, In-Comm Training Services in Aldridge, Walsall, WS9 8UG
  • Please ensure you are able to travel to this address as well as to the company address

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • English, maths and science (grade 4/C and above)

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
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness
  • Keen engineering interest
  • Flexible
  • Proactive

Other requirements

The apprentice must be able to travel to the company site and to the Training Provider. This role will be physically demanding so the right candidate must be physically fit.

About this company

We are one of British business's most compelling success stories of the past 20 years. More than 13,000 colleagues drawn from 36 nationalities help to make a mind-boggling array of some of the finest food in Britain - From poultry to pizza, from ready meals to ranges of soup. We started out from very humble beginnings in the early 1990s, and from there 2 Sisters has grown to become one of the leading food manufacturing companies in Europe, producing great quality, great value food. We have a strong UK presence in poultry, chilled and bakery food categories. We are also committed to delivering the highest quality products to the British public and to our retail and food service customers. Our customers include Aldi, Asda, Co-op, KFC, Lidl, Marks & Spencer, Morrison's, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose.

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After this apprenticeship

  • Upon completion of your apprenticeship, there is potential for you to progress and gain experience within Engineering and develop a successful and rewarding career in the sector
  • Our main aim is to bring somebody into the team and for them to develop and become a key team member. We are looking to invest our knowledge, skills and time in the right person

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

IN-COMM TRAINING AND BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED

Keira Stead

keiras@in-comm.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000313457.

Apply now

Closes in 26 days (Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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