Manufacturing Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

Join us as a Manufacturing Degree Apprentice on our 3-year programme and work across a variety of manufacturing teams to gain an understanding of equipment, processes and technologies. Gain hands-on experience with exciting live projects, learning from skilled team members from all areas of the site.

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

Training course

Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)

Hours

Some of our roles are shift based and may require early starts, late finishes and working weekends. We’ll also need you to work on Bank Holidays and during peak times of the year.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 1 September 2027

Duration

3 years

Positions available

14

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

Gain hands-on experience, learning from skilled team members from all areas of the site. Day-to-day tasks that you will be responsible for could include:

• Running production lines and leading our production teams
• Providing support at our Flowerworld site at peak trading times, such as Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day
• Finding solutions to improve the efficiency of production lines through exciting live business projects

Where you'll work

You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.

This apprenticeship is available in these locations:

• Greenside Park, Bradford, BD8 9RU
• The Abattoir, Junction Street, Colne, BB8 8LH
• Pegasus Way, Grimsby, DN37 9TS
• Haldens Parkway, Thrapston, Kettering, NN14 4QS
• York Road, Flaxby, Knaresborough, HG5 0RP
• King Street, Rudheath, CW9 7WA
• Crown Way, Rushden, NN10 6BS
• Brunel Road, Pinchbeck, Spalding, PE11 3YY
• Wharton Road, Winsford, CW7 3BB

Training

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

Training provider

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD

Training course

Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)

What you'll learn

• Support the development of organisational strategies and plans. Develop and deliver operational plans; being able to set targets and KPIs, manage resources, and monitor and measure outcomes to establish operational effectiveness, efficiencies and excellence.   Produce reports that clearly present information and data, using a range of interpretation and analytical processes.  Gain wide support to deliver successful outcomes
• Plan, organise and manage resources in order to achieve organisational goals.  Identify key outcomes, develop and implement plans and monitor progress, and provide reports as required.  Proactively identify risk and create plans for their mitigation. Able to initiate, lead and drive change within the organisation, identifying barriers/challenges and how to overcome them. Ability to use widely recognised project management tools
• Managing budgets, controlling expenditure and production of financial reports
• Use of customer insight and analysis of data to determine and drive customer service outcomes and improve customer relationships.  Creative approaches to developing solutions to meet customer need
• Able to identify service/organisational improvements and opportunities for innovation and growth, using qualitative and quantitative analysis of information and data and benchmarking against others
• Communicate clearly, effectively and regularly using oral, written and digital channels and platforms.  Use active listening and open questioning to structure conversations and discussions, and able to challenge when appropriate.  Manage and chair meetings and clearly present actions and outcomes. Ability to apply influencing and persuading skills, to the dynamics and politics of personal interactions
• Able to articulate organisational purpose and values.  Support the creation of an inclusive, high performance work culture. Enable others to achieve by developing and supporting them through coaching and mentoring
• Able to build teams, empower and motivate others to improve performance or achieve outcomes.  Able to delegate to others, provide clear guidance and monitor progress. Ability to set goals and accountabilities
• Able to build rapport and trust, develop networks and maintain relationships with people from a range of cultures, backgrounds and levels.  Able to contribute within a team environment.  Effectively influence and negotiate, being able to have challenging conversations and give constructive feedback.  Work collaboratively with internal and external customers and suppliers
• Able to reflect on own performance, identifying and acting on learning and development needs. Ability to understand impact on others.  Can manage stress and personal well-being, and confident in knowing core values and drivers
• Able to create personal development plan, and use widely recognised tools and techniques to ensure the management of time and pressure effectively, and prioritisation and strategic alignment of activities
• Use evidence-based tools and ethical approaches to undertake problem solving and critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation to support decision making

Training schedule

• As well as learning on-the-job, you’ll also be studying towards a Bsc (Hons) in Chartered Management at the University of Bradford. Balancing work and a degree course will be challenging, so to support your learning, we'll offer study leave to complete university work stress free
• At the end of the 3-year scheme, Apprentices could be prepared for a Shift Manager role on one of our sites and have gained a full chartered membership of the CMI (Chartered Management Institute)

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade Grade 4)
• Maths (grade Grade 4)

Desirable qualifications

Achieved or predicted UCAS Points in:

Any (grade 112 UCAS points)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working