Supply Chain Apprentice

PARKER HANNIFIN MANUFACTURING LIMITED

Tyne and Wear - United Kingdom (NE11 0PZ)

Closes on Monday 16 June 2025

Posted on 2 May 2025

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Summary

An apprenticeship at Parker offers you a perfect combination of on-the-job training, hands-on responsibilities and academic classes. Duties include supporting the Supply Chain Team in supplier selection and performance management and ordering materials and services, based on customer demands.

Wage

£16,000 a year

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Training course
Supply chain practitioner (fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)) (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Thursday, between 8:00am - 4:30pm. Friday, 8:00am - 1:30pm.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

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

  • Maintain data quality.
  • Review lead times on monthly basis.
  • Communicate with internal teams and other stakeholders to ensure smooth operation.
  • Weekly Gemba Walks and record Gensuites.
  • Create reports on Inventory levels & Late Backlog.
  • Coordinate activities with the team members.
  • Support the Kanban activities.
  • Learn to collaborate effectively with other team members.
  • Participate in stock take.
  • Provide material availability dates to key Supply Chain stakeholders, ensuring that they are realistic and achievable.

Where you'll work

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Ltd
Gas Separation and Filtration Division EMEA
Dukesway - Team Valley Trading Estate - Gateshead
Tyne and Wear - United Kingdom
NE11 0PZ

Training

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

College or training organisation

ZENITH PEOPLE LIMITED

Your training course

Supply chain practitioner (fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)) (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Manage the flow of fast-moving consumer goods products or services based on evolving and changing information.
  • Use standard operating procedures.
  • Support customers with supply chain enquiries.
  • Use IT systems for the supply chain; Company and customer systems. Applies cyber security and GDPR regulations and policies.
  • Use continuous improvement techniques in the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
  • Lead and participate in problem solving activities: 5 whys, fishbone analysis.
  • Use capacity planning to inform fast-moving consumer goods supply chain processes.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Escalate issues and tasks.
  • Analyse data against supply chain key performance indicators to identify trends and themes that affect the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
  • Plan and adhere to customer lead times.
  • Use data analysis outcomes to inform decision making in the supply chain function.
  • Develop and implement a supply plan, for example, supply planning, production planning, demand planning, operations planning - logistics, commercial planning.
  • Use order management tools to capture customer orders.
  • Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
  • Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.
  • Apply quality assurance procedures.
  • Identify and document hazards and risks in the workplace. Apply control measures.
  • Record or enter information - paper based or electronic; risk assessments, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, and any legal reporting requirements.
  • Comply with sustainability principles and regulations including efficient use of resources, recycling, reuse and safe disposal of waste.
  • Identify, organise and use resources, including team members, to plan and complete tasks, with consideration for cost and quality.
  • Manage the flow of fast-moving consumer goods products or services based on evolving and changing information.
  • Use standard operating procedures.
  • Support customers with supply chain enquiries.
  • Use IT systems for the supply chain; Company and customer systems. Applies cyber security and GDPR regulations and policies.
  • Use continuous improvement techniques in the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
  • Lead and participate in problem solving activities: 5 whys, fishbone analysis.
  • Use capacity planning to inform fast-moving consumer goods supply chain processes.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Escalate issues and tasks.
  • Analyse data against supply chain key performance indicators to identify trends and themes that affect the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
  • Plan and adhere to customer lead times.
  • Use data analysis outcomes to inform decision making in the supply chain function.
  • Develop and implement a supply plan, for example, supply planning, production planning, demand planning, operations planning - logistics, commercial planning.
  • Use order management tools to capture customer orders.
  • Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
  • Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.
  • Apply quality assurance procedures.
  • Identify and document hazards and risks in the workplace. Apply control measures.
  • Record or enter information - paper based or electronic; risk assessments, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, and any legal reporting requirements.
  • Comply with sustainability principles and regulations including efficient use of resources, recycling, reuse and safe disposal of waste.
  • Identify, organise and use resources, including team members, to plan and complete tasks, with consideration for cost and quality.

Your training plan

Working towards Supply Chain Practitioner Level 3 apprenticeship standard. Training will take place at employer's site.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 9-4)
  • Maths (grade 9-4)

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
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working

About this company

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Parker Hannifin provides expert industry knowledge, innovative engineering, and robust solutions for a cleaner, greener tomorrow. At Parker Hannifin, you have the individual scope for development to discover a broad range of topics and possibilities to which you can contribute your own ideas. Parker Hannifin is an equal opportunity employer and aware of its responsibility toward people with disabilities.

https://www.parker.com/gb/en/home.html (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Full-time role available for the right candidate upon completion of apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ZENITH PEOPLE LIMITED

Ian Wilkinson

ianwilkinson@zenithtraining.org.uk

01919171097

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318616.

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Closes on Monday 16 June 2025

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