Food Technical Degree Apprenticeship
SAMWORTH BROTHERS LIMITED
Cornwall, Leicester, Leicestershire, Manchester, Nottinghamshire, Shoreham-By-Sea
Closes on Friday 19 December 2025
Posted on 31 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Can you imagine walking through a supermarket and spotting a product you helped bring to life? Are you passionate about contributing to delivering high-quality food that’s tasty, innovative, and nutritious? Want to earn a degree and gain hands-on experience in a paid role that sets you up for a successful career? Then this opportunity is for you.
- Wage
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£25,390 a year
- Training course
- Food industry technical professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday. Shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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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
As part of the Technical team, you will
- Help to ensure the safety and compliance of bringing new products to our customers
- Ensuring safe food production processes
- Ensuring that packaging, shelf life, and food safety standards are met at every stage
You’ll be at the heart of making sure every product is fresh, safe, and high-quality when it reaches the consumer.
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:
- The Cornwall Bakery, 81 - 83 Tavistock Road, Callington, Cornwall, PL17 7TA
- 150 Scudamore Road, Leicester, LE3 1UR
- Chetwode House, 1 Samworth Way, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1GA
- Marshall Stevens Way, Trafford Park, Manchester, M17 1PP
- Manton Wood, Manton Wood Enterprise Park Worksop,, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2RS
- 57-60 Dolphin Road, Shoreham-By-Sea, BN43 6PB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Training course
Food industry technical professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
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
Training schedule
- 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 in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted 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 employer
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.
Company benefits
Enjoy great facilities, on-site parking, subsidised restaurants, private health cover, an excellent pension plan, and a discount scheme that saves you money at supermarkets, retailers, and leisure outlets.
After this apprenticeship
- We’ve partnered with SHU for years, and many of our colleagues are proud alumni
- With 80% student satisfaction and a reputation for teaching quality, you’ll be supported every step of the way
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000349077.
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Closes on Friday 19 December 2025
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