Apprentice Multi-Skilled Engineer

PECAN DELUXE CANDY (EUROPE) LTD

Leeds (LS25 6ES)

Closes in 17 days (Friday 5 June 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 19 May 2026

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Summary

We have an apprenticeship opportunity to join our small Engineering team. We are looking for a hard-working individual who is committed to building a career and developing their engineering skills in both electrical and mechanical, to support our food manufacturing operation in Sherburn in Elmet.

Wage

£16,640 to £26,436.80, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Starting salary will depend on age and experience. Salary to increase in line with NMW and qualifications and further commitment to reach HNC level.

Training course
Engineering maintenance technician - dual discipline (level 3)
Hours
During the first few years, you will work 8.30am-5.00pm. On completion of the apprenticeship, a shift rotation will apply: 6am-2pm / 2pm-10pm with on-call rota for nights and weekends as required.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 17 August 2026

Duration

3 years 9 months

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

Pecan Deluxe Candy (Europe) Company Ltd is a wholesale confectionery and bakery company supplying hundreds of food businesses across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

We are a family-owned global company, passionate about providing bespoke tailor-made products, and we are proud that our clients include numerous well-known ice cream brands. Our range of products include cookie dough, brownie, moulded chocolate pieces, fudge, honeycomb, sauces, caramelised nuts and sponge cake pieces.

Within our busy factory, you will play a key role in supporting our engineering team in providing an electrical, mechanical and engineering service, ensuring repair work and routine maintenance minimises downtime and is, at all times, in a food-safe manner and always putting safety and quality first.

Whilst day to day work is heavily electrically biased, planned maintenance and repair work will involve mechanical systems, gearboxes, motors, pumps and hydraulics.

This is a great opportunity to support a busy and successful production operation and also get involved in new developments and projects, such as ways to minimise our impact on the environment and improve efficiencies.

Under full supervision, daily tasks will include:

  • Preparing for planned, routine maintenance to mechanical systems
  • Carrying out planned maintenance tasks to include power supplies, mechanical systems, gearboxes, motors, pumps and hydraulics
  • Carrying out unplanned repair work to power supplies, mechanical systems, gearboxes, motors, pumps and hydraulics etc
  • Completing maintenance records as required by the company
  • Complying with health and safety procedures and policies at all times

Where you'll work

17 Moor Lane Trading Estate
Sherburn In Elmet
Leeds
LS25 6ES

Training

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

Training provider

YORK COLLEGE

Training course

Engineering maintenance technician - dual discipline (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Review and use information. For example, work instructions, drawings, design specifications, and plant configurations.
  • Use planning, prioritising, organising, and time management techniques to plan tasks.
  • Identify and organise resources to complete tasks. For example, consumables.
  • Respond and adapt to work demands. For example, adapt working methods to reflect changes in working environment, re-prioritise workloads to react to breakdowns and fault scenarios.
  • Identify equipment to work on. Check plant configuration is as defined.
  • Prepare the work area for maintenance tasks.
  • Identify environmental and health and safety hazards and risks and apply control measures.
  • Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, signage and barriers, working at height, confined spaces, and COSHH.
  • Follow security procedures. For example, site access, document classification, and securing assets.
  • Follow emergency incident and response procedures.
  • Apply sustainability principles. For example, minimising waste.
  • Segregate items for reuse, recycling, and waste.
  • Use mathematical principles and formulae to support engineering maintenance.
  • Apply engineering maintenance standards and procedures.
  • Apply foreign material exclusion procedures.
  • Follow maintenance tools and equipment control procedures. For example, handling and storage.
  • Reinstate the work area.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Communicate with others to give and receive information. For example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
  • Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
  • Record information.
  • Produce or amend documents. For example, handover notes and reports.
  • Identify and highlight issues (red pen), with technical drawings.
  • Use digital and information technology. For example, databases, data sharing platforms, email, management information systems, and word processing. Follow cyber security and GDPR requirements.
  • Apply continuous improvement techniques to identify improvement suggestions.
  • Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Confirm safe electrical isolation lockout tagout method has been applied and test for dead.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Select, check, and use electrical maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment. Select, check, and use control and instrumentation maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Use electrical diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques. Use control and instrumentation diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Apply problem solving and critical reasoning techniques.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Inspect and test electrical aspects of plant. For example, visual checks, insulation and continuity checks, thermographic surveys, and voltage levels.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Remove and replace electrical parts.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Prepare and terminate electrical cables.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Set up and adjust electrical aspects of plant.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Clean parts. For example, removal of dust and debris.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Conduct and confirm electrical and connected services isolation and deisolation.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Conduct functional testing.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Inspect and test control and instrumentation systems.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Check calibration and make adjustments.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Check loop function.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Set up and adjust control and instrumentation systems.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Remove and replace instruments and sensors.
  • Electrical and control and instrumentation. Re-connect instrumentation power supply, cables, pipework, and services.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Confirm safe electrical isolation lockout tagout method has been applied and test for dead.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Conduct and confirm electrical and connected services isolation and deisolation.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Select, check, and use electrical and mechanical maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Use electrical and mechanical diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Apply problem solving and critical reasoning techniques.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Inspect and test electrical aspects of plant. For example, visual checks, insulation and continuity checks, thermographic surveys, and voltage levels.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Remove and replace electrical parts.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Prepare and terminate electrical cables.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Set up, align, and adjust electrical aspects of plant.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Clean parts. For example, removal of dust and debris.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Conduct functional testing.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Check condition and operation of mechanical aspects of plant and equipment. For example, pumps.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Remove and replace mechanical parts.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Examine mechanical parts for defects. For example, pump seals.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Set up, align, and adjust mechanical aspects of plant.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Lubricate mechanical assemblies.
  • Electrical and mechanical. Apply bench fitting techniques.
  • Review and use information. For example, work instructions, drawings, design specifications, and plant configurations.
  • Use planning, prioritising, organising, and time management techniques to plan tasks.
  • Identify and organise resources to complete tasks. For example, consumables.
  • Respond and adapt to work demands. For example, adapt working methods to reflect changes in working environment, re-prioritise workloads to react to breakdowns and fault scenarios.
  • Identify equipment to work on. Check plant configuration is as defined.
  • Prepare the work area for maintenance tasks.
  • Identify environmental and health and safety hazards and risks and apply control measures.
  • Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, signage and barriers, working at height, confined spaces, and COSHH.
  • Follow security procedures. For example, site access, document classification, and securing assets.
  • Follow emergency incident and response procedures.
  • Apply sustainability principles. For example, minimising waste.
  • Segregate items for reuse, recycling, and waste.
  • Use mathematical principles and formulae to support engineering maintenance.
  • Apply engineering maintenance standards and procedures.
  • Apply foreign material exclusion procedures.
  • Follow maintenance tools and equipment control procedures. For example, handling and storage.
  • Reinstate the work area.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Communicate with others to give and receive information. For example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
  • Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
  • Record information.
  • Produce or amend documents. For example, handover notes and reports.
  • Identify and highlight issues (red pen), with technical drawings.
  • Use digital and information technology. For example, databases, data sharing platforms, email, management information systems, and word processing. Follow cyber security and GDPR requirements.
  • Apply continuous improvement techniques to identify improvement suggestions.
  • Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.

Training schedule

You will attend York College for 2 days per week in years 1 and 2, for 1 day per week in year 3 and for 1 day per half-term in year 4. The remainder of your training will take place in the workplace.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • 2 other subjects (grade 4)
  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (higher paper) (grade 5)
  • Science or a technical subject (grade 4)

BTEC in:

Engineering (grade Pass)

Desirable qualifications

BTEC in:

Engineering (grade Pass)

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

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Physical fitness
  • Respectful to colleagues
  • Reliability
  • Commitment to learning

Other requirements

You need to be able to travel to the workplace (LS25 6ES) independently as public transport is unreliable for working hours. Walking/biking from the bus stop/train station is possible, but it is not often suitable longer term when you move onto shift work as it does not operate to cover all shift times. Please consider travel before applying. 

* After you submit your application, look out for an email from apprenticeships@yorkcollege.ac.uk with details of the next stage of the application process. Check your spam folder, too, in case the email is diverted there.

About this employer

Pecan Deluxe Candy (Europe) Company Ltd is a wholesale confectionery and bakery Company supplying hundreds of food businesses across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

We are a family-owned global Company, passionate about providing bespoke tailor-made products and we are proud that our clients include numerous well-known ice cream brands. Our range of products include cookie dough, brownie, moulded chocolate pieces, fudge, honeycomb, sauces, caramelised nuts and sponge cake pieces.  

Pecan Deluxe established a site in the UK 25 years ago. We are part of a family owned business with a head office in Dallas that has been going since 1950s.

We have a headcount of approximately 145 colleagues.

https://pecandeluxe.com/uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

  • 30 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
  • Life insurance
  • Nest Pension Scheme

After this apprenticeship

We would offer the opportunity for you to continue your engineering training to HNC/level 4 with us.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

YORK COLLEGE

apprenticeships@yorkcollege.ac.uk

01904 770368

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000032090.

Apply now

Closes in 17 days (Friday 5 June 2026 at 11:59pm)