Mill & Malted Ingredients Production Apprentice
MUNTONS PLC
Suffolk (IP14 2AG)
Closes in 9 days (Sunday 19 July 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 July 2026
Contents
Summary
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
- Wage
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£22,000 a year
- Training course
- Process industry manufacturing technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday,
However, there may be a need to work flexibly in accordance with the 12 hour Panama shift (6am to 6pm /6pm to 6am) on occasion.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Saturday 1 August 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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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
Key Tasks:
- Learn how production processes operate from raw material intake through to finished product
- Assist with operating plant and equipment in line with standard operating procedures and work instructions
- Monitor processes and equipment, identifying abnormal conditions and escalating issues appropriately
- Support quality checks, sampling and completion of production and quality documentation
- Maintain high standards of hygiene and housekeeping in line with site requirements
- Work safely at all times, following health & safety procedures, risk assessments and permit systems
- Develop an understanding of basic process control systems and data recording
- Participate fully in planned maintenance, cleaning and inspection activities
- Complete all apprenticeship learning, assessments and development activities
Knowledge Developed:
- Understanding of process industry operations, plant and equipment
- Awareness of health, safety, environmental and food safety requirements
- Knowledge of quality systems, specifications and compliance standards
- Understanding of basic process control, monitoring and data collection
- Awareness of lean manufacturing, efficiency and continuous improvement principles
Skills Developed:
- Safe operation of process plant and equipment
- Monitoring processes and responding appropriately to deviations
- Accurate completion of production, quality and safety documentation
- Communicating effectively with team members and shift management
- Working to procedures and specifications to achieve consistent quality
- Supporting routine maintenance, cleaning and fault identification
Where you'll work
Cedars Maltings
Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP14 2AG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
COGENT SSC LIMITED
Training course
Process industry manufacturing technician (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Review instructions or information to understand the task.
- Plan tasks. Identify and organise resources with consideration for safety, environmental impact, quality, and cost.
- Identify hazards and risks in the workplace and personal safety and mitigation measures.
- Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow environment emergency procedures. For example, make area safe, evacuate.
- Apply sustainability principles for example, minimising waste.
- Apply standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Check equipment.
- Select, check, and prepare raw materials for process for example, weighing, measuring, control and blending, conditioning, dissolving, and sanitisation.
- Set and adjust processing parameters such as temperature, pressure, speed or time, distance.
- Monitor process for example, take readings and conduct walk-arounds.
- Conduct the control of product streams to maintain specifics.
- Apply quality assurance procedures. For example, density checks, contaminant check, and take samples for laboratory testing.
- Apply intermediate or post-manufacturing procedure for example, labelling, packing, storage, visual inspection, discharge.
- Manage waste streams.
- Clean equipment for example, boil-outs, steam-outs, bake-outs, steam in place SIP, clean in place (CIP).
- Conduct calculations for example, conversations, tare weight, charge weights, yield calculations.
- Store tools and equipment.
- Identify equipment for handover.
- Apply signage and access restriction measures.
- Shut down the process and equipment.
- Isolate process and systems.
- Complete isolation checks.
- Empty equipment for example, drain, purge, vent, and de-pressure.
- Purge, fill, pressurise and leak test.
- Complete post maintenance equipment checks.
- Line-up equipment.
- Connect service connections such as water, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic for chemical or petrochemical processing.
- De-isolate process, mechanical and electrical systems.
- Complete pre-start up checks.
- Start-up plant and equipment.
- Re-start process.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Interpret data for example, process data, quality control and test procedure data.
- Interpret drawings and graphs.
- Identify issues for example, defects, deviations, process variance, and maintenance requirements.
- Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Apply problem solving and fault-finding techniques.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Make a suggestion for improvement.
- Use information and digital technology for example, management information systems, human machine interfaces, word processing, spreadsheet, email, virtual learning platforms, document sharing platforms. Comply with cyber security requirements.
- Produce written documents for example, handover notes or emails, non-conformances, design change requests.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Apply team working principles.
- Plan how to meet personal development needs. Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development (CPD) activities.
- Review instructions or information to understand the task.
- Plan tasks. Identify and organise resources with consideration for safety, environmental impact, quality, and cost.
- Identify hazards and risks in the workplace and personal safety and mitigation measures.
- Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow environment emergency procedures. For example, make area safe, evacuate.
- Apply sustainability principles for example, minimising waste.
- Apply standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Check equipment.
- Select, check, and prepare raw materials for process for example, weighing, measuring, control and blending, conditioning, dissolving, and sanitisation.
- Set and adjust processing parameters such as temperature, pressure, speed or time, distance.
- Monitor process for example, take readings and conduct walk-arounds.
- Conduct the control of product streams to maintain specifics.
- Apply quality assurance procedures. For example, density checks, contaminant check, and take samples for laboratory testing.
- Apply intermediate or post-manufacturing procedure for example, labelling, packing, storage, visual inspection, discharge.
- Manage waste streams.
- Clean equipment for example, boil-outs, steam-outs, bake-outs, steam in place SIP, clean in place (CIP).
- Conduct calculations for example, conversations, tare weight, charge weights, yield calculations.
- Store tools and equipment.
- Identify equipment for handover.
- Apply signage and access restriction measures.
- Shut down the process and equipment.
- Isolate process and systems.
- Complete isolation checks.
- Empty equipment for example, drain, purge, vent, and de-pressure.
- Purge, fill, pressurise and leak test.
- Complete post maintenance equipment checks.
- Line-up equipment.
- Connect service connections such as water, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic for chemical or petrochemical processing.
- De-isolate process, mechanical and electrical systems.
- Complete pre-start up checks.
- Start-up plant and equipment.
- Re-start process.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Interpret data for example, process data, quality control and test procedure data.
- Interpret drawings and graphs.
- Identify issues for example, defects, deviations, process variance, and maintenance requirements.
- Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Apply problem solving and fault-finding techniques.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Make a suggestion for improvement.
- Use information and digital technology for example, management information systems, human machine interfaces, word processing, spreadsheet, email, virtual learning platforms, document sharing platforms. Comply with cyber security requirements.
- Produce written documents for example, handover notes or emails, non-conformances, design change requests.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Apply team working principles.
- Plan how to meet personal development needs. Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development (CPD) activities.
Training schedule
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation
More training information
The Process Industry Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship (Level 3) is designed to develop skilled technicians who can run, maintain, and optimise industrial process operations.
The programme equips apprentices with practical competence, technical knowledge, and safety awareness to support efficient, high-quality production across process industry environments.
Aligned with real-world manufacturing operations, the apprenticeship helps employers maintain operational efficiency, ensure product quality, and support continuous improvement.
What the Apprenticeship Delivers for Employers
Apprentices develop the capability to:
- Operate and maintain process industry plant equipment safely and efficiently
- Identify, resolve, or escalate process, quality, H&S, and environmental issues
- Prepare and dispatch intermediate or final products
- Conduct handovers effectively between shifts or maintenance teams
- Carry out first-line maintenance, testing, and minor repairs on equipment
- Prepare equipment for shutdowns, maintenance, or decommissioning
- Bring process systems safely back online following planned work
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 and above)
- Maths (grade 4 and above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Team working
About this employer
Muntons is a significant global supplier to the food and drinks industry and has been producing high-quality malt and malted ingredients for some of the most famous, and well-loved brands around the globe for the over 100 years. Successful and growing with customers ranging from multinational food and beverage producers to start ups and small independent craft brewers and distillers, you’re likely to have tasted our products already, without even knowing it! You’ll find our headquarters in Suffolk, and our other production sites in East Yorkshire and Thailand. We also have sales offices in Asia, Europe, and America. We are passionate about malt, malted ingredients and sustainability; being the leaders in our field we are over halfway to meeting or beating our net zero carbon target by 2050. We continue to look to the next 100 years as a strong and sustainable global supplier of malt and malted ingredients.
https://www.muntons.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Pension (5% employer, 3% employee), 25 days holiday, Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, profit bonus, flexible working, myStaffShop membership, fully funded Process Industry Manufacturing Technician apprenticeship, structured training.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- The programme will involve gaining experience and training to develop your knowledge and skills to enable you to take up a position within the organisation
- The Company will endeavour to provide you with such training to achieve this aim but cannot guarantee a permanent placement
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
COGENT SSC LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000040904.
Apply now
Closes in 9 days (Sunday 19 July 2026 at 11:59pm)