Level 3 Food Technologist Apprenticeship
MORNING FOODS,LIMITED
Cheshire (CW2 6HP)
Closes in 23 days (Friday 31 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 October 2025
Contents
Summary
This apprenticeship role is designed to give you broad exposure across product information, supplier management, and technical standards. You’ll gain a strong foundation in both supply network and finished product compliance, while building transferable skills that open doors for your future.
- Wage
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£23,015.85 a year
- Training course
- Food industry technologist (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Shifts to be confirmed.
36.25 hours per week, in the office.
36 hours 15 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 17 November 2025
- Duration
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2 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
- Gain experience in customer & consumer complaints management, helping to investigate, respond, and feed learnings back into continuous improvement
- Get hands-on with finished product specs – making sure every detail is correct, clear, and customer-ready
- Join in material testing & quality checks to see how what goes in impacts what comes out
- Work with PIMs & PIPs (Product Information Matrix & Pack) to keep product data sharp, accurate, and on point
- Support supplier approval – helping to check that raw materials, packaging, and partners meet the highest standards
- Learn how to handle artwork & labelling checks so products always look right and meet the rules
- Dive into finished product testing & surveillance to help spot issues before they reach the shelf
- Explore mass balance exercises – tracing raw materials through to finished products for full transparency
- Work closely with the supply network team to understand how raw materials move from field to factory to consumer
- Build skills that bridge technical detail with real-world impact – making food safer, clearer, and better every day
Where you'll work
North Western Mills
Gresty Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW2 6HP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REASEHEATH COLLEGE
Training course
Food industry technologist (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Implement and maintain risk management systems (for example, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points).
- Review and maintain technical procedures for food businesses.
- Use a range of IT systems to analyse and interpret data to identify trends and drive Continuous Improvement (CI).
- Provide and interpret management data and information (reports and presentations).
- Conduct sensory evaluation activities.
- Contribute to Continuous Improvement (CI).
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues.
- Use problem solving techniques and investigation methods, including root cause analysis.
- Influence and negotiate with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders using technical language and methods appropriate to the audience.
- Check raw materials, packaging and finished product quality against legislative requirements and specification.
- Monitor and review manufacturing standards and parameters.
- Support trials on new and existing products.
- Investigate product non-conformance and recommend corrective action.
- Contribute to the development and innovation of new and existing products.
- Plan and produce samples suitable for all stages of the new and existing development process.
- Contribute to the creation of product specifications and label content.
- Contribute to the identification and selection of parameters for sensory analysis and shelf life evaluation.
- Apply agreed standards to compare and evaluate against samples.
- Compile product costings.
- Conduct food product audits against standards and recommend areas for improvement.
- Conduct food process audits against standards and identify non-conformities and recommendations for improvement.
- Measure environmental conditions throughout the food manufacturing process and escalate non-conformities that could impact food safety and product quality.
- Evaluate raw materials against agreed parameters and report non-conformities.
- Measure and evaluate adherence to quality processing systems and standards.
- Identify and communicate products and process issues and make recommendations for corrective action.
- Oversee the implementation of corrective action to address product and process issues.
- Carry out internal audits and participate in external audits.
- Investigate and resolve problems, including customer complaints or quality issues.
- Implement and maintain risk management systems (for example, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points).
- Review and maintain technical procedures for food businesses.
- Use a range of IT systems to analyse and interpret data to identify trends and drive Continuous Improvement (CI).
- Provide and interpret management data and information (reports and presentations).
- Conduct sensory evaluation activities.
- Contribute to Continuous Improvement (CI).
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues.
- Use problem solving techniques and investigation methods, including root cause analysis.
- Influence and negotiate with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders using technical language and methods appropriate to the audience.
- Check raw materials, packaging and finished product quality against legislative requirements and specification.
- Monitor and review manufacturing standards and parameters.
- Support trials on new and existing products.
- Investigate product non-conformance and recommend corrective action.
Training schedule
This apprenticeship will be delivered in the workplace
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE 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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Logical
- Team working
About this employer
Morning Foods is Europe’s premier oat miller and a trusted leader in oat-based breakfast cereals. With more than 350 years of milling heritage, we combine deep expertise with a forward-looking commitment to innovation and excellence. Our operations are built on uncompromising standards of food safety and quality, demonstrated through certification to the BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety and alignment with international best practice across the oat supply chain. From the careful sourcing of raw oats through to milling, production, packaging, and distribution, every stage is governed by rigorous controls, robust risk management, and independent verification. This culture of compliance, transparency, and continuous improvement ensures that we deliver products of the highest standard to our customers while maintaining trust across markets worldwide. Grounded in tradition yet driven by innovation, Morning Foods remains at the forefront of the industry—defining excellence in oat-based foods.
https://www.morningfoods.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
22 paid holidays per year, plus statutory bank holidays
After this apprenticeship
Course options after this programme
- Study a higher level apprenticeship or foundation degree
Career options
- Food Technologist
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REASEHEATH COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345617.
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Closes in 23 days (Friday 31 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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