We support you to become a qualified Multiskilled Engineer with a mix of practical and classroom based learning. At the end of the 4 years, you will graduate with an OAL Level 3 in Food and Drink Engineering Maintenance, Level 3 Health and Safety Award, and your 18th Edition Regulations Certificate.
The best bit? You will earn as you learn! Your salary will increase year on year as you progress and develop.
So what do our engineers actually do…
Our Engineers are problem solvers. They are responsible for maintaining, fixing and installing machinery that allows us to create tasty, healthy, high quality products. If a machine breaks down, we can’t get products to our customers. As an Arla Engineer, you will save the day and make sure that the nation get Cravendale milk in their tea each morning, Skyr yoghurt in their breakfast bowl, and Anchor butter on their toast.
We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?
Your training plan
As part of this course, you will study at Kirklees College in Huddersfield, Arla Foods chosen education partner. Study would be in education blocks as follows;
Year 1 –Â 19 weeks in college.
Year 2 – 10 weeks in college.
Year 3 – 15 weeks in college.
Year 4 – In your fourth year you would be permanently based at our Stourton dairy plant.
More training information
L3 Food and drink maintenance engineer Apprenticeship Standard.
Accommodation is provided via our education partners, Kirklees College in Huddersfield.
Expenses including travel & food are provided for the duration of your studies.
After this apprenticeship
Strong career development & training (internal and external training).
Once our apprentices have completed their apprenticeship standard, subject to vacancies at the time, there will be an opportunity to apply for further employment.
Company Benefits
26 days holiday + bank holidays. Employer pension matched up to 6%. X4 annual salary life assurance cover. Flexible benefits – buy up to 5 days annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.
Other requirements
Please note, you will need to be 18+ to apply for this role. This is due to insurance purposes and living away from home. Our first shortlist will be based on your CV, and your motivation for applying for the role. You should get your personality across in your CV so that we understand who you are and what you are about. Please refer above to our entry requirements and we would ask any applicants to clearly detail their qualifications and provide evidence in your application. If shortlisted, you will be invited to complete a short online Hire Vue video interview. If success-ful from there, you will be invited to take part in an online assessment centre. These interviews will take place on the 19th & 20th May 2025. If successful following this stage, you will then be invited to our Settle dairy for a final interview and site tour with members of our engineering team between 9th -27th June 2025.
