Requisition ID: 54273
Position Type: FT Fixed Apprentice
Workplace Arrangement: #LI-Onsite

Join Our Team as an Engineering Apprentice at Kerry Dairy Consumer Foods Portadown

Are you ready to kickstart your engineering career? As an Engineering Apprentice at our Portadown site, you’ll develop the skills to construct or modify products from verbal instructions and drawings. You’ll maintain a logbook throughout your apprenticeship, recording your projects and the skills you’ve learned. This role is a blend of formal and practical training, both at college and on-site at Kerry Dairy Consumer Foods Portadown.

• Learning and Development: Observe, learn, and understand a wide range of engineering skills and processes under the guidance of skilled technical staff.
• Skill Demonstration: As your training progresses, demonstrate your skills by working independently or with a team on various tasks.
• Academic and Practical Training: Successfully complete courses throughout the training period, achieving the necessary academic grades and practical skills for yearly progression towards the Level 3 Engineering Operative qualification.
• Health and Safety: Learn and understand the importance of health and safety within the workplace.
• Product Construction: Develop the skills to construct or modify products from verbal instructions and drawings.
• Equipment Maintenance: Learn how to maintain workshop equipment and keep it in good repair.
• Logbook Maintenance: Maintain a logbook over the duration of the apprenticeship, recording projects and skills learned.

• Hands-On Experience: Gain practical experience and learn from skilled professionals.
• Career Progression: Achieve yearly progression leading to the completion of the Level 3 Engineering Operative qualification.
• Supportive Environment: Work in a supportive environment that values your growth and development.

Kerry Dairy Ireland is one of the world’s leading dairy businesses with a revenue more than €1bn per year.  With our strong dairy heritage and deep-rooted connection to our 3,000 milk suppliers, right through to our portfolio of innovative and high-quality brands, our vision for the business is to re-imagine dairy through innovation and sustainability to inspire a better future.

Our dairy business has a diversified portfolio of dairy, nutritional ingredients and market leading dairy brands and its vertically integrated dairy processing ensures we the highest quality, sustainably produced 1.2bn litres of milk for our dairy, nutritional ingredients, and consumer foods business.

In the Dairy Consumer Foods business division (where this role is based) we have a strong track record in innovation underpinned by technology and science across both well known consumer brands and Private Label products. Through our multi-geographical presence (UK, Ireland, and Western Europe) we have a deep consumer insight which is a key component of the business.  Our core categories include cheese snacks, (Strings and Things, Attack-a-Snak), natural cheese (block, slices and grated), processed cheese, as well as butter, dairy and plant based spreads through Dairygold, Low Low, Pure and Golden Cow. We are the largest supplier of Private Label dairy spreads, supplying all major retailers in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. 

Kerry is an Equal Opportunities Employer.  Consistent with our policy of providing equality of opportunity for all, we are required to seek particular information from applicants.  As part of your application you will be asked to answer a short number of questions.  This information will be held separate to your application and treated in the strictest of confidence. 

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name. 

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Posting Type: DNI