Chocolate Research & Development, Engineering Degree Apprenticeship 2025

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Full time
Location: Birmingham
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Job offered by: jobs24.co.uk
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Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.

As an organization, we are committed to developing the next generation of Makers and Bakers. Joining us at an early career stage in our fast-paced and ever-changing environment will enable you to do more, learn more, and grow more. You will be encouraged to step outside your comfort zone - you may even surprise yourself! We will ensure you are given the support you need to be at your best and enable you to be yourself and bring passion and personality. Here you can lean in, speak up, and bring your own flavor.

Working as a Chocolate Research & Development (R&D) Apprentice at the home of Cadbury in Bournville, you will work with some of our biggest brands including Cadbury, Oreo, Milka, and Toblerone among many others. The team is responsible for delivering Breakthrough Technologies, new product innovations, and building on our world-renowned brands. You will work in a fast-paced environment as part of a highly skilled team, working on a variety of different products from Dairy Milk to Crème eggs and a wide range of technologies across cocoa processing, chocolate making, moulding, and wrapping.

During your time you will:

Build expertise in a wide range of equipment and technologies, utilising programs such as CAD and supporting our drive for modelling and simulation. Support the implementation of breakthrough technologies, commissioning new equipment, supporting Factory acceptance testing, and Process Validation. Identify opportunities for Continuous Improvement within the Pilot Plant and R&D. Build project management skills through on-the-job learning and block release to university.

Apprenticeship: The Apprentice role is a 4-5 Year training position and will require balancing work with learning. Your day-to-day work and training will be supported by studying towards a Bachelor's Engineering Degree with Aston University. This will be delivered as a mixture of block release and distance learning.

Year 1 & 2 - Pilot Plant You will initially be based within the Pilot Plant & Facilities Team as part of the Global process team. Training in cocoa, chocolate making, and depositing technologies. Work in advance of trials with product/process developers to assist in trial planning. Build technical knowledge and equipment expertise executing trials with product/process developers.

Year 3 & 4 - Projects Support category growth and CAPEX projects. Build project management experience. In year 4, you will take on a placement role where you will have full responsibility for delivery of your own project, including scoping, trial planning, execution, and reporting.

Skills Required: Action Oriented - conscientious, proactive, self-motivated to take on new opportunities, and a fast learner. Organising - Ability to manage the tasks and responsibilities of themselves and others. Problem Solving - Ability to identify and solve problems before they occur. Interpersonal savvy - able to adapt personal style to work with a range of R&D personnel. Informing - Confident communicator, able to reinforce Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Health & Safety procedures. Perseverance - pursues tasks with drive and works through setbacks/challenges.

Typical Entry Requirements: Typically candidates will have 3 A-levels at Grade CCC or equivalent, including A-level in Maths or equivalent and at least one further STEM-based subject, and 5 GCSEs including English and Maths (grade C/4).

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

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