Apprentice Multi-Skilled Engineer
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Description
Job Description
Apprentice Multi-Skilled Engineer
Ashby de la Zouch (Home of Hula Hoops, Space Raiders, popchips and more...)
On-site | Monday - Friday
Start-date in September - four year course.
As part of your apprenticeship, you will be expected to be on-site in Ashby-de-la-Zouch for four weeks, and then on-site with the Toyota Academy (DE1) for four weeks (rotating).
Join our snack-loving team
We’re looking for an Apprentice Multi-Skilled Engineer to join us at KP Snacks. If you’re ready to bring your ideas to the table, grow your skills and be part of a team that values what makes you, you – this could be your next big move.
About The Role
We’re looking for an ambitious Apprentice Multi-Skilled Engineer to join the Engineering team at our Ashby site. This is a great opportunity to build a long-term engineering career with KP Snacks while gaining hands‑on experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
You’ll support our Engineering team and Line Structure teams to keep our production equipment operating safely and efficiently. During the Apprenticeship you’ll follow a day shift pattern, before progressing to a rotational shift pattern as your capability grows. You’ll play an active role in reducing downtime, solving problems, supporting Planned Maintenance and contributing to Continuous Improvement projects.
Alongside your on-site learning, you’ll complete a fully accredited Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship and work towards an HNC, with the potential to progress to a foundation degree. We’ll give you the coaching, support and opportunities you need to grow into a confident, capable Multi‑Skilled Engineer.
This role includes practical engineering work such as reaching, lifting and crouching. Full training, equipment and safe systems of work will be provided.
Apprentice Multi-Skilled Engineer
Ashby de la Zouch (Home of Hula Hoops, Space Raiders, popchips and more...)
On-site | Monday - Friday
Start-date in September - four year course.
As part of your apprenticeship, you will be expected to be on-site in Ashby-de-la-Zouch for four weeks, and then on-site with the Toyota Academy (DE1) for four weeks (rotating).
Join our snack-loving team
We’re looking for an Apprentice Multi-Skilled Engineer to join us at KP Snacks. If you’re ready to bring your ideas to the table, grow your skills and be part of a team that values what makes you, you – this could be your next big move.
About The Role
We’re looking for an ambitious Apprentice Multi-Skilled Engineer to join the Engineering team at our Ashby site. This is a great opportunity to build a long-term engineering career with KP Snacks while gaining hands‑on experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
You’ll support our Engineering team and Line Structure teams to keep our production equipment operating safely and efficiently. During the Apprenticeship you’ll follow a day shift pattern, before progressing to a rotational shift pattern as your capability grows. You’ll play an active role in reducing downtime, solving problems, supporting Planned Maintenance and contributing to Continuous Improvement projects.
Alongside your on-site learning, you’ll complete a fully accredited Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship and work towards an HNC, with the potential to progress to a foundation degree. We’ll give you the coaching, support and opportunities you need to grow into a confident, capable Multi‑Skilled Engineer.
This role includes practical engineering work such as reaching, lifting and crouching. Full training, equipment and safe systems of work will be provided.
What’s in it for you?
We believe in rewarding our colleagues and helping them thrive. Here’s a flavour of what we offer:
We believe in rewarding our colleagues and helping them thrive. Here’s a flavour of what we offer:
- National minimum wage.
- Comprehensive healthcare support – including Medicash Health Cash Plan, Digital GP, Best Doctors second opinion service and specialist cancer care
- KP Pension Plan – contribution matching up to 7% of your salary
- 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more
- KP4ME – our online platform for benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and more
- Supporting maintenance activities Carrying out basic mechanical and electrical tasks, supporting breakdown response and helping reduce downtime across key production lines
- Contributing to Planned Maintenance Working with Maintenance Leads to complete Planned Maintenance activities, close out defects and assist with small improvement tasks
- Building technical capability Learning, applying and role modelling IWS ways of working, including DMS techniques and supporting Equipment Owners with routine tasks
- Supporting project and improvement work Helping deliver minor engineering projects and line improvements to enhance safety, reliability and performance
We’re KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack family. Across more than 30 countries, over 15,000 of us work together to make the snacks people love – from Hula Hoops to McCoy’s. In the UK, we’re a team of around 2,400 colleagues, based across seven sites and our Slough HQ. We’re proud of our close-knit culture, where we speak up, celebrate differences and push boundaries together.
We’re committed to inclusion
We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. If you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you – your unique perspective could be just what we need. And if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you, just let us know.
Job requirements
We’d love to hear from you if you can bring:
- Maths and English Grade 4 or above (or functional skills completed alongside the Apprenticeship if under 19)
- Basic electrical or mechanical practical skills and an interest in developing these further