Premier Foods - Worksop - S81 7AY

Environmental Degree Apprentice

Start Date - Monday 6th January 2025 **

Worksop site – S81 7AY

5-year Apprenticeship

08:30-17:00 Monday to Friday

Closing date for applications: Friday 1st November 2024

Please note if we receive a high number of applications, the vacancy may be closed early.

Starting salary of £22,500 per year with an annual increment each year of Apprenticeship, on successful progression through the apprenticeship programme and performance in the job role.

You will be studying towards a 5-year Degree Apprenticeship.

Academic delivery will be held at Coventy University under block release, where expenses and accommodation will be provided.

Here at Worksop, we have four factories on site that produce a variety of well-known brands and products including:

OXO
Sauces - including Sharwoods and Homepride
Batchelors Supernoodles
Sharwoods Poppadoms
Bisto gravy granules
SAXA salt

Some of our benefits include:

Private Medical Insurance
Enhanced Pension scheme
Sharesave programme
On-site subsidised canteen offering a variety of hot/cold meals and snacks
Employee discount scheme including travel, food and shopping discounts
Employee Assistance Programme
On site Electric Vehicle Charging Point
Manager and peer recognition programme
Cycle to work – including excellent bike storage facilities
On-site Occupational Health

Role Purpose:

To complete the degree apprenticeship and putting into practice learnings and knowledge gained academically, to support Premier Foods to achieve our ESG strategy and the Enriching Life Plan which is focused around a greener, healthier, more sustainable work environment.

To support the Environmental Manager and the site to ensure that the Environmental Management System complies with statutory and Premier Foods requirements alongside the development and implementation of site energy monitoring and waste reduction initiatives.

 

What you’ll be doing:

Assisting the Environmental Manager in providing the material for induction and training, ensuring material is inclusive and accessible to all.
Attending key Project meetings to help to embed sustainable behaviours throughout project lifecycles
Utilising research developed from personal and university learning to make meaningful contributions to projects and ways of working
Assisting in reporting and investigating environmental incidents,
Producing Project statistics and KPIs which can be presented back to project leadership and Environmental Manager
Assisting in carrying out carbon and quality audits and subsequent reports, ensuring where required, follow-up of corrective actions overall meeting the ISO14001 requirements
Supporting with detailed plans to tackle our energy consumption by improving efficiencies, increase renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions
Developing a culture of embedded sustainability through innovation and lessons learned reports
Supporting plans to achieve sustainability goals, providing governance, training and stakeholder engagement and building partnerships
Helping to help to provide specialist environmental advice and support to our operations teams, including undertaking specialist environmental activity
Ensuring compliance to and role modelling Health, Safety and Environment standards, in line with Company procedures
Developing working knowledge of relevant geo-environmental legislation, standards, and guidance
Application of theoretical and academic understanding gained during studies to real world projects
Supporting the Environmental Manager with the sites EA & STW permits and consents

You will be working typically, 07:00-15:00 or 08:00-16:00 when working onsite.

What we need from you:

112 UCAS tariff points or relevant recognised prior learnings/experience

Strong work ethic, and the ability to work effectively and intuitively either alone or in a small team

Sound communication and personal effectiveness skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels

Interest in sustainability and the environment

Good working knowledge of MS packages including Outlook, Word and Excel.

Enthusiastic, engaged attitude and eagerness to learn and develop personally and professionally

 

If you have any questions, please contact Worksop.Apprenticeships@premierfoods.co.uk.