Agriculture - Placement Opportunity

Cooper & Hall Limited; Scarborough; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Annual leave 25 days

Life insurance

Maternity/paternity pay

Medicash health plan

Employee assistance program

Cycle to work

Chips In volunteering day

Hybrid/flexible working

Job summary

McCain is recruiting an Agriculture Placement year student for a 12-month program starting July 2027. You will work with the Agriculture Strategy, Potato Supply, Regional Agriculture, and Agronomy teams on projects to improve efficiency and support grower relationships while maintaining potato supply across sites.

As an intern, you will gain hands-on experience, develop professionally in a global food company, and enjoy a range of benefits as part of ahybrid working model.

Qualifications

• Be currently studying a relevant degree in Agriculture or equivalent.
• Full clean driving license.
• Have a passion and interest in food.
• Be seeking a 12-month placement year to support your degree studies (July 2027–June 2028).
• Must be available to start early July.

Responsibilities

• Support Agriculture Strategy, Potato Supply, Regional Agriculture, and Agronomy teams on projects to drive efficiency.
• Engage with growers and maintain potato supply to all manufacturing sites.
• Assist in building relationships and engaging with growers on farms.
• Contribute to projects and initiatives with guidance from senior staff.

Skills

Driving licence

Food interest

Education

Degree in Agriculture

Job description

Position Type:

Temporary - Full-Time

Requisition ID:

45492

This is a placement year opportunity for 2027-2028, and not a grad scheme. This is only suitable for students who are due to finish their second year (doing a sandwich degree) and seeking a placement year opportunity!

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the Role

#TakeABite of life outside of your university studies.

We’re recruiting for an Agriculture Placement year student.

You’ll join a line of successful interns that have all been in the same shoes, who’ve spent 12 months of their time at university walking through the doors of our HQ to gain some valuable experience. Some of which have since returned to continue their careers with us.

You’ll join us in July 2027, and you’ll spend the next 12 months working alongside our Agriculture Strategy, Potato Supply, Regional Agriculture, and Agronomy teams on projects and initiatives to drive efficiency throughout the business, support in building strong relationships and engaging effectively with growers, and maintain potato supply to all manufacturing sites.

You’ll get an insight into what life is like working for one of the largest frozen food companies in the world and experience lots of different elements within agriculture.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll get an insight into what life is like working for one of the largest frozen food companies in the world and experience lots of different elements within agriculture.

Projects May Include:

• Leading and managing events to enable knowledge transfer, celebrate success, and to build our grower base
• Interactions with the Regional Agriculture team and our growers on farms and providing support when McCain launches an exciting new digital tool.
• Providing proactive solutions to potato-related operational issues to ensure continued manufacturing and minimizing any disruption
• With guidance from Director, Agriculture strategy you will manage a capital project effectively using a systematic approach to ensure that key project management principles are followed.

While working on some tasty projects alongside our teams, you’ll also live and breathe the victories that come with working in a professional Agriculture team, whilst also experiencing some of the real-life challenges that go with it.

As an intern, you’ll not only get hands-on experience, but you’ll also experience development within a professional environment where you’ll work towards set objectives, with a clear development plan and regular one-to-one’s with your line managers. You’ll build a network both inside and outside of McCain as well as creating connections with other interns across the business.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

Here at McCain we are go-getters. We are winners. And we work hard.

And that’s what we look for in our interns.

But You Must Also…

• Be currently studying a relevant degree in Agriculture or equivalent.
• Full clean driving license.
• Have a passion and interest in food.
• Be seeking a 12-month placement year to support your degree studies (which will run from July 2027 to June 2028)
• Must be available to start early July.
• And of course, a love of potatoes!

Benefits

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods, you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. Alongside your salary, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Sign-on bonus additional to your annual salary – to help you get started!
• Private healthcare
• An excellent salary sacrifice pension scheme where we'll contribute double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your salary
• 25 days' annual leave from day one plus bank holidays (increasing with service), giving you plenty of time to recharge with the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Life insurance cover providing peace of mind for you and your family
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, because the moments that matter outside of work matter to us too
• Medicash health cash plan, helping you claim money back on everyday healthcare costs, with access to a virtual GP and wellbeing support
• TELUS Health employee and family assistance programme offering full wellbeing support - including a 24/7 confidential counselling line, legal and financial guidance, and a range of employee discounts.
• Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
• A paid 'Chips In' Volunteering Day, giving you the opportunity to support projects that make a positive impact in our communities
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements where the role allows

And because you're joining a global business, your career opportunities don't stop at the factory gate. Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise, step into leadership, or even explore opportunities internationally, we'll support your growth. With ambitious plans for the future, there's plenty of scope to develop your career with us.

About McCain

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.

The McCain Experience

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.