Manufacturing Industrial Placement - Chippindale

Morrisons; Knaresborough; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Annual leave

Job summary

Chippindales in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, offers a 12-month industrial placement within a vertically integrated egg production and processing operation. You will gain hands-on experience across farm visits, site operations, and sustainability initiatives, learning how theEggs supply chain delivers high-quality products.

Open to penultimate-year students, the role emphasizes independent work, collaboration with producers, and bringing fresh ideas to current processes.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and organised, passionate about British food and farming.
• Currently in the penultimate year of your degree.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to bring new perspectives and ideas to current processes.

Responsibilities

• Understand the Farm to Fork journey of our supply chain and egg processing facilities, from farm visits to site operations.
• Understand all aspects of bird welfare, production and performance.
• Undertake live projects on sustainability, bird health and welfare, nutrition and production.
• Assist the delivery of sustainability initiatives.
• Support with organising and attending events to share knowledge and experience.

Skills

Enthusiastic

Penultimate-year student

Communication

Team player

Self-motivated

UK driving

Education

Penultimate year student

Job description

For the eighth consecutive year running, Chippindales is delighted to be able to offer this industry placement.

Chippindale Foods, part of Myton Food Group, is an innovative food company and leading supplier of free range shell and liquid eggs to the market. We work closely with over 65 producers to grade and pack over 650 million eggs per year at our state of the art grading facility in Knaresborough, Yorkshire.

This placement will offer an interesting and varied learning experience and a fantastic opportunity for an individual to gain practical first hand experience of our vertically integrated and direct to source supply chain, together with developing an understanding of the work that goes into providing high quality products to our growing customer base.

As a business that is passionate and invested in future leaders, we believe that this Industrial Placement is one of the ways that we can offer an exciting career path, engaging with students that have a keen interest in becoming part of the future of the British Farming industry, and encouraging them to bring forward new ideas and support us in remaining at the forefront of egg production and processing.

Job Overview and Opportunities:

• Understand the Farm to Fork journey of our supply chain and egg processing facilities, from spending time on farm with the fields team to first hand experience of our site operations

• Understand all aspects of bird welfare, production and performance

• Undertake project work on live projects to include sustainability, bird health and welfare, nutrition and production

• Assist the delivery of our sustainability initiatives

• Support with organising and attending events to allow our producer base to share knowledge and experience

Key Skills / Behaviours:

• Enthusiastic and organised individual who is passionate about British food, farming and bird health and welfare

• Currently in the penultimate year of your degree

• Good communication skills

• Ability to bring new perspectives and ideas to our current processes

• Ability to work without close supervision and prioritise own workload

• Enjoy working within a team but also able to motivate yourself

• Full UK driving license
  

Our aim to offer more of what matters extends to our employees too. Join us and you can expect to enjoy great career prospects and a very competitive pay and benefits package. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a discount card for you and one for a friend or family member giving you 15% off your shopping and 10% for your family / friend in Morrisons. We also offer great annual leave entitlement, My Perks discounts and much more besides.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community

Job location: Knaresborough North Yorkshire
Contract length: 12 months (July 2027 - July 2028)
Accommodation: Not provided, can support in finding accommodation