Quality Placement Scarborough 2024

There’s nothing beige about McCain…

Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them.

When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.

We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better.

So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.

About the role

#TakeABite of life outside of your university studies.

We’re recruiting for a Quality Intern.

You’ll join a line of successful interns that have all been in the same shoes, who walked through the doors of our HQ to gain valuable experience as part of their University Placement year. Some of which have since returned to continue their careers with us.

When?

Join us in July 2024 for an epic 12-month journey with our Quality team.

During your 12-month journey, you'll discover

• Assurance: Making sure our products meet top-notch quality standards through strict testing and controls.
• Control: Keeping an eye on raw materials, processes, and products to ensure they're always spot-on.
• Compliance: Staying up-to-date on safety and legal rules to keep our products legit.
• Suppliers: Ensuring our suppliers deliver quality and working together to make things even better.
• Always Improving: Digging into data to make things smoother and better in terms of quality and efficiency.
• Customer Connections: Listening to what our customers say, fixing issues pronto, and keeping them happy.
• Risk Warriors: Identifying and tackling quality-related risks like a pro.
• Test-Drive: Running tests to make sure our products are safe and top-notch.

In the big picture, the Quality team in FMCG is all about giving you, our customers, the safest, tastiest, and most consistent products while keeping things legit and awesome. It's what keeps our brand shining bright in a tough market.

As an intern, you won't just watch from the sidelines. You'll get hands-on experience, set goals, follow a clear development plan, and chat regularly with your line managers. Plus, you'll build your network inside and outside of McCain, making connections with other interns and pros across the business.

About you

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 Manufacturing / FMCG 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 2024 to June 2025)
• Must be available to start early July.
• And of course, a love of potatoes!

What’s in it for me?

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:

• Sign on bonus additional to your annual salary – to help you get started!
• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe

And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.

Where you’ll work

You’ll be based at our Scarborough plant in North Yorkshire. We opened this plant back in the swinging sixties, but it’s definitely not stuck in the past. It’s one of the largest French fry factories in the world and after a recent development, it’s also one of the most high tech. Our team of over 300 colleagues work hard to make sure the quality of our products keep our customers returning for more, for now and years to come!

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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