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Rugeley
Job Function
Apprenticeship
Type
Permanent

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Apprentice Mechatronic Engineer

Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK

Contract and Shift details:  4 days per week onsite, 1 day per week at college.

Are you interested in machines, engineering, and ready to kickstart your career?

Join our team as an Apprentice Mechatronic Engineer and learn from the best!

Why Apply? 

Meet Jake, our Lead Engineer, who started his journey as an apprentice straight out of school at 16. Growing up on a farm, tinkering with tractors and equipment, Jake quickly turned his hands-on experience into expertise through an apprenticeship, even overcoming challenges like retaking exams. He’s now leading our engineering team and will be your mentor as you embark on your own apprenticeship!

About the Role: 

As an Apprentice Mechatronic Engineer, you will become a multi-skilled professional, learning how to work with hydraulics, pneumatics, PLCs, electrical systems, and mechanics.

This hands-on role involves fixing machines at our Rugeley site, with occasional work at Fradley. You’ll also be working at heights, so confidence in that environment is essential.

What You'll Learn:

  • Hydraulics, pneumatics, PLCs, and electrical and mechanical systems
  • Troubleshooting and repairing machinery
  • Working on innovative automation projects to improve our business operations.

Program Structure:

Who We’re Looking For:

  • Minimum GCSE in maths and English grades 4-9 or A-C.
  • Enthusiastic, hands-on candidates with a passion for learning
  • Interest in machinery, engineering, or tinkering with equipment.
  • Ability to work at heights.

 

 

 

 

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.  What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.  People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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