This is an exciting opportunity to join Müller Yogurts and Desserts in a new upcoming Apprentice role as a Laboratory Technician. We are growing fast and we need future technologists, scientists and leaders to grow with us!

We focus on continuous learning to develop not only our business but our people. This Apprenticeship program is an opportunity for you to learn about every aspect of our laboratory’s. As an apprentice at Müller, you will get full support, development and training to become one of our Laboratory Technicians. In this role, you will perform effective and high quality analysis in our state of the art laboratory on a variety of exciting brand names and customer products such as Müller Corner, Müller Rice and Müller Light, all following given methods and procedures to produce accurate and timely analytical results.

You will be working at one of our three dairy locations all based in Shropshire and specifically Market Drayton or Telford. Your development journey will be strategically guided by Müller Yogurts and Desserts Quality teams to give you a thorough learning of all aspects of the business operation.

What’s in the Laboratory Technician Apprenticeship?

As an apprentice Laboratory Technician at Müller Yogurt & Desserts you will learn how to:

• Assist with the decontamination of equipment, learn about waste management processes and procedures and how to undertake this effectively.
• You will be taught how to stock check many of our general consumable stores and the re-ordering process and how to allocate bar codes as requested by our scientists for importing into the Chemical Inventory.
• In addition you will have the opportunity to discover general lab equipment maintenance methods and/or how to coordinate engineers for repairs and servicing of equipment in conjunction with our scientists.
• It’s a hands on role as you will be able to assist in the preparation of reagent/buffers, register and record Fixed Asset Numbers on new equipment purchases and recording them on our internal systems.
• You will need to learn about maintenance, a tidy workplace and Health and safety processes and procedures to ensure you work safely within our labs.
• Hours: A full time role of 40 hours / week with some potential to experience shift working.
• Pay: £18,500 salary, with an increase after successful completion of your first year on the apprenticeship programme. Internal Müller applicants will remain on their current salary terms.