Food Science & Technology Degree Apprentice Review

I work in Research & Development in the Ice Cream Category. During my apprenticeship I have experienced a variety of roles as working as Unilever offers the opportunity to rotate roles every September. My current role involves making products, completing measurements, managing projects, meetings but each day is very different!

The apprenticeship provides a great opportunity to gain technical knowledge as you work with and learn from industry professionals everyday. You also develop other skills such as your organisation, leadership and presentation skills to name a few.

The food programme is very interesting and it's great to work with fun products like ice cream and chocolate, and big brands like Ben & Jerrys and Magnum.

You complete rotations every year which gives you exposure to new and different roles. You will have a buddy when you join to help you feel settled at and all the teams are used to having apprentices so they often have a good set of onboarding information to help you start in the new role.

Lots! Unilever are very generous with giving apprentices allocated time to complete your off the job university time. Also the site is so friendly and people are always happy to help you learn and feel welcome.

NTU are very supportive through the apprenticeship. It has made uni an enjoyable process!

University gives a basis knowledge for things you work on in your role so the learning experience goes hand in hand. It also helps develop your research and writing skills through assignments. It's a very relevant scheme for the role.

There's lots! We have lots of clubs onsite like netball, crafts and football to name a few and a gym.

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It's a warm, welcoming company and you get to work on interesting products.

Research the company, be passionate and enthusiastic.