Agri Technical Graduate
Graduate scheme
Add a Bit of Flavour to Your Foodie Career - A Plateful of Opportunities with Our Pilgrim’s Europe Graduate Trainee Programme
Savor the Opportunity to Grow with Pilgrim’s Europe!
Our Graduate Trainee Programme offers a flavourful mix of learning and development, designed to help you thrive in a dynamic and innovative industry. With hands-on experience, elite training, and opportunities to work across various sites and functions, you’ll be well-equipped to carve out a successful career and become a future leader at Pilgrim’s Europe.
Programme Overview
- Duration: 18 months
- Rotations: Three 6-month rotations
What To Expect
- An opportunity to gain a range of experience, knowledge and skills within the Agriculture Technical function.
- Adaptability & Flexibility: Be prepared to travel and relocate across our Agriculture sites in NI and GB.
- Rotation 1 (Sep-Feb): Start with an in-depth introduction to our poultry business where you will experience the central laboratory, breeder farms and hatcheries based in Anwick.
- Rotation 2 (Mar-Aug): Relocate to broaden your experience in our poultry operations and deepen your understanding of the indoor and outdoor broiler operations, feed mills and factory operations based in Dungannon.
- Final Rotation (Sep-Feb): Focus on leadership and operational excellence, learning about the pig operations within Pilgrim’s Europe, develop an understanding of Agri-compliance, auditing and disease control, engage with our veterinary colleagues and be involved in R&D projects based in Stradbroke.
Essential Criteria
- A degree-level qualification with a minimum of 2:2 in the following disciplines:
- Animal science
- Vet science
- Zoology
- Animal welfare
- Agriculture
- Passion for agriculture and animal welfare
- Must be willing to relocate or be based across any Pilgrim’s Europe sites or farms.
- A valid driver’s license.
- Availability to start the programme on the specified date (September).
- Demonstrated leadership potential.
- Ability to work effectively in a team.
- High level of motivation and a proactive attitude.
- Strong administration and organisational skills.
- Hungry and in a hurry to grow your career.
Desirable Criteria
- Having completed work experience or a placement year in agriculture or the food industry is desirable but not a necessity.
As part of our graduate programme, you will be required to have entitlement to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer sponsorship for this programme.
BE QUICK: This is our last place on our 2025 programme, we may close our application window early.
To find out more about this programme please visit - Graduate Trainee Programme | Pilgrim's Europe
