This is a placement year opportunity for 2025-2026, and not a grad scheme. This is only suitable for students who are due to finish their second/penultimate year and seeking a placement year opportunity as part of a sandwich degree course!
For over 60 years we’ve been the number one branded player in the frozen potato market. When it comes to bringing the nation together at mealtimes with simple, delicious and great tasting food we’re kind of a big deal!
You won’t just find us in supermarkets though. As well as owning a household retail brand, our respected foodservice business works in close partnership with distributors, chefs and caterers across thousands of the country’s pubs, restaurants, hospitals and schools.
From our humble beginnings in the rural community of Florenceville, Canada, McCain Foods is now a global business! We have operations within six continents, with plant sites and offices across the world.
#TakeABite of life outside of your university studies. We’re recruiting for a Manufacturing Intern.
Step into the future with us and join a line of successful interns who have walked through our HQ doors to launch their careers. Many have returned to thrive at McCain Foods, and now it’s your turn!
The role
Over the next 12 months, you’ll dive deep into the heart of our manufacturing operations at one of the largest frozen food companies on the planet. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and work directly alongside our dedicated Scarborough plant teams. Your focus area will be getting under the skin of how we create our delicious products while spotting opportunities to streamline and enhance our processes.
This isn’t just any internship—this is your chance to make a real impact. You’ll gain hands-on experience across critical areas like production, quality, and supply chain, all while contributing to exciting sustainability initiatives that make a difference. Embrace the challenges and celebrate the wins as you grow within a professional environment designed for your success.
As an intern, you’ll not only get hands on experience, but you’ll also experience development within a professional environment where you’ll work towards set objectives, with a clear development plan and regular one to one’s with your line managers. You’ll also build a network both inside and outside of McCain as well as creating connections with other interns across the business.
What we're looking for
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 or equivalent.
- Have a passion and interest for food.
- Have a full UK driving licence
- Be seeking a 12 month placement year to support your degree studies (which will run from July to June)
- Must be available to start early July.
- Be prepared to work a shift pattern, involving night working and weekends
- And of course, a love of potatoes!
What's in it for you
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:
- 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.
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!
