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About the Role
This 12-month undergraduate industry placement offers a unique opportunity to gain practical experience within McDonald's supply chain, working with leading suppliers and gaining exposure from farms to restaurants. Participants will focus on projects related to sustainability, technical efficiency, and agricultural innovation, while also experiencing restaurant operations.
Responsibilities
- Join one of McDonald's key suppliers for a full year.
- Rotate through multiple areas of McDonald's supply chain, from farm to restaurant.
- Gain hands-on experience with supplier agriculture teams and progressive farms.
- Work on projects focused on sustainability, technical efficiency, and agricultural innovation.
- Visit key suppliers to gain insight into agricultural operations and supply chains.
- Spend a short period working as a crew member in a McDonald's restaurant.
- Act as an ambassador for McDonald's and its suppliers at industry events.
Requirements
- Passionate, curious, self-motivated, and driven undergraduates.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment within the McDonald's supply base.
- Students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
- An agricultural background is not essential.
- A passion for food, farming, or supply chains.
- The ability to work independently and within a team.
- A willingness to learn about careers within food supply chains and farming.
- Hold a full UK or Irish driving licence.
- Willing to relocate and/or travel within the UK and Ireland.
- Currently undertaking full-time third-level education.
- Have the legal right to work in the UK and Ireland.
Location
- UK & Ireland
Work Type
- Undergraduate Industry Placement
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Undergraduate
Education Level
- Third-level education
Salary/Compensations
- £26,500
Benefits
- Competitive placement salary of £26,500.
- Professional development and mentoring from industry experts.
- Exposure to the wider agri-food sector across multiple businesses.
- Flexibility to tailor the programme to your personal development goals.
- Excellent networking opportunities within both the placement cohort and a global brand.
- Insight Days with other McDonald's suppliers throughout the year.
About the Company
- McDonalds has run its business in the UK since 1974 and currently operates over 1500 restaurants across the UK and Ireland, serving almost four million customers each day.
- McDonalds is one of the UKs largest private sector employers, employing over 170,000 people.
- Our Global vision is to build a better McDonalds and in the UK and Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Irelands best-loved restaurant company.
- McDonalds is defined by its culture. Our culture shapes and informs everything we think and everything we do.
- Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities and our actions.
- Serve: We put our customers and our people first
- Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone
- Integrity: We do the right thing
- Community: We are good neighbours
- Family: We get better together
- At McDonalds we are People from all Walks of Life...
- People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonalds experience.
- We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers.
- We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of.
- The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.
- We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonalds or elsewhere.
Equal Opportunity
- We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind.