Automation OT Engineer Intern

Location: Market Drayton, Shropshire

Contract: Starting July 2027, 13-month Fixed Term Contract

Hours/Shift Pattern: 8am-4pm, Monday to Friday

Why join the Müller Internship Program?

At Müller, we're passionate about helping students launch their careers through our dynamic Internship Programmes. Over 13 months, you'll gain hands-on experience in a professional environment while building the skills that matter - technical expertise, leadership, communication, and more. Our tailored learning journey blends real-world challenges with personal development, so you'll grow in confidence and capability from day one.

What you'll be doing:

Are you passionate about automation and innovation? Do you thrive in a fast-paced FMCG environment where your technical expertise can make a real impact? Müller is looking for a talented Automation - Operational Technology (OT) Engineer to join our dynamic team and help shape the future of automation across our operations. Working within the Automation department to design, create and maintain systems, processes, and procedures that maintain and enhance the safety, reliability, controllability, and security of industrial systems.

• Enforce OT cybersecurity practices, frameworks, and regulations.
• Assisting in asset inventory preparation and management for industrial control systems (ICS), key features being resilience and obsolescence.
• Contributing to network diagram creation and implementation to improve system visibility, security and availability.
• Maintain and support the implementation of OT hardware, software, and connectivity to supporting infrastructure services within the OT environment.
• Perform technical, operational support for OT systems.
• Provide guidance on OT system design ensuring user requirements are understood and catered for.
• Support the management and delivery of OT projects.
• Monitor, operate and enhance complex OT infrastructure platforms and OT equipment.
• Strive to provide the best workable solution using software and systems available in alignment with the site's digital strategy and in line with security requirements.
• Ensure the OT roadmap is in place, and plans are put in to replace legacy software and hardware.
• Participate in cyber incident response, governance reporting, penetration testing, control of the Risk Register and awareness training to uphold safety and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with Automation engineers to implement secure configurations and maintain system availability within the realms of security and vulnerability.

Your Müller responsibilities:

• Understand the concept of Lowest Total Cost of Ownership and design and deliver systems accordingly.
• Understand unique challenges of FMCG and design and deliver systems accordingly.
• Play an active part in continuously improving our systems and business.
• Understand the impact of own actions and others on achieving site/business OGSMS.
• Support improvement activities/events within engineering owned areas.
• Ensure own activities are aligned to overall business objectives and know how current performance impacts the bottom line.
• Collaboratively work with engineering colleagues and other teams to improve our business and deliver the OGSM.
• Ability to deliver on-the-job training to colleagues.
• Health and safety of self and others.

What we're looking for:

This placement is ideal for students passionate about sustainability and looking to develop their analytical and data-handling skills. We're seeking university students who are on track to achieve a 2:1 and above and are looking for a placement year role.

• Proven experience in OT Engineering, ideally within Dairy, FMCG or manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of OT architecture, and project lifecycle management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to coach and mentor others, with a collaborative and proactive mindset.
• Familiarity with networks, protocols, security and server virtualisation.
• Threats, vulnerabilities, impacts and mitigations in ICS systems and the enterprise environment.
• Cyber incident response, management, escalation, investigation & 3rd party involvement.
• Computer architecture, digital logic, machine level representation of data.
• Management of cyber security risk, tools and techniques.
• Familiarity with regulations, such as IEC 62443, NIS2 and Cyber Security Resilience Bill.

Why Join Müller?

Sourcing milk from over 1,000 farms up and down the UK, we serve millions of families every day with a range of branded and private label goods which are nutritious and delicious. We're one of the UK and Ireland's major dairy manufacturers and, with milk in 97% of UK fridges and yogurt in 78%, there's a very good chance you have a Müller product in yours.

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain, and operates Müller Yogurts & Desserts, Müller Milk & Ingredients and Müller Services Ltd. We make dairy that makes people smile - as well as being nutritious and delicious!

This role is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. We want to ensure all candidates have every opportunity to shine. We'll support you throughout the full application process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the assessment process works for you. We encourage you to apply ASAP!

At Müller, we're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don't meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we're happy to support you.