Kick-start your career at What's Cooking? and make an impact on the future
What’s Cooking? (previously known as Ter Beke Group) is a European fresh savoury food group headquartered in Belgium. All over Europe and beyond, we offer a wide range of high-quality and innovative savoury cold cuts and ready-meal food products as well as related services. Day by day, we make sustainable food second nature by increasing the world’s appetite for tasty, convenient meals, crafted with care both for people and planet. Our clients and consumers are always on our hungry minds while we prepare our food products, as is the well-being of the approximately 3,000 dedicated people at our headquarters, our 12 industrial sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Poland, and the UK, and our 7 sales offices. What’s Cooking? is our new name, but our company has been around for 75 years. We’ve been listed on Euronext Brussels since 1986 (TERB) and we delivered a 781-million-euro turnover in 2022.What are the ingredients of the Management Trainee Program?
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Are you ambitious and ready to boost your career? Are you looking for personal growth and challenge? Yes? Then grab your chance to participate in our exciting Management Trainee Program. The goal of this Program is to create and offer the opportunity to young talent to develop themselves along with our company and in our core competencies.- The Management Trainee program lasts 2 years, with a new assignment every 6 months on a different site, but within the field of Control Engineering. Each assignment comes with a project or process improvement challenge. It is the perfect combination to build a varied and thorough experience
- The assignment will be discussed and shaped together with you. This includes analysing, designing, programming and installing systems that are used for our machines.
- You will be assigned a mentor and will work alongside experienced colleagues from both Engineering and IT, who will ensure that you receive all the ongoing support, training and information across our various operations and business units to be successful. Not just watching but actually doing and changing. From inventory to recommendation and rollout.
How will you meet this challenge?
- You graduate in 2023 and will obtain your Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Industrial Automation, System & Controls, Mechanical Engineering with Specialization Control Engineering. You can show proof of excellent study results and extracurricular activities.
- You like a technical and operational challenge and are flexible to work at locations in Belgium or The Netherlands.
- You are fluent in Dutch, English and (preferably) French.
- You have the ambition to become the expert as Control Engineer for the 12 locations of What's Cooking?
- Your communication skills are excellent. You know how to connect and convince based on facts. You also recognize yourself in this: proactive, hands-on and eager to get things done.
What's in it for you?
- We offer you the best start of your career, in an innovative, growing, international and financial strong company.
- You will get responsibilities as of the first assignment and be supported in your growth through an on-the-job training program and mentoring by experienced colleagues.
- You get the chance to participate in in-house and/or external training courses such as project management and leadership skills.
- We offer extensive benefits in terms of a company car, insurance, telecom and flexibility, in addition to a competitive salary and a permanent contract.
- We are in search of young talent (just graduated Masters) to provide a pipeline with talented professionals and dedicated leaders, now and in the future.