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The NCFM is dedicated to helping food industry employees advance their careers. We understand the demands of studying while working in this fast moving, dynamic industry and balancing family commitments. Our part-time Degree Apprenticeships provide one of many flexible study options for those working in Quality, Technical roles and Operations Management.

The NCFM is also committed to helping the sector innovate. We work with employers and partners towards this goal, aided by our partnership with leading equipment suppliers and our outstanding specialist facilities, food factory and cutting-edge automation.

NCFM offer a range of opportunities for business and employees. These cover opportunities for studying apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships, research and innovation.

Our Business

Established in 1921, R G Carter is a family owned business which has been building for the future for nearly a century. Renowned for our diverse range of high quality construction services, we have achieved growth & success through combining traditional family values with a passion for innovation.

Working with national and regional clients, across both private and public sectors, we provide design, construction and project management services on projects ranging from £50,000 to over £50 million.

Our values are based upon honesty, trust and the development of long term relationships, and we are committed to placing client values at the heart of our operations. Our approach to project delivery makes us able to offer a flexible, quality service that is tailored to the requirements of our clients.  

Through our network of regional offices, including Lincoln, we offer a range of construction solutions, from design through to build, refurbishment and repairs. Our business model continues to be based on local delivery with empowered local decision makers and close senior level support for projects. Our ability to draw on the experience and expertise of the wider R G Carter Group of companies, means that we can offer a personal approach that is built around the Employers needs without restriction on value or construction type.

We support local communities, organisations, and supply-chain partners to deliver projects that improve lives and provide opportunities for local people. On all of our projects we seek to work collaboratively in order to create better buildings, provide opportunities for local people and invest in the future of the communities that we work with. We set the bar high for safety, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Through our accredited training centre, Carter Academy, we are a leading provider of quality apprenticeships and professional training regionally. 

Our People

R G Carter currently has 1,100 members of staff, ranging across office and site based roles. Examples of these include administrators, procurement and accountants who support the successful management of projects, project managers who coordinate all aspects of the construction process, designers who work with the clients to create their ‘vision’, quantity surveyors, who manage the costs related to the project and tradesmen, through to site managers and skilled tradesman, such as bricklayers and carpenters, who ensure projects are built to client requirements. Our employees work across our range of offices and sites across the Group.

We are passionate about supporting our employees, whose loyalty and expertise allows us to consistently deliver successful projects to be proud of. We invest in training and development and aim to inspire people with the right skills, talent and enthusiasm to work with us to fulfil their potential. To demonstrate our commitment, everyone who joins our company has access to our CITB registered training centre, Carter Academy, offering Health & Safety qualifications and a variety of courses from NVQ to degree level.

Join Our Team

We look for motivated and enthusiastic people to join our teams. Dependant on the role, ideal candidates will have good experience of team working and delivering construction projects to excellent quality.

We understand that great projects need great people. Whether you are looking for a training opportunity, or are already experienced in your role, R G Carter offers more than just the next step in your career. You will be joining a diverse group of talented people and with the addition of your ideas, passion and skills we can develop, innovate and build the future together.

R G Carter is a dynamic company where you will have the chance to prove yourself on challenging projects, further develop your skills and work with experienced construction professionals.

“I joined RG Carter due to its great reputation for training and investing in people, and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s a people focussed company with a sense of family values. Personal development is important to the company, whatever your experience or life stage.” Jack, Trainee Construction Manager

The construction industry is unique; with so many career options that combines a range of skills and interests.

Whether you’re interested in building, engineering, science or design, at R G Carter we can offer a variety of different rewarding, challenging roles to help develop your skills and start a successful and exciting career in construction.

• Work on exciting, innovative projects, that you can see through from concept to completion
• Learn a mix of theory as well as practical skills out on site
• Work in an ever changing industry, with new state-of-the-art technology
• Give something back to the local communities in which we all live
• Get training and support from our experts at our Carter Academy

Established in 1988 the Gelder Group is a multi-award winning construction company. Dedicated teams offer our clients a wealth of building experience in education, health, retail, insurance, leisure, residential & commercial building projects. We deliver everything with a ‘Can-do’ attitude and constantly challenge our teams to deliver everything with a special ‘Gelder Touch’, which our clients love. 

The Gelder Group is based in Lincoln and has three main divisions; Major Contracts, Facilities Maintenance & Build, and Insurance Repair & Renovation. Each of our divisions has the benefit of employing its own specialist workforce, as well as being able to utilise our pool of experienced and skilled trades people. This enables us to offer our clients the complete construction service.

British Steel, based in Scunthorpe, have a range of high quality steel products that go into a number of markets around the world. They also have a network of metal centres and service centres across the UK and Ireland enabling them to serve their customers quicker and more efficiently. 

They work in 4 main markets:

• Rail - Rail products and services for high speed, heavy duty, mixed traffic, metro and tramway networks
  
• Sections - Sections for the construction industry. CPR-compliant for current structural design and practice
  
• Special Profiles - Special Profiles for earth moving, forklift, construction, shipbuilding and mining markets.
  
• Wire Rod - Wire rod for the automotive, construction, engineering and consumer goods markets.  

British Steel's brand promise

We want to work with our customers to fully know, understand and meet their needs.

We want to build loyalty in the British Steel brand by being our customers’ first choice supplier, the one they trust, every time.

We will do this by:

• Being agile and easy to do business with – this means being responsive, adaptable, competitive and proactive
• Strengthening existing relationships and creating new relationships – this means being trustworthy, friendly and engaging
• Working together to drive improvements – with enthusiasm and effectiveness that accelerates product and service development
• Doing what we say we will do – this means being reliable and honest

With many recent changes across our business, now is a time to reinvigorate our relationships. We will show everyone that we mean business, that we are here to stay and that by working with our company – British Steel –  we can all be sure of a stronger future.

We are family based on a real working farm. Our values include honesty and integrity both in the food we serve and how we treat each other. Ego's need not apply! 

We employ 38 full and part time people and more seasonally in the school holidays. We are looking for upbeat, smiley people to work with our customers, we hire for attitude and then train in house. We are also looking for experienced catering staff to create amazing food in our three kitchens. We put on shows in school holidays so dressing up is a requirement for some. We always needs Santas!

We have the Greedy Pig Cafe and tea room with a 'food from the farm' section where you can buy homemade sausages, bacon, cakes, egg, beers and jams and other local goodies. We have indoor and outdoor play for children including a soft play and a brand new indoor 'imaginative play'. Our farm trail outdoors takes you to see our animals and you can take a trailer ride to see the pigs and cuddle our smaller animals.

Tourism seems to be increasing in the area and this is a market that we need to embrace as well as looking after our local people.

Our 270 acres of multifunctional space is based just four miles north of Lincoln city centre, and we're proud to host hundreds of different diverse and exciting events each and every year.

The Lincolnshire Showground is owned by the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, a charitable organisation established back in 1869 whose objectives are to educate the county about food, farming and a sustainable environment. Although our roots continue to be embedded in agriculture, we've diversified over the years to create a multi-purpose environment offering a wide range of services and events for the region and beyond.

Over the years we've gained a reputation for both organising and hosting outstanding events, including conferences, exhibitions, charity dinners, concerts, festivals, weddings, equine and livestock events, rallies and vehicle shows. The opportunities are endless, so if you're looking for a venue for your next event, please do get in touch with our friendly and knowledgable team.

Designed, built and tested in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, our range of self-propelled machines uses ground-breaking technology to deliver a specification not often found on other machines available in the crop spraying market.

Furthermore, all Househam self-propelled machines have been designed with low weight and even weight distribution in mind. This minimises soil compaction and allows the machine to be used throughout the year, minimising weather delays and reducing the risk of diseases taking hold.

Househam is dedicated to producing leading edge technology which is designed to offer maximum efficiency and ' future-proof' our ever expanding range of sprayers. Customers are supported around the globe with an experienced network of service engineers and dealers', ensuring help and assistance is but a phone call away. Providing world class technical innovation, research and development and testing and manufacturing services to deliver exciting, effective and efficient concepts for our global customers.

With over four decades of success within the agricultural sprayer market, Househam is able to combine cutting edge technology devised by some of the industry's best engineers with precision manufacturing and speed to market.

The Vision of Househam

The challenges faced by agriculture are massive. The ever increasing world population relies on the food agriculture produces and this represents a challenge for the industry, globally, unlike any other industry has hitherto faced.

However, bringing more and more land into agricultural use can have detrimental effects of the environment by encouraging deforestation, which releases more CO2 into the atmosphere, and the draining of natural wetlands both of which increase the risk of flooding.

By protecting and improving the vast areas of soil currently under cultivation and maximising its productive capacity with advances in plant breeding, nutrient management, crop protection products and innovative application technology, we should be able to go a long way towards producing higher volumes of food which is healthier, safer and produced in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable manner.

Our aim is to use new and innovative technology to enable us, as leading manufacturers of crop sprayers, to produce machines which enable growers not only to apply crop protection products very accurately, but also to help protect soil structure by reducing soil compaction. Our links with the leading agricultural research bodies and our continuing dialogue with practical farmers and contractors helps us to produce leading edge crop sprayers which meet the needs of users around the world. 

Gusto Homes has been a leading brand in the regional house-building scene for the last 25-years, with a well-earned reputation for the style and quality of the homes it builds, and for its innovative approach to the design of energy efficient new dwellings.

As part of the family-owned Gusto Group, Gusto Homes enjoys the close working support of sister-companies Gusto Construction and architects Studio-G Associates, thus bringing  together the three essential ingredients for successful new homes – a quality-thirsty developer, creative and innovative designers, and a highly skilled, well-qualified and experienced construction work-force.

Gusto homes have built eco-homes in Lincoln, and have created a development in Great Gonerby.

Founded in 1965, GWF Engineering Ltd has been providing services to industry for over 50 years offering excellence in machining and fabrication solutions to hundreds of satisfied customers from a broad spectrum of industries.

In addition to servicing the more traditional heavy engineering sectors such as Steel, Mining, Power Generation and Petrochemical, we also work innovatively in the Aerospace, Formula 1 Racing and Renewable Energy industries.

The manufacturing facility is based in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire and is close to the UK Motorway network and the Humber Ports for ease of transport of large abnormal loads. The workshop facilities total some 35,000 sq.ft. with overhead craneage of 40T single lift and machining capabilities of up to 5.6m diameter.
We maintain a regular workforce of highly trained, skilled craftsmen and have a proactive succession policy involving the recruitment and training of apprentices in all our core disciplines. This provides us with the stability of skills and retention of knowledge required to maintain the high standards to which they work.