Factory Hygienist

Nestlé; Wisbech; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global food company is looking for a Factory Hygienist in Wisbech, England. The role involves ensuring the factory's hygiene standards are maintained, managing food safety audits, and supporting pest control. Candidates should have relevant qualifications in Food Science or similar, with proven experience in food manufacturing. This full-time position offers a competitive salary between £35,000 to £40,000, a bonus potential, and flexible working arrangements with excellent benefits including private medical insurance.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Flexible leave

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Proven experience in food manufacturing as a Hygienist.
• Knowledge of hygiene/cleaning standards in food processes.
• Ability to manage contractors and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with hygiene standards and training.
• Manage pest control and food safety audits.
• Support implementation of foreign body prevention.

Skills

Food safety management

Multitasking

Relationship building

Service orientation

Education

Degree in Food Science, Microbiology or Biology

Job description

Nestlé Purina

Factory Hygienist

Location: Wisbech Factory, Cambridgeshire

Salary ranging from £35,000 to £40,000 potential bonus + other fantastic benefits including private medical insurance and flex leave.

Although this is a full-time permanent opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.

Position Summary

We have an exciting opportunity at our Purina site in Wisbech Factory in Cambridgeshire; we are looking for an experienced Factory Hygienist to join the team. As part of the quality team, this position is responsible to ensure the factory hygiene status compliant to Nestlé standards.

At Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too.

Our Wisbech factory makes some of the UK’s most well known and much loved brands, such as Felix, Winalot, Gourmet, and Purina ONE, and is constantly developing to meet the changing needs of our consumers. All this happens in a vibrant and historic market town known as the capital of the Fens. For a town with a rich history it also has a strong vision for the future with continued investment planned to ensure Wisbech remains a great place to work, live and visit.

Manufacturing in Nestlé is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business in order to maximise efficiency & productivity.

This is particularly critical as we continue our journey towards being a LEAN Enterprise. This is the biggest change in the way we work that Nestlé have ever seen. It’s worldwide. It is exciting. You could play a key part in it.

A day in the life of a Factory Hygienist

Reporting into the Food Safety & Quality Systems Manager you will be an integral member of the Quality team, supporting across the site with General Hygiene, Hygiene Maintenance, GMP, Pest Control activities, food safety audits & compliance with Food Safety Standards.

Key responsibility will include:

• Ensuring that the Food Safety Management System within the site is sustained and continually improved and supports the factory in specific areas of expertise (e.g. food safety, HACCP, auditing, hygiene, pest control)
• Ensure a comprehensive cleaning plan is in place for the factory, including specific documentation as appropriate and review cleaning effectiveness / standards of cleaning by the factory teams
• Ensure adherence to good hygienic practices in the factory liaising with conformance managers.
• Prepare and deliver Food Safety related training packages as appropriate.
• Support the site on Food Safety matters in preparation for either internal or external audits. Use self‑assessment tools and workbook to conduct gap analysis
• Deliver the required high standard of pest control using internal and external resources.
• Manage the external service provider, ensuring the service specification is clearly understood and consistently met.
• Support with Food Safety related incidents and help to identify weakness to avoid incidents
• Support on site hygienic design improvement plans working with multi‑disciplinary teams to implement best in class solutions.
• Support the implementation of Foreign body Prevention with Conformance Managers and other members of Quality Team.
• Support the NCE Deployment in the factory by facilitating and participating TPM Pillar activities.

What will make you successful?

To be successful in this role it is key that you will be able to manage multiple stakeholders, build relationships and multitask a variety of projects at the same time. You will need a strong service orientation and be able to demonstrate a genuine passion to develop yourself further.

Other key attributes will be:

• Educated to a degree or apprentice in subjects such as Food science, Microbiology or biology.
• Proven experience in a food manufacturing environment in Food Safety/ Quality as a Hygienist.
• Knowledge of products & processes to ensure hygiene/cleaning standards are appropriately applied.
• Experience managing contractors would be ideal, but you will need to be able to communicate and flex your style across all levels in the business.
• Knowledge and experience of risk assessments and root cause analysis, making judgements on the outcomes to deliver improvements.
• Ability to plan and deliver against tight deadlines and manage multiple initiatives at the same time.

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is Monday 12/01/2026.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. When we embrace diversity and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. If there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the application process, please let us know. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity, our people make up a number of Colleague Networks who represent different experiences and communities who hold us accountable in creating a sense of belonging for all, and our values create the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution you bring. Find out more about our Colleague Networks here: Diversity, equity and inclusion | Nestlé (nestle.co.uk).

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