High Level Hygiene Operative

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 35,267,000 - 39,950,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virtual GP

Salary Finance

Choices benefits platform

MiDeals discounts

Cycle-to-work

Life cover

Save-as-you-earn

Matching Share Plan

Mitie Stars recognition

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is recruiting a High Level Hygiene Operative at Pladis Aintree to perform elevated cleaning across food manufacturing areas and ensure compliance with safety standards.

You'll clean overhead structures, beams and other high-level surfaces, follow site procedures, and maintain thorough cleaning records, working 35 hours per week on a 7:00am–5:00pm shift, with a 4-on 4-off pattern and a £14.08 per hour rate.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-level cleaning, including elevated areas.
• Confidence working at height with approved access equipment.
• Good understanding of hygiene and food safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Carry out high-level cleaning tasks in line with procedures and schedules.
• Clean overhead structures, ledges, beams, pipes and other elevated areas.
• Maintain cleaning records and report issues promptly.
• Follow risk assessments and safe systems of work; use PPE as required.
• Support site hygiene and contamination control, ensuring audit readiness.

Skills

High-level cleaning

Working at height

Attention to detail

Hygiene and food safety

Health and safety

Communication

Tools

PASMA

IPAF

Job description

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Contract: Fixed Term Contract (6 months)

Type: Full time

Pay: £14.08 per hour

Hours: 35 hour per week (7:00am to 5:00pm)

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off shift pattern

Location: Pladis, 1 Long Lane, Aintree, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, L9 7BQ

We are looking for a reliable, safety-focused and detail-driven High Level Hygiene Operative to join our hygiene team at Pladis Aintree (Jacob's)

This role is responsible for carrying out specialist high-level cleaning across the site, helping to maintain safe, clean and compliant food manufacturing areas. You will be involved in cleaning elevated surfaces, overhead structures, beams, pipework, framework, vents, ledges, walls, external equipment surfaces and other high-level areas where dust, debris or product residue may build up.

This is an important specialist hygiene role that supports food safety, audit readiness, contamination control and overall site standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out allocated high-level cleaning tasks in line with site procedures, Cleaning Work Instructions and hygiene schedules.
• Clean overhead structures, high-level ledges, beams, pipework, framework, vents, walls and other designated elevated areas.
• Remove dust, debris, product residue, cobwebs, build-up and other contamination risks safely and effectively.
• Use approved access equipment and cleaning equipment correctly, where trained and authorised.
• Support periodic, deep-clean and specialist cleaning activities across the site.
• Ensure cleaning is completed in a controlled way to prevent contamination of production areas, equipment, ingredients or packaging.
• Follow all working at height procedures, risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work.
• Use the correct PPE and safety equipment for each task.
• Report damage, defects, access issues, unsafe conditions, pest concerns or hygiene risks immediately.
• Complete cleaning records and task documentation accurately and on time.
• Work positively as part of the hygiene team and support wider site cleaning requirements where required.

What We Are Looking For

• Previous high-level cleaning, industrial cleaning, food manufacturing, PASMA or IPAF experience would be beneficial. Confidence working at height, where trained and authorised.
• Strong attention to detail and pride in maintaining high standards.
• A good understanding of hygiene, housekeeping and food safety expectations.
• A strong commitment to health and safety.
• Ability to follow instructions, procedures and safe systems of work.
• Good communication skills and the confidence to report concerns quickly.
• A flexible and reliable approach to work.
• Ability to work as part of a team in a busy food manufacturing environment.

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

• We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household.
• We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
• When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
• We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
• Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants.
• We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
• We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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