Hygiene Compliance Team Manager

pladis; Halifax; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global biscuit and confectionery company dedicated to quality and innovation. As a Hygiene Compliance Team Manager, you'll oversee hygiene standards at the Halifax site, ensuring compliance with safety regulations while managing cleaning teams. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a dynamic environment where your efforts will directly impact the quality of products enjoyed by consumers worldwide. If you are passionate about food safety and thrive in a collaborative setting, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Hygiene role in an FMCG company.
• Solid understanding of Food Safety and Health & Safety legislation.

Responsibilities

• Manage cleaning activities in the production area and ensure hygiene standards.
• Plan and prioritize work while ensuring compliance with cleaning schedules.

Skills

Hygiene Management

Food Safety Compliance

Health & Safety Legislation

Communication Skills

IT Proficiency

Education

Level 2 Leadership and Management

NVQ Level 2 Cleaning Support Services

Job description

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led , resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility , we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Why join our team?

pladis is one of the world’s leading global biscuit and chocolate company and owner of a family of iconic brands including: McVities, Ulker, Jacobs, Carrs and DeMets. Headquartered in the UK, pladis is part of the Yildiz Holding group, the largest company in CEEMEA.

pladis aims to be the fastest growing biscuit and confectionary company in the world. We are a borderless and agile business, a global company growing into new markets from market leading positions in the UK and Turkey. Our promise to ‘bring happiness to the world with every bite’ is brought to life every day by our global family of 18,000 employees.

What will this role achieve?

The Hygiene Compliance Team Manager will be accountable for the maintenance of everyday hygiene standards for the Carlisle site and for the management of the site Cleaning operatives. Therefore ensuring complete adherence to the pladis Cleaning Management System (CMS), such that high standards of production area hygiene are always maintained. The role will manage site-based production area cleaning contractors and/or pladis Cleaning Teams. They will also lead on management of waste removal contractors for the site and support the application of lean techniques to ensure ongoing efficiency improvements.

What will be your key results?

Located at Halifax and reporting to the UK Manufacturing Standards Manager, the main responsibilities will include:

• Manage all cleaning activities that take place in and around the production area and for maintaining everyday standards of hygiene across the site
• Responsible for achieving budgeted figures
• Planning and prioritising work and ensuring maximum use of resources
• Ensuring efficiency and conformance to plan (cleaning schedule compliance)
• Manage compliance to Health & Safety requirements where they relate to cleaning activities carried out by pladis and contractors
• Identify measurement and publication of key performance indicators where they relate to cleaning and cleaning contractor activity

What do you need for this role?

Crucial

• Proven experience in a Hygiene role in an FMCG company
• Significant experience of working in a manufacturing environment
• Solid understanding of Food Safety and Health & Safety legislation and its application
• Proficient with IT
• Credible teammate who is self motivated with a drive to achieve the best result
• Good communication skills and can work effectively with Leadership team members, Hygiene Compliance Team Managers and Operators

Preferred

• Knowledge of chocolate manufacturing processes & equipment
• Knowledge of hygiene systems
• Auditing Skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Audit Cleanliness
• Level 2 Leadership and management
• Machineryandequipmentsafeuseandpractices
• Pestawareness
• COSHHawareness
• Food&DrinkSafetyPassports
• NVQ Level 2CleaningSupportServices

Our winning traits and behaviours

• Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
• Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied and never standing still
• Collaborative - Willing to work with others for mutual success
• Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner and persistent in the face of setbacks
• Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe – and this diversity is our outstanding strength.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.