Hygiene Frontline Leader – Food Manufacturing

Clawson Dairy Limited; Melton Mowbray; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Private Health Care

Profit Related Bonus

Life Assurance

Clawson Connect

Job summary

Long Clawson Dairy is seeking a Hygiene Front Line Manager to lead the hygiene team at our Long Clawson site, near Melton Mowbray. You will drive health, safety and quality standards, train teams, and ensure timely handovers with clear KPI reporting.

The role requires demonstrable food manufacturing hygiene management, strong people leadership, and a proactive approach to continuous improvement. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable Hygiene managerial experience within the food manufacturing industry.
• Excellent people management.
• Food hygiene certificate (to be achieved within 12 months).
• Experience with HIC’s / CIC’s.
• Understanding of COSHH.
• Good level of numeracy and literacy to carry out area reporting activities.
• Understanding of KPI’s.
• IOSH or equivalent trained.
• Experience of carrying out risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that Health & Safety procedures, Quality/Hygiene standards and company Rules, procedures and policies are always adhered to.
• Assist with the delivery of training for the teams when needed.
• Reporting of issues as they arise, which may impact on product quality, production /hygiene activities, and environmental issues.
• Conduct weekly team briefings across all departments using the 4-box grid design.
• Ensure a robust system of handovers directly to the hygiene manager on a weekly basis which will include the hygiene KPI’s.
• Strive to improve productivity and cost reduction through control of wastes and loses, e.g. water, detergents and time by ensuring the teams are working efficiently.
• Weekly auditing of areas to ensure that the finish standards includingthe methodology is to the correct standards.
• To ensure that periodic cleaning is up to date.
• Encourage teamwork and develop new ways of working within your team.
• Work closely with the hygiene manager to make improvements and promote the hygiene department within the company.
• Support in the creation and amendments of the HIC’s/CIC’s and ensure that they are up to date.
• Support in the upkeep of the department task/cleaning/COSHH risk assessments.
• Manage the Team leaders, providing support and guidance, supporting in conducting performance development reviews, disciplinary and investigations issues, and ensuring training plans are up to date via the training matrix.
• Implement corrective actions from GMP, Finish standard audits and external audits.
• Liaise with the engineering department to sign off on hygiene standards.

Job description

Long Clawson Dairy is seeking a Hygiene Front Line Manager to lead the hygiene team at our Long Clawson site, near Melton Mowbray. You will drive health, safety and quality standards, train teams, and ensure timely handovers with clear KPI reporting.

The role requires demonstrable food manufacturing hygiene management, strong people leadership, and a proactive approach to continuous improvement. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.