Hygiene Frontline Manager – Food Manufacturing

Reflect Recruitment Group; Melton Mowbray; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Private Health Care

Company Profit Related Bonus

Life Assurance

A rewards and savings portal

Job summary

Reflect Recruitment Group is seeking a Hygiene Front Line Manager near Melton Mowbray, between Leicester and Nottingham, to lead a Hygiene team and ensure clean and safe environments in a food manufacturing setting. The role focuses on Health & Safety, quality standards, and training delivery while driving improvements in productivity and waste reduction.

You’ll manage team leaders, conduct weekly briefings, and coordinate with the hygiene manager on KPI reporting, audits, and risk assessments.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Manage the Hygiene team leaders and provide guidance, including performance development reviews and disciplinary actions.
• Conduct weekly team briefings across all departments and ensure robust handovers to the hygiene manager with KPI reporting.
• Drive productivity and cost reduction through waste control and efficient team performance.
• Undertake weekly audits to ensure finish standards, cleaning schedules, and COSHH risk assessments are up to date.
• Support innovation by proposing new ways of working and implementing improvements with the hygiene manager.
• Liaise with engineering to sign off on hygiene standards and maintain department task/cleaning plans.

Skills

People management

Interpersonal skills

KPI understanding

Numeracy

Literacy

Education

Food hygiene certificate

IOSH training

Job description

Reflect Recruitment Group is seeking a Hygiene Front Line Manager near Melton Mowbray, between Leicester and Nottingham, to lead a Hygiene team and ensure clean and safe environments in a food manufacturing setting. The role focuses on Health & Safety, quality standards, and training delivery while driving improvements in productivity and waste reduction.

You’ll manage team leaders, conduct weekly briefings, and coordinate with the hygiene manager on KPI reporting, audits, and risk assessments.