Hygiene Manager

Greencore; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading food manufacturer as a Hygiene Manager, where you will set and drive hygiene standards in a fast-paced environment. This role involves leading hygiene teams, managing budgets, and ensuring compliance with food safety regulations. You'll play a crucial role in maintaining a safe working environment while fostering a culture of excellence and innovation. With a commitment to diversity and employee development, this vibrant company offers competitive salaries and a range of benefits. If you're passionate about food safety and hygiene management, this is the opportunity to make a real difference in the industry.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre platform

On-the-job training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree level education and relevant food hygiene qualifications are essential.
• Experience in hygiene management within FMCG is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive hygiene standards and lead hygiene teams to meet customer expectations.
• Monitor and audit hygiene performance to identify areas for improvement.

Skills

Hygiene Management

Food Safety Standards

Auditing Processes

Pest Control Measures

Leadership

Budget Management

Communication

Education

Degree Level Education

L4 Food Hygiene

L4 HACCP

IOSH Managing Safely

Allergen Awareness

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Park Royal, we have a team of around 1,150 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, and platters for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons, Co-op, Spar, Wilko, Sutherlands, Iceland, and Poundland.

What you'll be doing

As a hygiene manager, you will drive all elements of the hygiene service within a manufacturing unit by setting standards and leading the hygiene teams to deliver our customer expectations.

Key accountabilities:

1. Responsible for implementation of strategy, quality, efficiency, and hygiene innovation to ensure the manufacturing unit has a hygiene service which supports the delivery of business objectives.
2. Provide leadership and direction to the hygiene community to ensure that people are engaged, focused, and delivering their potential.
3. Establish a holistic hygiene vision incorporating the key elements of safety, health, environment, and waste management, demonstrated through great customer relations and effective management of third-party relationships and internal cross-functional working.
4. Hygiene lead for coordination and successful delivery of all Manufacturing Unit visits and audits achieving recognition of excellent working practices which deliver growth and trust between all.
5. Monitor, audit, and review the performance of the manufacturing unit hygiene teams to identify areas of improvement and innovation to ensure hygiene activities are delivered to plan, budget, and standards beyond compliance.
6. Delivery of projects to designated time scales and meeting all cross-functional food safety and financial targets.
7. Responsible for the preparation and management of Manufacturing Unit hygiene budget, related Capex and negotiation/maintenance of third-party contracts that supply and safeguard the integrity of Manufacturing Unit standards.
8. Ensure that a safe working environment exists for colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set in the SHE Policy.

What we’re looking for

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Ideally educated to degree level.
• Holds the following qualifications in support of experience - L4 Food Hygiene, L4 HACCP, IOSH managing safely, COSHH, Allergen Awareness, CIP, and Microbiological Hygiene.
• A clear financial understanding and experienced managing in an FMCG, ideally in hygiene management.
• Experienced in managing and supporting auditing processes.
• Well versed in pest control measures.
• Experience working with computer programmes such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of the principles of chilled food manufacturing in high risk/low risk/low care.
• Experience of leading and working with a diverse workforce.
• Experience of integrated hygiene and environmental management systems.
• Experience of equipment manufacture and capital expenditure requirements.

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

Competitive salary and job-related benefits.

Holidays.

Pension up to 8% matched.

Life insurance up to 4x salary.

Company share save scheme.

Greencore Qualifications.

Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.