Hygiene Manager / Food Manufacturing / FMCG

AWD online; England; On-site; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company in Trafford seeks a Hygiene Manager with expertise in hygiene and GMP standards. The role involves coordinating hygiene activities, managing the hygiene team, and ensuring compliance with safety audits. Ideal candidates will have a degree in a food-related field and a strong background in food manufacturing and hygiene management.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Pension scheme membership

Annual incentive plan

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Variety of retail and leisure discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Experience of managing people and contracts.
• Good knowledge of products & processes applicable to hygiene.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage the cleaning of equipment.
• Oversee hygiene team and activities.
• Organize food safety audits and ensure compliance.

Skills

Team leadership

Hygiene management

GMP standards knowledge

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Education

Degree in food or scientific discipline

Advanced food hygiene certificate

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Hygiene Manager who has team leadership and management skills and is a subject matter expert on hygiene and GMP standards is required for a food manufacturing site based in Trafford, Greater Manchester, North West England.

SALARY: £50,000 per annum + Benefits (see below)

LOCATION: Trafford, Greater Manchester, North West England

JOB TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent

WORKING HOURS: 37.5 Hours per Week, Monday to Friday

JOB OVERVIEW

The company is looking to strengthen their Hygiene Management Team and now have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Hygiene Manager who has team leadership and management skills and is a subject matter expert on hygiene and GMP standards.

Working as the Hygiene Manager you will support the Technical Team to deliver first class hygiene standards in a fast-paced flagship site.

Reporting to the Technical Manager as the Hygiene Manager you will be responsible for the ongoing development of the hygiene team, hygiene management system and day-to-day management of hygiene activities across the site, whilst ensuring compliance to relevant business processes including statutory, mandatory and legal requirements.

The successful candidate will have the principal responsibility to provide subject matter expertise on hygiene and GMP standards, ensuring effective operating procedures (SOPs) are in place for all hygiene tasks.

The Hygiene Manager is required to train, coach, and assess site employees ensuring delivery of tasks are to a high standard whilst also managing hygiene contractors, pest control activities, food safety audits which must comply with microbiological standards.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience within a similar position and at management level. You will need excellent IT and communication skills, both orally and written, with the ability to manage the expectations of key stakeholders and possess a keen eye for detail.

DUTIES

Your duties include:

• Coordinate the scheduled cleaning of all plant and equipment to meet QMS requirements and customer standards
• Manage all people-related activity for the hygiene team e.g. holidays leave, sickness including RTW, and PDR
• Review cleaning effectiveness/standards of cleaning by the factory teams to ensure compliance to standards is maintained
• Organise and participate in food safety audits (hollow body, open spot, foreign body & security)
• Support with ATP and allergen swabbing / cleaning inspections and recleaning as and when required
• Provide expert hygiene & GMP input to the factory HACCP evaluation
• Support the wider technical team in daily GMP audits/walks and support in closing actions outside of operation CAYG requirements
• Provide monthly reports of compliance
• Audits [HACCP / Process / GMP] as per schedule
• Investigations for any consumer complaints

The work is both proactive and reactive, therefore a certain amount of forward planning is required to ensure objectives are completed in a timely manner regardless of the reactive nature of the workloads.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a food or scientific discipline
• Proven experience in a food manufacturing environment
• Advanced food hygiene certificate
• Experience of managing people and contracts
• Able to prioritise and manage workload effectively to meet deadlines
• Able to communicate at all levels of the organisation
• Ability to innovate & implement new techniques
• Good knowledge of products & processes to ensure hygiene/cleaning standards are appropriately applied
• Experience of the application of cleaning & disinfection techniques
• Good understanding of pathogen controls & preventative measures
• Sound knowledge of GMP and its application
• PC literate, excellent understanding of Excel / Word / Power point
• Planning and organised
• Attention to detail
• Root cause analysis and problem solving
• Strong influencing skills
• Good HACCP knowledge
• Good Safety knowledge, including COSHH, IOSH

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary
• ABF Pension scheme membership
• Annual incentive plan
• Free and confidential 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to affordable loans and financial education, electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes
• Cycle to work
• Option to buy additional holidays
• Volunteering day
• Plus a variety of retail and leisure discounts

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JOB REF: AWDO-P13810

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