Hygiene Operative

Hotel Chocolat; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

50% discount on all products

70% discount for you and your guests (

Job summary

Hotel Chocolat is seeking a Hygiene Operative to join our Hygiene Team at Hadley Park, Huntingdon. You will work in a fast-paced factory role, carrying out cleaning tasks in line with food safety and quality standards.

The role operates Monday to Friday with rotating shifts 6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm. You’ll contribute to safe handling of cleaning chemicals, reporting issues, and collaborating with colleagues to keep production areas compliant.

Qualifications

• Good verbal and written communication in English.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Understanding of safe working practices and ability to report unsafe conditions.
• Ability to handle and use cleaning chemicals safely.

Responsibilities

• Complete cleaning activities to meet hygiene standards.
• Deliver tasks to food safety, quality and compliance standards.
• Disassemble/reassemble equipment safely per procedures.
• Follow cleaning schedules under hygiene management.
• Maintain high housekeeping across production and support areas.
• Comply with site food safety, quality and hygiene procedures.
• Follow Health & Safety policies and risk controls.
• Handle cleaning chemicals safely per COSHH and site procedures.
• Report hygiene, equipment, or food safety concerns promptly.
• Collaborate with colleagues and other departments with professionalism.

Skills

Teamwork

Safety awareness

English proficiency

Education

Food Safety Level 2 certification

COSHH training

Job description

As we continue our mission to make people and nature happy through reinventing chocolate, we’re looking for a Hygiene Operative to join our Hygiene Team on a permanent basis. As a Hygiene Operative, you will be working within a dynamic and fast paced professional hygiene team, responsible for ensuring that all cleaning activities are completed consistently in line with required Food Safety, quality and compliance standards. As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits, you’ll receive 50% discount on all products, and a 70% discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday on a rotating weekly shift pattern of 6am – 2pm and 2pm – 10pm.

The onsite location for this role is at our Factory ‘Hadley Park’, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, right in the heart of where our chocolates are made and where weekly, we can produce between 4 to 6 million of the chocolates we all know and love. Hadley Park is just 5 minutes off the A141 and 1.3 miles from Huntingdon train station, with direct rail links to London King’s Cross.

What you’ll be doing

• Complete all cleaning activities in line with documented cleaning procedures, following the correct methods every time to achieve the required hygiene standards.
• Deliver cleaning tasks to the required food safety, quality, and compliance standards, ensuring your assigned areas are maintained to a consistently high standard.
• Carry out the safe disassembly and reassembly of equipment in accordance with approved procedures and the training provided.
• Follow cleaning schedules and complete all assigned tasks as directed by the Hygiene Manager, Hygiene Team Manager, or Hygiene Senior Operative.
• Maintain high housekeeping and hygiene standards across all designated production and support areas.
• Comply with all site food safety, quality, technical, and hygiene procedures.
• Adhere to all Health & Safety policies, safe systems of work, and risk control measures.
• Handle, prepare, and use cleaning chemicals safely and in accordance with COSHH requirements and site procedures.
• Report any hygiene, equipment, food safety, or Health & Safety concerns promptly to the appropriate manager.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and other departments, maintaining a professional, respectful, and positive approach at all times.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties required to support the needs of the business, provided they are within your training and competence.

Who you are

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Understanding of safe working practices and the ability to recognise and report unsafe conditions or behaviours.
• Ability to handle and use cleaning chemicals safely and in accordance with training and site procedures.

Desirable

• Previous experience working as a Hygiene Operative or Production Operative within a food manufacturing environment.
• COSHH or chemical handling training.
• Food Safety Level 2 certification.
• Experience working to hygiene, food safety, and quality standards in a manufacturing environment.

Who are we?

We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™. A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for Hotel Chocolat, which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about. Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 160 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together.

To learn more about us and read about our People Pledge – our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion – click here: hotelchocolat.com/uk/engaged-ethics/our-people.html