Hygiene Supervisor

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Virtual GP

Salary Finance

Choices platform

MiDeals discounts

Cycle to work

Life cover

Share plan

Mitie Stars

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is seeking a reliable Plant Hygiene Supervisor to lead cleaning operations at Pladis / McVitie's Carlisle. You will supervise hygiene operatives, manage schedules and ensure safety standards across production areas.

The role emphasizes coaching teams, ensuring clean, compliant spaces and smooth handover to production, with strong emphasis on COSHH, PPE and food-safety compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in hygiene, cleaning, manufacturing or food production.
• Experience in supervisory, team leader or chargehand roles.
• Knowledge of plant cleaning or production line cleaning.
• High attention to detail.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to work safely and promote safe systems of work.
• Confidence to challenge poor standards and escalate concerns.
• Flexible, reliable and professional approach.
• Food manufacturing hygiene experience is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Supervise hygiene operatives during plant and line cleaning tasks.
• Allocate work and ensure cleaning schedules are completed on time.
• Check hygiene standards across production lines, equipment and surrounding areas.
• Ensure Cleaning Work Instructions, risk assessments and safe systems of work are followed.
• Support handover of cleaned areas back to production.
• Ensure hygiene records, task sheets and sign-off documents are completed accurately.
• Maintain standards for PPE, COSHH, food safety and health and safety.
• Report safety concerns, defects, damaged equipment, contamination risks or missed cleans.
• Support team training, coaching and performance management.
• Communicate with production, engineering, technical and hygiene management teams.

Skills

Hygiene experience

Supervisory

Cleaning knowledge

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Safety awareness

Problem solving

Flexibility

Job description

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Contract: Permanent

Type: Full time

Pay: £16.00 per hour + £50 weekend attendance bonus

Hours: 40 hour per week (Monday & Friday 6am–2pm, Saturday and Sunday 6am–6pm)

Location: Pladis, 54 Church Street, Caldewgate, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, CA2 5TG

About The Role

We are looking for a reliable and motivated Plant Hygiene Supervisor to join the hygiene operation at Pladis / McVitie's Carlisle.

This role will focus on supervising plant and line cleaning across production areas, with particular responsibility for ensuring hygiene teams complete cleaning activities safely, efficiently and to the required food manufacturing standard.

You will support the delivery of cleaning schedules, check standards, coach team members, complete documentation and work closely with site teams to ensure production areas are clean, compliant and ready for use.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise hygiene operatives during plant and line cleaning tasks.
• Allocate work and ensure cleaning schedules are completed on time.
• Check hygiene standards across production lines, equipment and surrounding areas.
• Ensure Cleaning Work Instructions, risk assessments and safe systems of work are followed.
• Support handover of cleaned areas back to production.
• Ensure hygiene records, task sheets and sign-off documents are completed accurately.
• Maintain standards for PPE, COSHH, food safety and health and safety.
• Report safety concerns, defects, damaged equipment, contamination risks or missed cleans.
• Support team training, coaching and performance management.
• Communicate with production, engineering, technical and hygiene management teams.

What We Are Looking For

The Ideal Candidate Will Have

• Previous experience in hygiene, cleaning, manufacturing or food production.
• Supervisory, team leader or chargehand experience.
• Good knowledge of plant cleaning or production line cleaning.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Good communication and organisation skills.
• Ability to work safely and support others to follow safe systems of work.
• Confidence to challenge poor standards and escalated concerns.
• A flexible, reliable and professional approach.

Food manufacturing hygiene experience would be an advantage.

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

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