Hygiene supervisor

Greencore Group; Greater London; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Company pension

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Greencore, a leading UK food producer, seeks a Hygiene Supervisor on a 12-month FTC. You will coordinate hygiene teams to ensure GMP compliance and regulatory standards across a dynamic manufacturing site in the UK.

The role involves audits, SOP development, and driving hygienic practices with cross-functional collaboration. Hygiene qualifications and experience in FMCG, plus strong IT skills and cost-conscious mindset, are essential.

Qualifications

• Qualified in food hygiene and safety standards.
• Experience in hygiene operations in FMCG is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate hygiene teams to meet GMP and regulatory standards.
• Lead audits and implement corrective actions.
• Plan hygiene elements of capex/maintenance programmes.
• Prepare and review SOPs and master cleaning schedules.
• Ensure safe working environment and training plans.

Skills

Hygiene leadership

Regulatory compliance

Audit experience

Cost reduction

Team management

MS Office

Education

Level 3 Food Hygiene

Level 3 HACCP

IOSH Managing Safely

COSHH

Allergen awareness

CIP

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here atBow, we have a team of around 800 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, platters, sub rolls and salads for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Asda, Morrisons and BP Wild Bean Café.

What you’ll be doing

Shift: FTC for 12 months working5 on, 2 off (8:00 to 17:00)

Hygiene Supervisorto coordinate the hygiene teams to safely deliver hygiene procedures which ensure that the manufacturing facility meets regulatory standards and customers’ expectations for hygiene, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Micro control.

• Identify hygiene requirements by monitoring changes in the production environment, developing and refining the standard operating procedures (SOPs) and master cleaning schedule, to ensure safe food is delivered in compliance with regulatory, customer codes and identified best practice
• Consult with the hygiene team leader to ensure that all team members have the skills and understanding necessary to successfully complete their role and have training plans which support their ongoing development
• Conduct hygiene audits, completing in-depth micro trend investigation as necessary, to highlight the need for process and scheduling improvement and more effective communication
• Plan and coordinate the hygiene aspects of external audits, and sign off of associated corrective actions, to maintain authorisation from regulators and customer
• Plan and deliver hygiene elements of capex/ maintenance programmes to ensure that all equipment is installed with appropriate hygiene SOPs and is maintained to agreed levels of operational integrity
• Create business plans, authorise tendering activity and day to day spend for all hygiene team related matters, assuring consultation with Purchasing, to ensure adequate supply of resources within agreed budgetary parameters
• Complete risk assessment against hygiene standard and monitor delivery against operating procedure to ensure that all hygiene activities are fit for purpose and completed in a safe manner
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set in the safety health and environment 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.

• Holds the following qualifications in support of experience - Level 3 Food Hygiene, Level 3 Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP), Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Managing Safely, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH), Allergen Awareness, Clean-in-place (CIP) and investigation of microbiological hygiene
• Has a clear financial understanding and has experience of hygiene operations systems ideally in a faster-moving consumer goods (FMCG) environment
• Has experience of supporting auditing processes
• Is well versed in pest control measures
• Has experience working with computer programmes such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Has experience of leading and working with a diverse workforce
• Experience of driving cost reduction

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
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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