Hygiene Team Leader

UNAVAILABLE; Cross Hands; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in food processing is seeking a Hygiene Team Leader to oversee the Hygiene department's operations. This role involves ensuring compliance with safety and hygiene standards, providing leadership to the team, and collaborating with management to achieve efficiency and quality outputs. The ideal candidate will have experience in team leadership, a good understanding of basic chemistry, and the ability to work in cold environments. Join a dynamic team and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives while fostering a strong team ethos.

Qualifications

• Experience in team leadership and managing hygiene standards.
• Ability to work with chemicals and in cold environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Hygiene team ensuring compliance with safety standards.
• Manage labor resources to meet daily targets effectively.
• Support recruitment and minimize absenteeism through strong management.

Skills

English

Polish

Romanian

Basic Chemistry Understanding

Team Leadership

Industrial Cleaning Experience

Job description

Overview

Dunbia are one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has previous Team Leader experience. Reporting to the FSQ Manager, the Hygiene Team Leader is responsible for ensuring that the department is run in accordance with all Safety and Compliance standards

Responsibilities

The Team Leader provides effective support in running the Hygiene team in accordance with company standards and procedures regarding Hygiene, Safety, Quality, Quantity and Cost.

The role will have responsibility for providing leadership, direction and support to General Operatives within the team. Working closely with the Management Team, the Team Leader will have responsibility for the efficiency and effectiveness of the team as well as the Quality of the teams output.

• Build positive relationships with colleagues, managers and other departments, utilising these positive relationships to assist delivery of results through your team, and provide support towards the success of other teams.
• To ensure effective communications with site management and production teams.
• To carry out a team brief at the start of each shift with all team members, ensuring that KPIs are discussed and issues are resolved.
• Responsible for department being ready to commence work at the start of the shift and run in accordance with SOP’s, including pre-start up checks and reporting any labour issues immediately to the Manager.
• Plan, organise and manage labour resources to ensure the daily targets are met and there are no breaches to working time regulations.
• Ensure that team members on the line take their allocated breaks at the appropriate time and return to work promptly and restart the process.
• Ensure all equipment and working areas are cleaned to company hygiene standards prior to production and housekeeping rules are followed by the team adhering to “Clean As You Go” at all times.
• Ensure all processes are adhered to and compliance with Company policies and procedures.
• Encourage and support new and ongoing continuous improvement initiatives within the site.
• Ensure that all employees on the line understand their role, responsibilities and the expectations of the management.
• Work collaboratively with HR to administer counselling, and support the investigation process when required.
• Support the Recruitment & Selection process for new employees, when required
• Minimise absenteeism through encouraging a strong team ethos ensuring a high standard of day to day line management.

Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Ability to speak English/Polish or English/Romanian due to the diverse nature of the Company.
• This role will involve some element of working with chemicals therefore an understanding of basic chemistry and ability to read and understand English is essential.
• Comfortable working with meat in cold temperatures, as well as ability to undertake occasional heavy lifting.

Preferable Skills

• Background and previous work experience in Industrial Cleaning or Hygiene department would be advantageous.

No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position.

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