Hygiene Team Leader

Our Vacancies; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food company in the UK is seeking a Hygiene Team Leader who will oversee sanitation processes and manage a team of operatives. Responsibilities include ensuring hygiene standards during production shifts and developing cleaning schedules. Qualified candidates should have an NVQ level 2 in Food Hygiene, relevant FMCG experience, and strong leadership skills. This role offers competitive compensation with benefits including holidays, a pension plan, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Free car parking

Qualifications

• NVQ level 2 in Food Hygiene is required for this position.
• Must have knowledge of chemical handling according to local requirements.
• Experience in FMCG hygiene roles is essential.

Responsibilities

• Monitor activities of a team of hygiene operatives to ensure sanitation processes are completed.
• Create a resource plan for cleaning and sanitation activities.
• Direct and monitor the team's daily hygiene activities.

Skills

Food Hygiene NVQ level 2/certification of sanitation or equivalent

Computer literate in Word, Excel

Previous experience in FMCG or similar hygiene role

Experience leading and working with a diverse workforce

Education

Basic Health and Safety NVQ level 2 or equivalent

Detailed understanding of local SOPs

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’reone of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

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

Warrington

OurWarrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

What you’ll be doing

As Hygiene Team Leader (Hygiene Zone Manager) you will monitor and review the activities of a team of hygiene operatives to ensure that all sanitation processes are completed in full and that hygiene standards for a given area are maintained during the production shift.

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off, 17:30 – 05:30

Salary: Competitive

Tasks will involve:

• Ensure that the team has the right number of resources with the appropriate skills, deploying a recruitment and training plan and adopting appropriate people practices, to enabling them to deliver the master cleaning schedule
• Create and present a clear forward resourcing plan (people and materials) for cleaning, sanitation, environment and technical, and adapt this in light of emerging circumstance to minimise food risk
• Direct and monitor the team’s delivery of the day to day hygiene activities, in line with the master schedule, to ensure operational integrity
• Communicate, and validate the team’s adoption of amendments to SOPs to ensure change is effectively implemented and improvements are made to functional hygiene performance and safety practices
• Review equipment and highlight damage, escalating risks, to inform the preventative maintenance programme
• Ensure personal and team compliance with inventory controls to facilitate the timely replacement of materials
• Provide appropriate information, in accordance with agreed procedures, to customers/regulatory bodies to ensure demonstration of process and procedures
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set in the SHE Policy

What we’re looking for

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Food Hygiene NVQ level 2/certification of sanitation or equivalent
• Basic Health and Safety NVQ level 2 or equivalent
• Chemical Handling (as per local site requirement)
• Detailed understanding of the impact of legislation on day to day operations in relation to food safety.
• Computer literate in Word, Excel
• Previous experience in FMCG or similar hygiene role
• Experience leading and working with a diverse workforce
• Detailed Familiarity with local SOPs

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better. 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
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Free car parking
• 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.