Hygiene Team Leader

Greencore; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in the UK is seeking a Hygiene Team Leader to oversee sanitation processes and manage a team. Responsibilities include ensuring hygiene standards during production shifts and adapting cleaning plans. Candidates should have relevant NVQs in Food Hygiene and Health and Safety, along with experience in hygiene roles. The position offers competitive salary and benefits, including holidays and pension contributions.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Free car parking

Enhanced parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Food Hygiene NVQ level 2/certification of sanitation or equivalent is essential.
• Basic Health and Safety NVQ level 2 or equivalent is vital.
• Detailed understanding of legislation regarding food safety is required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the activities of a team of hygiene operatives to ensure sanitation processes are completed.
• Create and present a resourcing plan for cleaning and sanitation activities.
• Ensure compliance with personal and team inventory controls for replacement of materials.

Skills

Food Hygiene NVQ level 2

Basic Health and Safety NVQ level 2

Computer literacy in Word, Excel

Previous experience in FMCG

Experience leading diverse workforce

Education

Food Hygiene NVQ level 2/certification of sanitation or equivalent

Basic Health and Safety NVQ level 2 or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Why Greencore? We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better. We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of 1.8bn. Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties. 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.

Our Warrington 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.

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.

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