Hygiene Team Leader (Nights)

Little Moons; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic food company in London is seeking a Hygiene Team Leader to oversee deep cleaning operations. The role involves leading a team, ensuring compliance with hygiene standards, and supporting audits. Ideal candidates should have experience in hygiene roles within food manufacturing and be proactive leaders. This position offers 28 days of holiday and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Mental health support

28 days of holiday

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life Insurance

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a hygiene or cleaning role, preferably in food manufacturing.
• Ability to lead a team and maintain hygiene standards.
• Understanding of food safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead hygiene team, ensure cleaning schedules are completed.
• Maintain hygiene, safety, and environmental standards.
• Support audits and monitor hygiene KPIs.

Skills

Team leadership

Food safety knowledge

Organization

Communication

Proactivity

Job description

Job Description

Please note: Benefits and perks may vary based on role and location. For full details of the benefits associated with this position, please refer to the information at the bottom of the Job Description:

Job title: Hygiene Team Leader (Nights)

Department: Technical

Location: Little Moons (Park Royal)

Hours: Monday–Friday, 40 hours per week -10:30pm to 6:30am

Little Moons are frozen and chilled mochi, a fusion of Eastern and Western cuisine - soft and chewy rice flour dough wrapped around balls of ice cream, cheesecake, or chocolate ganache to create a distinctive, bite-sized, and delicious snack that’s bursting with flavour.

Their rollout across Europe has been pioneered by sister and brother duo Vivien and Howard Wong, who founded Little Moons in 2010. The product’s roots are in high-end restaurants, but over the last five years retail packs have swept the ice cream category in grocery and food service.

Little Moons has rapidly established mochi, and snacking ice cream, across Europe. In 2024 we generated more than £60m revenue, and in 2025 we continue to drive towards double digit growth.

We are very proud of the culture that we have built at Little Moons. Not to stroke our own egos, but we are a great bunch of people—smart, passionate, interesting, and funny—who work hard to support and live our values, all the while keeping our mission in our forethoughts.

The Role:

We’re looking for a hands-on Hygiene Team Leader to lead our deep cleaning operations across High Care and Low Care areas. You’ll be the go-to person on shift—organising your team, maintaining high hygiene standards, and making sure everything runs smoothly and safely.

You’ll work closely with teams across production, engineering, and technical to ensure our site is always audit-ready and operating to the highest food safety standards. From supporting line start-ups to responding to audits and driving continuous improvement, you’ll play a key role in keeping our site clean, compliant, and running at its best.

This is a great opportunity for someone who leads by example, thrives on structure, and takes pride in doing things properly.

How You’ll Make a Difference:

• Lead the hygiene team on shift, ensuring cleaning schedules are completed to a high standard.

• Maintain hygiene, safety, and environmental standards across all areas.

• Support line set-up and start-up following deep cleans and maintenance.

• Ensure cleaning procedures, equipment, and practices meet best practice and customer standards.

• Communicate clearly across shifts and departments to keep everyone aligned.

• Support audits and customer visits—planned or unannounced.

• Monitor hygiene KPIs and take action where needed.

• Carry out stock checks and ensure chemical use is compliant and effective.

• Champion a safe working environment and uphold Health & Safety standards.

• Support training and development of hygiene team members.

• Promote a positive, values-led culture where people feel informed, included, and empowered.

About you:

• You've got experience in a hygiene or cleaning role, with leadership experience ideally in food manufacturing.

• You’re confident leading a team and keeping things organised on shift.

• You understand food safety, hygiene standards, and what good looks like.

• You’re proactive, reliable, and take pride in doing things right.

• You communicate clearly and work well with others across departments.

• You’re calm under pressure and know how to get the best from your team.

• You care about quality, safety, and creating a great place to work.

Some of the benefits of working here include:

Little Moons is a fast-growing and dynamic business, the nature of which means roles and responsibilities can change and grow quickly and at scale. We never stand still for long, and for the right person this represents an opportunity to grow and evolve your role and responsibilities with us and to develop your career at pace.

We will provide you with as much support, guidance, and training as you need, and offer the below benefits to boot:

• We understand that mental health matters. We partner with Health Assured to provide remote emotional support to team members

• Respect, trust, and honesty. Personal and professional maturity is important to us, and we keep each other honest ️

• Your holidays – We believe in finding your work-life alignment and encourage all staff to use their 28 days, including public holidays ️

• Fantastic Discounts with ‘Salary Extras’ ????????

• Cycle to Work Scheme️

• Life Insurance

• Refer a friend scheme

To be engaged, you must feel included and valued, so we have built, and nurtured, a culture where inclusiveness is not a buzzword, but a way of being.

Our approach to diversity is simple —it’s about embracing everyone, and everyone is welcome at Little Moons. We are committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation or expression. We arediverse in age, race, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective. Our diversity fuels our innovation, bring diversity of thought, and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve.

All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.