Hygiene Zone Manager

Greencore Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Holidays

Matched pension contributions

Life insurance 4x salary

Company sharesave scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore in London (Park Royal) is seeking a Hygiene Zone Manager to lead the hygiene team, ensure clean and safe production, and drive audit readiness across the site. You will manage shift patterns (5 out of 7, day and night) and partner with other departments to meet production targets.

The role requires HACCP Level 2, COSHH knowledge, Listeria awareness, and Food Hygiene Level 2, along with the ability to report in clear English and lead diverse teams in a fast pace manufacturing

Qualifications

• Good literacy and numerical skills; report proficiently in English.
• Experience managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environment.
• HACCP level 2.
• COSHH knowledge.
• Understanding of Listeria in food production.
• Food hygiene level 2.

Responsibilities

• Lead hygiene colleagues and ensure consistent application within the hygiene department.
• Maintain hygiene standards in line with cleaning schedules and tasks; keep factory audit-ready.
• Monitor cleaning procedures and labour deployment to fit hygiene and production needs.
• Communicate progress to other departments and highlight risks to schedule standards.
• Inspect cleaning machinery and promote health, safety and environmental culture.
• Review team trends and develop capabilities to maximise potential.

Skills

Leadership

HACCP Level 2

COSHH

Listeria awareness

Food hygiene level 2

English proficiency

Education

Good standard of education

Job description

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone 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’reproud 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 thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Park Royal, we have a team of around 1,150 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps and platters for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons, Co-op, Spar, Wilko, Sutherlands, Iceland and Poundland.

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

SHIFT - Any 5 out of 7 (mixture of day and night shifts)

As a Hygiene Zone Manager you will lead hygiene colleagues and manage the consistant application within the hygiene department and to ensure hygiene standards are maintained and factory is always audit ready.

• Deliver hygiene department standards and efficiency in line with cleaning schedules and tasks.
• Continuously monitor cleaning procedures, practice's and methods to ensure that all activities with hygiene, food safety standards and health and safety. Monitor and review labour deployment to ensure that the availability and aliment fits with the hygiene and production requirements.
• Effectively communicate with the other departments on progress and highlight any risk to achieve the schedule standards.
• Monitor the effectiveness of cleaning machinery and equipment through inspections and audits. Promote a Health, Safety and Environmental culture with in the Hygiene department, complying to procedures, accidents investigation, corrective actions and completing near miss reporting, promoting a safe working environment.
• Review trends within the hygiene team, identify and act on opportunities that you could make sustainable improvements in areas.
• Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all colleagues are clearly focused on their objectives and are developed to maximise their potential.

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.

• A good standard of education - demonstrates good literacy and numerical skills able to communicate and report proficiently in English.
• Experience of managing diverse teams in complex manufacturing environment.
• Has HACCP level 2.
• Has knowledge of chemicals COSHH
• Understands Listeria.
• Food hygiene level 2.

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

Whatyou’llget in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Companysharesave scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhancedparentalleave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported withon the jobtraining and development opportunities to further your career.