Hygiene Manager

Our clients are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up their iconic and much-loved brand. They produce bread and bakery products created with goodness at the heart of each. They deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where they also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

They are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Their success is a result of the hard work of their people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based at head office in High Wycombe. They are a values-led business and expect their colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

What’s the opportunity?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Hygiene Manager at our Erith site, in which you would lead and develop an efficient hygiene operation in line with the site plan and KPIs. A big part of the role would be to create and deliver the hygiene strategy and plan to ensure continuous improvement activity is in place to drive year on year improvements.

What will you be doing?

• Ensuring compliance with company and legal standards (food and personal safety, quality, hygiene, and environment)
• Customer focused delivery of hygiene to Manufacturing and Technical standards, both internal and external (BRC / Customer Standards / Codes of Practice)
• Managing, developing, and leading your team of operatives and demonstrating visible leadership for the team
• Reviewing competency and ensuring appropriate training and development plans are in place to meet both individual and business needs
• Creating an empowering culture and encouraging teamwork and a supporting environment to improve business performance
• Have a good working knowledge of company HR Policies and processes (performance, conduct, disciplinary, grievance, attendance etc)
• Making an active and positive contribution to the site management team, and ensuring hygiene plans and activity dovetail into site supply strategy and plans
• Ensuring continuous improvement and engagement are part of the site plans

We're looking for someone who has true leadership qualities and can take ownership of this function. You'll own what you do and have a knack for influencing different stakeholders in a positive way. Your positivity, encouragement, and consistency will help you guide individuals towards specific tasks and behaviours.

What are 'must haves’ from you?

• Good understanding of working with cleaning chemicals
• A sound knowledge or qualification in HACCP, COSHH, cleaning chemicals, IT and current food safety regulations.
• People management skills - experience of managing teams in an FMCG manufacturing environment
• Experience of Pest control
• Experience in delivering Food Hygiene training
• Excellent verbal, IT and numerate skills
• Experience of working effectively in a Trade Union environment
• Good all-round understanding of compliance

What would be ideal?

• Hygiene experience in a bakery
• Knowledge of baking

Why work for our client and their benefits:

Our clients understand the importance of looking after their colleagues, so they provide a variety of benefits in addition to salaries. The benefits they provide are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries

• There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.
• The benefits scheme offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes a Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving
• They offer enhanced annual leave and maternity/paternity leave, and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance
• They celebrate loyalty with generous long service and colleague recognition schemes
• They offer three levels of pensions

Our client values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.