Hygiene Manager

Do you love food? Then you will love working here with this highly capable team. In the last 10 years this Group has seen 30% year on year growth; so, a real modern-day success story. Unlike many other businesses today they are even more versatile, focussed, and ambitious than ever before.

The role:

The purpose of the role will be to provide an effective hygiene management system, to ensure full compliance with relevant legal and Company standards. The incumbent will ensure that all aspects of hygiene within the site are satisfactorily maintained and that environmental microbiological standards and performance is monitored.

Key responsabilities:

• Ensure that production areas and equipment can be released, so that they can be cleaned to the highest standards whilst minimising downtime.
• Work with the hygiene chemical provider and other cleaning experts to introduce levels of best practice to site
• Ensure that a comprehensive cleaning plan is in place and regularly reviewed.
• Carry out internal and external audits.
• Conduct visual inspections and hygiene swabs of environment and equipment.
• Investigate and take the necessary corrective actions of any out of specification environmental micro results.
• Control key contracts; including laundry, chemical supply, consumables, PEE and waste
• Maintain and enforce Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement to ensure performance is constantly challenged and improved
• Control hygiene budget
• Maintain cleaning standards, records, and procedures in a state compliant to BRC and other relevant audit standards

The ideal candidate will have:

• You will possess senior hygiene team leading or management experience, have good knowledge of food safety requirements and hygiene related qualifications i.e. COSHH, IOSH
• Good PC skills including Office package
• Trained in pest awareness
• Experience of managing budgets

Benefits:

• Electric car scheme
• Increased holiday with length of service
• Option to buy more holiday
• Enhanced maternity / paternity
• Free product allowance
• Flexi week opportunity every year
• Cycle to work

Interested? If you wish to apply for this role, please click on the apply button with a copy of your up-to-date CV. Due to the high number of candidates applying who have visa requirements, we would like to provide advance notice that we are currently unable to progress with any candidate who does not have a full right to work in the UK without dependant or sponsorship requirements.

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