Vitacress
Hygiene - Hygiene Operative Nights
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🌟 Hygiene Operative (Nights) 🌟
Join the Vitacress Team at SMB Vitacress Salads
- Location: SMB Vitacress Salads
- Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent
- Shift Pattern: 4 On, 4 Off (Nights)
- Working Hours: 18:00 – 06:00
- Hourly Rate: £15.97 per hour
- Annual Salary: £33,425.21
Looking for a hands-on role with great pay and a supportive team?
At Vitacress Salads, we're looking for a Hygiene Operative to help maintain the highest standards of cleanliness, food safety, and hygiene across our production facility.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a successful and growing business where your work plays a vital role in ensuring safe, high-quality products reach our customers every day.
🔧 What You'll Be Doing
As a Hygiene Operative, you will:
- Clean factory machinery, equipment, and production areas to a high standard
- Follow cleaning procedures and Hygiene Cleaning Instruction Cards (CICs)
- Ensure hygiene, food safety, and microbiological standards are maintained
- Support hygiene audits and respond to non-conformances when required
- Report equipment faults, safety concerns, or damage identified during cleaning
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve daily operational targets
- Support and guide new team members when required
- Promote a safe working environment while adhering to all company policies
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👀 What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who is:
- Reliable and committed
- Hard-working with a positive attitude
- A strong team player
- Safety-conscious and quality-focused
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced production environment
- Willing to learn and follow procedures
- Physically capable of carrying out cleaning duties
Previous hygiene or food production experience is beneficial but not essential as full training will be provided.
🏭 Working Environment
Please be aware that this role involves:
- Working in a chilled production environment
- Working in wet conditions
- Using cleaning chemicals safely
- Wearing hygiene PPE
- Using long and sometimes heavy hoses and cleaning equipment
- Standing and moving for extended periods
🌱 About Vitacress
Founded in 1951, Vitacress has grown to become one of Europe's leading fresh produce businesses, supplying high-quality salads, herbs, and fresh foods to major retailers across the UK.
We're proud of our values:
- Always Deliver Quality: We strive for excellence in everything we do and take pride in delivering the highest standards for our customers.
- Do the Right Thing: We work with honesty, integrity, and respect, making responsible decisions for our people, customers, and communities.
- Nurture the Future: We invest in our people, protect our environment, and support sustainable growth for generations to come.
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📢 Ready to Join Us?
If you're looking for a rewarding role with a great team, excellent pay, and the opportunity to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and become part of the Vitacress family!
Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. With our own salad leaf farms, we take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve’s Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.
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