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Hygiene Manager (Nights)
Location: Hyde
Hours: 10pm-6am
We are looking for an experienced Hygiene Manager to lead and develop our site hygiene operation, ensuring the highest standards of food safety, compliance, and continuous improvement.
As a key member of the team, you will drive the Food Safety & Hygiene strategy using Operational Excellence (OPEX) principles, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements while delivering measurable improvements in hygiene performance, audit results, and operational standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the hygiene team, promoting a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.
- Drive excellence in food safety and hygiene standards across the site.
- Use OPEX tools and data analysis to identify root causes, solve problems, and deliver sustainable improvements.
- Set, maintain, and improve standards across safety, quality, environmental, and manufacturing processes.
- Drive strong internal and external audit performance and implement improvement plans.
- Manage hygiene-related projects in line with site objectives and business priorities.
- Ensure compliance with SOPs, CICs, COSHH requirements, and risk assessments.
- Monitor, measure, and report Hygiene KPIs on a monthly basis.
- Coach and support teams to embed best practice hygiene standards and behaviours.
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Essential
- Hygiene-related Certificate or Diploma.
- Food Safety Level 3 and HACCP Level 3 qualifications.
- COSHH Training.
- Proven experience leading a hygiene operation within a food manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of hygiene management best practices.
- Knowledge of hygiene processes and microbiological controls.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Natural coaching and people development ability.
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Why Join Us?
This is an excellent opportunity to play a critical role in protecting product integrity, driving continuous improvement, and shaping food safety culture within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. You'll have the opportunity to lead change, influence standards, and make a real impact on business performance.
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