Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Hygiene Supervisor
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Location: Pladis / McVitie's Carlisle
Pay Rate: £16.00 per hour
Working Pattern:
- Sunday 6am–6pm, then Monday to Wednesday 6am–3pm
- Tuesday to Friday 6am–3pm, then Saturday 6am–6pm
Hours: 39 hours per week
Reporting to: Contract Manager
About The Role
We are looking for a reliable and proactive Plant Hygiene Supervisor to join the hygiene team at Pladis / McVitie's Carlisle.
This role will focus on supervising plant and line cleaning activities across production areas, ensuring hygiene tasks are completed safely, correctly, and to the required food manufacturing standard.
You will be responsible for leading hygiene operatives, allocating daily cleaning tasks, checking standards, supporting documentation completion, and ensuring production lines are cleaned, inspected, and ready for handover.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise plant and line hygiene operatives during cleaning activities.
- Allocate daily cleaning tasks in line with schedules and site priorities.
- Ensure production lines, equipment, conveyors, guards, framework, and surrounding areas are cleaned to the required standard.
- Monitor cleaning progress and take corrective action where standards are not met.
- Ensure Cleaning Work Instructions, safe systems of work, and site procedures are followed.
- Support completion of hygiene records, task sheets, and sign-off documentation.
- Promote safe working, PPE compliance, COSHH controls, and food safety standards.
- Report defects, missed cleans, damaged equipment, contamination risks, or safety concerns.
- Support training, coaching, and day-to-day team performance.
- Communicate effectively with hygiene, production, engineering, and technical teams.
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What We Are Looking For
The Ideal Candidate Will Have
- Previous experience in hygiene, cleaning, food manufacturing, or production environments.
- Experience supervising, leading, or supporting a team.
- Good understanding of plant, line, or equipment cleaning.
- Strong attention to detail and pride in maintaining high standards.
- Good communication and organization skills.
- Ability to work safely and challenge unsafe behaviours.
- Confidence to manage priorities during busy cleaning windows.
- A reliable, flexible, and professional approach.
Previous food manufacturing hygiene experience would be highly beneficial.
Benefits
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- Virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household.
- Financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme.
- Access to our flexible benefits platform, Choices, to customize your benefits.
- Access to high street discounts through our MiDeals platform.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000.
- Save-as-you-earn scheme.
- Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
- Recognition through Mitie Stars with cash prizes up for grabs each month and a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000 at the end of the year.
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Inclusion and Accessibility
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes, or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at.
About Us
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites, as well as hospitals and schools.
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