site. Reporting directly to our Hygiene Manager with a dotted line to out Technical Manager. This role is key to ensuring hygiene standards, food safety compliance, and operational performance across the site. You will be responsible for leading, motivating, and developing a hygiene team to maintain a safe, compliant, and efficient working environment. This is a leadership role, leading day shift by setting priorities, co-ordinate tasks and generally ensures production targets and other standards are met.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and develop the hygiene day team.
Ensure compliance with hygiene, food safety, and health & safety standards.
To ensure all area paperwork and procedures are implemented and correctly used and that all other written communication is followed and acted upon
Promote a positive work culture and staff engagement.
Complete and review hygiene paperwork and compliance documentation.
Plan work and resources flexibly in own area, allocate tasks daily, adjusting as necessary to meet scheduled cleaning and company targets
Liaise with managers, other departments, and external auditors.
Drive continuous improvement and efficiency within the team.
Ensure adherence to company policies and procedures.
What We're Looking For
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Experience in hygiene leadership in a fast-moving food manufacturing environment.
Strong knowledge of hygiene cleaning standards and legislative requirements.
Experience in managing and leading a team.
Confident in completing compliance paperwork and meeting audit standards.
Well-organised, self-motivated, and willing to undertake personal development.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Why join us?
At Pilgrim's Europe, our values -- Availability, Humility, Discipline, Sincerity, Simplicity, Ownership and Determination -- are at the heart of everything we do. As Hygiene Manager, you'll play a vital role in protecting our products, our people and our reputation, while helping us achieve the highest standards in food manufacturing.
We also offer a range of benefits to support and reward our people, including:
Competitive salary
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Pension scheme with company contributions
Life assurance and wellbeing support programmes
Opportunities for training, professional development and career progression
If you're ready to lead a key team in a fast-moving environment and take ownership of hygiene excellence, we'd love to hear from you!
If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge and grow your career with us, apply today and join our friendly team!
The company
Pilgrim's Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.
Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.
Across Pilgrim's Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim's Europe team are based in our Pilgrim's UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim's Food Masters and Pilgrim's Shared Services businesses.
What we'll bring to the table
Competitive Salary
Competitive Holiday Entitlement
Pension Contribution
Family Friendly Policies
Learning and Development Opportunities
Life Assurance
People matter
Our values
Determination
Simplicity
Availability
Humility
Discipline
Sincerity
Ownership
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