Team Leader – Hygiene

Company: Long Clawson Dairy Ltd
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Location: Melton Mowbray
Job Description:

Team Leader – Hygiene

Long Clawson Dairy (Clawson Farms)

Based: Long Clawson (LE14 4PJ)

Salary: £18.53 per hour + Great Benefits

Hours: 36.65 hours per week – Monday to Friday – 1700 to 0100

Why Clawson?

We are a truly unique business! Our award-winning cheese is considered a national treasure, and we have over a hundred years of cheesemaking experience. From our dairy farmers’ cooperative through our modern factories and on to our multiple customers from all over the world, our Protected Designation of Origin Stilton is a British heritage brand to be truly proud of.

Our people are experts in their craft – they care passionately about what they do, have great integrity, constantly innovate and stick together.

We are now seeking a Team Leader in our Packing Hygiene team, to join the Clawson family situated in the picturesque village of Long Clawson, just 6 miles from Melton Mowbray.

What you’ll do

You will be responsible for the team management of your area, ensuring line leaders, colleagues and activities within the department are managed effectively and efficiently and carry out their allocated duties to the correct standard/specification and efficiencies. You will ensure the team meets all its shift targets set.

Our values and what you will be doing.

Innovation

  • Encourage team work and develop new improved ways of working within your team.
  • Work closely with the departmental management team in order to make improvements and promote the Hygiene Department within the company.
  • Strive to improve productivity and cost reduction through control of waste and losses, e.g. water, detergents and time by working efficiently

Passion

  • Daily team briefings
  • Develop and coach your line leaders for career progression.

We Care

  • Coordinate Hygiene staff and ensure work is carried out to a high standard and in accordance with the Hygiene Instruction Card.
  • Completion of cleaning schedule documentation
  • Ensure Health & Safety procedures, Quality/Hygiene standards and Company Rules/Procedures are adhered to at all times

Togetherness

  • Ensure a robust system of handovers with the production team is maintained by completing handovers at the beginning and end of each shift
  • Assist with delivery of training for the team, as and when required.
  • Liaise with the Engineering Department to sign off on hygiene standards.

Integrity

  • Create and maintain daily KPI reports for delivery to the Hygiene manager and department heads.
  • Daily auditing of machinery pre and post clean to ensure that the correct standards have been achieved

What are we looking for?

  • Self‑motivated and proven experience of motivating others
  • Proven people management skills
  • Adept at problem solving and route cause analysis
  • A good level of numeracy & literacy is required in order to carry out area reporting activities
  • Intermediate IT skills including Excel, Word and email
  • Industrious and able to prioritise tasks to deadlines
  • Key eye for detail and experience of auditing
  • Experience of using a Hygiene Management System
  • Understanding of COSHH
  • Experience of training staff
  • Previous hygiene experience within the food industry

Benefits include:

  • Competitive salary
  • Pension Scheme
  • Company Profit Related Bonus
  • Life Assurance
  • Clawson Connect (Rewards and savings portal)
  • Plus, many others

Does this sound like you?

Then we would love to hear from you, send us your CV using the link below.

Excited about the role, but your experience or qualifications don’t perfectly match everything in the job description? We would encourage you to still apply. Studies have shown that some people, particularly from minority groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification.

We are dedicated to building belonging, empowering our colleagues to be their true self by offering a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. You may just be the right candidate for this role, or other future roles across our business.

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Posted: July 10th, 2026