Food Hygiene Shift Manager

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We are recruiting a proactive Hygiene Shift Manager to lead hygiene operations and maintain high standards in a fast‑paced food manufacturing environment. You’ll oversee a dedicated team, drive improvements, and help ensure a safe and compliant site.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead daily hygiene operations, ensuring consistently high cleaning and food safety standards.
• Complete all hygiene, compliance and audit documentation accurately and on time.
• Conduct routine site inspections, delivering audits and driving corrective and preventative actions.
• Manage contamination incidents, pest issues and reactive hygiene requests within agreed service levels.
• Ensure full adherence to site safety, regulatory requirements and hygiene procedures.
• Maintain and update hygiene schedules, risk assessments, SOPs and training records.
• Manage hygiene resources, including equipment, PPE, staffing levels and cost control.
• Lead, train and develop hygiene team members, overseeing performance, attendance and workload planning.
• Communicate effectively through briefings and toolbox talks while prioritising tasks to support operational needs.

Required Qualifications or Experience:

• Experience within a food hygiene/production environment.
• Good attitude and character to contribute to the team and client successes.
• Strong communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisation skills.
• Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification would be highly desired.

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