Hygiene Manager High Care Food ManufacturingLocation: Willowbrook Foods
Salary: Competitive + Benefits?Shift: (Evenings)?
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
About the RoleWe are seeking an experienced and driven Hygiene Manager to lead hygiene operations within a fast-paced high-care food manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of hygiene, food safety, and compliance are maintained across all production and high-care areas, supporting customer, retailer, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities typically include managing hygiene teams, overseeing cleaning schedules and procedures, supporting audits, and driving continuous improvement in hygiene performance.?
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the site hygiene team to deliver exceptional hygiene standards.
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve hygiene procedures, CICs, and cleaning schedules.
- Ensure all high-care areas, equipment, and production environments are cleaned and sanitised to required standards.
- Manage chemical usage, COSHH compliance, and safe systems of work.
- Verify cleaning effectiveness through inspections, environmental monitoring, and microbiological testing.
- Maintain audit readiness at all times for BRCGS, customer, and regulatory audits.
- Conduct hygiene, food safety, and GMP audits and ensure corrective actions are completed.
- Investigate hygiene-related non-conformances and implement root cause corrective actions.
- Work closely with Technical, Operations, Engineering, and QA teams to improve hygiene performance and food safety culture.
- Deliver training and development programmes for hygiene operatives and supervisors.
- Manage hygiene budgets, labour resources, and consumables effectively.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Hygiene Manager or Senior Hygiene Supervisor within a food manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of high-care and high-risk food production environments.
- Excellent understanding of HACCP, GMP, BRCGS, and COSHH.
- Experience leading and developing hygiene teams.
- Strong audit, investigation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement and food safety culture initiatives.
- Advanced Food Hygiene qualification desirable.
- IOSH/NEBOSH, HACCP Level 3/4, or equivalent qualifications are advantageous.
Salary expectation negotiable
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