Hygiene Team Leader

Why Greencore?
We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day.
We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of 1.9bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Here at Crosby, we have a team of around 300 colleagues. We produce sushi for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons and Sainsbury's.

What you'll be doing

Shift pattern available is 4 on / 4 off (nights) 7pm to 7am.
To monitor and review the activities of a team of hygiene operatives to ensure that all sanitation processes are completed in full and that hygiene standards for a given area are maintained during the production shift
Ensure that the team has the right number of resources with the appropriate skills, deploying a recruitment and training plan and adopting appropriate people practices, to enabling them to deliver the master cleaning schedule
Create and present a clear forward resourcing plan (people and materials) for cleaning, sanitation, environment and technical, and adapt this in light of emerging circumstance to minimise food risk
Direct and monitor the team's delivery of the day to day hygiene activities, in line with the master schedule, to ensure operational integrity
Communicate, and validate the team's adoption of amendments to SOPs to ensure change is effectively implemented and improvements are made to functional hygiene performance and safety practices
Review equipment and highlight damage, escalating risks, to inform the preventative maintenance programme
Ensure personal and team compliance with inventory controls to facilitate the timely replacement of materials
Provide appropriate information, in accordance with agreed procedures, to customers/regulatory bodies to ensure demonstration of process and procedures
Ensure that a safe working environment exists for colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set in the SHE Policy

What we're looking for
We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.
Food Hygiene NVQ level 2/certification of sanitation or equivalent
Basic Health and Safety NVQ level 2 or equivalent
Chemical Handling (as per local site requirement)
Detailed understanding of the impact of legislation on day to day operations in relation to food safety.
Computer literate in Word, Excel
Previous experience in FMCG or similar hygiene role
Experience leading and working with a diverse workforce
Detailed Familiarity with local SOPs
These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return
Competitive salary and job-related benefits
Holidays
Pension up to 8% matched
Life insurance up to 4x salary
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportuniti