Hygiene Section Manager

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contributions, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Devizes, SN10 2EU

Ways of Working: Site Based

Hours of work: Sun-Thurs / 22:00 – 06:00

Contract Type: Permanent

Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food, both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Greencore Desserts is based in Devizes, Wiltshire and specialises in making chilled desserts such as tarts, yum yums, doughnuts, pies and pastries. The site employs over 550 people and is one of three factories that are part of the Bakkavor Desserts sector in the UK.

What you’ll be doing: In this role, you will lead and manage a team of Hygiene Operatives, ensuring effective cleaning processes and that all hygiene documentation is accurately completed and audited daily. The primary focus is to maintain high hygiene standards and ensure the factory is handed back to operations on time, without compromising food safety.

• Health & Safety: To pro-actively manage to ensure that a safe working environment exists for all employees in the operation and that as a minimum the operation meets the standards set out in the Group Health & Safety policy.
• Hygiene Standards: To lead and drive hygiene standards within your area through regular monitoring and auditing of strip down and cleaning taking place to ensure that both Business and customer standards are kept and audit requirements are fully met.
• Performance Management: To appropriately manage the performance of all team members including direct reports through the use of Bakkavor performance management systems (i.e. appraisal) and, if necessary, to impose disciplinary sanctions in accordance with Company policy through to final written warning stage.
• Training & Development: To own the training & development of all levels of team including direct reports. Actively coach, develop, recruit and train team members to the required level of competence to encourage continuous improvement within the business.
• Performance Improvement through use of KPIs: Challenges KPIs to drive performance. Ensures Team delivers agreed KPIs across the operation. Ensuring systems are in place to collect the necessary data to measure performance against the agreed KPIs. Implements PIPs and identifies areas for improvement.
• Resource Management: Plan, organise and measure labour and material requirements within their area to ensure that both short- and long-term agreed targets are met.
• Communication: Manages the communication process in their area to ensure that the workforce in their area is well informed on relevant business news and to encourage effective cross-functional links and that channels of communication are clear and available.
• Recruitment: Involvement in the selection process for direct reports and all staff within their area to ensure that the necessary skills are in place at all levels. Responsible for the supervision and coaching of direct reports.
• Employee Relations: Supports and encourages the values and a positive culture within their area, whilst fostering good employee relations through fair, consistent and effective people management. Supports an effective SEF representation structure in their area.

What we’re looking for:

• Be able to logically analyse, collate information in a structured manner, drawing conclusions that enable the right decisions to be reached.
• Be able to identify appropriate solutions to issues, and evaluates success.
• Change Management – able to support and implement change programmes and to meet targets for cost, quality and time.
• Be comfortable to persuade, convince, challenge and influence others to achieve desired results for the business.
• Have an ability to communicate to people clearly, concisely and with a high level of integrity adapting style of delivery to the audience needs.
• Demonstrates confidence in a range of communication methods including written reports, face to face, presentations, email etc.
• Be able to identify and maximise underlying potential to deliver long term growth in individuals. Manages individual and team performance ensuring individuals are stretched and challenged and that underperformance is effectively dealt with to meet business goals.
• Can plan and organise resources and people and prioritise according to the demands at any moment. Is able to ensure focus is given to the right activities and resources are appropriately prioritised to deliver the best outcome for the business.
• Demonstrates good understanding of business operation and how functions inter-relate.
• Be PC literate including up to intermediate standard in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

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
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.