At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead hygiene strategy and ensure food safety across multiple sites.
- Company: Top FMCG Food Manufacturer with a commitment to quality and safety.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development, and a dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Join a team dedicated to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on food safety and hygiene standards in a leading company.
- Qualifications: Experience in food manufacturing hygiene management and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 55000 £ per year.
A leading FMCG Food Manufacturer is currently looking for a Group Hygiene Manager to lead and develop a multi-site hygiene strategy, systems, and team to ensure the facility, equipment, and production environment consistently meet food safety, legal, customer, and company standards. The role is responsible for delivering effective hygiene controls across a highly automated manufacturing operation while driving continuous improvement, audit readiness, and operational efficiency.
Group Hygiene Manager responsibilities:
- Lead and own the site hygiene programme, including cleaning standards, schedules, work instructions, validation, and verification activities.
- Ensure all hygiene activities support compliance with GMP, HACCP, COSHH, allergen control, BRCGS expectations, and site food safety requirements.
- Lead, coach, and develop the hygiene team, including QA’s, supervisors and operators, to deliver safe and effective cleaning standards.
- Set hygiene KPIs and monitor performance through inspections, trend analysis, swabbing results, audit outcomes, downtime, and non-conformance data.
- Work closely with production, engineering, technical, and quality teams to ensure automated lines, conveyors, fillers, packers, robotics, and associated equipment are cleaned safely and effectively.
- Own resourcing schedule and engage with 3rd Party agency providers as required.
- Lead root cause investigations and corrective actions for hygiene failures, environmental results, pest issues, audit findings, and customer complaints where relevant.
- Ensure the site remains audit ready and support customer, third-party, and regulatory inspections.
- Promote a strong food safety and health and safety culture across the site.
You will be a Hygiene Manager used to leading a Food Manufacturing facility. You will need to be able to analyse trends, identify risk, and implement effective corrective actions and be a confident communicator who can influence cross-functional teams.
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