Hygiene Supervisor in Hungerford

Doves Farm Foods is based on the Wiltshire/Berkshire/Hampshire border, 3 miles South of Hungerford. This pioneering organic brand, established in 1978, produces ranges of Organic, Fairtrade and Free From cereal based foods.

REPORTING TO: Head of Technical and Compliance

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• To lead the hygiene team to achieve site hygiene requirements.
• To lead, develop and motivate the team to improve team capability and engagement.
• Drive process excellence and continuous improvement through providing leadership and coaching to the team.
• Allocate tasks and responsibilities, track progress throughout the day and work with the team to resolve problems.
• Train and develop the team and ensure team members adhere to standards and processes.
• Comply with certification bodies and retailer requirements ensuring a clean, hygienic and safe working environment at all times.

WORK PATTERN: 50-60% of time to be spent direct in production as required. 37.5 hours / week on days.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• Operational:

• Meet the daily hygiene plan and ensure Safety and Quality standards are maintained.
• Manage daily, weekly and monthly cleaning schedules to all cleaning instruction cards.
• Oversee cleaning and hygiene efficiency in compliance with allergen status.
• Maintain a clean & tidy facility acting as first point of contact for all hygiene matters.
• Daily verification of effective cleaning of hygiene team cleaning schedules.
• Escalate hygiene matters where necessary and manage non-conformances to conclusion.
• Ensure accurate and full completion of all hygiene documentation including cleaning schedules.
• Complete visual verification of cleaning for hygiene team and other departments and manage remedial action to completion as required.
• Run the weekly Tier meeting to review performance and engage the team.
• Check condition of cleaning consumables throughout the site and order new as required.
• Ensure all materials including chemicals are available and stock numbers are correct (including stock takes).
• Manage chemical safety to ensure safe storage and use.
• Maintain the health and safety risk assessments for hygiene tasks, ensure team are trained and risk assessments are reviewed annually.
• Identify issues quickly and liaise effectively with other departments to ensure agreed action plans are implemented and delivered.
• Ensure a clean and safe work area complying with Food Safety and Health & Safety requirements.
• Carry out internal audits as part of the internal audit team.
• Manage the removal of animal feed, DMR and general waste from the site.

• Set a high standard of performance and behaviour for others to follow, building a positive team attitude.
• Plan and lead hygiene requirements and allocate tasks with the team daily, including breaks.
• Ensure hygiene team are trained in and following all relevant health and safety requirements including chemical usage.
• Ensure training and development needs of the team are addressed to build capability and engagement of all team members.
• First point of contact for poor performance/behaviour.
• Promote the generation of ideas to support continuous improvement.
• Carry out performance appraisals for team members.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Sound educational background.
• Good communicator.
• Excel & PowerPoint.
• Good knowledge of hygiene/cleaning in manufacturing, food safety and health & safety.
• Previous supervisory experience.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to lead teams.