Hygiene - Hygiene Operative in Manchester

We have an opportunity for a Hygiene Operative to join our Hygiene Team at Kara, within the Finsbury Food Group. For over 35 years, Kara has supplied delicious wholesale bakery products across the UK, starting with our first floured bap and expanding into a diverse portfolio including brioche, buns, and speciality breads. As part of the wider Finsbury Food Group, we are committed to ensuring our bakeries operate to the highest hygiene and food safety standards every day.

As a Hygiene Operative, you will play a vital role in ensuring our production site remains clean, safe, and ready for operation. You will work across all production areas, following strict hygiene procedures and maintaining exceptional standards that help us consistently meet customer and audit expectations. Meeting hygiene targets on time and in line with food safety, legality, and health & safety standards is essential to the success of this role.

This is what you’ll actually do!

• You will be responsible for the day-to-day cleaning and maintenance of production areas, equipment, and the factory floor.
• You will follow daily and weekly cleaning schedules to ensure all areas are cleaned to the required standards and ready for production.
• You will carry out physical, hands-on hygiene duties, including deep cleaning tasks and shutdown cleans where required (training provided).
• Some high-level and industrial cleaning may be involved depending on skills and training.
• You will complete all hygiene and compliance paperwork accurately and on time, ensuring due diligence is maintained at all times.
• You will work to tight schedules, follow safe systems of work, and maintain good housekeeping and “clean as you go” practices throughout your shift.
• You will also work closely with your team, communicating effectively and supporting colleagues to meet hygiene targets while demonstrating company values at all times.

Ideally this is you!

• Previous hygiene or industrial cleaning experience (preferred)
• Experience within FMCG or food manufacturing environments (advantageous)
• Physically fit and able to meet the demands of a hands-on role
• Hard-working, reliable, and willing to put in the effort required
• Strong attention to detail with a conscientious approach
• Good communication skills and a team-player mindset
• Able to work independently when required
• Good timekeeping and attendance

What’s in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – T&C’s dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation.

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!