Hygiene Team Leader in Derby

We are looking for an experienced Hygiene Team Leader for our client based in Llanelli. This is a permanent position with an immediate start date. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has previous Team Leader experience. Reporting to the FSQ Manager, the Hygiene Team Leader is responsible for ensuring that the department is run in accordance with all Safety and Compliance standards.

The Team Leader provides effective support in running the Hygiene team in accordance with company standards and procedures regarding Hygiene, Safety, Quality, Quantity and Cost. The rate of pay is £15 per hour. This is a full-time role working rotating shifts and the hours of work are:

• Sunday and Monday 6am to 6pm
• Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 3pm to 11pm

Your Time at Work

As a Hygiene Team Leader your duties include:

• Building positive relationships with colleagues, managers and other departments, utilising these positive relationships to assist the delivery of results through your team, and providing support towards the success of other teams.
• Ensuring effective communications with site management and production teams.
• Carrying out a team brief at the start of each shift with all team members, ensuring that KPIs are discussed and issues are resolved.
• Being responsible for the department being ready to commence work at the start of the shift and running in accordance with SOPs, including pre-start-up checks and reporting any labour issues immediately to the Manager.
• Planning, organising and managing labour resources to ensure the daily targets are met and there are no breaches to working time regulations.
• Ensuring that team members on the line take their allocated breaks at the appropriate time and return to work promptly and restart the process.
• Ensuring all equipment and working areas are cleaned to company hygiene standards prior to production and housekeeping rules are followed by the team, adhering to 'Clean As You Go' at all times.
• Ensuring all processes are adhered to and compliance with Company policies and procedures.
• Encouraging and supporting new and ongoing continuous improvement initiatives within the site.
• Ensuring that all employees on the line understand their role, responsibilities and the expectations of the management.
• Working collaboratively with HR to administer counselling and support the investigation process when required.
• Supporting the Recruitment & Selection process for new employees, when required.
• Minimising absenteeism through encouraging a strong team ethos, ensuring a high standard of day-to-day line management.

The role will have responsibility for providing leadership, direction and support to General Operatives within the team. Working closely with the Management Team, the Team Leader will have responsibility for the efficiency and effectiveness of the team as well as the Quality of the team's output.

Our Perfect Worker

Essential Skills:

• Ability to speak English/Polish or English/Romanian due to the diverse nature of the Company.
• This role will involve some element of working with chemicals; therefore, an understanding of basic chemistry and the ability to read and understand English are essential.
• Comfortable working with meat in cold temperatures, as well as the ability to undertake occasional heavy lifting.

Preferred Skills:

• Background and previous work experience in industrial cleaning or the hygiene department would be advantageous.

Key Information and Benefits

• Earn £15.00 per hour
• Rotating shifts
• Free car parking on site
• Uniform provided
• PPE provided
• Full training provided