Hygiene Manager

This role plays a key part in upholding exceptional hygiene and pest-control standards across the site, ensuring full compliance and supporting a safe, clean environment where our people and products can thrive.

Location: Wellingborough

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: Enhanced holiday entitlement, company sick pay, life insurance, health cash plans, family friendly policies, EV/ULEV car scheme and cycle to work scheme.

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

The Hygiene Manager role involves shaping and overseeing the full hygiene strategy for the site, ensuring our standards stay consistently high day after day. This includes:

• Designing and maintaining our hygiene strategy and cleaning schedules.
• Ensuring the site meets all relevant hygiene and food-safety legislation.
• Carrying out regular inspections and audits, following up on actions with confidence and care.
• Leading planned deep cleans, including shutdown activities.
• Keeping COSHH files, risk assessments, SOPs, and other documentation impeccably up to date.
• Ensuring hygiene chemicals and equipment are stored and used safely.

You will be the trusted link between the business and our pest-control partners, ensuring a proactive and professional approach to prevention. You will:

• Manage our pest control contract and build positive relationships with contractors.
• Review pest control reports, ensuring corrective actions are carried out promptly.
• Drive preventative measures such as building integrity checks and staff awareness.
• Analyse pest-related trends and implement long-term solutions.

You'll help us stay ready for anything - whether it's a routine check or a major certification audit. In this part of the role, you’ll:

• Maintain compliance with BRCGS, HACCP, Environmental Health, the FSA, and other relevant standards.
• Prepare the site for internal and external audits with a calm, organised approach.
• Lead or support investigations into hygiene or pest-related non-conformances.

In addition to the above, you’ll:

• Lead, support, and develop the hygiene team, including recruitment, training, performance management, and rota planning.
• Deliver clear and engaging hygiene and pest-control training to colleagues across the site.
• Foster a strong culture of hygiene excellence and continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to enhance cleaning efficiency, hygiene processes, and pest-prevention systems.
• Implement best-practice techniques, technologies, and equipment to elevate standards.
• Manage hygiene and pest-control budgets responsibly, ensuring effective and cost-efficient solutions.

About you:

• Experience in hygiene or pest control management, ideally within manufacturing, food production, warehousing, or facilities.
• Strong understanding of hygiene standards, microbiology principles, COSHH, and chemical safety.
• Working knowledge of pest control systems and environmental management.
• Experience preparing for and supporting regulatory and customer audits.
• Strong leadership, communication, and training skills.
• Competent in document control, reporting, and use of MS Office systems.
• Ability to analyse data and drive continuous improvement.

It would also be desirable if you had:

• Formal qualifications in Food Safety, HACCP, Environmental Health, or Pest Management.
• Experience with BRCGS, ISO 22000, or similar quality systems.
• NEBOSH / IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent.
• Previous experience managing external contractors.

At Whitworth Brothers Ltd, we've been milling quality flour for over 130 years and we're still growing strong. Our world class mills coupled with our continued investment in our people and our estate mean we are a market-leading business that helps to feed the nation. Whether you're behind the wheel delivering our goods, keeping production running smoothly, or supporting operations from head office, you'll play a vital role in our success.

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