Factory Hygienist

**Position Snapshot**
Business area: Nestlé Purina

Job Title: Factory Hygienist

Location: Sudbury Factory, Suffolk

**Salary**: competitive salary + potential bonus + other fantastic benefits including private medical insurance and flex leave.

Although this is a full-time permanent opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.

**Position Summary**
We have an exciting opportunity at our Purina site in Sudbury Factory in Suffolk; we are looking for an experienced Factory Hygienist to join the team. As part of the quality team, this position is responsible to ensure the factory hygiene status compliant to Nestlé standards.

At Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too.

In our Sudbury factory the 200 strong workforce produce some of the UK’s most popular brands including Go-Cat, Bakers, Purina ONE, BETA and Pro Plan providing consumers with a product to meet their every need. And this ancient, bustling market town in the heart of the Stour valley is surrounded by countryside of outstanding natural beauty making Sudbury an idea place for animal lovers. Plus, there’s the added advantage of London being a 45 minute train ride away from nearby Colchester.

Manufacturing in Nestlé is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business in order to maximise efficiency & productivity. This is particularly critical as we continue our journey towards being a LEAN Enterprise. This is the biggest change in the way we work that Nestlé have ever seen. It’s worldwide. It is exciting. You could play a key part in it.

**A day in the life of a Factory Hygienist**

Reporting into the Quality Assurance Manager you will be an integral member of the Quality team, supporting across the whole site with effective and efficient management of the Food Safety Management System of the Site, General Hygiene, Hygiene Maintenance, GMP, Pest Control activities, food safety audits & compliance with Food Safety Standards.

Key responsibility will include:

- Oversee management of HACCP; take a lead role in design, review and implementation of HACCP.
- Ensure a comprehensive cleaning plan is in place for the factory, including specific documentation as appropriate and review cleaning effectiveness / standards of cleaning by the factory teams
- Ensure adherence to good hygienic practices in the factory liaising with conformance managers.
- Prepare and deliver Food Safety related training packages as appropriate.
- Lead the site on Food Safety matters in preparation for either internal or external audits. Use self-assessment tools and workbook to conduct gap analysis
- Deliver the required high standard of pest control using internal and external resources.
- Manage the external service provider, ensuring the service specification is clearly understood and consistently met.
- Manage Food Safety related incidents and help to identify weakness to avoid incidents
- Lead and drive site hygienic design improvement plans working with multi-disciplinary teams to implement best in class solutions.
- Support the implementation of Foreign body Prevention with Conformance Managers and other members of Quality Team.
- Support the NCE Deployment in the factory by facilitating and participating TPM Pillar activities.

**What will make you successful?**
To be successful in this role it is key that you will be able to manage multiple stakeholders, build relationships and multitask a variety of projects at the same time. You will need a strong service orientation and be able to demonstrate a genuine passion to develop yourself further.

Other key attributes will be:

- Proven experience in a food manufacturing environment in Food Safety/ Quality as a Hygienist.
- Knowledge of products & processes to ensure hygiene/cleaning standards are appropriately applied.
- Experience managing people and contractors would be ideal, but you will need to be able to communicate and flex your style across all levels in the business.
- Knowledge and experience of risk assessments and root cause analysis, making judgements on the outcomes to deliver improvements.
- Ability to plan and deliver against tight deadlines and manage multiple initiatives at the same time.

**What you need to know**

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.