Hygiene - Team Member Ops Support

**Location**: Lightbody, Bothwell Road, Hamilton, ML3 0DW
**Shift**: 4 on / 4 off, working hours 6.30 am - 6.30 pm
**Hourly Rate**: £12.36
We have an opportunity for a Hygiene Operative to join our Hygiene Team at Lightbody, part of our Finsbury Food Group.
135 years of craft baking skills lie behind the quality of the special branded cakes, sweet snacks and slices we produce in Hamilton and 55 million products are produced each year. Lightbody’s is the UK’s largest supplier of celebration cakes to UK retailers, with Disney, Mars, Universal and Thorntons all within the portfolio of branded cakes made under licence. We also make a variety of supermarkets’ well-loved own-label cakes and in-store bakery bites.
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.
This is what you’ll actually do
In this role, you will ensure that all production areas, equipment, and facilities are cleaned to the highest hygiene and food safety standards. You will follow daily and weekly cleaning schedules, complete deep-clean tasks, and carry out shutdown cleans including machinery strip-downs (training provided). This is an attractive and varied role, though at times it will also involve repetitive work, so you will need the resilience to meet that challenge while maintaining excellent standards. You will often work as part of a team but will also be expected to work confidently during periods of lone working, using your initiative to complete tasks safely and efficiently. You will accurately complete hygiene paperwork to demonstrate full compliance with due diligence, technical requirements, and site procedures. You will maintain pest-control standards and adopt safe systems of work to help ensure a safe environment for all. Good hygiene and housekeeping will be central to your daily duties. You will follow “clean as you go” practices, promote safe behaviours, and work towards zero accidents. Supporting colleagues, meeting hygiene targets, and keeping the site production-ready will all be part of your contribution to the team.
Training opportunities will be available to help you develop your skills and progress within the team. Additional duties may be required to support operational needs.
Ideally this is you
- Previous experience in hygiene or industrial cleaning (preferred)
- Experience in FMCG or food manufacturing (advantageous)
- Strong attention to detail with a conscientious approach
- Good communication skills and ability to work as part of a team
- Confident working independently when required
- Physically fit and able to bend, lift, and access areas under machinery
- Good attendance and timekeeping
- Ability to meet deadlines and work to schedules
- Strong knowledge of high standards of hygiene

What's in it for you?
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform
- Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products)
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral - t&cs 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. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more

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