Factory Hygienist

**Nestlé Purina**
**Job Title: Factory Hygienist**
**Location: Wisbech Factory, Cambridgeshire**
**Salary ranging from £33,000 to £35,000 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 Wisbech Factory in Cambridgeshire; 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.

Our Wisbech factory makes some of the UK’s most well known and much loved brands, such as Felix, Winalot, Gourmet, and Purina ONE, and is constantly developing to meet the changing needs of our consumers. All this happens in a vibrant and historic market town known as the capital of the Fens. For a town with a rich history it also has a strong vision for the future with continued investment planned to ensure Wisbech remains a great place to work, live and visit.

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 Food Safety & Quality Systems Manager you will be an integral member of the Quality team, supporting across the site with General Hygiene, Hygiene Maintenance, GMP, Pest Control activities, food safety audits & compliance with Food Safety Standards.

Key responsibility will include:

- Ensuring that the Food Safety Management System within the site is sustained and continually improved and supports the factory in specific areas of expertise (e.g. food safety, HACCP, auditing, hygiene, pest control)
- 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.
- Support 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.
- Support with Food Safety related incidents and help to identify weakness to avoid incidents
- Support on 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 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.

**Job advert closing date - Friday 06/09/2024.