Hygiene Supervisor

**Job Purpose**:
We are looking for a well organised and motivational person ideally, with previous experience within food manufacturing, however full and comprehensive on the job training will be given so this is not essential.

You will be working directly with the Hygiene Manager, providing key support and cover the role when he is on leave. You will be directly responsible for the Team Leaders and Operatives covering all areas of Hygiene.

**Main Duties**:

- To manage all aspects of the hygiene functions within your area. To be the point of contact for all related hygiene issues for the production, engineering and technical teams. To ensure control of labour within your area in relation to achieving goals and arranging holidays and covering absence.
- To assist in the maintenance and development of hygiene procedures to ensure that high internal and customer expectations are met or exceeded.
- To audit all slicing lines, associated machinery & food contact surfaces during inter-process cleaning on a daily basis and produce weekly documentation of audits for the Slicing manager and archieve purposes.
- To manage and audit cleaning activities to ensure they are being cleaned and identified effectively in accordance with the current procedure.
- To maintain cleaning instructions for all machinery, equipment & areas in the high
- risk area relevant to daytime activities.
- To ensure all machinery, equipment and areas are cleaned in accordance with the cleaning instructions and to the required frequency.
- To manage and develop all members of the hygiene team through your auditing function.
- To ensure all members of the hygiene team have training relevant to the tasks they are carrying out and their position within the company hierarchy. To assist the Slicing manager in any preparatory work necessary in relation to staff appraisals and identify any areas of weakness & further training. To perform documented assessments of hygiene team in line with cleaning procedures in order to maintain training records.
- To check all chemical dosing points on a daily basis to ensure they are dosing at the correct percentage. To perform titration tests and monitor water temperatures of rack wash machines. To ensure that under no circumstances, chemicals are hand dosed.
- Manage internal chemical usage.
- To ensure that the high-risk area has sufficient cleaning chemicals and hand sanitizer at all times.
- To keep the High Risk Production areas are stocked with PPE and consumables.
- Maintaining an environment and culture of safe working practices understood and maintained within the High Risk hygiene department, encompassing compliance with company & statutory regulations, legislation & guidelines
- Compliance in areas of hygiene risk.

**Requirements, Experience and Person Specification**:

- You must have a good understanding of food safety within production.
- Strong track record in leading and training hygiene teams
- Experience in implementing and managing hygiene schedules
- Authority on hygiene/GMP related CCP’s
- Trained auditor and trainer would be advantageous
- Good knowledge of products & processes to ensure hygiene/cleaning standards are appropriately applied. Application of cleaning & disinfection techniques.
- Good understanding of significance of pathogen controls and preventive measures.
- Ability to react to hygiene indicators/trends before a quality failure occurs.
- Effective communicator & trainer
- Powers of persuasion and the ability to train and develop colleagues throughout the site is essential
- Strong leadership and motivational skills
- Be able to prioritise, manage deadlines and make decisions.
- Computer literate
- Ability to maintain records and write reports
- Accident investigation training.
- Root cause analysis training
- Experience of running a team, ideally within food production and hygiene
- Experience in chemical handling and food safety procedures
- Good IT skills
- Strong communication and organisational skills

**Certification**
- NVQ Level 2 and above
- RSH / IEHO Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate
- Training Certificates in: The Management of cleaning and disinfection, Chemical Safety and Hygiene, COSHH Regulations and assessment
- Route Cause Analysis
- Auditing
- IOSH Health & Safety
- Health & Safety at Work (Level 2)
- Food Safety Certificate (Level 3)
- CIH training certificate (Basic)
- NVQ Management Certificate(level2)
- Group and site induction.
- Level 3 H&S awareness.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £16.50 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Application question(s):

- Must have NVQ Level 2 and above & RSH / IEHO Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate?

Work Location: In person