Night Hygiene Team Leader

Hygiene Team Leader

We are currently recruiting for a Hygiene Team Leader to join our Hereford Factory.

We are a leading supplier of poultry products into an impressive range of customers in the UK retail and food service sectors. With ambitious plans for the future, there hasn’t been a more exciting time to join us. Join us as a Hygiene Team Leader and you can be a part of the ambitious team that brings Avara Foods to life.

The hours for this role are Monday to Friday 22:00 – 06:00.

As a Hygiene Team Leader, you will support the Hygiene Manager in ensuring the Hygiene Teams are operating in a safe manner at all times. You’ll be a key player in the Hygiene Department, effectively supervising all hygiene activities and providing guidance and training to the departmental hygiene operatives as well as policing all housekeeping and hygiene across the site.

• Leading the Hygiene Team, including induction, training and developing of all staff, including new starters.
• Ensuring the Hygiene Team maintains good customer facing skills and adheres to all Company Policies and Procedures.
• Working closely with other Process Leaders and providing cover where necessary.
• Maintaining and developing the hygiene system operating within the factory, maintaining safe systems and keeping in line with current legislation.
• Ensuring systems and files are in place and maintained, along with customer requirements for hygiene practices at site, to satisfy all audit.
• Ensuring good housekeeping and hygiene standards are maintained throughout the plant and reporting all non-conformances to the Hygiene Manager – monitoring and reporting the corrective actions and preventing re-occurrences.
• Ensuring all hygiene chemicals are secured at all times and that the COSHH register is correctly maintained.
• Assisting the Hygiene Manager with the budgets associated with your area of control.

• Demonstrated experience in a supervisory role within a production environment.
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Experience with in a FMCG industry (preferably within the food processing industry) is desirable.
• Proven communication skills with the ability to motivate others.
• NVQ Level 3 or 4 in Supervisory Management or equivalent is desirable, however full training will be given.
• Good IT skills / knowledge.

Avara Foods is one of the UK’s largest food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the nation’s most popular supermarkets and restaurants. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which includes feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employ more than 6,000 people. The growth of our business is based on providing a high‑quality, affordable product and delivering great service levels to our customers.

This is achieved by investing in people, utilising the latest technology and being uncompromising in our commitment to high quality and food standards.

As a valued member of the Hygiene team you can also look forward to a competitive salary with an excellent benefits package.

• 5% Pension
• 31 days holiday
• Life Assurance
• Free on‑site parking
• Various lifestyle benefits, including wellbeing resources

We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.