Cleaning Contract Manager - Food Hygiene

Overview

Location:

Pladis - Canal Street, Leicester

Hours:

Monday to Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Full UK Driving Licence: essential

Mitie are recruiting for an experienced Cleaning Contract Manager with a strong background in food hygiene and food manufacturing. This role leads the hygiene operation on a busy food production site, ensuring consistently high standards of cleanliness, compliance and service delivery.

• Maintain, update and audit all operational documentation, including:
  • Daily, periodic and deep-clean schedules
  • Cleaning Risk Assessments
  • Cleaning Instruction Cards
  • Training records
• Lead, train and develop hygiene operatives and supervisors, ensuring all training requirements are met.
• Ensure all hygiene activities within the food manufacturing environment are completed to strict food safety and hygiene standards.
• Carry out internal compliance audits and hygiene inspections, and support BRC and customer audit processes.
• Work flexibly to meet changing operational and client needs.
• Oversee contract delivery, ensuring all activities follow Mitie procedures.
• Manage labour hours, staffing levels, budget and site resources effectively.

• What We're Looking For
• Motivated, adaptable and confident manager.
• Strong experience within Food Manufacturing, Food Hygiene or FMCG environments (essential).
• Proven experience managing hygiene or cleaning operations within a food production site.
• Level 3 Food Safety qualification (desirable).
• Experience with BRC standards and audit preparation.
• Excellent communication skills and competent user of Microsoft Office.
• Strong understanding of Health & Safety requirements.
• Full UK Driving Licence (essential) to support wider operational duties.