Hygiene Operative

About the Role

Do you want to earn a minimum of £13.25 per hour? We’re looking for a Hygiene Operative to join our team at our site in Caistor, North Lincolnshire.

As a Hygiene Operative you will enjoy a secure, supportive and progressive working environment, where your contribution and achievements will be recognised and rewarded.

We offer comprehensive training as well as continuous development as you build your long-term career with us. You can also look forward to benefits that amongst other things, include the following:

• £13.25 per hour basic rate.
• Additional £2.00 per hour shift allowance.
• Secure contract, guaranteed hours and opportunities for overtime.
• Earn a minimum of £530 per week.
• Company life assurance scheme.
• Staff sales at discounted prices.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Access to our Employee Benefit Scheme, which includes unlimited remote GP appointments and unlimited mental health sessions, physiotherapy sessions, medical second opinion consultation, and other discounts and perks, such as savings & discounts on weekly costs.

40 hours per week.

Monday - Friday 08:00 - 17:00.

Training for this role will be required during core hygiene hours of 18:00 - 03:00.

As a Hygiene Operative you’ll ensure cleanliness, hygiene, quality and safety standards are met by achieving agreed cleaning standards for production areas and machinery.

You’ll be working in a fast-paced, dynamic FMCG factory environment which is noisy and refrigerated in some areas, manufacturing short shelf-life products where hygiene standards are critical.

• Achieving agreed quality standards relating to cleaning instruction cards and training.
• Cleaning all factory equipment and machinery to deadlines, ready for production to start.
• The use of pressure washers and chemicals.
• Removal of debris from production areas.
• Disassembling and reassembling factory equipment to aid cleaning.
• Manual handling which can include lifting equipment and products up to 20kg.

• Use of own vehicle and valid driving licence.
• Good level of English and basic numeracy skills.
• Basic hygiene training/qualifications such as COSHH.
• The ability to work well within a team and communicate effectively.
• Good attention to detail and a flexible attitude to tasks.
• Experience with in a food production/manufacturing environment.

You may not have heard of us, but there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well-known restaurants.

We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door, meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales.

We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.