Senior Hygiene Manager

Senior Hygiene Manager

Location:

Glenbervie, Aberdeenshire

Contract:

Permanent

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Hygiene Manager, Group Hygiene Manager or senior food manufacturing hygiene professional with strong experience of high-care, high-risk or ready-to-eat (RTE) environments, food safety, audit compliance and continuous improvement.

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Macphie, an internationally acclaimed family ingredient manufacturer, proudly situated in the picturesque and tranquil landscapes of Glenbervie in Aberdeenshire with sites in Glasgow and Midlands too. Our expertise spans across a spectrum of delectable delights, including sauces, bakery creations, and heavenly ice cream toppings. We also cater to the evolving culinary landscape with our plant-based and gluten-free offerings. Trusted partners to some of the globe’s leading food brands, we are dedicated to transforming ideas and creativity into tangible, delectable solutions.

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Hygiene Manager to provide leadership and direction across our hygiene function, supporting our site Hygiene Managers and helping us drive consistently high standards across our manufacturing operations.

This is a senior and influential role with a particular focus on ready-to-eat and high-care environments. You’ll work across sites to align hygiene standards, strengthen ways of working and ensure our approach continues to meet the expectations of our customers, auditors, legislation and internal technical standards.

A key part of the role will be moving beyond simply maintaining standards. We’re looking for someone who will challenge existing practices, identify opportunities to improve and use data and insight to drive measurable change.

You’ll lead the development and review of hygiene-specific KPIs, using trends, verification results, audit findings and non-conformance data to identify risks and priorities. Working closely with our site Hygiene Managers, you’ll turn these insights into practical improvement plans and ensure actions are followed through and improvements sustained.

As our senior hygiene subject matter lead, you’ll also play an important role in sharing best practice and building capability across the business, working collaboratively with Operations, Technical, Quality, Engineering, Production and Continuous Improvement teams.

The role will predominantly operate during normal office hours; however, some flexibility will be required to work across different shifts to ensure regular contact with and support for our site Hygiene teams. Any required shift working will be compensated accordingly.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing senior leadership, coaching and support to site Hygiene Managers, helping to create consistent standards and ways of working across our sites.
• Leading the development and implementation of common hygiene standards, cleaning routines, escalation processes and improvement plans.
• Acting as a subject matter expert for hygiene within ready-to-eat and high-care manufacturing environments.
• Developing and reviewing meaningful hygiene KPIs covering areas such as cleaning effectiveness, audit performance, corrective action closure and operational compliance.
• Using data, audit findings, hygiene verification results and non-conformance trends to identify risks and drive improvement.
• Leading structured continuous improvement activity to reduce repeat issues and embed sustainable improvements.
• Reviewing hygiene plans and ensuring they evolve in response to operational changes, customer expectations, audit findings and industry best practice.
• Constructively challenging existing practices and behaviours where…