Hygiene Team Leader

Why Greencore?
We're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.
Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

What you'll be doing
As Hygiene Team Leader (Hygiene Zone Manager) you will monitor and review the activities of a team of hygiene operatives to ensure that all sanitation processes are completed in full and that hygiene standards for a given area are maintained during the production shift.
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off, 17:30 - 05:30
Salary:
Competitive
Tasks will involve:

Ensure that the team has the right number of resources with the appropriate skills, deploying a recruitment and training plan and adopting appropriate people practices, to enabling them to deliver the master cleaning schedule
Create and present a clear forward resourcing plan (people and materials) for cleaning, sanitation, environment and technical, and adapt this in light of emerging circumstance to minimise food risk
Direct and monitor the team's delivery of the day to day hygiene activities, in line with the master schedule, to ensure operational integrity
Communicate, and validate the team's adoption of amendments to SOPs to ensure change is effectively implemented and improvements are made to functional hygiene performance and safety practices
Review equipment and highlight damage, escalating risks, to inform the preventative maintenance programme
Ensure personal and team compliance with inventory controls to facilitate the timely replacement of materials
Provide appropriate information, in accordance with agreed procedures, to customers/regulatory bodies to ensure demonstration of process and procedures
Ensure that a safe working environment exists for colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set in the SHE Policy
What we're looking for
We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

Food Hygiene NVQ level 2/certification of sanitation or equivalent
Basic Health and Safety NVQ level 2 or equivalent
Chemical Handling (as per local site requirement)
Detailed understanding of the impact of legislation on day to day operations in relation to food safety.
Computer literate in Word, Excel
Previous experience in FMCG or similar hygiene role
Experience leading and working with a diverse workforce
Detailed Familiarity with local SOPs
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves ether we make every day taste better. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

Competitive salary and job-related benefits
Holidays
Pension up to 8% matched
Life insurance up to 4x salary
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Free car parking
Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career