Site Hygiene Manager– Bakkavor Desserts Newark

We rise to challenges together.

Monday to Friday 37.5 hours a week

Expectancy to cover some days and some afternoon / evening / night shifts

Salary: GBP65,000–GBP75,000 basic salary depending on experience plus GBP8,400 car allowance, plus up to 20% bonus scheme, plus benefits listed below

25 Days Holiday plus bank Holidays

Why join us?

We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together.

What we do.

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food – you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

This particular role is based at our Bakkavor Desserts site in Newark, Nottinghamshire and specialises in making chilled desserts such as trifles, creamcakes and choux pastries. The site employs over 1,900 people and is one of eight Manufacturing sites that are part of the Bakkavor Bakery sector in the UK.

About the role.

We are recruiting for a dynamic and hands on Site Hygiene Manager to take full accountability for Hygiene department to ensure Hygiene, Microbiological and H&S standards are met across the Bakkavor Desserts Newark site. You will be an established Site Hygiene Manager with knowledge of Health & Safety and COSHH in the food industry with the ability to enhance the team's abilities with fresh ideas brought into the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Driving and implementing significant change and improvement in cleaning efficiency and effectiveness Responsible for the Hygiene management team to deliver hygiene sustainability through effective coaching of the team.
• Coordinating the hygiene strategy across the site and planning up to 6 months ahead.
• Hosting customer visits and vendor liaison.
• Enhancing the health and safety culture across the site
• Management and achievement of KPI's across the site
• Lead and initiate robust investigations in respect of microbiological improvement
• Accountability for staff Training, Development and Wellbeing in the department
• Employing effective root cause analysis to drive SMART actions, leading to improved results
• Communication of Hygiene Performance and Plans with other supporting functions eg Engineering – in order to achieve best performance and outcomes.
• Managing the labour and cleaning/chemicals budget as well as forecasting future.
• Site lead for interim cleaning standards.

About you.

The ideal successful will have;

Experience and Skills:

• Previous experience leading and managing a large Hygiene team in a complex Chilled Food environment.
• Health & Safety qualifications
• Significant leadership experience
• Structured and logical approach
• Analytical skills / Problem solving skills / change management
• Ability to challenge, identify and deliver Continuous Improvement
• Drive and energy / able to work under pressure
• Excellent Communicator, able to concisely convey complex information in addition to being able to communicate with all levels within the business

Desirables

• HACCP team member
• Microbiological knowledge
• Design and build experience
• Project management

What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy:

Band D

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 205 of basic salary
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover)
• Cash allowance (car)
• Free Carparking

Proud to be Bakkavor.

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

Find out more and apply.