Hygiene Manager - Food manufacturing
Sherburn in Elmet
Permanent | M-F
£40,000 - £50,000 d.o.e
Reporting into the Technical Manager, this is a critical leadership role where you'll be the site authority for hygiene, owning end-to-end environmental and equipment cleaning standards within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. You'll shape strategy, lead people, and drive continuous improvement to ensure the site is audit-ready, compliant, and operating at gold-standard hygiene levels every day
What you'll be doing as the Hygiene Manager
Lead and execute the site hygiene strategy, ensuring consistently high standards across environmental and asset hygiene with full audit readiness.
Manage and develop a multi-shift hygiene team, coaching, mentoring and setting clear expectations to deliver effective cleaning schedules and performance.
Ensure full compliance with retailer, co-manufacturing, legal and certification hygiene requirements, including BRCGS and customer codes of practice.
Own hygiene systems and documentation, including CICs, COSHH, training matrices and cleaning validation.
Control hygiene budgets, chemicals and consumables, balancing cost control with operational effectiveness.
Lead and support customer, retailer and third-party audits, confidently demonstrating hygiene controls and standards.
Investigate hygiene non-conformances, driving robust root cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
Manage pest control contractors and continuous improvement initiatives, strengthening site resilience and long-term hygiene performance.
What you'll need as the Hygiene Manager:
Experience leading or managing a hygiene team within a UK food manufacturing environment is essential
Extensive training with chemical handling is essential
Experience of reviewing and implementing a new shift structure is highly advantageous
Full UK working rights - no sponsorship or visas available
If you believe you have the skills and personality to fit these requirements please either apply via this advert or call Henderson Brown on (phone number removed) for more information