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Job Title: Hygiene Team Leader
Pay Rate: £15.44 per hour
Contract Type: Full Time
Type of Employment: Permanent
Hours: 45 hours per week - Monday - Friday 18:00 - 03:30
Location: Blue Earth Foods, 9B Oxleasow Road, Redditch, Worcestershire, England, B98 0RE
The successful candidate will play a key role in leading the hygiene team on a day-to-day basis, ensuring all cleaning tasks are carried out to the required standards and completed within agreed timeframes. They will support the team in following site hygiene schedules, Cleaning Instruction Cards (CICs), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). The role includes assisting with the delivery of hygiene training for operatives, overseeing CIC sign-offs, and carrying out refresher training when required.
The Team Leader will help monitor hygiene standards across high-risk and low-risk areas, participate in internal audits, and support the implementation of corrective actions where needed. They will also contribute to maintaining accurate hygiene records and assist in preparing the site for customer and regulatory audits, such as BRC and M&S.
The role involves working collaboratively with production, technical, and health & safety teams to ensure consistent standards and the application of hygiene best practices across the site. Promoting a strong hygiene culture and contributing to continuous improvement activities will be an important part of the position.
Key Skills & Experience
1. Previous experience working in a food manufacturing environment is essential.
2. Experience in a hygiene-related role, particularly at a supervisory or team leader level, is highly advantageous.
3. Strong understanding of food safety standards, COSHH, and chemical handling is required.
4. Ability to lead, motivate, and support hygiene operatives effectively.
5. Good organisational and communication skills, with a proactive, flexible, and hands-on approach.
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10, - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .