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ROLE: Hygiene Manager – Food Production
HOURS: 40 per week, Mon–Fri
LOCATION: Pladis Harlesden, Waxlow Road, Harlesden, NW10 7NY
SALARY: £50, pa
At Mitie, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We're committed to creating a workplace where you can thrive, develop, and make a meaningful impact every day.
We're now seeking a Hygiene Manager – Hygiene & Soft Services to lead operations at a flagship food manufacturing site in Harlesden. This is a high-profile, fast-paced role, offering the opportunity to take ownership of hygiene and soft services delivery within a 24/7 production environment.
The Opportunity
This is more than a hygiene role — it's a leadership position with full operational responsibility for a team of 30–35 colleagues across hygiene and soft services.
You'll play a critical role in maintaining food safety, compliance, and audit readiness, while driving team performance and continuous improvement across both production and site facilities.
Working closely with the Operations Manager and key stakeholders, you'll ensure the site consistently meets the highest standards in a demanding, high-visibility environment.
Key Responsibilities
1. Lead, develop, and motivate a team delivering hygiene and soft services across production and facilities
2. Oversee daily and deep cleaning of production lines, machinery, and site areas in line with strict food safety standards
3. Ensure full compliance with health & safety, food hygiene, and GMP requirements
4. Drive a strong safety culture, ensuring correct processes for dismantling, cleaning, and reassembly of equipment
5. Manage service delivery across soft services, including cleaning of communal and non-production areas
6. Maintain audit readiness at all times, supporting internal and external audits and client visits
7. Build strong relationships with site stakeholders, acting as a visible and trusted operational leader
8. Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, efficiencies, and team development
About You
We're looking for a people-first leader with the confidence to operate in a fast-paced, compliance-led environment.
You'll bring:
9. Proven experience in managing teams (30+) within cleaning, hygiene, or soft services
10. Practical understanding of health & safety processes and risk management
11. Experience in food manufacturing, FMCG, or a similarly regulated environment (advantageous but not essential)
12. Strong leadership capability – able to coach, challenge, and develop teams
13. Knowledge of cleaning processes, chemicals, and safe systems of work
14. Confidence working in a high-visibility role with senior stakeholders
15. A proactive, hands-on approach with the ability to adapt in a demanding, 24/7 operation
Our market-leading offering 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 lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
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 of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, 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 Shradha Singh at .