About us:
The Bread Factory is London’s leading Artisan Bakery, known for award-winning breads, pastries, and cakes, supplying top-quality products across e-commerce, grocery, food services, and retailers such as our GAIL’s Bakeries nationwide.
We’re looking for a Hygiene Assistant Manager to help us maintain the highest hygiene and food safety standards inside our production units. This is a hands-on role that combines people management, compliance, and on-the-floor leadership in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.
Every day is different at The Bread Factory, but here are some of the things you will be doing:
* Supporting and maintaining high hygiene standards within production units
* Training hygiene staff and ensuring ongoing competence
* Creating and maintaining CIC documentation
* Planning and coordinating deep cleaning schedules
* Providing on-the-floor hygiene oversight inside production areas
* Ensuring hygiene staff follow all required procedures and standards
* Monitoring compliance and supporting audit readiness (BRC experience required)
* Managing people and completing hygiene-related administrative tasks
* Managing hygiene orders using the internal Tropos system
Our team tells us you will be a great addition if:
* You have experience in hygiene management within a food manufacturing or production environment
* You have a strong understanding of food safety standards and BRC requirements
* You’re confident leading, training, and motivating hygiene teams
* You’re highly organised, detail-focused, and comfortable managing documentation
* You’re hands-on and happy to spend time on the production floor
* You communicate clearly and work well with production, quality, and operations teams
* You’re proactive, reliable, and take pride in maintaining high standards
What’s in it for you:
* Fresh bread daily to take home to enjoy with family and friends.
* 50% discount at GAIL’s and 40% off at The Bread Factory & The Flour Station Markets.
* Discounts and Savings from high-street retailers and restaurants
* 24-hour GP service
* Cycle to work scheme
We Care about a Job Well Done:
Since 1993, we have been champions in traditional baking with the finest ingredients and techniques. We always do things the right way, not the easy way.
We Care about Baking:
At The Bread Factory, all our teams take pride in crafting beautiful, freshly baked loaves, pastries, and cakes. We are all passionate about our products and share knowledge among us all.
We Care about Each Other:
We always act with respect, empathy, and support to our employees, neighbours and customers.
We Care about Community:
We believe in minimising unsustainable practices and reducing waste. While ensuring we continue to provide everyone with nutritious high-quality food.
We Care about Nature:
We’re committed to sustainability across our supply chain—from reducing waste and reusing surplus to supporting regenerative farming that helps restore the planet.