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HYGIENE CONTRACT MANAGER
Location: Carlisle
Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week
Salary: £50,
Shift Pattern: The site operates 24/7; flexibility is required in line with production schedules
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Cleaning Contract Manager to lead and develop our on‑site hygiene operation within a busy food manufacturing environment, ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness, compliance and service delivery for our client.
Role Responsibilities
1. Lead, manage and motivate the on-site hygiene team to deliver consistent, high-quality cleaning and hygiene services within a food production environment
2. Maintain, review and audit all operational documentation, including cleaning schedules, risk assessments, instruction cards and training records
3. Ensure full compliance with food safety legislation, BRC standards, health & safety requirements and Mitie procedures
4. Oversee training, development and performance of hygiene operatives and supervisors, ensuring all training requirements are met
5. Manage labour hours, budgets, resources and company assets to ensure effective and efficient contract delivery
Required Qualifications
6. Proven experience working within a food manufacturing, food hygiene or FMCG environment
7. Demonstrable experience managing large, high‑volume cleaning or hygiene teams
8. Strong knowledge of health & safety and food hygiene compliance
What's In It For You?
9. A motivated, adaptable and driven manager with strong leadership skills
10. Experience managing hygiene operations within a food production setting
11. Knowledge and experience of BRC standards and customer audits
12. Confident communicator with a proven ability to work in a client-facing environment
13. Competent user of Microsoft Office packages
What's In it For You?
14. Opportunity to lead a critical hygiene operation within a high-profile food manufacturing site
15. Career development and progression within one of the UK's leading FM organisations
16. Support from a collaborative regional and operational leadership team
There's a place for you at Mitie – join us today
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 Chloe Smailes at .