Job Overview
Salary: £45,-50,
Hours: 40 per week, Mon-Fri
Contract Manager - Food Production
Pladis Harlesden, Waxlow Road, Harlesden, NW10 7NY
We are looking for a motivated and experienced Cleaning & Hygiene contract Manager to join our team and help maintain the highest standards of cleanliness, safety, and food hygiene across our site.
In this role, you will be reporting directly to the Operations Manager and managing a team of around 30 colleagues. You will play a key role in ensuring all cleaning activities are carried out effectively while supporting your team and maintaining high standards across the operation.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who takes pride in their work and understands the importance of maintaining hygienic environments within a food production setting.
What you will be doing….
You will be responsible for ensuring that all machinery, equipment, and work areas are cleaned and maintained to strict food hygiene standards. Your experience and knowledge will help ensure machines are cleaned safely and correctly, supporting efficient production while meeting company and industry regulations.
1. Leading and supporting a team of cleaning colleagues
2. Demonstrating and monitoring the correct methods for dismantling, cleaning, and reassembling machines
3. Maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across all production areas
4. Ensuring the safe and correct use of cleaning chemicals and equipment
5. Supporting the Operations Manager in maintaining safe, compliant, and efficient operations
6. Reporting any machinery issues, hygiene concerns, or safety risks
7. Ensuring all health, safety, and food hygiene procedures are followed
What We Are Looking For….
8. Proven experience cleaning machinery and production equipment, ideally within a food manufacturing or food preparation environment
9. A strong understanding of food hygiene and sanitation standards
10. Experience leading or supervising a team
11. Knowledge of safe chemical use and cleaning procedures
12. Strong organisation and time management skills
13. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
14. A proactive attitude and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
15. A strong customer and quality focused approach
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 .