Hygiene Manager - Food manufacturing Sherburn in Elmet Permanent | M-F £40,000 - £50,000 d.o.e Reporting into the Technical Manager, this is a critical leadership role where you'll be the site authority for hygiene, owning end-to-end environmental and equipment cleaning standards within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. You'll shape strategy, lead people, and drive continuous improvement to ensure the site is audit-ready, compliant, and operating at gold-standard hygiene levels every day What you'll be doing as the Hygiene Manager Lead and execute the site hygiene strategy, ensuring consistently high standards across environmental and asset hygiene with full audit readiness. Manage and develop a multi-shift hygiene team, coaching, mentoring and setting clear expectations to deliver effective cleaning schedules and performance. Ensure full compliance with retailer, co-manufacturing, legal and certification hygiene requirements, including BRCGS and customer codes of practice. Own hygiene systems and documentation, including CICs, COSHH, training matrices and cleaning validation. Control hygiene budgets, chemicals and consumables, balancing cost control with operational effectiveness. Lead and support customer, retailer and third-party audits, confidently demonstrating hygiene controls and standards. Investigate hygiene non-conformances, driving robust root cause analysis and sustainable corre...