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Job Title: Assistant Hygiene Manager
Rate of Pay: £16.23 per hour
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 45 hours per week
Location: Blue Earth Foods, 9B Oxleasow Road, Redditch, Worcestershire, England, B98 0RE
Job Purpose:
To support the Site Hygiene Manager in leading and coordinating hygiene operations across all areas of a seafood production facility. The Assistant Hygiene Manager ensures cleaning standards meet food safety, customer, and company requirements while promoting a safe and efficient working environment.
Key Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will assist in the day-to-day management of the hygiene team, ensuring all cleaning tasks are completed to the required standard and within the designated timeframe. They will ensure compliance with site hygiene schedules, Cleaning Instruction Cards (CICs), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). A key part of the role involves supporting the delivery of hygiene training for operatives, including overseeing CIC sign-offs and conducting refresher training as necessary. The candidate will be responsible for monitoring hygiene standards across both high-risk and low-risk areas, assisting with internal audits, and helping to implement corrective actions when required. They will maintain accurate hygiene documentation and support audit preparation for customers and regulatory bodies, such as BRC and M&S.
Additionally, the individual will work closely with production, technical, and health & safety teams to ensure cross-functional alignment and the implementation of hygiene best practices. Promoting a culture of continuous improvement and maintaining high hygiene standards across the site is also essential.
Key Skills & Experience:
Candidates must have previous experience within a food manufacturing setting, which is essential for the role. Experience in hygiene supervision or leadership would be an advantage. A good understanding of food safety standards, COSHH, and chemical handling is required. The role also demands the ability to lead, motivate, and develop hygiene operatives and team leaders. Strong organisational and communication skills, along with a flexible, proactive, and hands-on approach, are critical to success in this position.
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme 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 benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
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 is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10, - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer 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.
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