Are you a hygiene leader with a passion for food safety, people, and operational excellence? We’re looking for a Hygiene Manager (Nights) to lead our site hygiene operation and ensure our factory, equipment, and environment are maintained to the highest standards. This is a key leadership role in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment, where you’ll play a vital part in delivering safe, high-quality products while building a motivated, high-performing hygiene team. Key Responsibilities: Leading all hygiene activities across the site, including deep cleans and routine sanitation. Ensuring compliance with food safety legislation, customer codes of practice, and audit requirements (BRCGS, customer visits, etc.). Managing hygiene audits, documentation, and due diligence records. Driving a safety-first culture and maintaining hygiene-related risk assessments and safe systems of work. Recruiting, developing, and leading a dedicated hygiene team. Monitoring hygiene KPIs and driving continuous improvement in standards, efficiency, and team engagement. Managing hygiene budgets, chemical use, and contractor relationships. Collaborating cross-functionally with Production, Engineering, Technical, and QA teams. What We’re Looking For Proven experience in a hygiene leadership role within a food or FMCG manufacturing environment. Strong knowledge of food safety systems (HACCP, BRCGS), audit processes, and hygiene legislation. Excellent people management skills – confident leading, coaching, and developing teams. Data-driven and performance-focused, with strong planning and organisational skills. A calm, decisive leader who thrives under pressure and during seasonal peaks. Passionate about hygiene, safety, and continuous improvement. Why Join Us? Great Place to Work accredited. Salary sacrifice pension scheme available Cinema and Sky Store discounts Supermarket & other retailer discounts Health Cash Plan Holiday discounts Life assurance & income protection Employee referral scheme Employee Assistant Programme Cycle to Work Eyecare contributions Electric car salary sacrifice scheme. Learning, development, and training opportunities including mentoring. Regular social and charity events Engagement in local community & early careers events Onsite health checks, & annual flu jabs Regular wellbeing sessions We politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them