Hygiene Supervisor

Danish Crown A/S; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 30,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food processing company in Rochdale is searching for a Supervisor for their PM Hygiene Shift. This role involves leading a hygiene team, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and fostering a culture of cleanliness in a state-of-the-art facility. Ideal candidates will have leadership experience and a strong commitment to hygiene and food safety practices, showcasing excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate a team. The position offers benefits including generous holiday allowance and development opportunities.

Benefits

28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Matched company pension scheme

Discounted employee meat shop

Free health care cash plans

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Dynamic, assertive, and passionate about hygiene and food safety.
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work effectively.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all health and safety responsibilities are met.
• Lead the hygiene team and promote safe working practices.
• Monitor hygiene standards and implement improvements.

Skills

Hygiene management

Team leadership

Effective communication

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Tools

IT skills

Job description

Overview

This is a Supervisor position for our PM Hygiene Shift, working 43.75 hours per week from 14:00 to 23:30.

Who is Danish Crown?

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues.

Why come to Danish Crown?

• An amazing 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays – that’s 36 days holiday a year
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and share parental leave
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Matched company pension scheme
• Heavily discounted meat for all staff through the staff shop.
• Well-being programmes, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families
• Free tea and coffee on all sites
• Development opportunities for those that would like to progress in a global business

We are looking for individuals with a passion for cleanliness and hygiene, within a brand new state of the art manufacturing facility. Previous experience in a similar role is advantageous.

Responsibilities and Duties

• To meet all Health and Safety responsibilities as defined in the H&S Policy.
• To promote safe working practices and monitor/record accidents and near-miss incidents
• Lead the team to ensure an effective operational service to the business.
• To lead from the front and by example, always displaying behaviour consistent with organisational culture
• Demonstrate motivational leadership in the workplace.
• Role model the behaviour expected by the Company in the workplace and exercise fairness and equity in addressing personal issues of conflict or sensitivity.
• To ensure all resources are available to facilitate continuity of hygiene operation, including but not limited to plant, equipment, cleaning materials, labour, skills & other.
• To minimise production downtime associated with hygiene.
• Promote quality to your team as a key performance measure and ensure quality standards are at best maintained and improved where scope exists.
• To liaise with the production planner and scheduler to ensure that cleaning windows are planned in accordance with operations delivery targets.
• To identify opportunities for improvement/innovation and to develop and implement action plans in conjunction with the Hygiene Manager/Engineering Manager to maximise potential benefits of such opportunities for the business.
• Ensure best practice is adopted and update these to achieve delivery of food safety, inclusive of:
  • Level of equipment dismantling/method/frequency/staffing.
  • Chemical specification/products/strengths/cost
  • Equipment requirements/modifications/support
• Manage your team appropriately and in accordance with their principal terms and conditions of employment and procedures outlined within the company handbook.
• To manage HR aspects such as development, absence, motivation, attendance, punctuality, discipline, grievance, etc., fairly and in accordance with laid down procedures, for example, return to work interviews, holiday booking procedure, etc.
• To ensure that all Company policies, procedures, and systems are always adhered to.
• To continually manage process changes and identify skills gaps within the team, and undertake appropriate training and development to fill these gaps.
• To continually raise the standard of cleanliness of your prescribed area(s) of control through GMPs
• To maintain the company skills matrix system and use this as a motivational tool for skills development and succession planning.
• To ensure that all staff are fully trained in relation to core skills such as induction training, CIC’s, COSHH, CCPs, H&S, KPI’s & others, ensure records are documented and maintained.
• To ensure continuity of skills through structured succession planning
• To monitor and control overtime working to ensure productivity and health & safety are not compromised, and the company’s moral obligation toward its employees is met.
• To always communicate with your team, to keep them brief and well-informed.
• To maintain visual management systems, such as performance tracking, to boost communication and promote interest.
• Conduct frequent reviews and documented audits on post hygiene, during hygiene and sanitisation standards, taking appropriate action at the time to address issues, provide feedback on issues/actions taken and long-term solutions.
• Utilise ATP swabbing and implement measures to address issues and adverse trends, working in conjunction with the site's hygiene manager.
• Personally, challenge existing practices and suggest improvement recommendations.
• Introduce improved working practices within own area(s) of responsibility to the Hygiene manager.
• Champion and manage effective change in the workplace.
• Update the site Hygiene manager on the performance of the hygiene function, issues, next steps and manage expectations from a cost perspective (no surprises)
• Work as a team with other functions to resolve issues (short, medium, and long term) and find better ways of working

Job Requirements

• Lead by example regarding Hygiene and Food Safety.
• Be dynamic, assertive, and passionate about Hygiene and Technical/Quality issues.
• Operate cross-cross functionally and at different organisational levels in a confident manner to deliver a challenging and busy schedule.
• Understand, interpret, and take proactive action on data and information as presented.
• Use problem solving techniques to aid the site team in improving hygiene / quality performance.
• Understand fully the site’s hygiene and food safety requirements.
• Ability to prioritise, organise and control work of self and others effectively.
• Highly developed communication skills (verbal, written, listening, influencing, report writing).
• Self-motivated and proactive approach to work.
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
• Numerical reasoning
• Verbal reasoning
• Excellent IT skills
• Teamwork / Team Player
• Customer aware