Hygiene Coordinator

Greencore Group plc; Warrington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food manufacturer is seeking a Hygiene Coordinator for their Warrington site. This night shift position offers a pay rate of £16.57 per hour. The role involves supervising hygiene staff, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and conducting audits. Candidates should possess hygiene experience in a food manufacturing environment, excellent leadership, and communication skills. Opportunities for training and career progression are provided, along with competitive benefits and a collaborative company culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Subsidized Canteen

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre

Qualifications

• Must have hygiene experience within a food manufacturing environment.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills are essential.
• Previous experience of managing or supervising a team preferred.
• Knowledge of health & safety and COSHH is required.

Responsibilities

• Supervise hygiene staff to maintain food safety and hygiene standards.
• Assign duties to hygiene staff and monitor compliance with schedules.
• Manage training and development of hygiene operatives.
• Conduct hygiene audits in collaboration with the Hygiene Zone Manager.

Skills

Hygiene experience

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Health & Safety awareness

COSHH knowledge

PC literacy

Numerate and literate

Flexible work attitude

Job description

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op

Shift Pattern

4 on / 4 off, 17:30pm till 05:30am

Pay Rate

£16.57 per hour

What you'll be doing

Due to development and growth, Greencore Warrington are looking to recruit a Hygiene Coordinator on night shift reporting to Hygiene Zone Manager (HZM) and to help with the everyday duties, within our Hygiene Department.

This role is predominantly based on the factory floor.

Role of Hygiene Co-ordinator required to supervise, monitor and review the Hygiene Team’s performance to safely deliver the required finished standards which will ensure the manufacturing facilities meet food safety requirements and company standards for hygiene.

Working as a Hygiene Co-ordinator you will be required to:

• Working in collaboration with HZM to in determine and assign duties to hygiene staff at the beginning of the shift and make sure all sign offs are completed accurately and handed over at the end of the shift.
• Monitor and ensure hygiene staff are adhering to working time directive and shift times.
• Support HZM to ensure all hygiene members have the necessary skills and resources to complete their role.
• Working in collaboration with HZM to identify and delivery and require training to the Hygiene Operatives and help to develop training programs for new starters.
• Working in collaboration with HZM to conduct hygiene audits at the end of the shift.
• Ensure in collaboration with HZM that hygiene standards are maintained during production runs and change overs.
• Taking on a Hygiene Zone manager’s role in their absence.
• Working in collaboration with HZM to continuously monitor the performance of hygiene operatives during cleaning operations.
• Manage the training records of all Hygiene operatives ensuring that all are fully trained on all relevant policies and procedures.
• A Matrix system is maintained in such a way that any of the hygiene department training needs are highlighted.
• All training is provided within all areas of the factory involving ‘on the job’ training and also effective presentation style training.
• Continuous review of procedures and new pieces of equipment to ensure new procedures are picked up, written and trained out.
• Co Ordinate the hygiene team using the master schedule highlighting what cleans are required and when needed. This must be used to establish training requirements across the shifts.
• Take ownership of the Site NH audit schedule completing all audits to the schedule and following through any NCN’ to completion including re training were necessary.
• Working hours will be flexible to work across all shifts and to take control of both shifts to cover absence of other shift team leaders.

What we’re looking for

• Hygiene experience within a food manufacturing environment or similar environment is must!
• Excellent Leadership, Communication and Organisational skills
• Previous experience of managing/supervising a team
• H&S/Safe systems of work awareness.
• Knowledge of COSHH
• PC Literate
• Numerate and Literate
• “Can Do” approach/positive attitude
• Flexible attitude towards work patterns/hours of work

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Subsidized Canteen
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make everyday taste better.