Job Title:  Hygiene Manager

Overview of role

Location: West Bromwich, Midlands

An exciting and rare opportunity for a strategic and hands-on leader at our West Bromwich Bakery to make a positive impact, optimising processes for effectiveness and cost-efficiency, and embedding a world-class culture of safety and quality across the site.  You will be responsible for leading and developing the Hygiene team, delivering good factory standards and customer satisfaction. 

Key Accountabilities

• Safety Culture: Drive a safety culture by improving and maintaining a safe working environment, ensuring all team members are aware and complying with health and safety standards, legal and company requirements. 
• Team Leadership: Effective leadership, coaching, development and motivation of the Manufacturing Services team, to ensure high levels of performance, compliance and that all their KPI’s are met or exceeded.
• Strategic Management: Collaborate with operations management team to define and execute hygiene standards. Monitor performance metrics and implement improvement plans where necessary.
• Operations Management: Coordinate with cross-functional teams to optimise service delivery to your internal customers and meet KPI’s.

The Right Person

• Health & Safety Management – Strong practical knowledge of UK H&S legislation. This includes conducting comprehensive risk assessments (COSHH, PUWER, DSEAR).
• Food Safety & Quality – Good knowledge of food safety management standards, ability to manage audits, both internal and external and stock control. 
• Successful Leadership experience in a commercially challenging, results driven and fast paced manufacturing environment with good interpersonal skills. 
• Waste Management - Proficiency in modern inventory control techniques, including cycle counting, stock rotation (FIFO/FEFO), and managing stock levels to prevent shortages or waste.
• Environment Management - A strong understanding of environmental social governance and experience of executing strategies and actions for legal compliance and operational improvements.