Night Hygiene Team Leader

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Hereford
TYPE
Contract
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Manufacturing
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SKILLS

Supervisory experience Basic Food Hygiene Certificate FMCG experience Communication skills NVQ Level 3 or 4 Supervisory Management IT skills COSHH knowledge Hygiene procedures

FULL DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Night Hygiene Team Leader

Company: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

Location: Hereford

Work Type: On-site (Mon-Fri 2200-0600)

Job Type: Contract (FTC Maternity cover until June 2027)

Salary: Grade 7 plus shift allowance

About the Role

We are currently recruiting for a Hygiene Team Leader to join our Hereford Factory. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a leading supplier of Poultry products into an impressive range of customers in the UK retail and food service sectors. Join us as a Hygiene Team Leader and you can be a part of the ambitious team that brings [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] to life.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leading the Hygiene Team, including induction, training and developing of all staff, including new starters.
  • Ensuring the Hygiene Team maintains good customer facing skills and adhere to all Company Policies and Procedures.
  • Working closely with other Process Leaders and providing cover where necessary.
  • Maintaining and developing the hygiene system operating within the factory, maintaining safe systems and keeping in line with current legislation.
  • Ensuring systems and files are in place and maintained, along with customer requirements for hygiene practices at site, to satisfy all audit.
  • Ensuring good housekeeping and hygiene standards are maintained throughout the plant and reporting all non-conformances to the Hygiene Manager - monitoring and reporting the corrective actions and preventing re-occurrences.
  • Ensuring all hygiene chemicals are secured at all times and that the COSHH register is correctly maintained.
  • Assisting the Hygiene Manager with the budgets associated with your area of control.

What We Are Looking For

  • Demonstrated experience in a supervisory role within a production environment.
  • Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
  • Experience within a FMCG industry (preferably within the food processing industry) is desirable.
  • Proven communication skills with the ability to motivate others.
  • NVQ Level 3 or 4 in Supervisory Management or equivalent is desirable however full training will be given.
  • Good IT Skills / Knowledge.

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is one of the UK’s largest food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the nation’s most popular supermarkets and restaurants. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which include feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employ more than 6000 people.

What's in it for you?

  • 5% Pension
  • 31 days holiday
  • Life Assurance
  • Free On Site Parking
  • Various lifestyle benefits, including wellbeing resources
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