Overview
Hygiene Team Leader – Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2RS
Permanent – Full-Time
Salary: Up to £16.25 per hour
Days – Thursday to Monday OR Sunday to Thursday Sun-Fri – 10:30am to 6:30pm, Saturday 8:30am to 6:30pm)
Pay Rate – £16.25 Per Hour
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.
Here at Manton Wood, we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl. Our Manton Wood site has a gym, restaurant with hot food and a staff shop available to all our colleagues.
What you’ll be doing
- To monitor and review the activities of a team of hygiene operatives to ensure that all sanitation processes are completed in full and that hygiene standards for a given area are maintained during the production shift
- Ensure that the team has the right number of resources with the appropriate skills, deploying a recruitment and training plan and adopting appropriate people practices, to enabling them to deliver the master cleaning schedule
- Create and present a clear forward resourcing plan (people and materials) for cleaning, sanitation, environment and technical, and adapt this in light of emerging circumstance to minimise food risk
- Direct and monitor the team’s delivery of the day to day hygiene activities, in line with the master schedule, to ensure operational integrity
- Communicate, and validate the team’s adoption of amendments to SOPs to ensure change is effectively implemented and improvements are made to functional hygiene performance and safety practices
- Review equipment and highlight damage, escalating risks, to inform the preventative maintenance programme
- Ensure personal and team compliance with inventory controls to facilitate the timely replacement of materials
- Provide appropriate information, in accordance with agreed procedures, to customers/regulatory bodies to ensure demonstration of process and procedures
- Ensure that a safe working environment exists for colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set in the SHE Policy
What we’re looking for
- Food Hygiene NVQ level 2/certification of sanitation or equivalent
- Basic Health and Safety NVQ level 2 or equivalent
- Chemical Handling (as per local site requirement)
- Detailed understanding of the impact of legislation on day to day operations in relation to food safety.
- Computer literate in Word, Excel
- Previous experience in FMCG or similar hygiene role
- Experience leading and working with a diverse workforce
- Detailed Familiarity with local SOPs These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.
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. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Please note due to high numbers of applications this role maybe closed before the posted closing date.
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