Hygiene Services Co-Ordinator | Rochdale

Ensure the highest standards of food safety and hygiene are consistently met across our site, driving best practices in a fast-paced production environment.

What you will be doing

 As the Hygiene Services Co-ordinator, you will balance operational oversight with essential administrative management, split approximately across admin (55%), planning (20%) and factory-based tasks (25%). Your daily responsibilities include:

• Supply & Budget Management: Managing day-to-day consumable stock requirements, using the NAV system for purchase orders and tracking spend against budgets to ensure constant supply levels.
• Compliance & Documentation: Maintaining all legal and hygiene-related documentation, including waste collection notes, ATP swab data analysis and sign-off sheets ready for audits.
• Operational Planning: Creating comprehensive cleaning plans in compliance with HACCP, COSHH and H&S regulations, while also managing specialist cleaning tasks.
• Team Coordination: Tracking the performance of general hygiene operators, managing holiday schedules and conducting 1-2-1 performance meetings.
• Facility Oversight: Ensuring high standards in non-production areas such as car parks, amenities, changing rooms and factory offices.
• Leadership Cover: Stepping in to lead the hygiene team and external contractors during Supervisor or Team Leader absences.

What you will bring

We are looking for a dynamic and assertive leader who is passionate about hygiene and food safety. You should be a proactive problem-solver who can interpret and take action on data to aid the site team in improving quality performance.

• Hard Skills: HACCP Level 2 (Level 3 desired), Level 3 Hygiene Training and excellent IT skills including Excel, Word and NAV/UKG systems.
• Experience: A deep understanding of site hygiene and food safety requirements, experience managing consumables and budgets and a background in coordinating cleaning operations within a regulated environment.
• Soft Skills: Highly developed communication and influencing skills, a "lead by example" mentality and the ability to exercise fairness and equity when addressing personal issues of conflict.

Why join us

This is a 6-month full-time fixed-term contract offering a salary of £28,332, where you will have the autonomy to directly influence hygiene standards at our Rochdale site. You will play a key role in championing process improvements and raising the bar for cleanliness through GMPs, all while working within a supportive QEHS & Sustainability business unit.

Beyond the daily tasks, you will gain valuable experience with sophisticated management systems and have the opportunity to lead and develop a team. This role is perfect for someone looking to execute successfully in a professional, fast-paced environment where your expertise in food safety and operational efficiency will be recognised and rewarded.

About us

Danish Crown UK is a business built on trust, teamwork and ambition. We exist to deliver food that people believe in and we know that takes strong leadership and collaborative cultures.

Our leadership principles guide us. We act for the good of the whole organisation. We hire brilliant people and help them grow. We are ambitious, curious and open to new ideas. We build trust by accepting mistakes as part of development. We believe real leadership is earned through example, not title.

Whoever joins us will help create a workplace where people feel safe to speak up, share ideas, challenge old ways of working and stretch themselves to achieve more. If that sounds like the environment where you thrive, we would love to hear from you.