Hygiene Supervisor AM | Rochdale

Ensure the highest standards of food safety and hygiene are consistently met, leading a dedicated team to maintain a pathogen-free environment in our state-of-the-art facility.

What you will be doing

As the AM Hygiene Supervisor, you will spend approximately 80% of your time on the factory floor, directly managing a team of Hygiene Specialists and Operatives. Your primary goal is to ensure a comprehensive cleaning service that complies with HACCP, COSHH and Health & Safety regulations.

Daily responsibilities include:

• Team Leadership: Managing all HR aspects for your team, including development, attendance and motivation, while maintaining a robust skills matrix for succession planning.
• Operational Excellence: Liaising with production planners to schedule cleaning windows that minimise downtime and ensure "on time in full" service delivery.
• Quality Control: Conducting frequent audits, utilising ATP swabbing to monitor sanitisation standards and maintaining visual management systems to track performance.
• Compliance & Safety: Ensuring all staff are fully trained in core skills (CICs, CCPs, H&S) and overseeing the safe use of chemicals and equipment dismantling.
• Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities for innovation in cleaning methods and working cross-functionally to reduce waste and increase efficiency.

What you will bring

We are looking for a dynamic and assertive leader who is passionate about technical quality and food safety. You should be a proactive problem-solver who can interpret data to drive performance improvements.

• Hard Skills: NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification, strong numerical and verbal reasoning and excellent IT skills.
• Experience: A deep understanding of site hygiene requirements, food safety standards and experience managing large-scale 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 managing team conflict.

Why join us

Joining Danish Crown offers a competitive £35,000 salary and the chance to drive real impact by challenging existing practices to improve food safety. We offer a supportive environment where we celebrate success, reward performance and treat employee safety as a moral obligation.

You will benefit from a structured career path with clear training objectives and maintained skills matrices to help you reach your full potential. We pride ourselves on an approachable, honest leadership culture where your contributions are visible and your professional development is a priority

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.