Hygiene Supervisor PM | Rochdale

Lead the way in food safety and excellence by ensuring our facility maintains the highest standards of hygiene and a pathogen-free environment.

What you will be doing

As the PM Hygiene Supervisor, you will lead from the front, overseeing a team of specialists and operatives to deliver a comprehensive cleaning service. Operating primarily within the factory, you will ensure all equipment and areas comply with HACCP, COSHH and Health & Safety regulations.

Your daily goals and responsibilities include:

• Team Leadership: Managing and developing a team of hygiene specialists and operatives, including handling HR aspects like absence, motivation and training.
• Operational Excellence: Liaising with production planners to schedule cleaning windows that minimise downtime while meeting customer demands.
• Quality Assurance: Conducting frequent audits and utilising ATP swabbing to address adverse trends and maintain a pathogen-free environment.
• Safety First: Promoting safe working practices, monitoring near-miss incidents and ensuring all staff are fully trained in core skills like COSHH and CCPs.
• Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities for innovation in cleaning methods or chemical specifications to maximise business benefits.

What you will bring

We are looking for a dynamic and assertive leader who is passionate about technical quality and hygiene standards. You should be a proactive problem-solver capable of interpreting 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

At Danish Crown, you are joining a business where leadership is earned through example rather than just a title. This role offers a competitive salary of £35,000 for a 43.75 hour week, providing a stable, full-time permanent position within our QEHS & Sustainability unit. You will have the autonomy to suggest and implement improved working practices while enjoying a culture that rewards success in a safe and caring environment.

By joining our Rochdale team, you will have a direct impact on our mission to deliver food that people believe in. We offer structured succession planning and skills development to help you grow professionally within the organisation. You will be part of a collaborative culture that values curiosity, encourages people to speak up and views mistakes as an essential part of personal development.

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.