Hygiene Shift Manager

Job Description:

Hygiene Shift Manager

4 x Positions Available: 2 on Days, 2 on Nights

Working Pattern: Monday–Friday, 40 hours per week

Location: Glenfield, LE3 8JR

The role

The Hygiene Shift Manager is responsible for leading and managing the hygiene team to ensure that all production areas, equipment, and facilities are cleaned and sanitised to the highest standards. The role plays a critical part in maintaining food safety, quality, and compliance within a bread manufacturing environment, supporting safe and efficient production operations.

The main responsibilities include:

Hygiene Operations

• Lead, supervise, and motivate the hygiene team during the assigned shift.
• Ensure all hygiene activities are completed in line with cleaning schedules, CICs, and food safety standards.
• Oversee the effective cleaning and sanitising of production lines, machinery, utensils, and factory areas.
• Verify cleaning effectiveness through visual checks, swabbing, and auditing processes

Food Safety & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with BRCGS, HACCP, GMP, and internal food safety standards.
• Maintain accurate hygiene records, including cleaning logs, chemical usage, and verification checks.
• Support internal and external audits, ensuring corrective actions are implemented where required.
• Ensure allergen controls and cross-contamination risks are effectively managed.
• Ensure compliance with pest control resolving and escalating corrective actions.

People Management

• Manage shift handovers to ensure clear communication between hygiene teams and production.
• Train, coach, and develop hygiene operatives, including inductions and refresher training.
• Monitor performance, attendance, and adherence to hygiene and safety procedures.

Health, Safety & Environment

• Ensure safe use, storage, and handling of cleaning chemicals and equipment.
• Enforce PPE requirements and safe systems of work.
• Report and investigate accidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve hygiene standards, efficiency, and cost control.
• Work closely with Production, Engineering, and Technical teams to support planned maintenance and changeovers.
• Contribute to hygiene trials, new equipment cleans, and process improvements.

About Us

At Geary’s Bakeries, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906.

We are ‘born and bread’ in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation. We’re made up of towards 900 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.

The business has grown rapidly from £5m in annual sales to £125m+ in the last 15 years with strong and consistent profitability. We have an ambition to increase sales to more than £200m+ in the next 3- 5 years. A clear Vision and Strategy has been articulated, and this is being backed with major capital investment and a renewal and upgrading of the people, processes, and systems.

Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, BUPA Cashback Plan, Death In Service, a Cycle to Work scheme and a chance to win a £10k worth prizes annually! Plus, if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to £500!

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About You:

At Geary’s, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We’re a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities in our new recruits. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

What we’re looking for:

Essential:

• Experience in a hygiene supervisory or management role within food manufacturing (bakery experience desirable).
• Strong understanding of food safety standards such as BRCGS, HACCP, and GMP.
• Proven people-management and leadership skills.
• Food Safety Level 3
• IOSH Managing Safely
• HACCP Level 3

Desirable:

• Formal food safety or hygiene qualifications.
• Experience working in a bakery environment.
• Knowledge of cleaning chemicals and CIP systems.

Personal Attributes

• Strong attention to detail and high hygiene standards.
• Proactive and hands-on leadership style.
• Organised, reliable, and flexible.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at point of interview, and for the tenure of employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.

If you have not heard from us within seven days, unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion, but we wish you every success in your search for a new position.

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