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Location:
Redditch
Employment:
Full time
Role Classification:
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ROLE: Assistant Hygiene Manager
PAY RATE: £17.09 per hour (£40,000 per annum)
CONTRACT: Full Time, Permanent
HOURS: 45 hours per week
SHIFT PATTERN: Monday–Friday (Night Shift), 18:00–03:30 (9 hours per night), 30‑minute unpaid break
LOCATION: Blue Earth Foods, 9B Oxleasow Road, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 0RE

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place where you can thrive and do your best work. We're looking for an Assistant Hygiene Manager to support the Site Hygiene Manager in leading and coordinating hygiene operations across all areas of a seafood production facility.

You'll play a key role in ensuring hygiene standards meet food safety, customer and company requirements, while helping maintain a safe, compliant and efficient working environment.

Role Responsibilities

Support day‑to‑day management of the hygiene team, ensuring all cleaning tasks are completed to the required standard within designated timeframes.
Ensure compliance with hygiene schedules, Cleaning Instruction Cards (CICs) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Assist with delivering hygiene training for operatives, including managing CIC sign‑offs and refresher training.
Monitor hygiene standards across high‑risk and low‑risk areas.
Assist with internal audits and implement corrective actions when required.
Maintain accurate hygiene documentation and support audit preparation for customers and regulatory bodies (e.g., BRC, M&S).
Collaborate with production, technical and Health & Safety teams to align hygiene practices across the site.
Promote continuous improvement and maintain high hygiene standards throughout the facility.

Required Qualifications

Key Skills & Experience

Previous experience in a food manufacturing environment (essential).
Experience in hygiene supervision or leadership (advantageous).
Strong understanding of food safety standards, COSHH and chemical handling.
Ability to lead, motivate and develop hygiene operatives and team leaders.
Strong organisational and communication skills.
Flexible, proactive and hands‑on approach to work.

What's in it for you?

Opportunity to play a key role in ensuring food safety and operational excellence.
Work within a fast‑paced production environment with a focus on quality and compliance.
Development and progression opportunities within a leading facilities and services provider.

There's a place for you at Mitie – join us today!

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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