Hygiene Section Manager - Days

Hygiene Section Manager - Days

We rise to challenges together 

Due to a recent restructure, we’re excited to announce new opportunities within our team. 

• Business Area: Meals
• Location: Old Leake (Boston PE22 9PN)
• Contract: Permanent
• Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 p/a
• Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 06.00-14.30

Why join us.

We’re proud of what we do, why we do it and who we do it for. We’re proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. We’re proud of our caring culture, loyal colleagues and future focus. But, most of all, we’re proud to enable and empower everyone to believe, achieve and succeed. 

What we do.

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

Boston site employs over 700 people and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and pasta salads products for a dedicated customer.

About this role.

This roles primary purpose is to lead and manage a large hygiene team to ensure hygiene standards are met and the factory is handed back to operations in a timely manner with no compromise on food safety.
 

Key Responsibilities:

Key responsibilites for the role are as follows:

• Health & Safety - To pro-actively manage to ensure that a safe working environment exists for all employees in the operation and that as a minimum the operation meets the standards set out in the Group Health & Safety policy.

• Hygiene Standards - To lead and drive hygiene standards within your area through regular monitoring and auditing of strip down and cleaning taking place to ensure that both Business and customer standards are kept and audit requirements are fully met.

• Performance Management - To appropriately manage the performance of all teams members including direct reports through the use of Bakkavor performance managements systems (i.e. appraisal) and, if necessary, to impose disciplinary sanctions in accordance with Company policy through to final written warning stage.

• Training & Development - To own the training & development of all levels of team including direct reports. Actively coach, develop, recruit and train team members to the required level of competence to encourage continuous improvement within the business.

• Performance Improvement through use of KPIs – Challenges KPIs to drive performance. Ensures Team delivers agreed KPIs across the operation. Ensuring systems are in place to collect the necessary data to measure performance against the agreed KPIs. Implements PIPs and identifies areas for improvement.

• Resource Management - Plan, organise and measure labour and material requirements within their area to ensure that both short- and long- term agreed targets are met.

• Communication – Manages the communication process in their area to ensure that the workforce in their area is well informed on relevant business news and to encourage effective cross-functional links and that channels of communication are clear and available.

• Recruitment - Involvement in the selection process for direct reports and all staff within their area to ensure that the necessary skills are in place at all levels. Responsible for the supervision and coaching of direct reports.

• Employee Relations – Supports and encourages the Bakkavör values and a positive culture within their area, whilst fostering good employee relations through fair, consistent and effective people management. Supports an effective SEF representation structure in their area

About you.

To be successful in this role, you must:

• Be able to logically analyse, collate information in a structured manner, drawing conclusions that enable the right decisions to be reached.
• Be able to identify appropriate solutions to issues, and evaluates success.
• Change Management – able to support and implement change programmes and to meet targets for cost, quality and time.
• Be comfortable to persuade, convince, challenge and influence others to achieve desired results for the business.
• Have an ability to communicate to people clearly, concisely and with a high level of integrity adapting style of delivery to the audience needs.
• Demonstrates confidence in a range of communication methods including written reports, face to face, presentations, email etc.
• Be able to identify and maximise underlying potential to deliver long term growth in individuals. Manages individual and team performance ensuring individuals are stretched and challenged and that underperformance is effectively dealt with to meet business goals.
• Are able to plan and organise resources and people and prioritise according to the demands at any particular moment. Is able to ensure focus is given to the right activities and resources are appropriately prioritised to deliver the best outcome for the business.
• Demonstrates good understanding of business operation and how functions inter-relate.
• Be PC literate including up to intermediate standard in Word, Power point and Excel.

What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Short Term Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance (employee)
• Free Carparking

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor.

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

Find out more and apply.

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