Hygiene Section Leader - Nightshift

Hygiene Section Leader – Night Shift

Location - Bakkavor Bo'ness

Salary: £28,788 - £33,258 per annum (depending on experience) Plus Shift allowance of £3,596 per annum
Working Hours: 21.30 – 06.00

Days of  Work: Sunday - Thursday

Benefits Package:       
34 Days Annual Leave p/a
Pension
Life Assurance
Flexible benefits package 

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Hygiene Section Leader we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.

About Us:

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.

Our Business:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

Our Bakkavor business in Bo’ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo’ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.

The Role:

Bakkavor Bo’ness are looking to recruit a Hygiene Section Leader to join their motivated team, and become part of the Bakkavor Group.

• Ensure agreed controls for safe working practices in relation to personnel, chemicals, processes or raw materials are adhered to
• Maintain departmental housekeeping hygiene standards as well as quality standards. Control staff personal appearance / hygiene. Ensures that all data and records and necessary maintained accurately

• Manage allocated labour resources to ensure performance standards are achieved. Manage performance and attendance of the team including first level formal written disciplinary action, performance review, and absence management (including return to work procedures).

• Ensure that the team are correctly deployed and are performing to standards in adherence to the plan. Manage breaks and shift changeover process to ensure it does not disrupt productivity and workflow

• To work within predefined cost efficiencies to maximise all resources and reduce wastage

• Ensure all staff are trained on hygiene procedures with regards to standards and Health and Safety developing a multi-skilled team. Actively coach, develop, and recruit team members to the required level of competence to encourage continuous improvement within the business.

• Encourage the Bakkavor values and a positive culture, whilst fostering good employee relations through fair, consistent and effective people management.

• Maintain effective communication between staff and management (both ways) with internal and external customers. Highlight training needs to the Days Hygiene Manager

About you
You will have good IT Skills, experience working within a hygiene/industrial cleaning team along with supervisory experience. A hands-on approach and Strong numerical, verbal and written communication skills are essential.

What you can expect from us:

When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.