Hygiene Supervisor (Night Shift)
Kepak Group, Ireland
Job Description
Job Purpose:
To develop and improve the hygiene standards and systems within the site. To deliver strong and consistent leadership to the hygiene function and to ensure that the Company complies with all relevant legislation.
Added Value for role:
Ensure hygiene standards and targets of cleanliness are achieved and continuously improved. To support the production process through the continuous monitoring of hygiene standards of the plant, machinery, and grounds. Site developed and implemented SOP’s to be adhered to. Be able to identify opportunities to improve the function and reduce costs whilst ensuring full conformity.
Role Key Accountabilities Added Value
Training/Development To build a multi-skilled hygiene team trained against all site procedures, SOP’s, food safety and health and safety procedures
Coaching/mentoring to conduct hygiene operative and team leader reviews
To develop the hygiene team and team leader to deliver consistent high standards of hygiene each shift
Culture To develop a hygiene team that drives continuous improvement whilst following all food safety and HSE procedures each shift
Effective work scheduling of team to ensure full task completion each shift
Recruitment - responsible for maintaining staffing levels
To ensure that appropriate equipment is available and maintained to all the hygiene team to operate within safe working practices
Hygiene SOP’s and Periodic schedules ensuring the system reflects current working practices
Hygiene verification ensure standards are verified, chemical concentrations always checked to be able to demonstrate due diligence
Continuous improvements projects actively involved and promote new ideas
Liaise with chemical provider, chemical stock management and chemical ordering to deliver within a set budget
To work to agreed KPI’s for hygiene standards
To hold daily handovers with the production/engineering function to communicate hygiene issues
To effectively communicate daily hygiene issues to the management team
To effectively communicate departmental issues to your hygiene team and team leader
Requirements
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Previous management experience essential and must have strong team building skills
- Experience of Hygiene Management in the food industry
- Proven leadership qualities and effective methods of communication
- Awareness of employment law
- Chemical application, storage and safety control
- Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
- IOSH/NEBOSH or other relevant safety qualification
- Degree relevant for position
- COSHH essential
- HACCP
- Personal Attributes
- Reliable, dependable, flexible and trustworthy in character
- Proactive and innovative problem solver
- Adaptable to change
- Excellent interpersonal skills and can deliver to multilingual teams
- Work to agreed timelines with good project management and organization skills
- Dimensions
- Direct Reports: Site Hygiene Team Leaders
- Budget and Finances: Budgetary control in relation to contractors, chemicals, labor, tools and PPE
- Key Working Relationships: Site Management Team, Technical, Maintenance, Operations, Contractors and Chemical Providers
- Core Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- Cleaning schedule adherence including periodic scheduling
- Training and Safety metrics
- Hygiene associated downtime
- Environmental cleaning assessments
- Hygiene visual cleaning assessments
Benefits
This role reports directly to a Factory manager
At Kepak we are looking for people who are as passionate about food as we are. If you would like to join a culture where our values of Ambition, Responsibility, Teamwork and Passion for Food are at the heart of all we do, and diversity and inclusion matters to you then you are what we are looking for.
Kepak is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Note: as with all positions, due to the nature of the business, key responsibilities will evolve and change over time
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Access to discounted health care
- Employee Discount Platform
- Bike to Work Scheme
- Paid Maternity Leave
- Additional Service Leave
- Discounted Meat Purchases
- Career Development opportunities
- Education Support
- Study Leave #jobsie