About Princes
The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France, and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.
Role Description
Princes Cardiff is recruiting for a Hygiene Manager to join our leading manufacturing site. Princes has recently invested over £60m into the Cardiff site, transforming it into one of Europe's leading Centres of Juice Excellence.
Are you an experienced Hygiene Manager with experience in managing CIP within the manufacturing space? This could be the role for you!
As a Hygiene Manager, you will report into the Manufacturing Manager. You will be responsible for coordinating all activities concerning Hygiene, including the management of the perimeter, storage, facilities, factory, and Hygiene Systems.
Working Hours
This is a Monday - Friday 08.45 - 17.00 position based onsite.
Position Summary
The role will lead, support, train, and manage the Operations team to perform the required Hygiene practices within the Factory operating environment, to the correct standard with a continuous improvement approach. This will form the basis of the site HACCP validation and operating parameters for all Cleaning and CIP aspects.
This role will define the systems for hygiene requirements, monitoring, review, and process validation of the key CIP and manual cleaning operations for daily, weekly, and periodical activity. The role will work alongside the site technical teams to evaluate the cleaning and CIP performance to ensure compliance with food safety, health and safety, and environmental legislation requirements. The role will work to promote the highest grade possible in all external audits and promote the Food Safety and Technical function to all internal stakeholders by demonstrating the following values:
* Quality
* Cost
* Delivery
* Safety
* People
Key Relationships
Internal: Operations teams, site Technical and QA Managers, site Engineering and EHS Manager.
External: Suppliers, External Testing Labs, Academic Institutions, 3rd party auditors, and Customers.
Dimensions
* Define the appropriate Hygiene validation parameters for the Hygiene and CIP effectiveness including worst case for all aspects to develop the operating safe working practices for the factory running conditions.
* Collaborate with the site technical teams to monitor, improve, trend, and continuously challenge the Hygiene standards both through swabbing verification, ATP, and finished product microbiological analysis including Legionella.
* Define and manage the calibration systems to ensure all equipment involved in the Hygiene/CIP monitoring purposes are suitably assessed to traceable national standards.
* Lead and manage the site hygiene operatives to conduct all Hygiene duties within the site and perimeter boundary.
* Establish the site's verification programs for ongoing assessment and monitoring of Hygiene standards working with the Lab analysts for ATP, water, and swabbing verification protocols.
* To manage the training and development of the site operations team and lead + support on out of specification investigations including out of hours.
* Conduct the required audits including CIP, clean as you go, GMP, internal audits, and finished product cleaning standards.
* Working with the site QA Manager, support investigations based on analyst sampling data and develop a continuous improvement approach for the team to Go, look & see audit process.
* Team management for an effective team, responsible for development, training, and workload organisation.
* Ensure practices support the requirements of the H&S working practices along with due care for environmental protection.
* Liaise with the Group Technical function and across other sites to share and implement best practice to drive the Princes Group standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Hygiene Systems
* Define all Hygiene-based validation to support required standards for effective cleaning treatment of the plant underpinning the food safety requirements.
* Define operating and critical parameters through validation and verification principles with clear site escalation requirements along with process deviation procedures.
* Manage and define the calibration requirements working with the Engineering team to ensure all equipment is assessed to a traceable national standard.
* Support the audit schedule for the site to maintain the site’s internal, GMP standards, pest management, and hygiene compliance.
* Adherence to the site Technical schedule is monitored, reported, KPI’d, and audits are in place for measuring compliance and performance.
* Respond accordingly for changes in the site KPI performance, reactive findings, audit non-conformities, and continual improvement opportunities.
Role Requirements
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
* A current/previous Hygiene Management background ideally from working for a Manufacturer. It would be advantageous to have FMCG experience.
* Experience of managing a team.
* Ideally experience with CIP (Clean-In-Place) managing automated cleaning within a Manufacturing facility.
* A Technical understanding of HACCP would be desirable.
* Strong Communicator with experience of building relationships.
Benefits:
* Cash Car Allowance
* 25 Days Annual Leave plus Your Birthday Off
* 14.5% Pension - 5% Employee opt in / 9.5% Employer
* Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies
* Life Assurance Cover
* Private Medical Insurance
* Critical Illness Cover
* Learning & Development Opportunities
At Princes, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know as soon as possible of any additional support or reasonable adjustments you require through the recruitment process by emailing Recruitment@princes.co.uk
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