Hygiene Supervisor
2 days ago
Cwmbran
Location: Cwmbran, South Wales Salary: Up to £40,000 + benefits Night shift (Mon–Thurs, 4-day week) I’m currently recruiting for a Hygiene Supervisor to join a well-established food manufacturer in the South Wales area. This is a great opportunity to step into a hands-on leadership role within a fast-paced production environment where quality, safety, and continuous improvement are key. The Role You’ll provide first-line leadership to the hygiene/operational support team, ensuring safe, compliant delivery of hygiene and GMP standards across your shift. You’ll take ownership of your area, driving performance, maintaining audit-ready standards, and supporting efficient production. Key responsibilities include: • Leading, briefing, and coordinating hygiene activities across shift, • Ensuring compliance with hygiene, GMP, COSHH, and safety standards, • Monitoring KPIs and addressing performance or compliance issues proactively, • Supporting internal and external audits and overseeing cleaning effectiveness, • Participating in deep cleans of production equipment when required, • Identifying continuous improvement opportunities to enhance efficiency and reduce waste, • Working cross-functionally with production, technical, and engineering teams About You • Experience in hygiene supervision within food manufacturing or a similar fast-paced environment, • Food Safety Level 2 and IOSH Supervising Safely (or similar) preferred, • Strong knowledge of cleaning chemicals, COSHH, and hygiene best practice, • Proven team leadership and people development skills, • Comfortable with reporting systems and IT-based tracking, • Organised, proactive, and able to manage competing priorities What’s on Offer • Salary up to £40,000, • Enhanced family leave and pension, • Employee assistance programme, • Retail discounts and recognition schemes, • Strong training and development opportunities within a growing business If you’d like to hear more, feel free to get in touch for a confidential chat.