Hygiene Manager | Merthyr Tydfil

Kepak is a global food company serving international retailers and food service household names with prime cuts of meat, on-trend food concepts and ready-for-market convenience foods.  Our meat is sourced primarily from quality assured farms and our beef and lamb are pasture-grazed for most of the year.

Kepak St. Merryn in Merthyr Tydfil has combined beef and lamb processing and packing facilities. With dedicated retail packing capabilities within our business we offer beef and lamb products ranging from retail ready cuts for butchers’ counters to branded packaged meat, all as part of our service.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Hygiene Manager to work at our Methyr site, within red meat production department.

This is a full time, permanent position working Monday to Friday, 40hrs/week, 2pm start time – hours are flexible to cover the shifts.

Job Purpose:

To manage the hygiene team within red meat production area, supporting the production process by providing a cleaning service – always ensuring sufficient cleanliness of the production areas and all associated equipment. Implementing best practice hygiene techniques to promote food safety, quality & environmental compliance, maintaining standards at all times to deliver this.

Delivering strong hygiene performance within the area to maximise the efficiencies and driving cost reduction, minimising operational downtime through ‘best-in-class’ cleaning standards and techniques.

Role Key Accountabilities

• Planning of hygiene schedules in order to deliver a best in class cleaning service, ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness at all times.

• Ensure all hygiene documentation and cleaning records are up to date at all times.

• Develop and maintain hygiene team in order to adequately support the departmental and business needs.

• Actively engage in routines to maintain a pro-active approach to hygiene, food safety, quality & environmental standards across the site, liaising with technical management and operational business units to drive standards and improve KPI’s.

• Have active involvement in any continuous improvement projects and commissioning of equipment.

• Schedule and deliver training of hygiene team.

• Support site audits, internal and external, pro-actively dealing with non-conformity to drive compliance standards.

• Managing the provision of hygiene chemicals and relevant operational equipment required to facilitate the cleaning of the factory.

• Assist with the implementation and delivery of the sites technical strategy, enforcing departmental structure and reporting lines.

• Acting as primary point of contact with the sites approved hygiene partner(s) and chemical suppliers – conducting periodical reviews in conjunction with the site Head of Technical.

• Management and responsibility of all chemical storage locations at site, ensuring appropriate storage in line with COSHH and site procedures.

• Ensuring the continual maintenance and relevance of the cleaning instruction cards (C.I.C’s) and all product information and safety data sheets relevant to hygiene chemicals.

• Food Hygiene Level 3 / HACCP Level 3 or other relevant qualification desirable
• Experience of working within a compliance / standard driven environment such as BRC, ISO14001 and ISO9001
• Industry acumen and knowledge of cleaning systems and methodology
• Meticulous attention to detail essential
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Sound understanding of integrity and compliance to food safety and chemical handling legislation
• COSHH Awareness desirable
• Flexible approach to deliver management of various shift patterns
• Commitment to good practice
• Communicates well in written and oral form with multi-nationals on all levels
• Ability to multitask and work under own initiative to deliver to deadlines
• Relationship builder with influencing skills

• Company Pension
• Industry training and professional development
• 31 days annual leave per year (after probation)
• Subsidised canteen serving multiple hot food options for breakfast and lunch
• Employee Discount Platform – All Kepak employees are entitled to access to the WrkIt platform, which offers significant discounts and cashback with hundreds of brands.
• Refer a Friend Scheme – Earn up to Get up to €500 for successfully referring a friend or family member to Kepak Group.
• Bike to Work Scheme – You can buy a bike and safety equipment through a salary sacrifice scheme which reduces your taxable income – meaning you pay less tax!
• Long Service Awards – We recognise, acknowledge and award the dedication and valuable contribution of long serving employees
• GroceryAid Employee Assistance Program – help with a wide range of topics including mental health and wellbeing support, family and relationship advice, debt management, back to work support, and counselling for all Kepak colleagues and their families.