Hygiene Operatives (Deep Clean) – 4 on, 4 off

DAYS – 7am to 7pm / £10.47 per hour

NIGHTS – 7pm to 7am / £11.60 per hour

Higgidy is an extremely fast growing brand name, from a kitchen start up to a multimillion turnover food manufacturer and one of the fastest growing food brands in the chilled supermarket aisles making hundreds of thousands of pies, quiches and sausage rolls each week making us the UK’s number one premium savoury pastry brand.

Based in Shoreham by Sea, we now employ circa 350 employees but we still have ambitious growth plans for the future.

We’re looking for Hygiene Operatives across both day and night shifts, ensuring high standards of food safety and hygiene are maintained. 

You will help ensure that our manufacturing areas are kept hygienically clean, so that all food we produce is safe for our customers to eat. This is critically important to our manufacturing processes.

What does the role involve?

• Frequent handling of cleaning chemicals, following COSHH training given, whilst wearing appropriate company issue PPE
• Cleaning of Food Manufacturing equipment, by dismantling the equipment to get access to all parts & reassembling correctly at the end of the clean in a timely fashion following training given.
• Cleaning of factory fabrications, such as walls, floors, drains etc. following a predetermined schedule
• ensuring ready-to-use chemical stock within the factory is always topped up
• ensuring chemical dosing stations are fully functional and reporting any defects to your manager. Replenishing chemical kegs as required.
• Refilling factory dispensers with blue roll, soap, sanitiser, and barrier cream as required
• Emptying factory waste bins and promoting good recycling practices
• Reporting all ‘near misses’

• Contribute to the production of hygiene SOPs / CIC’s
• Reporting any damaged or defective equipment / cleaning tools to your supervisor
• Cleaning of staff PPE, using washing equipment provided
• Keeping High Risk and Low risk changing rooms clean and tidy
• Management of Factory clothing – ensuring clean overcoats are always available for factory staff
• Completion of cleaning records for duties undertaken each day
• Other duties as required by management

What are we looking for?

• Ability to work alone under own initiative, in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to prioritise workload
• An eye for detail
• Good standard of verbal and written English
• Level 2 Food Safety qualification

In return, we can offer you a competitive online benefits programme via Perkbox, access to our Employee Assistance Programme, free on shift refreshments and access to Wi-Fi, as well as a generous annual leave allowance which increases with every years’ service.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter to recruitment@higgidy.co.uk or press apply below.

Higgidy is proud to be an accredited B Corp organisation, committed to balancing purpose and profit. We are redefining what good business looks like, building a more inclusive and sustainable economy. A significant part of this is down to our people – to be a part of the movement and join our team, please get in touch via recruitment@higgidy.co.uk.

You can find out more information on B Corp businesses here – https://bcorporation.net/about-b-corps

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Here at Higgidy we think of ourselves as a big family and family is how we aim to treat everyone – therefore we strive to create a workplace in which people from all backgrounds are encouraged to contribute and succeed. Our aim is that no job applicant, temporary worker or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender and transgender status, race and ethnicity, religion and belief (including no belief), marriage or civil partnership status or sexual orientation. For more information please visit www.higgidy.co.uk/policies