Hygiene Chargehand

Better places, thriving communities. At Mitie we bring out the best in places. Unlocking their potential so that everyone looks forward to using them and can do their best work in them. From offices and shopping centres to hospitals and airports, we create better places for the communities we serve to thrive.

We're looking for a Hygiene Chargehand who will deliver excellent service standards, while meeting SLA agreements and managing a cleaning team across multiple client sites.

Contract: Permanent

Type: Full time

Pay: £14.00 per hour

Hours: 40 hours per week (Monday - Friday 06:00 - 14:00 )

Location: McVitie's, 54 Church Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, CA2 5TG

We are looking for a reliable and proactive Hygiene Chargehand to support our hygiene operation within a busy food manufacturing environment.

Working Monday to Friday , you will support the Hygiene Management Team with the day-to-day supervision of the hygiene team, helping to ensure cleaning standards, safety requirements and hygiene procedures are consistently maintained.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Supporting and supervising the hygiene team during the shift
• Allocating and checking daily cleaning tasks
• Ensuring cleaning schedules are completed to the required standard
• Carrying out hygiene inspections and escalating any issues
• Ensuring safe working practices and site procedures are followed
• Supporting training and development of hygiene operatives
• Completing relevant cleaning and compliance documentation
• Working closely with the management team to deliver excellent hygiene standards

We're looking for someone who is reliable, organised, confident leading a team and happy to take a hands-on approach . Previous experience within industrial hygiene, cleaning or food manufacturing would be advantageous.

What We Offer

• Holiday entitlement and pension contributions
• Discounts through MiDeals with over 850 high street retailers
• Access to a virtual GP and financial wellbeing support via Salary Finance
• Flexible benefits platform, Choices, to customise your benefits
• Recognition through Mitie Stars, with monthly and annual prizes

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools. Join our Mitie Team. Together our diversity makes us stronger.

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