Hygiene Shift Manager

Established in 1997 as the first manufacturer of sushi for the UK supermarket industry, Taiko has evolved into the most innovative manufacturer of Sushi, Food To Go, Prepared Meals and Snacking products in the UK, supplying Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury’s to name a few. Over the past 25 years Taiko has launched more first to market Sushi and Food to Go products than any other sushi manufacturer in the UK.

• Understanding BRC Technical Standard in their areas and making sure that they should be implemented daily.
• Have ownership of their responsibilities and make sure the members of their team clearly understand what they need to do on a daily basis.
• To try to create a positive working environment with the members of their team.
• To report daily issues including personnel to their supervisors in a timely manner.
• Making sure all staff understand and follow all procedures throughout the factory.
• Have ownership of the duties in the area that you are assigned to in any aspect of operation including machinery, personnel training, and technical requirement.

• To lead the shift Hygiene Team as first line Hygiene Team Leader, to ensure the completion of hygiene schedules to ensure factory and environment are maintained to a high standard.
• Responsible for ensuring that the required quality, safety, hygiene, and environmental standards are implemented, maintained, and improved.
• Responsible for supporting the engineering function in routine preventative maintenance and cleaning and the production function in line set up/line start up post deep cleaning and maintenance.
• To ensure the hygiene standards, cleaning procedures, practises and equipment are continually re-evaluated in line with best practise, customer guidelines and legislation.
• Responsible for the development and training of all the site hygiene activities with the Hygiene Members to maximise their potential, flexibility, and overall skill levels across the factory.
• To meet with suppliers to optimise chemical cleaning and equipment to ensure optimum comfort in use for staff and effectiveness for the job. To keep abreast of customer guidelines on chemicals/equipment and to stay ahead of the competition in the use of innovative products.
• Responsible for ensuring effective communication with regards factory hygiene standards across and between shifts within the teams to ensure optimum performance is achieved. Develop close working relationships with colleagues in other functions such as production, engineering, quality, and NPD
• To respond to audit reports, corrective action summaries to ensure work is carried out to an agreed timescale and manner.
• To present to customers documentation to support the Hygiene Operation including Chemical Data Sheets, Training Records and completion/sign off back to production records.
• To assist in the planning and delivery of customer audits/visits which may be announced or unannounced and ensure the team are clear on what is required of them.
• Responsible for ensuring all work conforms to the processes and procedures of the ‘Quality Management System’ and ‘Health and Safety Management System’.
• To support the Head of Technical as required.

We're proud to offer:

• Opportunity to grow your career alongside with us with available apprentice program
• Brilliant support services designed to enhance your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Annual discretionary bonus subject to business and overall performance
• Discretionary Life Assurance
• Discretionary Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension
• Private Medical Cash Plan
• Bespoke reward platform including access to retail, cinema & gym discounts.
• 50% off your food every time you dine with us for you and 3 friends.
• Contribute towards our award-winning sustainability initiatives that delivers progress against 9 UN sustainability goals. We're committed to responsibly sourcing and all our seafood, therefore we only use source sustainable fish. All our packaging is recyclable and 80% of our packaging is already made from recycled plastic.
• Annual Awards ceremony celebrating our success and offering winning Managers free trips to Japan.

About us:

Come roll with us and be part of something big. Celebrate global success across:

• Over 1500 retail kiosks globally (YO!, Panku, Mai Taiko Snowfox & Bento)
• Our Taiko manufacturing and distribution centre
• 63 YO! restaurants
• 50 major retail partners
• 3700 locations globally From Hawaii to Aberdeen

Our Values

• Own it, Care About it, Make it Exceptional, Win Together

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Come roll with us and play a key role by bringing people together to celebrate better food for everyone the Japanese way...