Hygiene Section Leader

Job Description Hygiene Section Leader (Red Days) – 12 Months Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) – Greencore Spalding Meals, Salary: Competitive salary Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contribution, Life insurance up to 4x salary Location: Spalding, Greencore Spalding Meals, West Marsh Road, PE11 2BB Ways of Working: Site based Hours of work: Red Days 05:30am-17:30pm, 3223 shift pattern Contract Type: Permanent

Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Our site in Spalding is a vibrant hub where over 1,470 colleagues bring handcrafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups, sauces, and mayonnaise to life across three manufacturing facilities and a distribution centre.

As a Hygiene Section Leader your key focus will be to lead and motivate the Hygiene team ensuring our high Hygiene standards are met and records are maintained accurately.

Role Accountabilities:

• Ensure agreed controls for safe working practices in relation to personnel, chemicals, processes or raw materials are adhered to.
• Maintain departmental housekeeping, hygiene standards as well as quality standards.
• Ensuring that all data and records are maintained accurately.
• Manage allocated labour resources to ensure performance standards are achieved.
• Manage performance and attendance of the team including first level formal written disciplinary action, performance review, and absence management including return to work procedures.
• Ensure the team are correctly deployed and are performing in adherence to the plan.
• Manage breaks and shift changeover process to ensure it does not disrupt productivity and workflow.
• To work within predefined cost efficiencies to maximise all resources and reduce wastage.
• Ensure all staff are trained on hygiene procedures with regards to standards and Health and Safety developing a multi-skilled team.
• Actively coach, develop, and recruit team members to the required level of competence to encourage continuous improvement within the business.
• Encourage the Bakkavor values and a positive culture, whilst fostering good employee relations through fair, consistent and effective people management.
• Maintain effective communication between staff and management with internal and external customers.
• Highlight training needs to the Hygiene Section Manager.

What We’re Looking For You will have good IT skills, experience working within a hygiene/industrial cleaning team along with supervisory experience. A hands-on approach and strong numerical, verbal and written communication skills are essential. We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What You’ll Get In Return Competitive salary and job-related benefits Holidays Competitive matched pension contribution Life insurance up to 4x salary Company share save scheme Greencore Qualifications Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career. Greencore and its recruitment partners never charge candidates any fees at any stage of the hiring process. Any request for payment relating to a job opportunity should be considered fraudulent.