Hygiene Operative

About the Job

We currently have an opportunity available for 2 Hygiene Operatives to join our team based in Syston, Leicester. You will join us on a full-time permanent contract, and in return will receive a competitive salary. Core working hours are 18:00 – 06:00, 3 on 3 off. This will be an average of 42 hours across 7 days a week, one role on the Red Shift and one role on the Green Shift.

As our Hygiene Operative you will promote and show positive behaviors in line with Pukka Visions and Values. Reporting to the Hygiene Team Leader you will be supporting with the safeguarding of our people, our bakery and our brand through our day-to-day Hygiene operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Machine wash stripping, deep cleaning and rebuilding of bakery machines.
• Ensure all site deep cleaning activities are carried out as per the site Cleaning/Periodic Schedule and to the correct standard.
• Completes general cleaning duties that are responsible, but not exclusive to the Hygiene team.
• Ensuring all tasks completed adhere to site H&S procedures.
• Assist the Hygiene Team Leader/FLM with the daily completion, validation, recording and re-scheduling of all planned cleaning
• Completes necessary training that is relevant to the role.
• Assist in accident investigation reporting when required.
• Promotes waste & recycling activities.
• Embraces departmental and business changes and positively contributes to these changes where required.
• Ensure aspects of the BRC Standard relevant to the role are complied with and that the systems you are responsible for are always audit ready.
• Support all other departments as required to ensure that all Technical/Hygiene objectives and KPIs are met.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience required for our Hygiene Operative

• Previous food manufacturing experience in Machine Wash and Deep cleaning of Production lines is desirable.

• Required to work a shift pattern.

• Must be able to work as part of a team as well as an individual.

• Basic communication skills.

• Highly motivated with a positive attitude to work.

• Be able to take instructions and follow procedures diligently.

• To understand and be trained in the basic principles of Food Safety and Health and Safety and work accordingly.

Our Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance (after 2 years of service for weekly employees)
• Life Assurance
• Company Sick Pay
• Company Shop Free Membership
• Free parking
• Free canteen on site
• Professional Development opportunities
• 23 days of holidays
• Discretionary Bonus

In addition to the above we have our Pukka Perks Discounts Platform with over 1400 cashback offers; digital vouchers and discount offers!

About Pukka

In 1963, husband and wife team Trevor and Valerie Storer started making pies. Understandably word of a good pie spreads fast, and the entrepreneurial pair sold over a thousand pies in the first week.

Selling their signature Steak & Kidney pie to pubs, fish and chip shops, and locals, the Storers’ pie popularity picked up quickly, and they soon dreamt up new recipes to keep their happy customers coming back for more.

Pukka is still an independent family company today. We’re just a little bigger, that’s all! With more than 50 years spent making pies, we’ve become quite the experts. These days our 360-strong team sells around 60 million pies a year in the UK and even abroad.

But while we may have grown, we’re still based in Leicestershire just a stone’s throw from where it all began, baking all of our pies on site using many of Trevor and Valerie’s original recipes. We’re proud to make pies that are distinctively Pukka, and with our tasty, honest, feel-good food, we put smiles on faces at dinner tables, football games and local chippies.

Please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need at any part of the recruitment process and how we can support you.