via indeed · 22 June 2026 ·3 days ago

Hygiene Team Leader - Evenings

Greencore (formerly Bakkavor)
Linlithgow
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Pay Rate: £15\.46 per hour Basic Rate

Shift: Evenings

Shift Pattern: Wednesday\-Sunday , Sunday\-Thursday

Shift Hours: 13:45\-22:00

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Carriden Industrial Estate EH51 9SJ

Transport: Own Transport Required

What you’ll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy.

  • Competitive salary and job\-related benefits

  • Holidays

  • Competitive matched pension contributions

  • Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

  • Life insurance up to 4x salary

  • Company share save scheme

  • Greencore Qualifications

  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

  • Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

  • Overtime payment options from x1\.25 to x2\.00 (Site variances \& Ts \& Cs apply)

  • Free Car Parking

  • Free vend hot drinks machines\*

  • Free or Subsidised Bus Service Available (Ts \& Cs apply) \*

  • Not available at all sites
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

Why join us?

We’re proud to give our Hygiene Team Leaders the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career within a small and friendly team. We nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

We’re proud to offer you a career with real opportunity.

What we do.

This particular role is based at our Boness site, which employs over 1,000 people and produces food\-to\-go salads and salad accompaniments to a number of customers. It is located 3\.5 miles from Linlithgow and 8 miles to Falkirk.

About the role.

We manufacture a wide range of high\-quality fresh prepared food. And, although our production lines are fast\-paced and high\-pressured, our cleaning schedule means that the lines will always stop completely for you to clean them.

A typical day of a Hygiene Team Leader involves supervising a small team of Hygiene Operatives within your area of control to ensure all duties are completed in line with Company policies and standard operating procedures, including PPE, Food Safety, Health and Safety, ‘clean as you go’ and ‘Good Manufacturing Practices’.

You will support the management of the Hygiene team to ensure cleaning methods, standards \& documentation is completed to the highest required standard, as well as the managing your team’s breaks.

In addition to this, you will also oversee the training needs of the team and ensure training requirements are met on time and reviewed, and be encouraged to proactively seek improvements to current hygiene practises and procedures.

Hygiene Team Leader \- Evenings duties may include:

  • Ensure that team members are wearing correct PPE

  • Allocation of hygiene tasks based on individual skill sets for direct reports

  • Complete relevant paperwork

  • Ensure that team is working safely and in accordance with SOP standards

  • Report deviations from acceptable standards during shift handovers

  • Monitor day to day performance and escalate performance concerns to correct individuals

  • Identify resource requirements and escalate to Hygiene Managers

  • Communicate hygiene activity progress and results to Hygiene Managers

  • Supporting the management of the Hygiene team can be complicated and physically challenging stuff. Especially with audit requirements and customer expectations to exceed as our hygiene team is essential for Greencore to maintain expected standards of our products, and hit audit scores in line with customer expectations.
About you.
  • Previous experience in Hygiene, within a manufacturing environment, is essential for this role

  • Previous Team Leading or Supervisory experience is also essential

  • Be able to pass minimum entry level English requirements

  • Ability to undertake Food safety qualification

  • Be able to adhere to Health \& Safety Requirements

  • Flexible approach to work and hours

  • Good numeracy and literacy skills

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Able to problem solve

  • Good PC skills

  • Fit and able to carry out duties in line with OH requirements
In return, we’ll offer you the encouragement, support and opportunity to develop your career and take it as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

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 everyday 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.

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