Job Introduction
As we continue our mission to make people happy through chocolate, we’re looking for Skilled Operatives to join our Hygiene team on permanent contract.
Shift: Day Shift, rotating weekly shift pattern of 6am to 2pm and 2pm to 10pm, Monday to Friday.
Salary: £24,823.50 per annum
The Skilled Hygiene Operator will pro-actively follow cleaning schedules and cleaning tasks as directed by the Hygiene Team Leaders. Hygiene Supervisor’s & Hygiene Manager. As part of the hygiene team, you will take an active role to take ownership for the food safe cleaning delivery of your area, to own that area and be accountable for it.
As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits, you’ll receive 50% discount on all products, and a 70% discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.
The onsite location for this role is at our Factory ‘Hadley Park’, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, right in the heart of where our chocolates are made and where weekly, we can produce between 4 to 6 million of the chocolates we all know and love.
Hadley Park is just 5 minutes off the A141 and 1.3 miles from Huntingdon train station, with direct rail links to London King’s Cross.
What you’ll be doing….
- All Cleaning & Hygiene deep cleaning as determined by the “Hygiene Schedule”/ Periodic tasking and associated tasking within the delivery of food safe cleaning processes to the business.
- Disassembly / Reassembly of equipment in a trained, methodical & professional manner as per CIC training delivered.
- To deliver right first-time cleaning process against defined & trained parameters each & every shift in a methodical step by step process.
- Maintaining and improving cleaning standards within each business unit on a shift-by-shift basis.
- Adherence to all site technical policies & operating practices.
- Adherence to all site Health & Safety policies & operating practices.
- Chemical handling as always trained in a safe & professional manner.
- To interact with other functions within the business in a professional, polite & courteous manner at all times.
- Successfully pass all core induction training modules within first quarter of employment.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Good verbal & written English skills, ability to receive concise training & confirm training independently.
- Working as part of a team.
- Ability to follow concise instruction.
- Working using own initiative with procedural parameters.
- Working in a safe manner & understanding what unsafe
KEY ACCOUNTIBILITIES
• All relational hygiene deep cleaning & general cleaning tasks associated within the business unit.
• To be fully trained & competency verified against Hygiene CIC’s.
• Ability to work unsupervised delivering an accepted standard of cleaning to a defined specification.
• Disassembly / Reassembly of equipment as per CIC to a professional standard.
• Following cleaning schedules and cleaning tasks as directed by Hygiene Technicians.
• Maintaining and improving cleaning standards within each business unit.
• Adherence to all site Technical policies
• Adherence to all site Health & Safety policies
• Delivery of detailed cleaning & hygiene cleaning processes that deliver right first time always.
• To comply with all due diligence documentation as required by the business, the law and our
customers to ensure food safe systems are adhered to at all times.
Who are we?
We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™.
A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for Hotel Chocolat, which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about.
Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 100 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together.
To learn more about us and read about our People Pledge – our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion – click here: hotelchocolat.com/uk/engaged-ethics/our-people.html