Cleaning Contract Manager - Food Hygiene

Job Overview

Salary: £42,000

Hours: 40 per week, Mon-Fri

Contract Manager - Food Hygiene

Mitie have a brand new opportunity for a driven management professional to support and lead our on‑site Hygiene team, ensuring the highest quality services are completed for client satisfaction in the cleaning and hygiene services.

• Maintain and audit the key operational documentation, e.g. Cleaning schedules (daily and periodic), Cleaning Risk Assessments, Cleaning Instruction Cards, Training Records etc.
• Oversee training requirements of service and supervisory staff, conduct training support to cover training and development needs.
• Lead the team, ensuring all tasks are completed on time and in a safe manner
• Ensure all aspects of the hygiene service are carried out and maintained to the required standard.
• Conduct compliance audits, inspections of internal hygiene standards.
• Be flexible and willing to adapt to changes in emphasis, or aspects of, the regional business requirements.
• Ensure operation of the contract and one‑off work is in line with the company procedures and be responsible for the associated company assets and facilities
• Manage the hygiene hours and ensure all expenditure is authorised and recorded.

• Motivated, adaptable and driven personality.
• Experience working in a Food Manufacturing / Food Hygiene background/FMCG.
• Desirable Level 3 Food Safety Qualification.
• Proven ability to manage large, high‑volume staff operations.
• Client‑Facing Experience.
• Health and Safety knowledge and experience.
• Experience of BRC (British Retail Consortium) and customer audits.
• Strong communication skills and experienced in using Microsoft Office packages.

Our market‑leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee.

Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Jessica Mercel at

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Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.