As a Hygiene Operative, you will play a vital role in maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene across the production facility, ensuring a safe environment for the manufacture of high-quality food products.

We have roles across all sites on day or night shift.

DBP/CGR: Sausage facility, Down Business Park, Downpatrick

FBR: Bacon facility, Finnebrogue Road, Downpatrick

OTB: Vegetarian facility, Down Business Park, Downpatrick

Duties / Responsibilities

• Carry out scheduled and deep cleaning of production equipment, machinery, and work areas in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), hygiene schedules, and food safety requirements.
• Complete pre- and post-cleaning inspections, ensuring production areas meet required hygiene standards and are verified through appropriate testing and quality checks.
• Maintain accurate cleaning and food safety records in real time, ensuring full compliance with traceability, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Follow all health and safety, hygiene, PPE, chemical control, allergen management, contamination control, and site security procedures at all times.
• Safely use, maintain, and store cleaning equipment and chemicals, reporting any faults, incidents, or environmental concerns promptly.
• Work efficiently to support production schedules, maintaining high standards of cleanliness while meeting operational deadlines.
• Work collaboratively across production areas to support safe, efficient operations and undertake any other reasonable duties required within the scope of the role.

Requirements

• Good communication skills, including good English reading, writing and numerical.
• Ability to work as part of a team with self-motivation and initiative.
• Readiness to learn.

Hours of Work

Dayshift: 4 shifts per week from 6am - 6pm on a rota basis.

Level 1 (training) £13.80 | Level 2: £14.38

Nightshift: 4 shifts per week from 6pm - 6am on a rota basis.

Level 1 (training) £14.30 | Level 2: £14.88

Benefits

Working within one of our state of the art premises you will enjoy a range of benefits including the ability to relax during your break in a restaurant standard canteen with all meals subsidised. We even offer free breakfast options. You will enjoy free onsite car parking and electric charging points. You will be entitled to free products weekly (up to 5 free products per person) through our award winning “Shack Initiative.” We have a packed calendar of wellbeing, social and sport events.

After you have settled into the Finnebrogue family your perks will only increase including a Healthcare plan, cycle to work scheme, new electric car scheme and we won’t forget the days that are important to you, you will receive your birthday as a holiday day! Our list of benefits continue to grow and you don’t have to just take our word for it. We have been awarded Irish News and Grocer Gold Employer of the Year as testimony to the exciting culture and benefits we offer.

About Us

Finnebrogue is part of the Sofina Foods Group, a privately owned company with European headquarters in Malton, North Yorkshire, dedicated to providing great-tasting, high-quality food products, and generating more than £3.8 billion in revenue. Globally, the company and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate more than 40 sites and have over 14,000 employees in Canada, the UK, Island of Ireland, Germany and France.

We look at what is wrong with food to figure out how to make it the best it can be, without being bound by the way it has always been done. This kind of innovative thinking has led Finnebrogue to win multiple awards and has established the business as a leading food producer. In 2024, we were recognised as the UK’s Employer of the Year by Grocer Gold and the Best Place to Work in Northern Ireland by the Irish News Workplace & Employment Awards. Our robust People Strategy offers career pathways and development opportunities for all employees, emphasising talent growth and wellbeing with generous benefits for all. We are proud to be the first food producer in the UK and Ireland to achieve the Diversity Mark accreditation and are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.