Plant Hygiene Manager

Job Description

Job Description

A leading manufacturer in the consumer goods sector is seeking a Plant Hygiene Manager to lead site-wide hygiene, microbiology, and hygienic design initiatives within a high-volume manufacturing environment. This leadership role will be responsible for maintaining and improving facility hygiene standards, driving microbiological risk reduction strategies, and partnering with Engineering, Operations, and Quality teams to ensure all equipment, processes, and capital projects align with hygienic design principles. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on technical leader who combines deep microbiology expertise with a strong understanding of sanitary manufacturing systems and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead site hygiene, microbiology, and hygienic design programs across the manufacturing facility.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for microbial risk management, environmental monitoring, and contamination prevention.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations teams to review, validate, and improve the hygienic design of equipment, production lines, utilities, and capital projects.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on sanitation effectiveness, contamination prevention, and operational excellence.
• Lead investigations of microbiological deviations, environmental monitoring findings, and quality incidents; implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Develop and maintain hygiene standards, procedures, risk assessments, and training programs.
• Oversee environmental monitoring programs, trending, data analysis, and reporting.
• Support internal, customer, and third-party audits while ensuring ongoing regulatory and company compliance.
• Collaborate with R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, and Engineering to mitigate quality and hygiene risks.
• Lead and develop site personnel responsible for hygiene, microbiology, and sanitation-related activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Microbiology, Biology, Food Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related scientific discipline.
• Required: Strong industrial microbiology experience within a food or CPG manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading environmental monitoring, contamination control, microbial investigations, and root cause analysis.
• Demonstrated expertise in hygienic design principles, sanitary equipment design, and facility risk assessments.
• Working knowledge of GMPs, sanitation programs, audit requirements, and quality systems.
• Experience partnering with Engineering teams on equipment installations, modifications, or capital projects.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Ability to analyze complex technical issues and implement sustainable solutions.

Preferred Experience

• Consumer goods, food & beverage, personal care, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.
• Experience managing microbiology laboratories or microbial testing programs.
• Exposure to validation programs, cleaning verification, and sanitation optimization initiatives.
• Knowledge of ISO, FDA, GFSI, or similar quality and compliance standards.

Company Description

DSJ Global is a revolutionary search firm, specializing in the bespoke delivery of executive search solutions to clients.
Working across a number of niche industries and sectors across the US, UK, and Europe.
With offices in New York, Charlotte, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Zurich, Berlin, Hong Kong and Singapore, DSJ Global operates on an international scale providing bespoke search packages which are unrivaled in the widespread recruitment market. Our aim is simple, to provide executive search level services which are flexible and tailored to the individual requirement of each client, on an unrivaled cost structure. We currently specialize in the areas of Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, OPEX, Finance and Human Resources.

We believe that every client should receive the benefit and accuracy of a search approach, whilst being able to dictate how, when and where it occurs, all on a fee structure to suit. Our revolutionary approach allows us to structure each assignment according to the requirements, time scales and budget available. We believe that for too long executive search firms have been too rigid in their approach and have been able to dictate how the search is conducted, leaving the client relatively powerless on the outcome.

Our service allows our clients to have increased control, direction and interaction in the search conducted on their behalf and has resulted in successful, on going relationships as search firm of choice with an ever expanding client group.

Company Description

DSJ Global is a revolutionary search firm, specializing in the bespoke delivery of executive search solutions to clients.\r\nWorking across a number of niche industries and sectors across the US, UK, and Europe.\r\nWith offices in New York, Charlotte, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Zurich, Berlin, Hong Kong and Singapore, DSJ Global operates on an international scale providing bespoke search packages which are unrivaled in the widespread recruitment market. Our aim is simple, to provide executive search level services which are flexible and tailored to the individual requirement of each client, on an unrivaled cost structure. We currently specialize in the areas of Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, OPEX, Finance and Human Resources.\r\n\r\nWe believe that every client should receive the benefit and accuracy of a search approach, whilst being able to dictate how, when and where it occurs, all on a fee structure to suit. Our revolutionary approach allows us to structure each assignment according to the requirements, time scales and budget available. We believe that for too long executive search firms have been too rigid in their approach and have been able to dictate how the search is conducted, leaving the client relatively powerless on the outcome.\r\n\r\nOur service allows our clients to have increased control, direction and interaction in the search conducted on their behalf and has resulted in successful, on going relationships as search firm of choice with an ever expanding client group.