For uncompromising cat parents who want the best, KatKin goes hardcore for cat health. We make the UK’s only fresh cat food: 100% human-quality meat, gently cooked, and frozen for freshness.

Where the competition cuts corners, catfishes customers and puts profits over health, we put cat wellbeing first. No shortcuts. No secret recipes. We’re cutting the fluff, thinking fresh and channelling hardcore love into industry-wide change. So cats live long and cat parents can love hard without compromise.

We’re all-in for cats, and it shows: our energy will blow you away from day one. You’ll be surrounded by knowledgeable scientists, big creative thinkers, astute business brains, and a whole team of hardcore cat parents. All on a mission to make hardcore love the new standard in cat care – with a fresh take on every product in the cat industry.

Located in Haverhill, the KatKin Kitchen is where our fresh, 100% human-quality meat food is gently cooked and frozen. We are looking for exceptional Hygiene Operatives who are passionate about delivering the highest standards of hygiene, ensuring compliance to legislation, microbiological and visual hygiene & food safety standards.

This role is typically Monday to Friday 10pm - 6am, but may require flexibility on days/evenings/nights or weekends to carry out the deep cleaning.

Reporting into the Hygiene Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out daily cleaning tasks, deep cleans of machinery & equipment and surrounding work areas (walls, ceilings, drains, ventilation)

• Post cleaning checks to make sure everything has been completed to the highest quality, consistency and food safety standards appropriate for a high care chilled/ frozen meat food manufacturing site in line with company procedures

• Document and report any site, machinery or equipment maintenance required to Hygiene Manager

• Replenishing of cleaning and hygiene consumables in the kitchen

• Ensuring that all hygiene and cleaning paperwork is correctly completed

• Operating and maintaining machinery & equipment in a safe and efficient manner (sometimes working in confined spaces & at height from time to time)

• To take reasonable care for their own health and safety and other persons who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work

• Minimum of 6 months experience in a food hygiene operative role

• Have a good understanding of hygiene standards and usage of cleaning chemicals (Food Safety and Hygiene Level 2 a bonus, but not required)

• Have a working level of speaking and reading English

• Able to understand and work with numbers

• Have a strong organised way of working, with the ability to work without supervision

• The ability to work effectively and efficiently in a team

• Be comfortable working with raw protein (lamb, chicken, pork, duck, fish)

• Ability to work with chemicals and in a physical role

• Passionate about food safety and hygiene

• Career defining opportunity in being instrumental to scaling our new state of the art food manufacturing site

• No egos and a small close-knit team

• 28 days of holiday every year plus your birthday off inclusive of bank holidays

• Enhanced paternity / maternity leave

• Discount on KatKin fresh meals

• Employee Assistance programme that includes financial support for dental and optical

• Company pension

• Access to discount portal with a variety of discounts

• £13 - £13.50 per hour

• Free tea, coffee, and fruit

• Free on-site parking

Send your CV,and availability to terrie@katkin.com:

We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At KatKin we celebrate differences, and everything that makes our colleagues unique, by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive.