Cleaner

Royal Mail; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading postal service provider is recruiting a Cleaning Operative for their Bury St Edmunds Delivery Office. This part-time position involves various cleaning tasks, including mopping and sanitising, while ensuring high service standards. Candidates should be reliable and able to work independently. The role offers training and adheres to Health & Safety regulations.

Benefits

22.5 days annual leave

Employee referral scheme

Defined Contribution pension scheme

Uniform and PPE

Car parking

Qualifications

• Previous cleaning experience is desired, but not essential.
• Naturally friendly, with good written and verbal communication skills.
• The ideal candidate will be reliable, self-motivated with a keen eye for detail.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for mopping, toilet cleaning, washing walls, vacuuming, and dusting.
• Operate a variety of cleaning equipment; full training is provided.
• This role will be physically challenging and involves manual handling activities.

Skills

Cleaning experience

Communication skills

Reliability

Attention to detail

Job description

Overview

Royal Mail is something special, a well–loved brand people can rightly be proud of. We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. Our people are at the heart of our business and are integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.

Royal Mail P&FS are recruiting for Cleaning Operatives at Bury St Edmunds Delivery Office, Bury St. Edmunds, IP32 7YY

Job Reference Number: 330715

Pay: £12.21 per hour.

Benefits: 22.5 days annual leave, rising to 25 after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays, uniform, PPE, employee referral scheme and Defined Contribution pension scheme plus car parking.

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Part time, 22.75 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

As part of Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions you will work from 09.25 to 14.00 as the only cleaner on site, ensuring we continue to deliver the high standards of service our customers expect.

Responsibilities

• As a cleaning operative you will be responsible for a variety of tasks, both inside and outside of the site, including mopping, toilet cleaning, washing walls, vacuuming, emptying bins, dusting and sanitising surfaces safely and professionally to a high standard.
• You will operate a variety of cleaning equipment; full training is provided with a first day induction.
• This role will be physically challenging and involves manual handling activities.

About You

• Previous cleaning experience is desired, but not essential.
• Naturally friendly, with good written and verbal communication skills, you’ll be able to communicate with customers and managers whilst complying with Health & Safety regulations.
• The ideal candidate will be reliable, self-motivated with a keen eye for detail. You’ll be able to work on your own initiative, organising your own time, as you’ll be managed remotely.

About Us

Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions is responsible for upgrading and safely maintaining one of the largest corporate real estates and property portfolios in Europe, with over 2,600 sites. Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions employs 3000 employees and is owned by Royal Mail Group Ltd.

Five centuries in business has made Royal Mail more than a household name. We connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a ‘one-price-goes-anywhere’, universal postal service to more than 29 million addresses across the UK.

What happens next?

Before you apply, make sure that you can get to the location for the hours stated, and the total weekly hours are in line with your expectations. After you apply, your application will be reviewed and if you are successful, you will be invited to an online or telephone assessment. This will last around 15-20 minutes, consisting of 7 questions and 5 supplemental (Yes/No) questions. There will not be a face-to-face interview in this process.

Trust is important to everything we do in Royal Mail P&FS. We want to build that trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your assessment, and we mean your assessment. We want to give you the opportunity to present us with your best examples. As a result, we will provide you with your questions ahead of the assessment taking place, to allow you time to prepare in advance. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and what a job with Royal Mail P&FS entails.

We reserve the right to close this advert once our maximum number of applications has been reached.