Cleaner Coordinator

Royal Mail Group; Preston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading postal service provider is seeking a Cleaner/Coordinator for their Preston Mail Centre. You will be responsible for both cleaning tasks and overseeing a team of cleaning operatives. Ideal candidates should have experience in the cleaning industry and strong communication and organizational skills. The position offers full-time hours, competitive pay, and various benefits.

Benefits

22.5 days annual leave (rising to 25 after 5 years)

Defined Contribution pension scheme

Employee referral scheme

Uniform and PPE

Car parking

Qualifications

• Combination of cleaning and administrative experience required.
• Reliable, self-motivated, and detail-oriented candidate desired.
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.

Responsibilities

• Perform cleaning tasks such as mopping, vacuuming, and sanitising.
• Oversee a team of cleaning operatives and allocate daily tasks.
• Support Soft Service Manager with operational tasks and HR matters.

Skills

Previous experience in cleaning

Effective Communication skills

Effective IT skills (Excel, Word)

Ability to train cleaning operatives

Ability to prioritise and organise work

Ability to liaise with customers

Job description

Overview

Royal Mail P&FS are recruiting for a Cleaner/Coordinator at Preston Mail Centre, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 9GG

Job Reference Number: 328840

Pay: £12.21 per hour (additional £4.06 per hour when working night shift) plus £125 per month coordinator allowance

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: Full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. This is a cover role so you could work 6am to 2pm, 2pm to 10pm or 10pm to 6am.

About the Role

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

Role responsibilities: In this role you will have dual responsibilities.

Cleaner - responsible for a variety of tasks including mopping, toilet cleaning, washing walls, vacuuming, emptying bins, dusting and sanitising surfaces safely and professionally to a high standard.

We require someone who can 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.

Cleaner Coordinator - The Coordinator part requires you to oversee a team of cleaning operatives on a single site, whilst supporting the Soft Service Manager with the achievement of efficient day-to-day operations and develop a positive workplace culture. In this varied role, you'll allocate daily tasks to the cleaning team, manage material use and stock control, conduct quality checks ensuring health and safety policies are followed and monitor the team's attendance, schedule, and overtime. You'll be involved with HR matters for example conducting return to work interviews, support the SSM with the recruitment and training of cleaning operatives and play a key role in resolving operational problems.

Flexibility is key as you'll be happy to continue to complete the Cleaning Operative duties alongside the additional Cleaning Co-ordinator responsibilities.

About You

You should have a combination of cleaning and administrative experience. 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.

• Previous experience and knowledge of cleaning industry
• Effective Communication skills
• Effective IT skills e.g., excel, word
• Ability to train cleaning operatives on relevant cleaning task
• Ability to prioritise and organise work to be undertaken
• Ability to liaise with customer

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.

Please note, once our maximum number of applications has been reached this vacancy will close.