Cleaning Operative

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Barnard Castle; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Finance

MiDeals platform

Cycle-to-work

Life cover

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services in Barnard Castle is hiring a Cleaning Operative for a permanent, full-time role at 37.5 hours per week, paying £13.45 per hour. The duties include cleaning and servicing areas as directed, following all safety rules, wearing PPE, reporting faults, maintaining COSHH compliance, and supporting the team to deliver high-quality service to your client and Mitie.

You will join a large nationwide team and benefit from Mitie’s flexible benefits platform and training

Qualifications

• Previous cleaning experience preferable.
• Good English language proficiency to enable understanding of instructions and safety signs.
• Be a good team player with a flexible approach to the working environment.

Responsibilities

• Carry out cleaning duties as directed by the Team Leader or management.
• Follow all safe systems of work and risk assessments.
• Wear the correct PPE at all times.
• Comply with all Health and Safety and security regulations.
• Report faults in cleaning machinery/equipment to the Team Leader.
• Complete a schedule of cleaning tasks and adhere to COSHH.
• Report near misses and incidents following the correct procedure.
• Carry out any reasonable request from the Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader.

Skills

Previous cleaning experience

Team player

Flexible

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Job Title: Cleaning Operative

Rate of Pay: £13.45 Per Hour

Contract: Permanent

Type of Employment: Full Time

Hours: 37.5 Hours Per Week

Location: GSK, Harmire Road, Barnard Castle, County Durham, England, DL12 8DT

Job Objectives And Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the cleaning and servicing of areas, as allocated by the cleaning and management team, to the standard required by the client and Mitie, efficiently and professionally.

Main duties

• Carry out any/all cleaning duties requested by your Team Leader or management team.
• To ensure that all tasks are carried out in a professional manner, following all safe systems of work and risk assessments.
• Wear the correct PPE specified at all times.
• To comply with all statutory GSK and Mitie Health and Safety rules and regulations.
• To comply with all GSK and Mitie security regulations for cleaning materials, equipment and buildings.
• To provide high personal standards of work/performance, personal hygiene and appearance.
• To keep GSK myLearning up to date, and perform tasks in the time frame provided.
• To report any complaints/incidents of accidents, fire, theft or loss, damage or any other irregularities and take action if practicable.
• Undertake all required training in relation to all aspects of the cleaning service.
• Complete a schedule of cleaning tasks, as directed by the Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader.
• Ensure that all requirements in relation to COSHH are adhered to as specified by the Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader.
• To report all faults in relation to cleaning machinery/equipment to the to Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader.
• To report all building defects to the Mitie Helpdesk.
• To carry out any reasonable request as specified by the Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader.
• Report near misses following the correct procedure.
• Follow the employee absence reporting procedure when phoning in sick.

Person specification

• Previous cleaning experience preferable.
• They will be a good team player, will have a flexible approach to the working environment and may be asked to provide cover in other areas when required.
• Good English language proficiency to enable understanding of instructions, safety signs, SOPS, and Health and Safety related training.

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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