Cleaning Operative / Co-ordinator

Royal Mail Group; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Cleaning Operative/Coordinator to join their team. This role involves maintaining high cleaning standards while overseeing a team, ensuring efficient operations, and fostering a positive workplace culture. You'll be responsible for a variety of cleaning tasks, managing material use, conducting quality checks, and supporting HR functions. Ideal candidates will be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and possess strong communication skills. Join a company that values trust and transparency, offering a supportive environment for your growth.

Benefits

22.5 days annual leave

Uniform

PPE

Employee referral scheme

Defined Contribution pension scheme

Car parking

Qualifications

• Experience in the cleaning industry is desired but not essential.
• Good written and verbal communication skills are important.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for cleaning tasks like mopping, vacuuming, and sanitizing.
• Oversee a team of cleaning operatives and manage daily operations.

Skills

Cleaning experience

Effective Communication skills

Effective IT skills (Excel, Word)

Training ability

Organizational skills

Customer liaison

Job description

Royal Mail P&FS are recruiting for Cleaning Operative/Co-ordinator at Home Counties North Mail Centre

Job Reference Number: 323271

Pay: £12.21 per hour plus £125 per month co-oridnator 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 - Saturday

As part of Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions you will work from 09:30 to 15:45 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.

About the Role

As a cleaning operative you will be responsible for 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 - however full training is provided with a first day induction. This role will be physically challenging and involves manual handling activities.

The Co-ordinator part requires you tooversee 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

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.

You should also have competence in the below.

• 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

If you are looking for a new and exciting opportunity then please apply.

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?

After you apply, your application will be reviewed and if you are successful you will be invited to a telephoneassessment. This call will last around 15-20 minutes, consisting of 7 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 interview; and we mean your interview. We want to give you the opportunity to present us with your best examples. As a result, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview 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.