Job Title: Cleaning Operations Manager
Location: Macclesfield
Salary: This role will attract a salary in the region of £25,000 per annum dependent on skills, experience and qualifications.
Job Type: This role will be full time 37.5 hours per week, on a shift pattern to ensure that you are available to support the wider cleaning team. A degree of flexibility will be needed outside of term time, dependent on the needs of school.
Closing Date: 9am on Monday 19th August 2024.
Interview Dates: w/c 26th August 2024.
The role of the Cleaning Operational Manager is to plan, organise and manage the delivery of all cleaning within the school site, ensuring your team is motivated, engaged and that cleaning standards are of a good calibre.
This role will involve managing and training all cleaners and working with other school site staff to ensure the building is presentable for all stakeholders.
The precise delineation of responsibilities will inevitably develop over time and will need to be flexible, but will include:
- Ensure adequate staffing levels are maintained and organise daily workloads, ensuring fair distribution of tasks.
- Take responsibility for induction training for new starts, ensuring all H&S, School and cleaning procedures are clearly explained and demonstrated.
- To ensure that the facilities and services operate in compliance with Health and Safety legislation and procedures including COSHH.
- To respond to all cleaning issues during working hours and make effective reports of faults found with standards of cleaning or necessary repairs
- To provide adequate supplies of domestic consumables in the appropriate areas at all times and complete a monthly stock order.
- Conduct weekly audits.
- To ensure the safe operation and cleanliness of all equipment used
- To provide effective communication and deliver Team Talks to cleaning staff when required.
- Understanding of policies and statutory regulations relating to Health & Safety, safe working practices hygiene, cleanliness, COVID19, first aid, fire and COSHH. This will include awareness of any specific hazards at School.
- The post holder will be required to maintain an awareness of school policies, procedures and objectives related to the successful delivery of cleaning.
The successful candidate will ideally have:
- Previous experience in cleaning/facilities/soft service management
- Support in the recruitment of cleaning staff
- A full clean current driving licence and have access to their own transport
- People & management skills
- Experience overseeing a large team
- Ability to guide, mentor and train a team to maximise their potential
- Experience of conducting cleaning audits/reviews and liaising with appropriate managers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good team player & able to get on with others
- Ability to communicate clearly face to face with colleagues
- Work well under pressure and have good time management skills
- Able to produce accurate work to tight deadlines under pressure
- Computer literate
- Experience of running a large team and taking control as a strong leader.
- Good presentation skills to be able to deliver training to all cleaning staff as well as others as appropriate
Candidates should note that all appointments are subject to a routine check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This is a full year role. When the school is not operational you will be required to ensure that if the school is being let for functions that cleaning has happened before and after each event.
All support staff are entitled to English Bank Holidays and will receive 18 days (rising to 23 days after 5 years' service). Ten of these days must be taken in the summer holiday period. In addition to this there is also four days shut down during the Christmas period.
Pension scheme including life assurance is available.
Children of members of staff, subject to passing the entrance exam and the availability of places, may be educated at King's with a substantial discount from the Junior Department to the Senior Divisions. We are a non-smoking establishment and an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity among pupils and staff and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Please click on the APPLY button to be re-directed to our Careers page, to complete our online application form.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of, Domestic Cleaning Manager, Cleaning Supervisor, Commercial Cleaning Manager, may also be considered for this role.