Cleaning Team Leader

Job Title: Cleaning Team Leader

Job Type: Temporary ongoing

Salary: £9 - £10 per hour

Hours: Varies - Night work

Manpower are pleased to be recruiting on behalf of our client in Stevenage for a Cleaning Team Leader to join their team on a temporary ongoing basis.

Responsibilities:

• Assist, support and co-ordinate a team of cleaning staff, undertake daily inspections and / or audits as requested and ensure the team work productively and safely whilst meeting tight deadlines
• Assist Site Manager in ensuring adequate cover for all cleaning runs, including cover for annual leave and making last minute decisions to cover sickness absence or additional work requests.
• Overseeing the work of the cleaning team to ensure all cleaning schedules completed, checked and consumables replenished daily and standards are acceptable, reporting concerns to Site Manager
• Ensuring adequate levels of stock for cleaning team, requesting additional supplies from Site Manger
• Ensuring equipment is sufficient, well maintained and being used appropriately by the team and stored correctly, raising any concerns to the Site Manager
• Ensuring the team are reporting to work in the correct uniform and using appropriate PPE
• Management of reactive cleaning tasks; ensuring tasks are allocated and closed out within time and keeping deductions to a minimum
• Deal with emergency situations e.g. flooding, burst pipes etc. Assess situations, determine course of action to resolve, contacting contractors for site visits. Ensure communication with Site Manager
• Always Maintain H&S to a high standard and ensure site safety procedures; COSHH, check method statements, risk assessments and instructions for all tasks on site
• As required by the Site Manager, carry out/arrange cleaning staff training and Tool Box Talks
• Attend training as required by management
• Report damages, spillages and breakages, including gathering evidence
• Carry out any other reasonable request by Senior Management.

Required:

• Cleaning experience, ideally with education sector
• Experience in settings cleaning rosters
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Experience of leading teams
• Able to prioritise workloads
• Attention to detail
• Able to prioritise workloads
• Being first aid trained is desirable but not essential