Role Overview:

Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 3:30pm - 9:30pm (30 hours per week, 52 weeks per year)

£12.25 per hour

Reporting to the Cleaning Manager, the Cleaning Supervisor will be responsible for the cleaning team on site, ensuring all areas are cleaned to the highest standards. The Cleaning Supervisor will be responsible for management of the team alongside the Cleaning Manager with induction, holiday requests, cover for sickness absence, and will also be responsible for the management and ordering of cleaning materials and the monitoring and inspection of cleaner workmanship. The cleaning supervisor will have responsibility to ensure the building is locked down and secure on a daily basis.

Key responsibilities:

• Supervising the on-site cleaning team, ensuring all sections are cleaned to world-class standards
• To ensure that all staff under his/her control are adequately trained in their particular function and are fully aware of all Health & Safety requirements and wear protective clothing as necessary.
• General cleaning duties within the school, including the flexibility to work overtime as and when required
• Stock control and monitoring of all cleaning products, including ordering of materials
• Conduct cleaning audits with Cleaning Manager on a regular occasion, and ad-hoc cleaning audits to monitor cleaner workmanship, including daily checks.
• Manage cleaners sign in/sign out times and complete timesheets for Cleaning Manager
• Support to the Cleaning Manager during new starter inductions
• Support Cleaning Manager in coordination of holiday requests and records
• Ensure maintenance defects noted by or reported are relayed to the Facilities Management Team.
• Ensure the building is left locked and secure, any issues must be reported to the on call engineer.
• Support Cleaning manager in arranging cover for absence within the cleaning team.
• Complete relevant training for the supervisor role when requested.

Requirements

Skills & Attributes:
As well as exhibiting the Sewell Behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Team and Customer Focused, with a mentality of Doing the Right Thing, the successful person will have the following:

Essential:

• A satisfactory Enhanced DBS (criminal background) check
• Previous working experience within a cleaner role
• A passion for delivering a world-class service
• Can demonstrate a ‘hands on’ approach and can use own initiative
• A positive, approachable and professional attitude and demeanour
• Excellent organisational and communication skills with the ability to prioritise a variety of tasks
• Have the ability of work both as a team member, and on alone in a busy working environment
• Possess a positive approach to learning, development and progression
• Have a flexible attitude towards hours worked and the interest in supporting the wider team during holiday and sickness periods

Desirable:

• Full Driving Licence, valid in the UK
• Be First Aid at Work trained
• Previous experience managing or leading a team of people

Sewell is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services. As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for this role

About our company:

Sewell Group is a multi-disciplined group of companies operating across the North of England. As a family business, it has a long and illustrious history dating back to 1876. Alongside its retail division, which operates 13 fuel and convenience stores across East Yorkshire, Sewell Estates is a collective of built environment businesses made up of Sewell Investments, Sewell Construction, Sewell Facilities Management, Illingworth and Gregory, and Shared Agenda.

At the heart of the business’ vision and strategy is delivering value for the communities it serves, promoting opportunities by employing local people and investing in developing talent, as well as giving back to communities and supporting the regional economy through commissioning the local supply chain.

Sewell pride themselves on their commitment to support, train, develop and reward employees. In return, they ask that their employees work hard, live the company behaviours and have some fun along the way. Culture is a massive part of the day-to-day life at Sewell and its people follow core principles of being Positive; Professional; Customer Focused; Team Players; and Always Doing the Right Thing.

In 2021 the Group was recognised as one of only 18 businesses across the country in the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity – the most prestigious accolade for UK businesses.

Benefits

• £12.25 per hour
• 22 holiday days, plus bank holidays
• Auto enrolment pension
• Sewell store discount
• Access to thousands of highstreet retail discounts