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Soft Services Manager

June 17, 2022 | Comments Off on Soft Services Manager

Kier Places are recruiting for a Cleaning Manager to join our team on our Oldham Schools Contract, to oversee the management of our cleaning service and line manage a team of cleaners and chargehands across two large high schools.

Cleaning Manager

Location: Oldham Schools

Business Area: Facilities Management - Oldham Schools contract

Contract & hours: Permanent, full time, 40 hours per week, working hours between 6am-7pm

Salary: Kier rewards & package

Kier Places are now recruiting for a Cleaning Manager to join our Oldham Schools Facilities Management team at The Radclyffe School & Failsworth School, Oldham to oversee the management of our cleaning service and line manage the team of cleaners and chargehands across two large high schools.

Key Responsibilities

As a Cleaning Manager with Kier, you will set and manage operational procedures and processes and continuously review them to ensure best practice at all times, ensuring that all operational activities comply with relevant legislation such as the Health and Safety Act and COSHH, whilst ensuring the successful delivery of all client and contractor KPI and SLA targets.

This role will involve the line management of the cleaning team including performance reviews, inductions, absence monitoring, grievance, disciplinary procedures, and implementation of training. The successful candidate will be able to provide effective leadership to ensure the development and encouragement of all operational staff to meet both business and personal objectives. As the Cleaning Manager, you will ensure high levels of customer service and operational standards are maintained at all times. Furthermore, the successful candidate will be required to conduct recruitment interviews to ensure management of any vacancies are filled with suitable staff.

This role also involves the management of the consumable and material budgets as well as the management of the site equipment while ensuring down time is minimised. The successful candidate will be able to optimise the use of available resources to ensure exceptional service and safety is maintained at each site.

What do we need from you?

The ideal Cleaning Manager should have previous cleaning experience and a good all-round understanding of delivering a similar cleaning contract - excellent motivational, people management skills and true leadership skills are necessary in this role to achieve ambitious targets. The ideal candidate will also have strong IT skills, have the ability to multi-task, and have the ability to work well with others and continue to deliver results under pressure.

Due to the nature of this position, you should have a full UK driving licence & be comfortable with flexible working hours between 6am to 7pm as the Cleaners on the contract start/finish between these hours. A BICS qualification is also highly desirable.

At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our benefits include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer

  • A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.

  • A fantastic matched pension scheme

  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.

  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family

  • Kier's Green Car Scheme

  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

  • And many many more!

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Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk

Closing Date: 17th July 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

Recruitment agencies - we are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. The recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL should we require assistance. For further information, visit our careers .

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