Cleaning Supervisor

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve. Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values - Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.

Shift pattern: Monday to Thursday from 7am to 3.30pm and Friday from 7am to 1pm. Flexibility required for occasional weekends/evenings.

Are you passionate about maintaining cleanliness and ensuring impeccable standards in a busy site?

As a Cleaning Supervisor you will oversee the effective supervisory and safety concerns when it comes to daily operations on site within the cleaning team.

As part of your role, your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• To be the clients/Managers main point of contact on site
• To co-ordinate and drive a team on site, whilst completing core cleaning duties with the team
• To support the manager with the training and induction of new staff, and the completion of training records
• To lead by example when completing task, following the safe systems of work and method statements
• Weekly stocktake at both sites
• Create weekly plan for cover cleaner and update daily as sickness etc requires
• Audit 5 cleaners per week inc. cleaning cupboards, uniform etc
• Creation and distribution of monthly ticksheets
• Collate data from previous month’s ticksheets, identify trends/patterns/problems etc
• Ensure COSHH folders are up to date
• Ensure all risk assessments are reviewed each year (remind management and participate in review; you are not required to carry out risk assessments yourself)
• Organise fortnightly staff meetings (book venues, create agenda)
• Maintain training records for cleaning staff
• Participate in recruitment of new cleaning staff
• Carry out training of new cleaning staff
• Contribute data/photos for KPIs/monthly reports
• Carry out monthly inspections of machinery and log books
• Compile uniform orders

The ideal candidate should meet the following criteria:

• Must have right to work in the UK
• To have demonstratable people skills or experience co-ordinating a team
• Experience cleaning in a similar environment or transferable skills, knowledge, and understanding
• Understanding of COSHH and H&S compliance on similar sites/environments
• Experience in training and inducting colleagues