Welcome to Brooklands, a nationwide contractor who undertake Specialist cleaning, Commercial painting and On-site spraying to enhance the appearance and longevity of places and buildings throughout the UK.
Our mission?
We improve environments by maintaining and preserving premises to sustain safer, brighter and happier places and increase asset value for customers.
Our work is meaningful and most definitely rewarding and with your support, we hope to become more effective in our mission.
Five things our employees love about working at Brooklands.
1. Our work has purpose, we carry out lots of different types of jobs and solve many problems making environments safer, brighter, and happier for people.
2. We recognise, reward, and highly appreciate good performance and provide new learning opportunities with progression plans.
3. We accommodate and work with our people including offering a degree of flexibility at times where it is needed the most. Join a great culture where everybody does a little bit more than expected for each other.
4. We support employees in acts of good will such as making donations for anything "giving back" related, we also include employees in companywide schemes such as feeding and raising money for homeless and providing toys at Christmas to disabled children.
5. You never feel like "just a number" at Brooklands, we are a small and dynamic team, and our people make a difference. We love hearing new ideas and incentivise trying new things. We check in with our team members regularly with 1-1's and genuinely care for our people. Throughout the year we have gatherings and fun outings to connect with each other.
Brooklands is a well-established and growing company; we are always improving the various areas in the business and there is lots happening every day.
Responsibilities and day-to-day activities.
This role will be working closely with the Managing Director taking on the day to day management and decision making and turning ideas into life. The role is split into two key areas as set out below:
1. HR management
2. Recruitment and onboarding
3. Leading, managing and holding employees accountable for delivering in their roles
4. Manage training and employee development
5. Managing rotas, holidays and absences
6. Disciplinary and dismissals
7. Weekly reviews, quarterly 1-1's and annual reviews
8. Organising team initiatives such as christmas parties, days out and facilitating employee recognition and reward schemes
9. Office management and administration
10. Integrating and streamlining processes and business systems to enable to business to continue to grow without bottlenecks
11. Document control - ensuring all documents, systems and processes are logged on a document control schedule and reviewed periodically
12. Organising inspection, stocking and maintenance of company vehicles
13. Organising planned and reactive maintenance of company assets and work equipment
14. Stock control of the office and warehouse including placing supplier orders
15. Undertake any required tasks related to the renewal of subscriptions and accreditations and updating of documents
Essential skills;
* Strong HR experience, great with people, personable and empathetic but assertive when needed
* Techie A keen eye for detail with business operating systems and processes with the ability to spot bottlenecks and a natural ability to find ways of improving efficiency
* Super organised and on the ball, taking action of things that need doing without delay
* Proficient administration and IT skills such as using spreadsheets and all other microsoft packages including sharepoint
* Overseeing adherence and certification assessments for company accreditations such as ISO9001 quality management and CHAS health and safety
* Meticulous and very thorough, ensuring high standards throughout the business
* Team leadership including training and holding people accountable for their key deliverables
* Excellent communication, written and verbal
* You must be confident to lead a team and set a good example
Some role specific perks;
1. Free tea and coffee in a warm and modern office environment.
2. Free and easy parking.
3. Convenient working hours to avoid traffic.
4. You can "own" your area, staff and clients will hold you in high regard for delivering in your role.
5. Learn lots of things about cleaning that you may never have imagined
6. Collaborate with a range of people and build long lasting relationships.
7. Use of company vehicle when available for site visits.
8. Fantastic career development opportunities into more senior and higher paid roles.
9. Finish work at 3pm on Fridays for a longer weekend
The working hours for the role will be 7:30am until 4:00pm Monday to Friday inclusive of a 30-minute lunch break and the location of work will be from Unit 4 Lendal Court, Nottingham NG7 4EZ.
On occasions where your team need to report sickness or other HR related issues you may need to be contactable outside of your office hours.
What is in it for you?
* Competitive salary and bonus scheme.
* NEST pension contributions.
* 28 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays.
* Company events and competitions.
* Learning, development and progression opportunities.
There will be lots to learn therefore the the ideal candidate will be patient, interested and willing to learn and put in the work required to deliver in the role.
Good and consistent performance in this position may see you rise to director level.
Thank you for your interest in this position.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £38,000.00-£41,800.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company car
* Company events
* On-site parking
Application question(s):
* Please tell us what experience you have in HR and team leadership and why you may be suited to deliver in this position to allow the business to grow further
* Please tell us what experience you have in office management / administration and what value you would add to Brooklands to allow the business to grow further
Licence/Certification:
* Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person