[Royal Mail]
Royal Mail P&FS are recruiting for a Cleaner/Coordinator at Preston Mail Centre, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 9GG
Job Reference Number: 328840
Pay: £12.21 per hour (additional £4.06 per hour when working night shift) plus £125 per month coordinator allowance
Benefits: 22.5 days annual leave, rising to 25 after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays, uniform, PPE, employee referral scheme and Defined Contribution pension scheme plus car parking.
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. This is a cover role so you could work 6am to 2pm, 2pm to 10pm or 10pm to 6am.
As part of Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions you will work either as part of a team or as the only cleaner on site, ensuring we continue to deliver the high standards of service our customers expect.
About the Role
As a cleaning coordinator you will have duel responsibilities.
Cleaner - responsible for variety of tasks including mopping, toilet cleaning, washing walls, vacuuming, emptying bins, dusting and sanitising surfaces safely and professionally to a high standard.
We require someone who can operate a variety of cleaning equipment - however full training is provided with a first day induction. This role will be physically challenging and involves manual handling activities.
Cleaner Coordinator - The Co-ordinator part requires you to oversee a team of cleaning operatives on a single site, whilst supporting the Soft Service Manager with the achievement of efficient day-to-day operations and develop a positive workplace culture. In this varied role, you’ll allocate daily tasks to the cleaning team, manage material use and stock control, conduct quality checks ensuring health and safety policies are followed and monitor the team’s attendance, schedule, and overtime.
You’ll be involved with HR matters for example conducting return to work interviews, support the SSM with the recruitment and training of cleaning operatives and play a key role in resolving operational problems.
Flexibility is key as you’ll be happy to continue to complete the Cleaning Operative duties alongside the additional Cleaning Co-ordinator responsibilities.
About You
You should have a combination of cleaning and administrative experience. The ideal candidate will be reliable, self-motivated with a keen eye for detail. You’ll be able to work on your own initiative, organising your own time, as you’ll be managed remotely.
You should also have competence in the below.
* Previous experience and knowledge of cleaning industry
* Effective Communication skills
* Effective IT skills e.g., excel, word
* Ability to train cleaning operatives on relevant cleaning task
* Ability to prioritise and organise work to be undertaken
* Ability to liaise with customer
About Us
Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions is responsible for upgrading and safely maintaining one of the largest corporate real estates and property portfolios in Europe, with over 2,600 sites. Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions employs 3000 employees and is owned by Royal Mail Group Ltd.
Five centuries in business has made Royal Mail more than a household name. We connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a ‘one-price-goes-anywhere’, universal postal service to more than 29 million addresses across the UK.
What happens next?
Before you apply, make sure that you can get to the location for the hours stated, and the total weekly hours are in line with your expectations. After you apply, your application will be reviewed and if you are successful, you will be invited to an online or telephone assessment. This will last around 15-20 minutes, consisting of 7 questions and 5 supplemental (Yes/No) questions. There will not be a face-to-face interview in this process.
Trust is important to everything we do in Royal Mail P&FS. We want to build that trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your assessment, and we mean your assessment. We want to give you the opportunity to present us with your best examples. As a result, we will provide you with your questions ahead of the assessment taking place, to allow you time to prepare in advance. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and what a job with Royal Mail P&FS entails.
Please note, once our maximum number of applications has been reached this vacancy will close.