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Job Title: Cleaning Team Leader
Hourly Rate of Pay: £15.06
Position Type: Permanent
Type of Employment: Full Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Heathrow Airport, Building, Newall Road, Hounslow, Greater London, England, TW6 2RZ
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Cleaning Team Leader to join our team at Heathrow Airport. This role oversees a team of four and is ideally suited to someone with strong leadership skills and a solid background in cleaning operations.
The successful candidate will have proven experience supervising staff, managing shift patterns, coordinating annual leave and agency cover, monitoring absences, conducting return-to-work meetings, and supporting overall performance management.
Proficiency in MS Excel is essential, as you will be responsible for updating and maintaining cleaning schedules, working hours, and overtime records. A strong understanding of cleaning practices, COSHH regulations, machinery operation, and the safe use of chemicals is also required.
If you are organised, confident, and committed to maintaining high standards, we would love to hear from you.
Excellent communication skills are essential, particularly in working collaboratively with the Night Team Leader, Senior Supervisors, and our client to ensure smooth operations and clear, consistent information flow.
Above all, this position requires someone who is meticulous, organised, able to stay on top of emails, tasks, and deadlines, and constantly pushes for higher standards.
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10, - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .