Cleaning Contracts Manager

Salary: £26,000 per year

I am currently working in partnership with them to find a part-time Contracts Manager. The Position is to work as part of their team to deliver services and manage contracts for various sectors around the Torquay and Exeter areas. In some cases, you may be asked to work in other areas to assist the business. You will work predominantly Monday to Friday; some weekend work will be required for business needs. The role will involve visiting sites during the cleaning shifts, monitoring, recruitment, and training, along with health & safety checks if necessary the covering of jobs and organising relief staff for sickness and holiday cover. Cleaning tasks can include Toilets, Changing Rooms, Vacuuming, Dusting, Internal, Mopping, Sweeping & Floor Buffing & Occasionally Carpet Cleaning.

Your role will be very varied but will include:

• Client liaison and contract management, Monthly client meetings
• Staff liaison, HR-related staff meetings
• Induction and training of staff on equipment, cleaning practices and use of chemicals.
• Conducting on-site audits
• Setting up new contracts will include creating cleaning specifications and inducting new staff
• Covering annual leave/sickness/helping when required. Required to clean as a last resort
• Placing stock orders and maintaining budgets
• Manage holidays and absences within the team, ensuring there is adequate coverage and that cleaning standards are not reduced
• Recruitment of cleaning staff

Personal attributes and experience:

• Commercial cleaning experience, ideally in a school environment
• Experience in a Supervisory / Managerial role
• Flexible approach to your working week
• Reliable and hardworking
• Self-motivated
• Hold a full clean manual driving licence & happy travelling
• Able to work on iPad/laptops

A Uniform will be provided. Full Training will be given and a company car is provided along with a Fuel Card & laptop. 

Salary is negotiable. (usually around £26,000per year while driving and £11 or £26,000 per year while on site) 

We do try to reply to each application personally, however as you can appreciate we receive a high number of applications for each role we handle and it is not always possible to do this. Therefore if we do not contact you within seven days your application for this particular role has not been successful. However we have retained your CV and we will advise you of future roles that may be of interest. Fairford Associates operates as an Employment Agency introducing work-seekers to client employers for direct employment by those employers.