Operations Assistant

Salary: £26,000 per year

Operations Assistant

Godalming

Job description

The role of the Operations Assistant can include a number of tasks including but not exclusive to: Cleaning the School, undertaking scheduled tasks which include venue set up for events and functions, post, laundry, housekeeping and waste and recycling collection. 

Working to schedules which can often have tight deadlines the role requires an appreciation of customer service and a respect for detail.

Operations Assistants are required to undertake these duties as directed by the Operations Supervisor, using the prescribed methods in line with specific requirements.

Basic Purpose of the Job

The role can include a number of tasks including but not exclusive to: Cleaning of the School, undertaking scheduled tasks which include venue set up for events and functions, post, laundry, housekeeping and waste and recycling collection. Working to schedules which can often have tight deadlines the role requires an appreciation of customer service and a respect for detail.

Operations Assistants are required to undertake the following duties as directed by the Operations

Supervisor, using the prescribed methods and frequencies in line with the requirements of the cleaning specification.

Main Duties

• The set-up of venues across the school to the correct standards for both internal and external events.
• This includes the set-up of rooms with correct furniture, notices, paper etc. to a schedule supplied
• by the Operations Managers to support internal and external exams. This also includes Charterhouse
• Enterprises events that take place in out of term periods.
• Collect post from different locations within the Charterhouse site and process both the internal and
• external mail.
• Logistics across site including collection and disposal of waste/recycling from across the site. The supply and movement of furniture, when necessary from stores to locations as requested or for
• specific layouts for use as per the school functions.
• Supply to different departments the requested cleaning products from central stores area.
• Collection and return of laundry as per the time frames given.
• Ability to drive School vehicles including the Luton tailgate van
• Clean, when necessary inside areas of school to a professional standard. Designated areas will be allocated which will need regular scheduled cleaning but ad-hoc cleaning will be expected of areas
• as required by the calendar of school functions. This will include toilets, public access areas, academic buildings and boarding houses.
• Responsible to the Operations Supervisor, Assistant Operations Manager, and Operations Manager

Other Responsibilities

• First Aid training may be required

Person Specification

• Friendly, caring, approachable manner
• Flexible approach to changing circumstances
• Able to use initiative and work without supervision, and either as part of a team or as a lone worker
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Calm and reassuring, especially in an emergency situation
• Utterly discrete and capable of handling confidentiality appropriately
• Willing, polite and professionally welcoming
• Punctual, reliable and trustworthy
• Diligent with great attention to detail
• Committed to achieving high standards of cleanliness and hygiene
• Team player who is able to work in harmony with others
• Willing to undertake any training relevant to the role

Heads of Terms

Salary

£26,000per year for hours worked after 08.00am Monday to Friday and £26,000 per year for hours worked before 08.00am Monday to Friday. 

Where available, weekday overtime and evening working will be paid at £26,000per year and weekend working will be paid at £26,000 per year.

Working Hours

Working hours for this role are Monday to Friday, 07.00 – 16.00 a total of 40 hours per week with an hour for lunch (unpaid), all year round; with occasional bank holiday working dependent on the need to provide support to events. 

It would be expected that Carthusian Day (currently held on the first Saturday of May Half term) and the last day of the academic year (generally last Saturday of June) be considered normal working days. There may be a requirement to work the last weekend of August prior to the start of the academic year.