At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage cleaning operations across 30-40 sites, ensuring top-notch service and staff satisfaction.
- Company: Leading commercial cleaning company with a commitment to quality and customer care.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, company vehicle, commission opportunities, and bonus potential.
- Other info: Flexible working hours and excellent career progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Join a fast-growing team and make a real impact in the cleaning industry.
- Qualifications: Experience in cleaning management and strong leadership skills required.
Didcot, Swindon and Surrounding areas
Basic salary circa £28k. Company vehicle/mileage allowance, commission opportunities, on target revenue bonus circa £2k.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week at times required to service customer sites.
Why Join?
My client is a leading commercial cleaning company, committed to providing over 400 customers with an excellent cleaning service at a competitive price. Established in 1999, they provide a professional, fully comprehensive cleaning provision across Southern England in sectors that include schools, offices, medical and leisure facilities. Despite our fast growth, we still care about every customer, every contract and every member of staff. They pride ourselves on our attention to detail and delivery of a thorough, reliable high-quality service.
The Opportunity
Reporting to an Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the site management and smooth running of around 30–40 customer sites in and around the Didcot, Swindon and surrounding areas. This will involve the ongoing management of approximately 40-60 part-time cleaning staff, the recruitment and training of new staff where required and carrying out regular quality audits with each customer. You will be responsible for ensuring the highest level of cleaning standards and customer and staff satisfaction is maintained through excellent customer service.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Performing regular site audits with customers
- Maintaining regular customer contact and ensuring continuous customer satisfaction
- Ensuring highest standards of cleanliness are maintained at all customer sites
- Recruitment and management of cleaning staff
- Ensuring health and safety standards are maintained at all times
- Maintaining regular contact with site teams to ensure awareness of site-specific requirements
- Planning, facilitating and monitoring ongoing training for site operatives
- Providing feedback on performance and to take responsibility for managing issues that may arise
- Ensuring sufficient amounts of cleaning equipment, materials and consumables on site
- Ensuring customer sites are fully manned including absence and holiday cover
- Submitting fortnightly pay-sheets, other administration such as holiday forms and carry out payroll tasks
- Carrying out any other duties that are required as directed by the Operations Manager
- Attending regular meetings with the Operations Manager and Operations Director at their head office
About You:
- Someone who has a "hands-on" attitude and has a balance of personnel management skills and business sense, in order to ensure operational success
- Pro-active, logical and forward thinking
- Flexible on working times
- Knowledgeable of the cleaning industry
- Someone with a strong desire to succeed and promote a high level of customer service
- Self-motivated
- Someone with excellent communication skills
- Able to take full responsibility for tasks
- Someone who manages teams in a supportive manner
- Have experience in the cleaning sector (essential)
- Have experience of managing a team
- A valid UK driver’s license, satisfactory references and right to work in the UK
Contracts Manager in Didcot employer: Fairford Associates
Join a leading commercial cleaning company that values its employees and customers alike, offering a supportive work culture and opportunities for professional growth. With a competitive salary, commission potential, and a commitment to high-quality service, you'll be part of a team that prioritises excellence in every aspect of its operations across Didcot, Swindon, and surrounding areas.
