Senior Cleaning Supervisor in Castle Cary

Sodexo is seeking an experienced Senior Cleaning Supervisor to lead cleaning operations at the Mars Pet Care site in Castle Cary. This role is responsible for overseeing daily cleaning activities, supervising teams, maintaining compliance standards, and ensuring high levels of service delivery across the site. The position requires strong leadership, attention to detail, and the ability to manage operational priorities within a regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise and coordinate cleaning teams to ensure all tasks are completed to agreed standards.
• Plan and allocate daily workloads, ensuring efficient use of resources.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness across office, welfare, and industrial areas.
• Ensure compliance with health & safety, COSHH, risk assessments, and site procedures.
• Carry out quality checks, audits, and inspections, addressing issues promptly.
• Complete and review schedules, timesheets, and operational documentation.
• Support performance management, training, and development of cleaning staff.
• Act as a key point of contact for site stakeholders and management.
• Respond to reactive cleaning requirements and support continuous improvement initiatives.

What We’re Looking For

• Previous cleaning supervisory experience is essential.
• Experience working in commercial or industrial cleaning environments.
• Strong knowledge of health & safety and cleaning compliance standards.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• A professional, hands-on leadership approach.
• Ability to work flexibly across a 5-in-7 shift pattern.

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. Belong in a company and team that values you for you. Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions. Thrive in your own way. We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support.
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing.
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service.
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan.
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Sodexo UK and Ireland's enhanced benefits and leave policies.

A little more about Sodexo: At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services. We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins. We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Ready to be part of something greater? Join a team that values you for being you.