Cleaning Operative

**Job Reference: CL/JR/03-11/693/5**

**Job Title: Cleaning Operative**

**Location: Drake Circus Plymouth** -**_Applicants must have the right to work in the UK_**

**Pay Rate: £9.90**

**Contract**:Part-time available**

**Hours per week: Variable Shift Rota - 40 hours per week / 24 hours per week**

**Business Overview**

The Atalian Servest workforce is made up of 30,000 passionate, responsive, and knowledgeable colleagues, all of whom deliver sustainable and award-winning FM solutions to our clients.

With over 20,000 employees, our cleaning division works with virtually every sector in the UK and Ireland. Specialising in enhanced hygiene services, janitorial/housekeeping, daily cleans, window cleaning and consumables, our experienced teams ensure ourclient’s premises are kept at the highest presentation standards, while also ensuring the safety of building users.

**Role Overview**

We are currently recruiting for a Cleaning Operative to join our passionate and driven Cleaning team based at our client’s site in Drake Circus Plymouth.

**Benefits**
- Access to Wagestream - a financial well-being tool
- Wide range of retail discounts
- Discounted gym membership
- Join our Cycle to Work scheme
- Access to “CHROMA”, our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community - join a committee or take part in our events
- Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders
- Immediate access to “Opportunity” our internal Learning and Development platform
- Required professional membership fees paid for
- Win monthly Atalian Servest Superstar Awards
- Discounted site parking across the estate

**Summary & Purpose of the Role**

The main purpose of the job is to support and assist the team in ensuring that the site is maintained to the agreed KPI standards with a safe and clean environment paramount. To assure that the company standards and policies are followed and maintained.

**Customer Service**
- Maintain polite and good communication with your colleagues, retailers, and shoppers always.
- To be enthusiastic, helpful, courteous, and inspired by the Drake Circus Estate customer charter always and to attend staff meetings when requested by Management.

**Cleaning**
- Maintain the cleanliness of toilets throughout the night, ensuring that they are always clean, floors are clear of any spillages, mirrors and sinks wiped and consumables are always topped up.
- Ensure that wet floor signs are put out on entrances during wet weather.
- To ensure the site is of a fit for trade standard before 0900hrs and all reactive tasks are closed in a timely fashion following the Managers safe to trade audit
- Machines clean all entrance pavements daily and pressure wash on a scheduled basis or as required by management
- Dry down the entrance benches after rainfall throughout the day and ensure their cleanliness.
- The vacuuming and steam cleaning of all entrance mats where required
- Empty and wipe down all bins including cigarette bins
- Clean Management Suites on both sites including conference, training rooms, staff rest rooms including toilet & shower facilities.
- Clean entrance paving to include flower beds, birds mess, chewing gum, cigarette ends, spillages, litter and debris clearing.
- Wash or wipe where necessary all walls, pillars, and painted surfaces up to 2 metres
- Wash or wipe where necessary all furniture, fixtures, signage, and fittings both FOH & BOH including HVM bollards and planters
- Respond to reactive spillages on Drake Circus Campus sites in a timely manner
- Watering plants and hanging baskets (summer)
- Cleaning of canopies and louvers
- Wipe down all glass doors and panels

**Skills and Experience**
- Full UK driving licence (desirable)
- To be trained and competent in the use of relevant cleaning machinery, pressure washers and equipment / COSHH
- Litter picking and constant refresh of entrances during shift
- Wipe down and re-stock cleaning trolleys and to clean machinery and equipment after use, re stock / fill and stow correctly
- Empty and wash out retailers’ bins as part of schedule 3 waste, ensuring that weight has been correctly recorded, and schedule 3 paperwork is completed.
- Always keep your cleaning area and space clean and tidy and your cleaning materials safely stored
- The above description is not exhaustive, but the above points represent the key points pertaining to the role of Cleaning Operative
- Must have a valid in date driving licence.

**Skills and Experience**
- Full clean Driving Licence desirable
- Experience of working and building partnerships with clients
- IOSH trained desirable
- Knowledge of COSHH
- Experience of working within a fast-moving cleaning environment
- Is articulate and can communicate effectively with the clients and the IFM teams

**How to apply**

If you are interested to join a business that encourages professional development, career progression and the chance to work with inspirational people then please click apply

**Diversity & Inclusion**

We are an equal-opportunity employer and are proud of the diversity represented across our business. In 2021 we won the IWFM award for our diversity and inclusion initiative, CHROMA and we are proud to have also achieved the Disability Confident Level 2Standard as well as being signatories of the Race at Work Charter and Mental Health at Work Commitment.