Roles & Responsibilities
As a cleaning supervisor, you supervise the rest of the cleaning crew. Your job duties include scheduling and coordinating staff, performing specialized services to ensure all areas and equipment are clean, and communicating with other departments. You also train new team members and maintain a custodial budget. You need experience managing people and working as part of a cleaning crew. The primary component of this role is to supervise the day and nightshift cleaning teams in performing cleaning duties and associated tasks.
Job Description
- Liaise with the Manager on a daily basis regarding current tasks, and assist in the planning of future tasks.
- Ensure all assigned duties are carried out, and that resources are efficiently utilized.
- Act as a communication conduit between management and staff.
- Maintain and control use of stock, equipment & consumables.
- Timeously request purchase of consumables, equipment and materials.
- Monitor and report absenteeism to the Manager.
- Actively promote Health and Safety, and report any breach directly to the Manager.
- Ensure that all staff wear all appropriate PPE
- Where required, gather and provide information on a daily, monthly and annual basis, including schedules, consumable issues and usage etc.
- Prepare rosters for approval by the Manager.
- Work with members of other teams as required.
- Check all equipment that require replacement items as needed.
- Report faulty equipment to the Manager within 12 hours of breakdown.
- Ensure housekeeping standards are met and maintained in all facilities, and report shortcomings/faults to the Manager.
- Monitor and assist in planning for holiday work requirements (bi/annual cleaning work).
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
- Managing stock control and inventory checks.
- Having a keen eye on budgets and budgetary changes.
- Communicating changes in an order process to relevant parties.
- Ensuring that health and safety regulations are followed.
- Documenting procedures for third-party monitoring.
- Creating and monitoring projects and teams.
- Reviewing workloads and manpower to ensure targets are met.
- Ensuring staff working on processes are happy and operating efficiently.
- Supporting all functions of the business to work together.
- Good organizational skills
- Able to supervise staff
- Honest and reliable
- Use own initiative and be proactive
- Conflict management skills.
- People management skills.
- Understanding stock management systems.
- Understanding operations processes.
- Project management skills.
- Communication skills - They need to be comfortable communicating on different levels with different types of people
