Cleaning Supervisor

Kier Group plc; Hatching Green, Tebay; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company is seeking a Cleaning Supervisor to join their team at Heathcote Secondary School in Waltham Forest, UK. This role involves leading a cleaning team, developing cleaning schedules, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. With a focus on delivering high standards, candidates should have proven cleaning experience, strong leadership skills, and be motivated to mentor others. The position requires on-site work from 6:00 am to 8:30 am and 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm, Monday to Friday.

Qualifications

• Proven cleaning experience, ideally in a school or educational setting.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Understanding of COSHH and health & safety legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate a cleaning team to deliver high standards.
• Produce daily cleaning schedules and monitor work quality.
• Conduct stock checks and order consumables.

Skills

Cleaning experience

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

Cleaning Supervisor.

We're looking for a Cleaning Supervisor to join our Waltham Forest Schools team based in Heathcote Secondary School.

Location: Heathcote Secondary School, Waltham Forest – on‑site role
Hours: 25 hours per week – 6:00 am to 8:30 am and 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm, Monday to Friday

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Cleaning Supervisor, you'll be working within the Waltham Forest Schools team, supporting them in maintaining a safe, hygienic and welcoming school environment for students, staff and visitors.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading, supervising and motivating a team of cleaners to deliver high cleaning standards
• Producing daily and periodic cleaning schedules, ensuring work meets specifications and KPIs
• Carrying out stock checks, ordering consumables and maintaining accurate records
• Monitoring work quality, conducting performance checks and ensuring compliance with all Health & Safety requirements
• Completing weekly timesheets and supporting with absence management and training

What are we looking for?

This role of Cleaning Supervisor is great for you if:

• You have proven cleaning experience, ideally within a school or educational setting
• You bring strong leadership, communication and organisational skills
• You understand COSHH, safeguarding requirements and health & safety legislation
• You are self‑motivated, reliable, able to mentor others and committed to delivering high standards
• You work well under pressure and can manage a variety of tasks with attention to detail

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case‑by‑case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre‑employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier