Specialist Cleaning Team Leader

Fairford Associates
Leeds
Job title Specialist Cleaning Team Leader
Location: M62 corridor or down the M6 or M1

Salary: £38k-£42.5k, auto-enroll pension, employee welfare line, death in service cover, 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Why Join?

Founded in 2018 my client operate on a national basis providing commercial flooring services such as floor deep cleaning and anti-slip floor treatments services. The sites they work on are varied and include the likes of shopping centres railway stations, hotels, swimming pools, office buildings etc.

The Opportunity

My client is currently recruiting for a third operational team leader, who will take full ownership of works assigned to them, liaising with their clients on-site, reporting to the office team, ensuring the job is completed to a high standard and overseeing the team on both the works and their welfare. Much, but not all, of their work is out of hours (overnight), which is why when you’re on nights, you work a 4-on, 3-off week. Some jobs are one shift, the average is two, so depending on the site overnight stays away may be required and the regularity will depend on the person’s location

What You’ll Be Doing

* Manage and work alongside a team (typically 2-3 other people) ensuring successful delivery of our projects.

* Communicate with our clients on-site regarding the works, talking them through the job and offering advice.

* Liaise with the office administration and sales team.

* Manage team on-site including their breaks and welfare.

* Be prepared to be a team player this is a “player-coach” role.

* Following site-visits produce the information required for the office to send survey reports and pictures.

About You

* Posses experience in floor care” or specialist cleaning.

* Background knowledge within a cleaning company with experience in the use of cleaning machinery operating would be an advantage.

* Prior experience within a supervisory role managing small teams.

* Basic knowledge of Health and Safety.

* Be able to use apps to produce good quality pictures and information using a tablet or phone.

* UK clean driving license is a requirement for this job.

* Right to work in UK and able to speak English language.

Fairford Associates operates as an Employment Agency introducing work-seekers to client employers for direct employment by those employers. Please view our latest jobs on our website and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter. We do try to reply to each application personally, however as we receive a high number of applications for each role, we handle it is not always possible to do this. Therefore, if we do not contact you within seven days your application for this particular role has not been successful. However, we have retained your CV and we will advise you of future roles that may be of interest
Posted 2026-02-18

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