Cleaning Operative, Birmingham

Job Title: Cleaning Operative
Contract: Permanent
Type of Employment: Part Time
Hours: 10 hours per week (Monday to Friday – 5AM to 7AM)
Rate of Pay: £10.90 per hour
Location: Pegasus Primary School, Turnhouse Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom, B7 5TE

In your new role as a Cleaning Operative you will ensure equipment is kept clean, well maintained and in safe working order and meeting all agreed SLAs. Build your knowledge and understanding of the designated cleaning area, when the work needs to be carried out and all cleaning equipment and chemicals used on the premises while following Health and Safety requirements. You will need to undertake successfully all training required to deliver the cleaning role. You will be required to work within a team and can work under their own initiative. You will need to build positive and productive working relationships with all customers, delivery excellent customer service and seeking ways to continuously improve and exceed expectations.

• Ensure equipment is kept clean, well maintained and in safe working order.
• Meet all agreed SLAs.
• Build knowledge of designated cleaning area and timing of work.
• Use cleaning equipment and chemicals in accordance with Health and Safety requirements.
• Complete all required training.
• Work within a team and with own initiative.
• Build positive and productive working relationships with all customers.
• Deliver excellent customer service and continuously seek improvement.

To be successful in this role you will need the ability to communicate and read basic English, previous cleaning experience is desirable but not essential and have a flexible approach to the role. You will need to be open, honest, self‑driven and determined. You’ll need to be reliable and hardworking with a professional attitude.

We offer holiday entitlement, pension contributions, discount through MiDeals to over 850 high street retailers, cycle to work scheme, options to buy extra holiday, save as you earn scheme, share incentive plan, recognition and wellbeing incentives such as Mitie Stars and many other benefits.

Our market‑leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more! We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle‑to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 – giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie). We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know.