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About The Role

We are recruiting for a Caretaker to join our team to ensure the safe operation of all services provided to the school. To ensure service delivery is compliant with legislative requirements, company procedures and customer requirements. To assist in providing a fully integrated caretaking service to the contract. Ensuring efficient and effective service provision in line with agreed specifications. Monitor and report on issues to the site manager and to undertake any reasonable task as requested by the site manager or senior OCS management team.

The caretaker will be responsible for providing caretaking and minor maintenance within the school. You will work as part of a team to an agreed shift pattern to ensure premises and grounds support across the year.

Be responsible for the cleaning of designated areas (e.g. litter bins, gutters, gullies and traps, removing graffiti) and consumables replenishment and body spillages. - Be responsible for carrying out cleaning duties when there is a temporary reduction in staff

• • Support energy conservation measures
  • Be responsible for monitoring energy usage and supplying meter readings
  • Check the operation of the fire system on a regular basis, as directed by the PPM system
  • Carry out monthly fire door checks as part of the PPM schedule
  • Be responsible for noting and reporting repairs requirements through the helpdesk
  • Undertake minor maintenance tasks (e.g. changing light bulbs and strips, fuses, plugs, unblocking drains, minor joinery etc)
  • De-ash Bio Mass boilers as required once full training is given.
  • Move furniture and equipment (in keeping with manual handling guidance)
  • Replenish janitorial supplies across the school
  • Supervise the movements of vehicles in the school grounds, assist with the unloading of delivery vehicles and distribution of goods within the school and logging through the helpdesk

To be successful in the role, you will need:

• Willingness to develop long term relationships with our clients and other stakeholders
  

• Excellent personnel, motivational and team building skills high visibility with integrity and strong ethical values.

• Focused and Performance Driven.
• An autonomous self starter, self motivated and well disciplined.
• An analytical approach to problem solving and decision making.
• Customer focused with the ability to develop relationships quickly and good at net working.
• Demonstrates a proactive response when dealing with customers.
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload in a front line, sometimes reactive environment.

About Us

At OCS, we’re a proud bunch of around 20,000 colleagues who put customer service at the heart of everything we do. We are not just a cleaning company; we hire security officers, caterers, landscapers, and engineers to name just a few. Our job and career opportunities are endless for full-time, part-time, and casual positions, in addition to countless internal opportunities for existing colleagues. We are big believers in supporting and investing in our colleagues from their very first day because we know that our people are critical to our business and making sure we deliver for our customers. This is what makes OCS a great place to work.