Cleaning Supervisor

• Property and Facilities Division

• Be part of an organisation with a meaningful purpose and impact

• Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50

• 17% superannuation contributions and 17.5% annual leave loading

• Based at the Gatton Campus

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting, real-world impact.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family

• On campus childcare options

• Salary packaging options

About This Opportunity  

We are seeking a Cleaning Supervisor to manage and supervise all Gatton, Toowoomba, and Ipswich based cleaning staff, and ensure delivery of outcomes in line with Quality Assurance documentation within the annual budgetary parameters. The position will assist in the management of service contracts in particularly those contracts relating to waste management.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Supervise cleaning staff to ensure the implementation of effective and efficient systems of collection of waste streams, litter and graffiti control, and the provision of an emergency cleaning response.

• The complete management of routine cleaning of in-house cleaned buildings, allocation of duties with attention to daily availability of labour.

• Assist in managing departmental expenditure on materials and labour in relation to Gatton based operations in order to deliver appropriate services within the annual budgetary parameters.

• Planning and implementing periodical cleaning, window cleaning and related services.

• Oversee waste contract service delivery and ensure waste management systems conform with Environmental Management Systems and Quality Assurance procedures, including appropriate record keeping.

• Oversee the cleaning contract service delivery including auditing of the contractor services ensuring compliance with the contract scope.

• Monitor stock levels of consumable items and prepare purchase orders and check and prepare invoices for payment in accordance with procurement policies.

• Liaising with building contacts auditing buildings to ensure that cleaning outcomes satisfy customer requirements, within budgetary constraints.

• Complying with the requirements of the Qld Occupational Health and Safely legislation, Environmental and Quality policies and related OH&S responsibilities and procedures developed by the University or division.

• Other duties in line with classification of the position as reasonably directed by the manager.

This is Full-time positions, continuing (Permanent) position. At HEW Level 5, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range of $75,878.89 to $84,342.92 plus a generous super allowance of up to 17% superannuation. The total FTE package will be in the range $88,778.30 – $98,681.22 per annum.  

About You

• Completion of a Certificate IV and extensive relevant work experience; or completion of a post-trades certificate and extensive (typically more than two (2) years) relevant experience as a technician; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

• Experience in a service industry and demonstrated ability to supervise and motivate a large team of staff.

• Experience in training staff, assessing staff productivity and identifying training needs.

• Experience in management of resources and in the preparation and controls of budgets.

• Knowledge of the divisions policies and procedures and particular knowledge of the procedures involved in routing and periodic cleaning of the university buildings.

• Knowledge of the processes involved in reviewing and documenting quality assurance procedures.

• Competence in the interpretation and application of policy and procedures and an ability to exercise initiative and make sound judgements.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

• Ability to create positive team culture and develop good working relationships with external and internal customers.

• Ability to prioritise own workload, work independently and meet deadlines.

• Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise work to successfully deal with competing demands.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

• Background Checks: All final applicants for this position may be asked to consent to a criminal record check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits. 

Questions?  

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Mr Connor Harrison (Client Facility Manager) on [email protected]

For application queries, please contact [email protected]  stating the job reference number in the subject line.  

Want to Apply? 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

Please note that you will be asked to add all documents into the one upload box labelled ‘resume’, which is step one of the application form.

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected]  

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close 6 February 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (R- 34553).