Senior Cleaning Supervisor

Senior Cleaning Supervisor

Location: Mars Pet Care, Oak Tree Meadow, Blackworthy Road, Castle Cary, BA7 7PH

Hours: Full Time – 37.5 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday, 08:00–16:00 or 09:00–17:00 (very occasional weekend work as required)
Pay Rate: £15.00 per hour

Benefits:

Opportunities for career development
Sodexo employee benefits package

About the Role

Sodexo is seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Cleaning Supervisor to lead cleaning operations at the Mars Pet Care site in Castle Cary.

This role is primarily focused on ensuring cleaning standards are consistently met and maintained across the facility. You will be responsible for overseeing due diligence processes, compliance checks, and ensuring all SOPs are strictly followed. A key part of the role is making sure all team members are properly trained and that cleaning activities adhere to site and regulatory standards at all times.

This is a hands-on supervisory position within a large and varied manufacturing site. You will manage a team of 8 operatives while also supporting cleaning activities where required.

Due to the site location, the successful candidate must be able to drive to site.

The site is large and includes multiple levels, with some areas requiring access via 7 flights of stairs. A good level of physical fitness is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise and support a team of 8 cleaning operatives

• Ensure all cleaning activities adhere strictly to agreed standards and SOPs

• Carry out and oversee due diligence and compliance checks

• Distribute and manage daily workloads effectively across the site

• Clean and oversee cleaning of packing halls, warehouse areas, and two-storey open plan office spaces

• Conduct validation checks throughout the day

• Monitor training completion and ensure compliance documentation is accurate and up to date

• Complete administrative duties and required reporting

• Attend client meetings and liaise closely with the client hygiene team

• Work collaboratively with the hygiene team to maintain and improve site standards

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive cleaning experience (essential)

• Strong supervisory experience with proven team leadership ability

• Experience working within industrial or manufacturing environments

• Strong understanding of compliance, due diligence, and adherence to cleaning standards

• Proficient in Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, Outlook)

• Physically fit and capable of working across a large, multi-level site

• Ability to drive to site

• Professional, hands-on leadership approach

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong

in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act

with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive

in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Join a team that values you for being you.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications