Cleaner​/Site Maintenance

Job title: Cleaner/Site Maintenance
Department: Activate Accident Repair
Location: AAR Sunderland, Wayfarer Road, Sunderland, SR5 3XA

Salary: Real Living Wage Employer
Hours: 45 hours per week

We’re looking for a Cleaner/Site Maintenance to be part of our success story.

Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100:
Britain’s fastest-growing private companies. Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

To be responsible for cleaning and maintaining various areas within the Bodyshop, including the general maintenance of the site grounds and buildings.

• Ensure the clean and hygienic maintenance of the Bodyshop is to a high standard
• Clean all offices, including furniture, fittings, fabric, carpets, and equipment
• Ensure strict adherence to all health and safety rules (COSHH)
• Clean, stock and supply designated areas such as restrooms
• Carry out deep cleaning and detailed cleaning tasks
• Notify management of deficiencies or repairs required
• Perform and document routine inspection and maintenance activities
• Follow all health and safety regulations
• Grounds maintenance, including hedge trimming, grass cutting, weeding, clearing snow/ice from pathways, aiding skip removal, litter picking and fence painting
• Interior maintenance, including painting, using the floor cleaner in the workshop and periodically applying new lining to paint booth walls.
• Responsible for car parks and positioning of vehicles on site, including moving vehicles into the workshop for technicians
• Move vehicles for total losses to be collected or dropped off and ensure they are positioned correctly and safely

• Site maintenance experience in the Bodyshop industry
• Proven working experience as a Cleaner
• Knowledge of cleaning chemicals and supplies
• Familiarity with Material Safety Data Sheets
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority, and we’ll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed. From little perks like free fruit, breakfast cereals, and French pastries on a Friday, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate the effort you put in.

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide. We work with some of the UK’s largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road accident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough. We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK‑wide network of independent repair partners.

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team‑player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.

Nobody wants or expects to be in a road incident, and we know how upsetting and stressful it can be. This is why our purpose is to make someone's bad day better
. We achieve this through our values:
make it happen
, win together
, and strive for better
.