Area Manager – Cleaning Division – Nelspruit needed at Empact Group

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Job title : Area Manager – Cleaning Division – Nelspruit

Job Location : Mpumalanga, Nelspruit

Deadline : November 08, 2024

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 Education and Experience required:

  • Grade 12
  • Minimum 5 Years’ experience in cleaning and Health Care is compulsory
  • A valid driver’s license
  • Experience in highly commercial and sensitive markets is compulsory
  • Project Management experience in cleaning would be an advantage

Knowledge and Skills:

  • Knowledge of the relevant cleaning, hygiene, and pest sector
  • Knowledge of South African and industry-specific laws
  • Knowledge of MS Office; specifically excel and word
  • Proactive
  • Professional
  • Customer service skills
  • Management skills
  • Communication skills
  • Ability to balance the budget and save on soft costs
  • Ability to draft and extract reports
  • Attention to detail

 Competencies required:

  • Problem solving & decision making, Customer Relationship Building, Communication, Team Leadership, Financial & Business acumen, Assertiveness; Negotiation; Analytical Thinking; Tolerance for Stress; Resilience.

 Key areas of responsibility:

Employee Management

  • Manage all subordinates in accordance with sector strategy, contract specification, and statutory regulations
  • Ensure that all subordinates adhere to working standards as per the respective service level agreement and Business Standards
  • Ensure that company image and reputation is upheld, and employees adhere to uniform regulations
  • Arrange counselling and effect wellness campaigns within each site
  • Monitor and verify employee time schedules as per shift agreements
  • Employees leave management
  • Regularly communicate changes and general information to all employees per site

Industrial Relations Support

  • Maintain discipline by using the company’s disciplinary code and procedure, as well as attending to grievances.
  • Preparation of contingency plan for strikes and stay away.
  • Appraising staff by way of verbal direction and performance appraisal for supervisory level and above.
  • Adherence to company policy and procedure
  • Manage Union relationships

Recruitment

  • Efficiently source temporary employees in accordance with labour legislation and internal process and policy
  • Ensure that employee head count on site is in line with the agreed head count costing
  • Approval process to be followed when hiring new staff
  • To ensure that staff members sign their engagement contract before they start work on site
  • To ensure that all onboarding forms are submitted to payroll on time

Systems and Process

  • Ensure that PRP hours are approved on time
  • Adhere to on time salary payments

Site management

  • Ensure that correct resources and employees are transported to site
  • To carry out regular inspections
  • To be responsible for the prompt attention to the communications book procedure.
  • To attend certain regular meeting with clients, where minutes need to be taken.
  • All problems to receive prompt action
  • Usage of the AM tool for each site
  • Audits and inspections
  • Site inspections on regular basis
  • Maintain overall client expenses on site

Business development

  • Work with Contract managers to upsell clients
  • Build and maintain client relationships
  • Have an in-depth knowledge of business products and value proposition

Training & development

  • Annual training for staff
  • On the job training
  • Statutory training for the staff
  • Learnerships
  • Talent and Incubation nuclease

Health & Safety

  • Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments are completed
  • Equipment is in good working order.
  • Uniforms are sufficient and in good condition.
  • Personal Protective Equipment is supplied as per site and scope hazards identified.
  • Toolbox talks are done twice a week by the Contract Manager.
  • Current Safety Data Sheets are available on chemicals used on site.
  • Staff medicals where necessary are available.
  • Waste Management Procedures.

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