Street Cleaning Supervisor - Edinburgh Fringe Festival

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the largest arts festival in the world. We are working in partnership with Edinburgh City Council and The Fringe Society again this year and looking for a Street Cleaning Supervisor.

Out of Hand is an established Design, Print and Distribution specialist based in Edinburgh and Bristol. We are the operators of the official Outdoor Advertisement scheme for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We have a fantastic reputation for our Print & Distribution services in the Events & Leisure sector and are on the current Edinburgh City Council's approved suppliers list.

Out of Hand is contracted to handle all aspects of the Edinburgh Fringe Outdoor Advertisement scheme, this covers various aspects such as building advertisement structures, installing advertisement boards, maintenance and break down. In 2019, the project saw us install over 7km of posters throughout the entire city and our 2023 project is on track to be on a similar scale.

The Role:

Working as a Street Cleansing Supervisor working under the direction of the Operations Manager the ideal candidate will be required to have very good organisational skills, as well as having experience of working within the Street Cleansing environment or construction environment and related aspects of Health and Safety. The Street Cleansing Supervisor will be responsible for delivering Clean/Maintenance training to the team and making sure the Cleaning Operatives have a cleaning kit and understand how to use our Maintenance App. The main aspect of the role will be to ensure all areas within a 50metre radius of all advertising structures are kept litter, fly poster, sticker and graffiti free. You will also work closely with the Senior Build Supervisor and Operations Manager to coordinate team crossovers and ensure the Build Team have cleaning kits once the installation phase of the project slows.

The Street Cleaning Supervisor will either be issued with a company phone/ipad or will need to download our company specific app onto their personal phone in order to upload Proof of Maintenance to our system. The ideal candidate for this role should be prepared for a fast-paced team environment, where they will be working outside and responsible for various aspects of this project. All staff must wear company specific uniform and PPE at all times whilst at work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise the staffing and related shift patterns as the project progresses through its different stages. This will involve planning routes for the clean team in order to cover all four advertising zones.
• Feedback to the Operations Manager any issues arising from requests from local stakeholders regarding structures adjacent to their business.
• To adhere to all requests and amends made by the CEC, Fringe society and stake holders.
• Maintain cleaning kit, ensure all team members are equipped and have been given kit specific training.
• Ensure OOH's maintenance app is used to log tasks.
• To ensure that you are conversant with and have a working knowledge of Health and safety relating to manual handling, PPE, working in public places etc.

Required skills and experience:

• A proven ability to run or supervise operations in an efficient manner with very tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills.
• A working understanding of Health and Safety and conversant with the creation of Risk Assessments.
• Ability to plan and supervise a team's workload and tasks.

Desired but not essential:

• A full clean driving licence
• Understanding of outdoor advertising.
• Experience of working in the arts and music industry.
• Experience working within the construction industry.
• Have attended and/or have a good understanding of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Further Information

The Project will run from Monday 10th July until Friday 15th September 2023.

We will be running a 7 day a week operation and looking at running some night shifts this year.

Daytime shifts from 8.00am to 6.00pm. Evening shifts from 6.00pm to 2.00am.

Overtime will be available if candidates are interested and paid at an enhanced rate of 1.25 times of standard hourly rate per hour worked over 42.5 hours in the week.

Any evening work undertaken between 10pm and 7am will also equate to an enhanced rate of 1.5 times hourly rate.

The ideal candidate should have experience in this type of work, the ability to undertake physical labouring duties and be able to commit to working the whole duration of the project.

Vehicles / insurance and uniforms will be supplied. Please bring your own steel toe caps.

Job Type: Temporary

Salary: £12.00 /hour