Job purpose: Assist the Kit Manager with the provision, laundering, transportation, and organisation of playing kit and equipment, while supporting the cleaning of all First Team areas to a high standard.
Role Competencies:
Planning Timescales:
• Efficiently plan and prioritise daily and weekly kit and cleaning department tasks, maintaining a fast-paced, high-energy work ethic to ensure timely completion.
• Record, monitor, and provide feedback on stock and equipment levels to the Kit Manager at key points throughout the year.
Decision Making:
• Ensure health and safety in the workplace by complying with all instructions regarding the use, control, and storage of chemicals, materials, and equipment necessary for task performance
• Make informed decisions and take prompt action when issues arise, following strict health, safety, and safeguarding regulations and procedures.
Impact and Influence:
• Actively contribute to the creation of a high-performance environment by completing duties with pride, consistency, and to the best of your ability.
• Assist the Kit Manager in ensuring players and staff display the correct products and branding.
• Work alongside other team members to provide support in other areas of the organisation as needed to promote best practice.
Skill Level:
• Deliver high standards in kit preparation, presentation, laundering, and facility cleaning.
Accurately follow written and verbal instructions, policies, and procedures, including protocols for laundering, cleaning, infection control, safeguarding, health and safety, and reporting.
Communication:
• Ensure clear and consistent communication with colleagues and management by providing regular updates and reports on tasks, including timely notification of any hazards, faults, or damages.
• To attend meetings that require your input or as directed by the Kit Manager
Budget Management:
• Ensure any financial actions are within the remit of the role.
Lead and Develop:
• Set high standards and lead by example while meeting agreed-upon objectives.
• Seek opportunities for self-development through training and skill-building activities related to the role.
Operating Parameters:
• Work in a controlled and regulated environment, following all relevant legislation, policies, and procedures, including health and safety, safeguarding, and football regulations.
• Prepare and organise all training equipment for the First Team.
• Assist in the distribution of kits and training wear to staff and players.
• Prepare changing rooms with match kit and equipment at all First Team training sessions and fixtures.
• Be present on the training field for training sessions to meet specific needs and requests.
• Maintain and safely store kit and equipment, ensuring all items, including training wear, footballs (with regular pressurisation and cleaning), and training aids, are organised, in good condition, and stored properly to prevent damage and ensure readiness for use.
• Maintain and clean the recovery jacuzzi, performing regular water quality checks.
• Quickly turn around facilities to meet demand, especially pre- and post-matches or events, while ensuring compliance with safety and safeguarding standards.
• Maintain cleanliness and organisation of all First Team facilities, including dressing rooms, laundry, kit storage rooms, and other areas, while promptly handling urgent cleaning needs, spills, and reporting any damages, hazards, or faults, and support cleaning operatives to ensure all areas meet high professional standards.
• Complete administrative tasks relevant to the position.
• Undertake any additional reasonable duties to ensure the efficient operation of the business.
Essential Job Criteria:
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to clean to a high professional standard.
• Experience of working in an elite sporting environment
• Strong drive and enthusiasm to meet high standards, leading by example while achieving objectives.
• Flexibility in work hours, including a willingness to work unsociable hours and bank holidays when needed.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• High self-motivation and a proactive work ethic.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a high-performance team.
• Willingness to attend necessary training courses for role development.
• Honest, trustworthy, and capable of handling confidential information with a high level of integrity.
• Clean driving licence desirable.
Desirable Criteria:
• Previous experience in a professional football in a kit and cleaning capacity.
• Understanding of Health and Safety legislation for the use and storage of cleaning chemicals.
• Experience using industrial cleaning equipment.
This position contains physically demanding aspects which we determine to involve the following:
• Walking: Frequent walking, potentially exceeding 5,000 steps per day.
• Standing: Long periods of standing, such as while mopping a floor (up to 30 minutes).
• Bending: Regular bending required for tasks such as cleaning floors, equipment, and skirting boards.
• Stretching: Regular stretching needed for cleaning mirrors, showers, and windows.
• Lifting: Lifting heavy objects, such as vacuum cleaners weighing up to 7kg.
• Carrying: Carrying heavy items, including containers of liquid weighing up to 10kg.