General Assistant

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JD Gyms is seeking a full-time General Assistant onsite in Edinburgh to focus on housekeeping and maintaining high cleanliness standards across the club while delivering friendly member support. You’ll conduct daily, weekly and monthly cleaning and safety checks, ensure adherence to Health and Safety policies, report defects, uphold brand standards, keep a professional appearance and uniform, and contribute to a positive environment for members and colleagues. The role rewards reliability, attention to detail, and strong communication in a busy leisure setting; prior experience in cleaning, customer service or a leisure environment is advantageous. To apply, tailor your CV to show safety compliance, service excellence, teamwork, initiative, and flexible onsite availability.

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Want to work for JD Gyms? Of course you do! We are an exciting, award winning gym chain that is quickly expanding across the UK and taking the sector by storm.


We invest in fitting out our clubs to create top quality, stylish environments for our members. Excellent class timetables and robust on the ground teams are a key part in delivering our outstanding fitness offering, so we are always on the lookout for fresh talent.


Role overview:
JD Gyms is an exciting, award-winning budget gym chain that is quickly expanding across the UK and taking the sector by storm. We invest over £1.5m in fitting out our gyms to create top quality, stylish environments for our members.

We're looking for someone who takes pride in maintaining high standards of cleanliness and wants to play an important role in creating a positive environment for members and colleagues. You'll be able to maintain high standards of cleanliness while providing friendly and professional support to members throughout the club.


Please note - this role is heavily based in housekeeping and cleaning.


Responsibilities:


• Ensure that all policies and procedures in both the Health and Safety Employee Policy and Company Procedures Handbook are adhered to.

• Support and maintain JD Gyms brand standards across all areas of the club.

• Conduct daily, weekly, monthly cleaning and safety checks.

• Report all defects to ensure the building and its equipment is safe to use.

• Ensure the gym facility is maintained to a high standard of cleanliness.

• Maintain professional appearance and uniform standards in line with company expectations.

• Deliver outstanding member service through positive and professional interactions.

• Support learning and development initiatives, including training activities designed to promote consistent standards across the business.

• To undertake any other reasonable duties.


Skills and Experience:

• Strong interpersonal skills with excellent attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high standards.

• Demonstrates a commitment to delivering excellent member service and maintaining high standards.

• Experience in a customer-facing, cleaning, leisure or similar environment is advantageous.

• Effective communication skills with the ability to build positive relationships with members and colleagues.

• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team while managing responsibilities independently.


We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Gyms the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.


Thank you for your time.


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