Cleaner CV example
Cleaning roles are hired on reliability and output: rooms or square metres per shift, protocols followed, and a clean quality record.
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- Sector
- Trades and services
- Template used
- Oslo
- ATS level
- ATS verified
- ATS keywords
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Megan Lewis
Cleaner with 7 years in hotels and offices, COSHH trained
megan.lewis@mail.com · 07700 900456 · Manchester · linkedin.com/in/megan
Professional summary
Cleaning professional with seven years across a 4-star hotel and office buildings. I service 18 rooms a shift at 98% pass rate on housekeeping checks and operate floor machinery. Spotless attendance record and current COSHH and health and safety training.
Experience
Cleaner
Employer name · City · 2019 – Present
- Cleaned 18 rooms per shift at a 98% pass rate on supervisor checks
- Cut product consumption 20% through correct dilution by surface type
- Seven years with no lateness and no safety incidents
Education
Qualification or certificate for the role
Training centre · Year
Skills
- Room servicingAdvanced
- Scrubber dryer and bufferAdvanced
- COSHH chemical handlingAdvanced
- Communal area sanitisingAdvanced
- Health and safetyAdvanced
- Lone workingAdvanced
Languages
- EnglishNative
- SpanishB2
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Professional headline
This is the line that decides whether they keep reading: a specific role and years of experience, never an adjective.
Cleaner with 7 years in hotels and offices, COSHH trained
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Example professional summary
Three or four sentences with your specialism, one figure and your goal. It sits right under the headline.
Cleaning professional with seven years across a 4-star hotel and office buildings. I service 18 rooms a shift at 98% pass rate on housekeeping checks and operate floor machinery. Spotless attendance record and current COSHH and health and safety training.
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Achievements that work in this role
Past-tense verb, what you did, measurable result. Three to five per role, strongest first.
- 01Cleaned 18 rooms per shift at a 98% pass rate on supervisor checks
- 02Cut product consumption 20% through correct dilution by surface type
- 03Seven years with no lateness and no safety incidents
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Skills to include
Written as plain text: rating bars are invisible to automated filters.
- Room servicing
- Scrubber dryer and buffer
- COSHH chemical handling
- Communal area sanitising
- Health and safety
- Lone working
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ATS keywords
The terms filters search for in this role. Place them inside your experience, not in a list at the end.
- rooms per shift
- sanitising
- COSHH
- health and safety
- industrial cleaning
Work them naturally into your experience — these are the terms screening software scans for.
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Tips for this CV
What separates a CV for this trade from a generic one.
- 01
Give output in numbers: rooms, square metres or floors per shift.
- 02
Name the machinery you operate (scrubber dryer, buffer, pressure washer).
- 03
Add shift availability and whether you drive — it weighs heavily on the decision.
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What a cleaner CV is
Short definition, ready to quote.
A cleaner CV is the one or two page document used to apply for a cleaner role in trades and services: it brings together the professional headline, the profile summary, experience with measurable results and the competencies the trade expects you to evidence, such as Room servicing and Scrubber dryer and buffer. Unlike a generic CV, it is ordered around what the applicant tracking system and the hiring manager look for in a cleaner: the words used in the advert and the numbers of the actual job.
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Keywords and where to place them
Each term works best in a specific place in the document. Repeating them all at the end scores nothing.
| Keyword | Where to place it |
|---|---|
| rooms per shift | In the professional headline |
| sanitising | In the profile summary |
| COSHH | Inside an achievement with a figure |
| health and safety | In the skills list |
| industrial cleaning | In training or certifications |
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How this cleaner CV gets through the filters
What the example above does right, point by point.
- The headline reads «Cleaner with 7 years in hotels and offices, COSHH trained»: the job title (cleaner) appears literally in the first line, not as a creative synonym.
- The trade's keywords —rooms per shift, sanitising, COSHH— sit inside the experience and summary, where the filter reads them in context.
- Every achievement carries its figure. «Cleaned 18 rooms per shift at a 98% pass rate on supervisor checks» is the pattern to copy: volume, timeframe and result.
- Skills such as Room servicing, Scrubber dryer and buffer, COSHH chemical handling are written as plain text, never as rating bars or stars, which no parser can read.
- The Oslo template is single-column and rated ATS verified, so the sections come out in order.
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What hiring managers look for in a cleaner
The three points that separate two candidates in this trade.
Type of site and shift
Offices, healthcare, schools, hotels, food production or residential blocks. Give the site type, the square metres you covered and the shift.
Products, dilution and machinery
Scrubber dryer, rotary machine, pressure washer, microfibre and two-bucket systems, plus correct dilution and safety data sheets — the technical side of the job.
Protocols and risk areas
Clean and disinfect in healthcare, cross-contamination control in food, task logs and isolation-area cleaning. That is what makes you a specialist rather than a cleaner.
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Common mistakes on a cleaner CV
The ones that repeat in this role, each with its fix.
- 01
Writing “cleaning” with no sector or area
A hospital, a school and a factory are cleaned to different protocols. Without sector and area the CV can't show you can cover the contract.
- 02
Not mentioning machinery
Scrubber dryer and rotary competence is a genuine pay differential and adverts ask for it. Name the machines.
- 03
Leaving out COSHH and disinfection
Dilutions, contact times, product incompatibility and PPE. Showing this puts you into healthcare and food contracts, the best paid.
- 04
Vague availability
The sector rosters by band: early mornings, middays, evenings and weekends. State your hours and you get rostered sooner.
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What a cleaner earns
So you can tell whether an advert is at market rate before applying.
- Usual range
- Typically £11.50-£13.50 an hour, above that in healthcare and specialist cleaning
- What moves the figure
- Healthcare, food production and specialist cleaning pay above offices; nights and bank holidays carry premiums.
- Where the figure comes from
- Ranges observed in UK cleaning adverts through 2026.
Frequently asked
Questions about a cleaner CV
- What if I have no company experience?
- Private domestic cleaning counts: give the number of homes, area, frequency and whether you supplied products and equipment. Add any COSHH training.
- Which training helps most?
- COSHH and safety data sheets, healthcare cleaning, manual handling and food hygiene if you enter kitchens. Short courses with an immediate effect on shortlisting.
- How do I quantify the work?
- Square metres per shift, number of classrooms, rooms or offices, and average time per zone. It is the measure every contract manager uses.
- Is lone working worth stating?
- Yes, with proof: a contract where you opened and locked the building, holding keys and the alarm code, is the strongest trust signal you can give.
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