Job description
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented Technical Administrator to join our Highways team to work at the Scropton Maintenance Depot, on a part time 20 hour permanent contract.
You will work alongside talented people in a supportive and friendly environment. We offer competitive salaries and benefits and a great opportunity to grow professionally. We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and appreciated. Our team is passionate about their work, and we are looking for new members who will feel the same. Don't miss out! Apply today!
What you'll be doing
- Carry out general admin duties – minutes of meetings, typing, photocopying and scanning.
- Cover reception when required - Screen telephone calls, deal with messages and enquiries.
- Book conference rooms – internally and externally for the team meetings.
- Verify weekly paid timesheets, ensuring that these have been approved by the appropriate manager before submitting them to payroll.
- Gather evidence, documentation and information in relation to incidents and accidents to support insurance claims (green and red claims).
- Processing of various paper and electronic records for the project including: briefings, inspections, driver & vehicle records.
- Support the production of various weekly and monthly reports including: HSE & road reports.
- Process road space booking for the A50 DBFO with the support of the route managers and technicians. Work with the operations and network management leads to ensure all required road space is booked ahead of the planned works.
- Monitor stock levels of equipment and supplies for operations and office team and order these when needed.
Who we're looking for
- Previous experience as an Administrator or similar role.
- Highly motivated and proactive.
- Excellent communication and writing skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Honest Reliable and attention to detail.
- Ability to multi-task and work independently as well as in a team.
- Organised with excellent timekeeping skills.
- High proficiency level in MS Office 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Why work for us
Our people are our biggest asset and we focus on recruiting, training and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of the future. We nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level. Some of our key benefits are:
- BB Pension Scheme
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Enhanced maternity & family friendly policies
- Real career progression opportunities
- Access to our employee referral scheme
About us
Balfour Beatty Highways delivers major schemes including smart motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put our customer, the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, delivering net carbon reductions and social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity & Inclusion: At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
Job Reference: BBUK05528