Balfour Beatty plc
Helpline Advisor
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About The Role
At Balfour Beatty's Asset & Technology Solutions business, we are looking for a customer-focused Helpline Advisor to join our team in Thurnscoe. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys delivering excellent service to a wide range of customers and stakeholders.
As a key member of the Helpline team, you will play an important role in ensuring customer enquiries, incidents, and service requests are managed efficiently and professionally. You will help support contractual and regulatory performance targets, maintain high service standards, and contribute to the successful delivery of our customer commitments.
You'll be part of a collaborative team that embraces Balfour Beatty's values of being Safer, Better, Leaner, and Faster, helping us achieve our ambitions around Zero Harm and sustainability.
What you'll be doing
- Responding to inbound telephone enquiries promptly and professionally, delivering outstanding customer service.
- Building strong relationships with customers, clients, and colleagues while maintaining a professional approach at all times.
- Taking ownership of customer queries and seeing them through to resolution.
- Responding to customer emails and monitoring shared email and voicemail inboxes.
- Recording customer contacts, incidents, and enquiries accurately within company systems.
- Processing incidents and ensuring information is distributed in line with agreed service levels.
- Producing escalation alerts and ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed of significant issues.
- Making outbound calls to customers to obtain feedback on service delivery.
- Supporting the provision of safe dig drawings in accordance with contractual requirements.
- Producing accurate information and data to support operational performance.
- Following established processes, service standards, and confidentiality requirements.
- Supporting lone worker processes during unsociable hours when required.
- Working collaboratively across teams to ensure customer requests are resolved efficiently.
- Continuously developing your skills and undertaking additional responsibilities as business needs evolve.
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Who we're looking for
We're looking for a proactive and adaptable individual who is passionate about delivering excellent customer service and enjoys working as part of a team.
Essential
- Experience working in a customer-focused environment.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work to tight deadlines.
- Strong communication, written, and interpersonal skills.
- A confident and professional telephone manner.
- Good IT skills and confidence using a range of systems.
- A collaborative approach with the ability to build positive relationships.
- A positive attitude and willingness to embrace change.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team while managing your own workload.
Desirable
- Full UK driving licence.
- Customer service qualification such as an ICS Award, NVQ, or equivalent.
- A strong desire to learn, develop, and progress your career.
- Experience working within a busy service, contact centre, or helpdesk environment.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building, and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family-friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more…
About Us
Asset & Technology Solutions provides innovative, safe, and sustainable solutions to the Balfour Beatty projects across the UK. Our wide range of equipment and services includes HGV’s, tower and crawler cranes, piling equipment, CCTV and security services, survey services, and drones, suction excavators, sweepers, modular accommodation, and much more.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture, we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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