Balfour Beatty plc
Helpline Supervisor
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About The Role
Location: Thurnscoe
Hours: Shift-based rota including nights, weekends, bank holidays and standby cover as required
We have an exciting opportunity for a Helpline Supervisor to join our 24/7 customer and employee support operation. Reporting to the Helpline Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring the efficient day-to-day running of the Helpline service, leading a team of advisors to deliver a high-quality, customer-focused service.
As a hands-on leader, you will support, coach and develop Helpline Advisors while ensuring service levels, quality standards and operational objectives are consistently achieved. You'll be responsible for handling escalated and complex customer enquiries, managing team performance, and driving continuous improvement across the service. The role supports a critical business function within the Balfour Beatty.
What you'll be doing
- Leading and supporting a team of Helpline Advisors to deliver outstanding customer service.
- Acting as the first point of contact for escalated and complex customer enquiries.
- Monitoring team performance and ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are achieved.
- Conducting regular one-to-ones, team meetings and performance reviews.
- Carrying out quality checks and providing coaching and feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Producing accurate and timely management information (MI) reports.
- Managing team rotas, annual leave and absence requests.
- Supporting advisor cover during peak periods and planned or unplanned absences.
- Ensuring procedures and processes remain accurate, compliant and up to date.
- Driving a positive team culture, promoting collaboration, accountability and continuous development.
- Supporting escalation and contingency processes during out-of-hours operations.
- Contributing to new projects and continuous service improvements.
- Maintaining effective shift handovers to ensure seamless service delivery.
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Essential
- Strong customer service experience within a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience handling complex queries and customer escalations.
- Ability to coach, motivate and develop team members.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines.
- Experience producing and interpreting management information.
- A flexible approach with the ability to work shifts, nights, weekends and standby duties when required.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure.
- A commitment to delivering excellent customer experiences.
- Excellent health and safety awareness and commitment to Zero Harm principles.
Desirable
- Previous supervisory or team leadership experience.
- Experience working within a customer contact centre, helpdesk or helpline environment.
- Customer Service qualification (NVQ or equivalent).
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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