Balfour Beatty plc
Project Administrator
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About The Role
At Balfour Beatty, we're delivering some of the UK's most significant power infrastructure projects, helping to connect communities, support the transition to net zero and strengthen the nation's electricity network.
We are looking for a highly organised and proactive Project Administrator to join our team supporting the EGL2 project based in Market Weighton. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in a major infrastructure project, providing essential administrative support to project, engineering and delivery teams while working closely with clients, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
What you'll be doing
As a Project Administrator, you'll provide comprehensive administrative and coordination support across the project. Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing project administration activities to support the successful delivery of the EGL2 project.
- Processing procurement and financial transactions, including purchase orders, goods receipting and P-Card administration.
- Coordinating plant and equipment requirements, including raising orders, monitoring utilisation and arranging off-hire activities.
- Managing travel and accommodation bookings, including hotels, trains and specialist transport requirements.
- Supporting transport administration, vehicle allocations and associated charging processes.
- Maintaining project documentation, records and evidence files to support compliance and audit requirements.
- Assisting with training administration, including booking courses, maintaining training matrices and monitoring compliance requirements.
- Producing and distributing regular project reports and trackers.
- Maintaining registers for calibrated equipment and other compliance-related records.
- Supporting facilities management and general site administration activities.
- Acting as a key point of contact for project administration, liaising with project teams, clients, subcontractors and suppliers.
Who we're looking for
We're looking for someone who is professional, adaptable and able to manage a varied workload with confidence.
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Essential Requirements
- Previous experience working in a busy administrative or project support environment.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Strong communication skills and confidence engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
- A proactive approach with the ability to work independently and use your initiative.
- Excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
- Strong customer-focused mindset.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to tight timescales.
- Excellent team-working and relationship-building skills.
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Willingness to learn new systems and support continuous improvement initiatives.
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
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
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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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