Administration Assistant

Galliford Try; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Administration Assistant - A47 Norwich
Location: Blofield, England

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Administration Assistant to join the team on the major A47 scheme in Norwich for Galliford Try Infrastructure. As an Administration Assistant, you will provide effective and efficient administrative assistance to the project team.

Key Responsibilities –

You will:

1. Assist with the typing and preparation of meeting minutes, letters, reports, and other documents as required.
2. Assist the team with printing and copying of documents, ensuring printers are appropriately maintained and replacement materials available.
3. Open and distribute incoming post and frank and dispatch outgoing post in accordance with Company requirements.
4. Assist with new starters to the company, ensuring, where applicable, security passes are issued, fire/phone registers are updated, and business cards ordered.
5. Assist in the control of the purchase and issue of stationery, maintaining stationery stock at the required levels.
6. Where required, accurately maintain archive databases and electronic records including destruction requests.
7. Ensure meeting room bookings are well managed including any requirements for refreshments arranged prior to meetings.
8. Assist with checking and authorising invoices for payment, dealing with any queries as they arise.
9. Assist the Training team with the input of relevant training courses for CITB claim.
10. Provide cover for reception area as required.

About You –

1. Aware of individual Health and Safety responsibilities and adhere to company health and safety policy and procedures.
2. Able to work in line with the Galliford Try values - Excellence, Passion, Integrity, and Collaboration.
3. Good verbal and written communication skills.
4. An organised approach to work with the ability to prioritise workloads to meet deadlines.
5. Good attention to detail.
6. GCSE/National 5 Equivalent in Maths and English.
7. Fully conversant with the Microsoft suite of packages.

Location -

At Galliford Try, we are committed to flexible and agile working. Day-to-day working locations are flexible and agreed periodic homeworking is an option. The role is to support the A47 project in Norfolk which will be based in Blofield.

What We Can Offer in Return:

With an impressive order book of over £3.8 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long-held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.

Our benefits:

1. Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays.
2. A wide range of corporate discounts.
3. Cycle to Work schemes.
4. Comprehensive pension plan.
5. Competitive family leave policy.
6. Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme.
7. Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it.
8. Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role.

About us:

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

Additional Information:

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process. We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.