Office Administrator

Fort Recruitment; Guildford; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal Pension Scheme

Excellent prospects

28 days holiday

Job summary

Fort Recruitment is seeking an Office Administrator to support field engineers and manage routine office tasks for Water sector projects across the South of England, including Thames Water, from the Guildford area. You will schedule work, compile job dossiers, enter data accurately and handle telephone support with clear communication.

Proficiency in Windows and Excel is essential. The role is 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm, with a starting salary of £26,400 rising to £28,600

Qualifications

• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication and a courteous telephone manner.
• Self-motivated, reliable and computer literate.
• Experience working with field engineers is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Routine office tasks such as updating data, filing reports and ordering supplies.
• Work scheduling and compiling job dossiers for field engineers.
• Providing telephone support to field engineers involved on various projects.
• Accurate data entry.

Skills

Planning and organisation

Excellent communication

Telephone manners

Self-motivated and reliable

Data entry

Experience with field engineers

Tools

Windows

Excel

Job description

We require an office administrator with strong communication and planning skills to work for a company that is a specialist service provider to the Water company’s across South England including Thames Water providing network monitoring and leakage reduction using data analysis.

Office Administrator – The Role

• Routine office tasks such as updating data, filing reports and ordering supplies
• Work scheduling and compiling job dossiers for field engineers
• Providing telephone support to field engineers involved on various projects
• Accurate data entry

Office Administrator – Person specification

• Planning and organisation skills
• Excellent communication skills
• A good telephone manner
• Self-motivated and reliable
• Computer literate with experience of Windows and Excel
• Previous experience working with an organisation that employs field engineers is an advantage

Office Administrator – Benefits Package

• A starting salary of £26,400pa (consisting of salary and regional weighting)
• Salaries then rise to £28,600pa after a successful trial period
• Personal Pension Scheme
• Excellent prospects
• 35 hours per week
• 8am to 4pm, Monday to Friday
• 20 days holiday (plus 8 Bank Holidays) - 28 days in total