Operations Administrator

Confidential; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Scheme

23 days holiday + bank holidays

Buy Holiday Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Maternity Pay

Friday Half-Days

Life Assurance 4x annual salary

Paternity Pay 2 weeks full pay

Pensions Employee 5%, Employer 3%

Refer a Friend

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Sick Pay

Training and Development

Job summary

Confidential company in the UK seeks an Operations Administrator with strong administrative background in engineering/manufacturing environments to manage ERP data, monitor order progress and support project, procurement and production teams. You will maintain trackers, escalate issues and drive improvements to information flow.

Excellent communication, Excel proficiency and attention to detail are essential as is the ability to handle multiple priorities and deadlines.

Qualifications

• Ideally educated to GCSE level or equivalent, including English and Maths, or relevant practical experience.
• Proven experience in an operations administration, coordination, manufacturing administration or similar role
• Proven work experience within a manufacturing, engineering, OEM or industrial environment.
• Proven experience supporting operational, project, procurement or production teams.
• Working knowledge with ERP/MRP or business management systems.
• Good level of written and numerical literacy.
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident coordinating multiple activities, priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across departments.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, for data management and reporting.
• Good understanding of manufacturing, production, procurement and order fulfilment processes.
• Able to identify potential operational issues and escalat them appropriately.
• Ability to maintain accurate and confidential business information.
• Excellent commercial awareness and understanding of the importance of cost, quality and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Keep accurate operational, order and delivery information within the ERP/business management system.
• Monitor aftermarket order progress, key dates and outstanding actions.
• Support project, procurement and production teams with status updates, trackers, reports and follow-up actions.
• Identify potential delays, issues or information gaps and escalata them to the appropriate manager.
• Support operational, project, procurement and production meetings with accurate information and administration.
• Maintain action trackers and ensure agreed actions are followed up to completion.
• Coordinate information between departments to improve visibility and flow of work.
• Support continuous improvement of operational processes, reporting and system data.
• Ensure information is accurate, timely and readily available to support effective operational decision-making.

Skills

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Data literacy

MS Office proficiency

Education

GCSE English & Maths

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Microsoft Excel

Job description

A new opportunity for an Operations Administrator is available with my client who are a leading pumps and rotating equipment manufacturer. Their ideal candidate will have previous administrative experience within an engineering, manufacturing, OEM, industrial environment.

Operations Administrator role:

• Keep accurate operational, order and delivery information within the ERP/business management system.
• Monitor aftermarket order progress, key dates and outstanding actions.
• Support project, procurement and production teams with status updates, trackers, reports and follow-up actions.
• Identify potential delays, issues or information gaps and escalata them to the appropriate manager.
• Support operational, project, procurement and production meetings with accurate information and administration.
• Maintain action trackers and ensure agreed actions are followed up to completion.
• Coordinate information between departments to improve visibility and flow of work.
• Support continuous improvement of operational processes, reporting and system data.
• Ensure information is accurate, timely and readily available to support effective operational decision-making.

Operations Administrator requirement:

• Ideally educated to GCSE level or equivalent, including English and Maths, or relevant practical experience.
• Proven experience in an operations administration, coordination, manufacturing administration or similar role
• Proven work experience within an manufacturing, engineering, OEM or industrial environment.
• Proven experience supporting operational, project, procurement or production teams.
• Working knowledge with ERP/MRP or business management systems.
• Good level of written and numerical literacy.
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident coordinating multiple activities, priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across departments.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, for data management and reporting.
• Good understanding of manufacturing, production, procurement and order fulfilment processes.
• Able to identify potential operational issues and escalat them appropriately.
• Ability to maintain accurate and confidential business information.
• Excellent commercial awareness and understanding of the importance of cost, quality and delivery.

Operations Administrator package:

• Salary £30k
• 23 days holiday + banks hols
• Bonus Scheme
• Buy Holiday Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP / Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Maternity Pay
• Friday Half-Days
• Life Assurance 4x annual salary
• Paternity Pay 2 weeks full pay
• Pensions Employee 5%, Employer 3%
• Refer a Friend
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes
• Sick Pay
• Training and Development