Payroll Coordinator

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentives

Job summary

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick is seeking a Payroll Coordinator to join its UK team near Bridgwater. You will manage payroll using Kronos, add starters and leavers, handle absences, and resolve payroll queries while ensuring accurate submissions across the workforce.

The role requires NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, strong Excel/data analysis skills, and experience in high-volume payroll environments. Security clearance may be needed.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent experience
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office, especially Excel and data analysis
• Experience in payroll, recruitment, workforce administration or high-volume timesheet environment
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build relationships at all levels
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately under pressure
• Experience in engineering construction, NAECI or JIB environments would be advantageous
• Ability to obtain security clearance

Responsibilities

• Coordinate payroll activities using Kronos Time & Attendance
• Add new starters and process leavers within payroll systems
• Manage sickness, holiday and absence records
• Process travel, fare and lodge entitlements
• Investigate and resolve payroll and timesheet queries
• Process payroll corrections and manual timesheets as needed
• Liaise with supervisors and employees to ensure accurate payroll submissions
• Support wellbeing by resolving pay-related concerns promptly

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Communication

Attention to detail

Relationship building

Education

NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent experience

Tools

Kronos Time & Attendance

Job description

About The Role

Balfour Beatty are partnering with the MEH Alliance on Hinkley Point C. We are currently looking for a Payroll Coordinator to join the team.

What you'll be doing

• Coordinate payroll activities using the Kronos Time & Attendance system.
• Add new starters and process leavers within payroll systems.
• Manage sickness, holiday and absence records.
• Process travel, fare and lodge entitlements.
• Investigate and resolve payroll and timesheet queries.
• Process payroll corrections and manual timesheets where required.
• Liaise with supervisors and employees to ensure accurate payroll submissions.
• Support employee wellbeing through the timely resolution of pay-related concerns

Who we're looking for

• NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent experience.
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and data analysis.
• Previous experience within payroll, recruitment, workforce administration or a high-volume timesheet environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to work accurately under pressure.
• Experience within engineering construction, industrial projects, NAECI or JIB environments would be advantageous.
• Able to obtain a security clearance

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?

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:

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 Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

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