Payroll Coordinator

Babcock International; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Development opportunities

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is hiring a Payroll Coordinator for the Hinkley Point C site near Bridgwater, Somerset. You’ll join the MEH Alliance to coordinate payroll, maintain accurate employee records, process payroll forms, generate reports and support payroll queries to deliver a flawless employee experience.

This full-time role is primarily site-based with some flexibility, and includes a comprehensive benefits package and development opportunities within a major UK infrastructure project.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced administrative environment.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail.
• Experience maintaining accurate records and documentation.
• Confidence using Microsoft Office, especially spreadsheets and reporting tools.
• Experience in payroll administration or payroll support advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and updating payroll trackers, ensuring employee information is accurate and up to date.
• Collecting, logging and distributing payroll forms, including holiday, absence, lodge and pay query documentation.
• Producing payroll reports and supporting the creation of payroll metrics and management information.
• Assisting with payroll-related inductions and providing administrative support including document management, spreadsheets and meeting notes.
• Responding to payroll queries and supporting the wider payroll team to deliver an excellent employee experience.

Skills

Payroll administration

Administrative experience

MS Excel

Attention to detail

Documentation management

Payroll reporting

Tools

Microsoft Office

Spreadsheets

Reporting tools

Job description

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Payroll Coordinator

Location: Taunton, GB, TA5 1UD

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Payroll Coordinator

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full Time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 76063

Keep people paid accurately. Help deliver one of the UK’s most important infrastructure programmes.

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Payroll Coordinatorat Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

The role

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Maintaining and updating payroll trackers, ensuring employee information is accurate and up to date.
• Collecting, logging and distributing payroll forms, including holiday, absence, lodge and pay query documentation.
• Producing payroll reports and supporting the creation of payroll metrics and management information.
• Assisting with payroll-related inductions and providing administrative support including document management, spreadsheets and meeting notes.
• Responding to payroll queries and supporting the wider payroll team to deliver an excellent employee experience.

This role is based at Hinkley Point C. You will work 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with a rotational later shift approximately once every eight weeks. The role is primarily site-based, with home working on Fridays.

Essential experience of the Payroll Coordinator:

• Experience working in a fast-paced administrative environment.
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience managing and maintaining accurate records and documentation.
• Confidence using Microsoft Office applications, particularly spreadsheets and reporting tools.
• Experience within payroll administration or payroll support would be advantageous

Qualifications for the Payroll Coordinator:

• We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. If you can demonstrate the required experience, capability and willingness to learn, we'd love to hear from you.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

We’re Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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