Project Administrator

Morson Talent; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Project Administrator in Chester with hybrid working (3 days in-office and 2 from home). The role involves managing office operations, assisting HR coordination, and supporting budgetary control. Candidates should have strong administrative skills, attention to detail, and experience in IT tools like SAP and Excel. This position offers flexibility in work hours.

Qualifications

• Proven administrative experience.
• Project administration and lifecycle knowledge advantageous.
• Flexible, calm, and proactive approach to work.
• Proven minute-taking ability.
• Excellent IT skills including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Manage office building issues and maintenance.
• Assist with HR coordination and departmental policies.
• Support budget control and prepare finance-related information.
• Manage ASW and CSW contract renewals.
• Support project reporting and communications.
• Lead departmental overtime procedure reporting.
• Raise and manage Purchase Orders for cost centres.
• IT super user managing assets and service requirements.

Skills

Administrative experience

Attention to detail

Integrity

Multi-tasking

Education

Good secondary education (5 GCSE's including Maths and English)

Tools

SAP

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Overview

Project Administrator - Chester (Hybrid Working) - 18 Months +

JOB PURPOSE
To deliver aspects of the project process, assist the project delivery team and provide support to the wider E&P organisation.

This role will offer hybrid working with 3 days in the office and the option to do 2 days from home. The hours will be either 8:00am - 4:00pm or 8:30am - 4:30pm but there is some flexibility around this if needed.

Responsibilities

• Manage office building to ensure issues, maintenance and improvements associated with the office building are delivered to standards. To implement all departmental policies and procedures for the building.
• Engage and assist Team leads with co-ordination of HR personal (interviews, on boarding, movements, reports, trackers) assists with implementation of all departmental policies and procedures.
• Support budgetary control for E&P cost centres by preparing relevant information required by Finance. Identify data and reporting issues.
• Manage and lead on ASW and CSW contract renewals within E&P organisation. Preparing for resource and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support to the Programme Manager and Investment Manager with project reporting, co-ordination and Internal and external communications.
• Preparing and leading the departmental overtime procedure for E&P. Including reporting to finance and resolving of issues for personnel.
• Responsible for raising and managing Purchase Orders for all E&P cost centres. Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to obtain and challenge financial data (e.g. actual cost information per month)
• IT super user for the department to manage the assets and service requirements, coach team members, own issues to resolution and support with enabling IT projects / improvements.

Education & Qualifications Required

• Proven administrative experience
• Project administration experience and project lifecycle knowledge would be an advantage but not essential
• SAP, Excel and Power BI knowledge would be an advantage, but again not essential
• A flexible , calm and proactive approach to work - able to multi-task
• Attention to detail
• Integrity in dealing with sensitive information in a professional manner
• Project delivery environment experience
• Proven minute taking ability
• Good secondary education to at least 5 GCSE's or above (to include Maths and English), or equivalent vocational qualifications
• Excellent IT skills in Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint