Project Administrator

Job Title: Project Administration/Support Officer

Reports to: Project Support Lead

Working Hours: Monday - Friday 37.5 hours per week

Location: Orbital Office in ST15 0QN

Occasional visits to customer sites with overnight stays may be required.

Primary duties:

1. Responsible for the compilation, logging, sending and receiving of all incoming and outgoing project documentation, including data books, design packs, change control requests, BOMs, variation quotations, resource requests etc.
2. Perform project related administrative tasks such as photocopying, binding, filing and other ad-hoc tasks to support the Project Manager and Project Engineer.
3. Raising procurement requests in line with project plans, BOM updates and updates to material delivery dates when instructed by the Procurement department.
4. Participate in project update meetings and minute-taking when required.
5. Coordination of subcontractors, site welfare, 3rd parties and design approvers and appraisers to ensure purchase orders are in place and up to date delivery/completion dates are communicated to all stakeholders.
6. Coordinate project update meetings including booking of meeting rooms and issuing invites to participants.
7. Liaising with internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis.
8. Take messages and handle all incoming telephone calls in relation to company business, specifically in relation to the project(s) which you are supporting.
9. Act as the project point of contact for travel and accommodation requests within your project(s).

Essential skills:

1. Good verbal and written communication skills.
2. Previous administration-related experience in an office environment.
3. Desire to progress.
4. Ability to prioritise workload and set deadlines.
5. Good working knowledge of the MS Suite of applications (such as Outlook, Excel, and Word).
6. Ability to work within given deadlines as part of a team or individually.
7. Can-do attitude.