Receptionist

Balfour Beatty plc; Grays; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension plan

Employee recognition

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc on the Lower Thames Crossing project is seeking a friendly Receptionist to join the facilities team. You will cover front-of-house, provide admin support and ensure visitors are welcomed and supported in a busy project environment.

Ideal candidates will be confident with MS Office, highly organised and able to balance competing priorities while delivering a professional first impression to colleagues, partners and visitors.

Qualifications

• Experience in reception, office support or facilities administration is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Proactive and able to manage competing priorities in a busy office.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day administrative support to the Facilities Manager.
• Cover front-of-house and reception duties to keep the area running smoothly.
• Welcome visitors and issue passes; manage meeting room bookings.
• Support wider project team with ad hoc duties as required.

Skills

Reception

Admin support

MS Office

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has an exciting opportunity for a Receptionist to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project.

The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) is one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects. LTC is a new road that will connect Kent and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames and will be the greenest road ever built in the UK - creating six times more green space than road. The reliable new route will almost double road capacity over the river east of London to reduce congestion and give millions of people more choice on where they live, work and spend their valuable time.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, thrives in a team environment and takes pride in delivering a professional first impression. You will support the Facilities Manager while helping colleagues, visitors, supply chain partners and delivery partners feel welcomed, informed and supported.

What you'll be doing

• Providing day-to-day administrative support to the Facilities Manager.
• Delivering general facilities management administration duties.
• Covering reception and ensuring the front-of-house area runs smoothly.
• Welcoming visitors to the project office and issuing visitor passes.
• Managing meeting room bookings and supporting office coordination.
• Helping with additional ad hoc duties to support the wider project team.

Who we're looking for

• Friendly, personable and professional, with strong interpersonal skills.
• Positive and enthusiastic, with a can-do attitude.
• Enjoys working as part of a team and supporting others.
• Confident using initiative and managing competing priorities in a busy office environment.
• Good organisational skills and a practical approach to administration.
• Confident using Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel.
• Experience in reception, office support or facilities administration would be helpful.
• Proactive, reliable and willing to support the wider team.

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?

Benefits

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:

• 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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]