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Operations Administrator

Four Recruitment Ltd
Posted 3 days ago, valid for 8 days
Location

Bolton, Lancashire BL1 6LU, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position involves assisting the Projects and Helpdesk department with administrative tasks, primarily managing incoming calls and emails, and supporting engineers and subcontractors.
  • Candidates should have at least 1 year of experience and be comfortable navigating multiple IT systems while managing competing priorities.
  • The role includes 70% reactive helpdesk duties and 30% project support tasks, such as creating project packs and processing vehicle checks.
  • The salary for this position is competitive, and additional benefits include 22 holidays, a profit-sharing scheme, and opportunities for company discounts.
  • The company, transitioning to employee ownership, emphasizes high engagement and offers a supportive work environment.

Opportunity:

To assist and support the operation of the Projects and Helpdesk department to ensure that administration tasks are managed within the requirements of this busy team.

Our client had been a family-owned business for 26 years, more recently transitioning to an employee-owned business 2 years ago. This has maintained the same high levels of engagement, but has put the people who work in the business every day at the heart of all they do.

The Role:

Reactive helpdesk (this will be 70% of the role)

  • Manage incoming calls and emails.
  • Log requests for reactive / maintenance call outs on our Service system.
  • Arrange for an engineer to attend to site and liaise with the client.
  • Collate the relevant paperwork completed by the engineer.
  • Collate and create small quotes for the client where further works are required or requested.
  • Working and communicating with our own engineers and subcontractors to ensure jobs are completed in a timely manner and engineers fully understand the requirements and are adequately supported.
  • Updating client portals where required - and there are multiple systems to navigate.
  • Assist the team in all administration relating to inputting orders and organising installations.
  • Process PO's and invoices through our system.
  • Liaise with the warehouse on stock and deliveries.
  • Manage the on call OOH telephone on a rota system

Projects (this will be 30% of the role)

  • Assist the project team in required administration tasks.
  • Create projects packs for engineers that include relevant plans drawings, kit lists and RAMS.
  • Assist with management / collation of completed job forms from engineers.
  • Process weekly vehicle checks.
  • Assist with collation of engineer timesheets in excel.
  • Assist and support Engineers and Subcontractors by telephone, email and face to face
  • Creation of products, quotations, sales orders, purchase orders on Sage
  • Any other reasonable tasks that are required by your Manager, or wider business needs.

Required skills/experience:

  • Enjoy working in a busy environment with the ability to manage competing priorities.
  • Be quick to pick up new systems and processes.
  • Happy to ask questions and make suggestions.
  • Be comfortable with multiple different IT systems
  • Have an interest in and understanding of Audio-Visual products in a commercial environment.
  • Eager to learn and assist with the development of our systems and processes.
  • Be very structured and organised in your approach to work
  • Communicate well.

What they offer:

  • 22 holidays plus bank holidays, with ability to earn additional holidays up to 25 with length of service and attendance.
  • Become a Co-owner after 12 months service and eligible for the Company Profitability Bonus Scheme and WPA health benefits scheme.
  • Works social events.
  • Company discount.
  • Free parking.

If you interested in discussing this role in more detail please contact Phil on

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.