Administrator

Job title: Technical Administrator

Location/Hybrid: Derby/3 days on site, 2 days working from home

Hours: Full-time Mon-Fri

Contract length: 10 months

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Overview

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group with over 25000 employees worldwide

They provide their clients with sustainable solutions with business areas covering construction services, support services and infrastructure investment 

We are looking for an experienced Technical Administrator to join an exciting new project with The Balfour Beatty DBFO projects team, based out of Derby

This key role to support the running of this successful highways project.

Key Accountabilities

• Road Space Booking: Booking road space for planned routine and major works on the National Highways NOMS database working with the Road Space Coordinator.

• Depot & Office support: Cover reception duties for visitors and staff. Admin support for the contract director, booking of hotels and travel for the team. Monitor stock levels of equipment and supplies for operations and office team, and order, coordinate annual services, repairs, waste collection, office cleaning and other activities. 

• Processing of Red and Green claims for DCP (Damage to Crown Properties): Collation of information from the operations and network team for processing of claims for accidents and incidents on the network

• Document Control & Information Management: Support the project team with filing and storage of information into various electronic and paper systems, as required by the contract & record keeping.

• Tracking of costs & invoices against budgets and forecasts: Keep a record of the purchases, purchase orders and payments working with the operations, commercial and finance team to inform the project of spend against budgets and forecasts

• Payroll Processing: Supporting the team by covering as required submission of timesheets entries into Balfour Beatty’s oracle system for the payment of weekly paid staff

• Administration Duties: Processing of various paper and electronic records for the project(s)

Experience and Skills required

• Previous experience in an Administrator, preferably in a construction or engineering environment (or similar)

• Excellent Communication Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Honest Reliable and Professional Person

• Ability to multi-task and work independently as well as in a team

• Organised with excellent timekeeping skills

• Computer Literate.

About the team

The Balfour Beatty DBFO projects are three highway maintenance projects based at Leeds, Derby and Exeter 

We deliver routine cyclic and winter maintenance, keeping our roads safe and running and deliver over a hundred renewal and repair schemes per year,

We are a small close knit team of various roles and skills, who work closely with our client and contractors to deliver an excellent highway maintenance service.

Our Highways Business Unit maintains, manages and operates major highway networks across the UK and supports local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We also provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK.

We create safe, flexible and dynamic public spaces. We are right at the heart of a vital place-shaping agenda that brings together local authorities, local communities, central government and the private sector.

D&I

Our diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategy values everyone, drives action to improve diversity in our organisation and create an inclusive culture. It promotes high performance, engagement and makes Balfour Beatty a great place to work. 

We encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking, allowing every employee to be themselves and perform at their very best.