About the role
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. Our Power T&D team is dedicated to delivering efficient and sustainable energy solutions across the UK. We are committed to innovation, safety, and excellence in all our projects.
We are seeking a diligent and proactive Project Coordinator to join our Power T&D team. Reporting to the Head of Operations, the successful candidate will assist in managing the project lifecycle, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
Location - Middlesborough
What you'll be doing
* Undertake a full range of administrative duties to ensure an efficient service is delivered to allocated team
* Screen incoming mail, telephone calls and emails on behalf of team and manage all appropriate correspondence
* Be fully conversant in MS Office to produce a range of spreadsheets, documents and presentations, as required
* Undertake multi-diary management and plan schedules in diaries to optimise the working time of allocated team
* Arrange and attend team meetings/conferences as required, to take minutes, and ensure appropriate facilities are organised
* Perform ad hoc confidential project work, as required
* Prepare and track personal expenses and other ancillary expenditure
* Maintain accurate and secure paper-based/electronic filing systems, including archiving
* Maintain full confidentiality of sensitive business issues
* Book travel and accommodation arrangements for team
* Support the work of other Administrators during periods of absence or unexpected high volumes of work activity
* Live the Balfour Beatty Values
* Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
* Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities
Who we're looking for
The following qualities / experience are required:
* Secretarial and/or administrative experience
* Highly organised and able to work on own initiative
* Strong communicator
* Excellent team working skills, and able to build relationships at all levels
* Ability to work well under pressure and to tight timescales
* Very strong customer focus
* Excellent typing speed and IT Skills including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint/Power BI)
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?
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:
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 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 Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and ongoing maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com #J-18808-Ljbffr