Operational Assistant

6 months ago

Heathfield, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**About the role**
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a **Operational Assistant** to join our Living Places business unit to work in **East Sussex**.**

**Role Purpose**

Efficient coordination of Reactive, Emergency and Planned works, liaising with Supervisors and Managers to meet deadlines.

**What you'll be doing**

Constructing Excellence:

- Day-to-day contribution of delivery, ensuring efficient and effective processes within the team.
- Propose and implement changes to support a culture of continual improvement.
- Provide reports and complete statutory paperwork as required.
- Support the implementation of changes to facilitate continual improvement.
- Liaise with Supervisors and Managers to ensure processes are adhered to.
- Offer support to the wider team with various administration tasks
- Assist with Confirm scheduling and information uploading
- Working closely with subcontractors to meet target dates for completion of works
- Stock management and ordering

Health, Safety and Quality:

- Embedding the culture of Zero Harm.
- Ensure compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the SHEQ functions.
- Ensure quality and safety to achieve a right first-time culture.
- Identifying risk and escalating where appropriate.

Customer Focus
- Work pro-actively to build strong relationships with Operational team and other stakeholders.
- Liaising with other teams across the business and our client team

Detailed Knowledge / Experience
- Demonstrable experience of reviewing and implementing safe systems of work.
- Good communication skills, verbal and written with ability to deal with difficult situations.
- Ability to understand needs and provide solutions to problems.
- Ability to work on their own initiative and be able to schedule workload to meet priorities.
- Understanding of the Business Management Systems and processes.
- Understanding of the HSEQ requirements of construction and design.
- Demonstrable experience of asset management systems such as Confirm.

**Who we're looking for**
The following personal qualities and experience are required:

- Experience of working on a Highways Maintenance Contract.
- Good interpersonal skills, communication and can provide clear direction.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Adaptable to changing situations
- A team player.
- Commercial Awareness
- Demonstrable computing skills.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us**
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Wherever investment in these environments is needed, Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Balfour Beatty is a corporate signatory to WISE (Women in Science & Engineering). Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture. We are a member of the workingmums.co.uk Top Employers' Charter through which we demonstrate our commitment to enabling parents to progress and enhance their careers whilst managing the challenges of family life.

Job Reference: BBUK06762

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