Apprentice Highways Business Support

3 weeks ago


South Ribble, United Kingdom Lancashire County Council Full time

Salary £20,258 Per annum | Fixed Term, Full Time, until 30/06/2025, 37 hours per week | Bamber Bridge, Preston. |

Lancashire Highways Service is responsible for the direct delivery of all highways related schemes across the County made up of 4300 miles of road, 151,000 streetlights and 2955 bridges.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Business Support Apprentice within the Highways Countywide Support team, the post will be based at Cuerden Offices, Bamber Bridge, Preston.

The training provider for the Business Support Apprentice is North Lancs Training Group, Accrington and you may occasionally need to travel to this location as part of your apprenticeship.

The Business Support Apprentice will help provide Highway operational and infrastructure highways support and administrative functions including:

- Input of data into IT systems for: HR, creditor invoices, job costings, time recording for payroll purposes.
- Processing of payroll information i.e., hours worked, leave, sickness, standby & winter maintenance units.
- Liaising with members of the public, customers and other LCC colleagues either face to face on reception or via telephone in a prompt and courteous manner to provide an efficient support service.
- Highway support duties such as maintaining spreadsheets, generating reports, mail merges using hybrid mail, service drawings, searches, receipting of delivery notes, processing creditor payments.
- Undertaking other duties as reasonably requested by the Highways Support Manager.

The Business Support Apprentice will require excellent time management, data processing and customer service skills. An ability to work as part of a large countywide highways support team and have commitment to complete your training/apprenticeship are key to this role.

The apprentice position is full time and will be working 37 hours per week, with time allowed for training. The post will be primarily based within Cuerden office with occasional home working.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, found on our website here

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