Administrator

**Administrator - Isle of Grain, Kent.**

**Would you like to join one of the UK's Best Big Companies as awarded by Best Companies?** If so, J Murphy and Sons Ltd are currently recruiting for an Administrator to join our award-winning Energy team. Our team is known for its extensive in-house expertise and continual drive to innovate within the industry. The Administrator will support the project through the provision of high quality general administrative support.

Following the ‘One Murphy’ approach, we’re able to deliver all aspects of the projects we work on. J. Murphy & Sons has designed, constructed, and commissioned projects for clients including National Grid, Cadent Gas, OPA, SGN, National Grid Ventures, on both transmission and distribution networks. Our projects include Compressor stations, Natural Gas and LNG Terminals, AGI’s, pipelines and diversions.

**What will you be doing**:

- Ensure that the Reception area is constantly maintained to a high standard of order, presentable always.
- Ensure a professional image is always maintained with relevant Company literature on display to promote the Group.
- Manage that the reception area is always covered and never left unmanned.
- Ensure all telephone calls, both internal and external, are answered and dealt with efficiently and promptly and messages are taken and relayed when appropriate.
- Ensure all visitors sign in and out to maintain accurate records at all times of visitors in the business. Welcome all visitors in a friendly and professional manner, ensuring the relevant person is informed, in a timely manner, of their visitor on arrival.
- Resolve internal and external customer enquiries, referring those that you are unable to resolve to the correct recipient.
- Order and maintain stationery and equipment supplies, as required.
- Ensure meeting room booking requests are actioned and the meeting room diary / calendar is kept up to date.
- Timely preparation of meeting rooms to ensure they are tidy and set up (excluding IT equipment), ready for meetings. Clear up (excluding IT equipment) meeting rooms after use in a timely manner, ready for the next meeting.
- Organise refreshment for meetings as and when required.
- Sign for all deliveries, other than those for the IT department, and either distribute as appropriate or inform the relevant individual or department of the delivery.
- Deal with all requests regarding hotel and accommodations queries in a timely and effective manner.

**Who we're looking for**:

- Successful experience of working in a Reception / General administration support role and/or in a customer services environment.
- Knowledge of operating office equipment and IT, e.g., telephone, computer with standard software, copier, printers etc., to access, input and verify information.
- Experience within the construction industry is desirable, but not essential.

**About Murphy**
- Charity is at the heart of Murphy values; you will receive 2 days leave per year to donate your time to a charity of your choosing. Many teams choose to support a charity together to positively impact our communities.
- Access to Murphy Wellbeing: you will have access to a host of online tools, mental health trained colleagues, and if needs be external professional support because we understand that work and life offers challenges that sometimes need a little extra support.
- Murphy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture, making Murphy a great place to work where we can all thrive. You can get involved in numerous events and even join our committee dedicated to continuously nurturing Murphy’s inclusive culture.

**What you’ll get in return**
- Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
- Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
- Above market rate contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
- Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
- Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
- Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

As part of our commitment to being an inclusive employer we are proud to have signed up to #BantheBoxUK and reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.