Receptionist/office Co-ordinator

**Summary**

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Do you have proven experience of running a busy reception area? Are you highly organised and like office administration. If so, then this is the perfect role for you.

**The role**

You will be responsible to ensuring all deliveries, customers, suppliers, trainers and employees are greeted at our Yeovil site in a professional and helpful manner. In addition, you will take responsibility for all site related administration. This could include:

- Update the notice board in reception to show where meetings are taking place
- Liaise with our cleaning company and order required cleaning materials
- Attend monthly health and safety meeting to take minutes and complete any health admin tasks
- Complete regular stock control and order office stationery and office refreshments (tea, coffee, sugar, milk)
- Act as a point of contact for office and kitchen cleaning, waste collection, recycling and window cleaning
- Act as a point of contact and escalation point for basic building maintenance (e.g. broken electrical, breakages, crockery)
- Print off weekly training diary and registers for our external trainers
- Support with printing and packaging for some course training packs
- Ordering of lunches for training courses and ensure they are in the right rooms

In addition, you will be expected to open the training centre each morning (Mon - Fri) and check the room is looking tidy, ready for the next meeting or training session.

**What are we looking for?**

You will have a confident and friendly personality and ability to deal with both internal and external visitors to the Yeovil centre. You will also be highly organised, used to managing lots of different tasks at one time and able to react quickly to a wide range of jobs that will need your immediate input.

It’s also important that you are competent with all Microsoft Office products, have a great telephone manner and able to work on your own initiative.

**What will you get from us?**

Our people tell us Wessex Water is a great place to work, and they stay with us We are proud of how we support development and career progression. We have a wealth of both financial and non-financial benefits to offer our people and are committed to ensuring we provide an environment that supports health and wellbeing and flexible working.

We continue to promote diversity and inclusion. With that in mind, we welcome all applicants.

**Our benefits include**:

- Pension: up to 20% combined contribution
- 25 days’ holiday rising to 28 with length of service
- Opportunity to buy and sell up to five days’ holiday
- Health benefits package
- Life assurance (up to four times your salary)
- Electric vehicle salary exchange
- Flexible working
- Cashback and discounts from over 1,200 retailers
- Paid volunteering day
- Enhanced family leave
- Interactive health and wellbeing platform
- Support from mental health first aiders
- £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone to work for us

We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer. Applicants who declare they have a disability or have previously served with the Armed Forces, and meet the minimum requirements for the job, will automatically be invited for an interview.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to assist you in starting your journey with Wessex Water.

If you have what it takes to join this award-winning business and want to be part of our exciting journey and share in that success, then please get in contact with us to find out more.

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