Plant Administrator

**_Role Title: _**Plant Administrator

**_Location: _**Longstanton

**_Contracted Hours: _**40 hours per week

**_Salary: _**_£ _21-24K

**Overview of Role**

Provide Plant items on demand, providing best quality/value for money. Ensure a smooth, speedy ‘after-sales’ service for breakdowns and off-hires. Maintain the database to enable accurate and useful data to be used for reports. Ensure owned plant and detection equipment is calibrated, maintained and inspected as per manufacturers specification**.**

**Key Accountabilities**
- Place Plant orders accurately, on a timely basis, and in accordance with company policy
- Check that correct rental costs are being charged on the invoices
- Ensure order specification is correctly understood before raising orders
- Review Plant order requests to ensure consistency with previous similar orders, and in accordance with company policy
- Liaise with yard staff to ensure a free flow of information about expected on & off-hires of plant items and status of owned equipment in the yard.
- Assist Transport Manager in the production of relevant statistics
- Work with other Team members to cover the BAU aspects of the Transport department.

**Key Skills and Experience**

**The below are desirable but not essential**:

- Knowledge of plant items supplied by major providers - e.g., GAP, Sunbelt Rentals, Speedy Hire
- Knowledge of civils plant items commonly used in the installation of fibre optic networks
- Experience of using Purchase Order and equipment databases

**Core Behavioural Competencies**
- Team Player
- Ability to work effectively with mínimal supervision
- Flexible worker, in order to deal with peaks and troughs in work
- Well organised
- Problem solver
- Attention to detail
- Confident and assertive communicator when necessary
- Inquisitive
- Negotiation skills

**Professional Qualifications/Training**

GCSE passes in Maths and English

**Salary**: £21,000.00-£24,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Longstanton, Cambridgeshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Do you have strong administration skills?
- Have you used equipment or PO databases recently?