About the role
Balfour Beatty is looking for a Facilities Assistant to join our Netherton Project, supporting our UKCS Scotland business.
This is a key site-based support role, helping to ensure our project teams have the right facilities, welfare provisions, stores support and day-to-day office assistance in place to operate safely and efficiently. You’ll play an important part in keeping the site environment well organised, compliant and running smoothly, working closely with operational, health and safety, facilities and site-based teams.
This role would suit someone who is organised, practical and adaptable, with the confidence to manage varied tasks in a busy project environment.
What you'll be doing
As a Facilities Assistant, you will:
- Support the management of site office facilities and welfare provisions, including equipment, cleaning, hygiene standards and general office accommodation
- Manage office supplies, services and facilities requirements in conjunction with relevant departments, including Operations and Health, Safety and Wellbeing teams
- Manage site stores and stock control processes, ensuring materials are received, stored, issued and recorded appropriately
- Maintain agreed stock levels while helping to minimise losses
- Coordinate potable and non-potable water supplies across relevant site compounds
- Monitor and coordinate septic tank servicing and emptying requirements across designated site areas
- Build effective working relationships with General Foremen and site teams to ensure facilities, utility and welfare issues are identified and resolved promptly and safely
- Implement and maintain administrative processes and systems in line with project and company requirements
- Support continuous improvement and lean working practices within the office and facilities function
- Provide reception and general office support cover as required
- Liaise with site cleaning personnel to ensure welfare, canteen and kitchen facilities are maintained to the required standard
- Act as a key point of contact for ordering and replenishing site consumables, including tea, coffee, hygiene products and other sundry items
- Coordinate waste management activities, including liaising with waste contractors and arranging the emptying of skips and dumpsters
- Carry out other reasonable administrative and facilities-related duties as directed by the line manager
- Maintain a strong focus on health, safety and wellbeing, supporting Balfour Beatty’s Zero Harm objectives
Who we're looking for
We’re looking for someone who is organised, proactive and able to manage multiple priorities within a busy site environment.
You’ll have strong communication skills and the ability to build positive working relationships with a range of colleagues and site teams. You’ll be comfortable working both as part of a team and on your own initiative, using a practical approach to problem solving and day-to-day decision making.
The following skills and experience are essential:
- Good organisational and communication skills
- Ability to build effective working relationships
- Strong teamwork and IT skills
- Practical problem-solving and decision-making ability
- Ability to work on your own initiative with minimal supervision
- Experience in office, facilities or site support activities
The following would be desirable:
- Experience of stores or stock control processes
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK20486
