Administrator
- Employer
- Wates Group
- Location
- Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 7 Aug 2024
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- Sector
- Administration and Secretarial
- Role
- Administrator
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Here at Wates, we have an exciting opportunity for an Administrator to join our Living SpaceResponsive Maintenance team based in the Coalville area. This is an office-based role so ideally you will be commutable to Coalville. As an administrator you will engage within the full administration process and provide on-going customer support for the team and tenants.
Key Accountabilities will include:
- On-going management and development of multiple project trackers.
- Frequent contact with site management to ensure project trackers represent current job status.
- Create and maintain various data streams on in-house systems and databases.
- First line support for enquires and complaints.
- Overall administration duties as required by the contract.
We are looking for an Administrator who is a confident communicator, computer literate with experience in Excel and trackers.Experience working in construction/facilities management/or maintenance is preferred but not essential.
To be successful in this role you will be a team player who can manage their own workload, has a good attention to detail and most of all have a 'can do' attitude.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary, plus performance related reviews, opportunities for growth and advancement within the team
- Extensive corporate benefits including, Pension, Health and Wellness programme, 22 days holidays + bank holidays and much more...
- Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
- Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.
A bit about us:
WatesGroup is one of the largest and most successful family-owned private construction, development and property services companies in the UK.
Within the Group, Wates Living Space is one of the UK's leading providers of planned and responsive maintenance services in the social housing sector, maintaining over 500,000 homes nationwide every year. Our leading position within the maintenance sector has enabled the business to realise ambitious strategic growth, offering our clients a truly integrated national service for all of their maintenance requirements.
As a progressive and rewarding business we offer our people the opportunity to grow their careers whilst working together to deliver the promises we make to our customers.
Our company values of integrity, intelligence, performance, teamwork and respect for people, communities and the environment run through our business at every level and are at the heart of everything we do.
The wellbeing and safety of our people is our priority, therefore creating a zero harm culture and encouraging a healthy work-life balance is important to us. Wates Group are a responsible and inclusive employer and are proud to have been recognized for this through accolades including C2E (Committed to Equality) and Investors in People (Gold).
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:
Thriving places - working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
Company
We employ almost 4,000 people, working with a range of clients and partners from across the public and private sectors.
At Wates, we are driven by our purpose of working together to inspire better ways of creating the places, communities, and businesses of tomorrow. We need the right people from whatever background to help us make this happen and we are always looking for talented people from all walks of life to reflect the diverse communities where we work.
There’s a huge variety of job opportunities across our businesses, working on challenging and exciting projects for customers across both the public and the private sector. No two days are ever the same.
By joining Wates, you’ll be working for an organisation which invests in your continued professional development, regardless of which stage you might be at in your career. To discover what it is like to work for Wates, click below.
Working for Wates
There’s a huge variety of job opportunities across our businesses, working on challenging and exciting projects for customers across both the public and the private sector. No two days are ever the same.
By joining Wates, you’ll be working for an organisation which invests in your continued professional development, regardless of which stage you might be at in your career.
Our Guiding Framework
Our Guiding Framework shapes everything we do. It incorporates our driving purpose, it outlines the behaviours we work by, and the goals we are all working together to achieve. These are our values and vision.
As a family-owned business, we know it’s our people who make us successful. And just as in a family, everyone should feel welcome, included, and connected at Wates. We strive to be an organisation where everyone loves to work and to provide a safe space where everyone can be themselves.
Wates Together
Our Diversity and Inclusion plan is our long-term blueprint to create a business where everyone is welcomed, included and connected. We call this #WatesTogether.
Inclusion and Diversity
We are committed to building an organisation which is more representative of the communities we serve, offering equality of opportunities to diverse talent and an inclusive work environment where this talent thrives. We have set ourselves bold targets that will take time to achieve, but we are moving in the right direction and we are committed to achieving sustainable change. Find out more about our inclusion and diversity strategy
Social Value
Our approach to social value is rooted in our belief that how we do business, is as important as what we do. Our programmes and activities are focused on creating work and training opportunities, particularly for people furthest away from the workforce, such as care leavers, ex-offenders and ex Services personnel; building sustainable communities through employment, skills and awareness, and advocacy of trade with the social enterprise sector.
Environmental Sustainability
The Wates Group is committed to the long-term sustainability of the built environment and we’re working to eliminate carbon from our operations by 2025.
As a Group, we have three ambitious environmental targets to achieve by 2025: Zero Waste, and Zero Carbon, from our operations and Positive Nature Enhancement. We’re also working hard with our customers to help them find ways of reaching their own environmental targets.
Our Six Flexible Working Principles
We’re committed to having a workforce that more accurately reflects society and providing an environment that positively encourages flexible working through working arrangements and benefits. Following the introduction of sector-leading Family Leave Policies in 2020, we have become one of the first construction companies to support flexible working across every part of our business, including for site-based employees. By 2025, we intend all our roles to be flexible, and we already advertise all new vacancies as flexible. Our six flexible working principles are designed to allow our colleagues and teams to develop working patterns that take into account individual preferences, allowing everyone to perform at their best.
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