Contract Support Officer
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Gloucester
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 27 Sep 2021
- Closes
- 25 Oct 2021
- Sectors
- Education & Teaching, Support
- Contract Type
- Temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client, one of the UK's leading energy providers is looking to recruit a Contract Support Officer for their Central Technical Organisation based in Barnwood, Gloucester.
The central technical organisation within our clients Nuclear Generation business provides technical engineering and project services to all of the 8 Nuclear power stations. There is a requirement for individuals to help the business in its delivery of this complex portfolio of engineering work by providing administrative support to enable projects across the Generation business make use of external contract engineering resource as well as internal resources.
Principal Accountabilities
Key Responsibilities
The support includes but is not limited to:-
Working with the Investment Delivery and Nuclear Decommissioning functions within the business and with suppliers, administering the process from initial requests through to contract instruction placement and payment of invoices, liaising with both suppliers and internal contacts, and maintaining database entries.
Acting as a 'help desk', resolving queries and issues from all stakeholders in a timely manner.
Development of performance packs
Working with other team members to ensure processes are efficient and meet business needs, inputting to process improvement work, and updating supporting documentation.
Timely management of Emergent Engineering Requests.
Ad-hoc support, in line with Business need.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience
Experience
Previous experience of providing high quality proactive support to others in a business environment.
Numerical skills, able to interrogate, analyse and report data.
Good experience of Microsoft Office software in general, must include some experience in the use of excel for reporting and analysis.
Database input and interrogation.
Experience of cross-collaborative working.
Personal skills
Clear bias for action with healthy questioning attitude.
Ability to complete tasks to deadline.
Ability to work on own initiative, identify problems and solve them.
Good interpersonal skills, able to actively build and develop strong working relationships across a variety of diverse teams.
Enthusiasm for provision of high quality support to others, with a proactive approach.
Excellent team player with strong ability for collaborative working.
High level of professionalism.
Ability and enthusiasm to learn new processes and tools quickly, not afraid to be in the 'deep end' to start with.
Flexible, adaptable and speedily reactive to urgent situations.
Good attention to detail.
Excellent communication skills.
Key Benefits working with Manpower:
36 days holiday accrual (pro-rata) including bank holidays
Company pension scheme
Access to client facilities onsite
Access to Manpower's online training platform 'powerYOU', giving you access to hundreds of online training courses
Opportunity to be selected for additional upskilling and career support through Manpower's MyPath programme
Dedicated Manpower Account Specialist to provide support during your assignmentThis role is managed by our Manpower on-site team and not related to the Bristol office - PLEASE DO NOT CALL BRISTOL OFFICE REGARDING THIS ROLE - if you have not heard from Manpower within 15 business days of submitting your application then unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted at this time
The central technical organisation within our clients Nuclear Generation business provides technical engineering and project services to all of the 8 Nuclear power stations. There is a requirement for individuals to help the business in its delivery of this complex portfolio of engineering work by providing administrative support to enable projects across the Generation business make use of external contract engineering resource as well as internal resources.
Principal Accountabilities
Key Responsibilities
The support includes but is not limited to:-
Working with the Investment Delivery and Nuclear Decommissioning functions within the business and with suppliers, administering the process from initial requests through to contract instruction placement and payment of invoices, liaising with both suppliers and internal contacts, and maintaining database entries.
Acting as a 'help desk', resolving queries and issues from all stakeholders in a timely manner.
Development of performance packs
Working with other team members to ensure processes are efficient and meet business needs, inputting to process improvement work, and updating supporting documentation.
Timely management of Emergent Engineering Requests.
Ad-hoc support, in line with Business need.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience
Experience
Previous experience of providing high quality proactive support to others in a business environment.
Numerical skills, able to interrogate, analyse and report data.
Good experience of Microsoft Office software in general, must include some experience in the use of excel for reporting and analysis.
Database input and interrogation.
Experience of cross-collaborative working.
Personal skills
Clear bias for action with healthy questioning attitude.
Ability to complete tasks to deadline.
Ability to work on own initiative, identify problems and solve them.
Good interpersonal skills, able to actively build and develop strong working relationships across a variety of diverse teams.
Enthusiasm for provision of high quality support to others, with a proactive approach.
Excellent team player with strong ability for collaborative working.
High level of professionalism.
Ability and enthusiasm to learn new processes and tools quickly, not afraid to be in the 'deep end' to start with.
Flexible, adaptable and speedily reactive to urgent situations.
Good attention to detail.
Excellent communication skills.
Key Benefits working with Manpower:
36 days holiday accrual (pro-rata) including bank holidays
Company pension scheme
Access to client facilities onsite
Access to Manpower's online training platform 'powerYOU', giving you access to hundreds of online training courses
Opportunity to be selected for additional upskilling and career support through Manpower's MyPath programme
Dedicated Manpower Account Specialist to provide support during your assignmentThis role is managed by our Manpower on-site team and not related to the Bristol office - PLEASE DO NOT CALL BRISTOL OFFICE REGARDING THIS ROLE - if you have not heard from Manpower within 15 business days of submitting your application then unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted at this time