Overview:
Rydon Maintenance has a fantastic opportunity for a Administrator to join our highly regarded Lifecycle and Cyclical Decorations team in Islington. Rydon Maintenance is an expanding division of the Rydon Group and is successfully providing facilities management services to a variety of clients, predominantly within the healthcare and housing association sectors.
The Rydon group operates throughout England, predominantly in London and the southern counties. Rydon has established a strong reputation for the quality within our new-build and maintenance sectors, creating and improving communities for the benefit of current and future generations. For over 40 years, we've recruited talented and innovative people to build and maintain homes, schools, hospitals, student accommodation and more. We combine a personal touch with outstanding technical expertise to deliver award-winning, quality facilities for local communities with a commitment from people who are passionate about what they do.
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Job Purpose:
Based from our office in Islington you will be providing administrative support as part of our Lifecycle and Cyclical Decorations team. This team is responsible for providing ongoing planned maintenance for more than 9,000 residential properties to ensure that homes are maintained to the required standard.
As part of this varied role, you will take responsibility for day to day administration to ensure the smooth running of our repairs contracts. This will involve aspects such as;
General correspondence such as telephone and emails.- Administration relating to the weekly scaffold inspections, ensuring that paperwork is kept up to date, requesting and storing photographs of the scaffolds to ensure
- compliance with necessary safety policies and procedures.
- Entering and updating data in our in-house database system, recording latest repairs information and correspondence against the relevant record.
- Review and comment on 'completion packs' - this is an internal document that contains the necessary works orders and completion statements. The postholder will ensure that basic elements are completed and cross checked against systems, before then presenting these packs to a member of our technical team for final review.
- Ensuring Health and Safety certificates are received in good time ahead of works commencing, and ensuring these are correctly recorded. This ensures that works are able to start on time, and also meet the necessary safety requirements.
- Liaising with staff in other departments and with external contacts, as and when required i.e. arranging property decants and accommodation.
- Providing administrative support to designated building surveyor.
This is a full time permanent position. Working hours are 40 per week, Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm. This is a pivotal role within our busy and successful team and provides an excellent opportunity for personal growth and development.
What we can offer you as Administrator
A competitive starting salary- 25 days holiday including the ability to increase your annual leave by an additional 5 days.
- Company Pension
- Life Assurance
- Flexible benefits for you to choose from.
- Full training, ongoing coaching and support
- Employee discount scheme saving you money on products/services
- Access to an Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme
- Flexible benefits for you to choose from including cash health plan, gymflex and more
- Opportunities to progress your career around the business
Experience Required:
The ideal candidate will have previous administration experience. This experience will ideally have been gained with a maintenance contractor, providing planned or responsive maintenance, or for a housing association or local council within a housing related environment.
You will have excellent communication skills, written and verbal and strong Microsoft Office skills including the use of Outlook, Word and Excel. Above all, the ideal candidate will have an outgoing personality and be ready for a great new challenge with Rydon.
If you have this experience then we would strongly encourage you to apply.
Additional Information:
As a well established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.
Rydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.
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