Operational Administrator in Bedford

Circa £26,000, salary depending on experience

Location: Clapham Water Treatment Works, Bedford

Permanent

37 Hours a week – 5 days in office

Individual private health care

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Double matched pension

Generous annual leave

This role is an office-based position at Clapham Water Treatment Works, Bedford, with potential options to work from home in the future.

Our services are at the heart of every single family and community in our region. Our Water Services team clean water to the highest standard, deliver it to millions of homes, and carefully manage it to ensure it never runs out. We borrow water from the environment, treat it and store it to world-class standards to supply safe drinking water to 4.3 million customers in towns and villages from Grimsby in the north east of our region to Milton Keynes at the south-western tip.

At the heart of our business, our Operational Administrators support and assist the efficient running of the operational teams. This interesting and varied role involves a high degree of organisation and prioritisation, while effectively managing confidential information.

You’ll be the fundamental support needed to assist with the efficient and effective running of the Bedford Supply Teams.

Managing your own workload, you’ll undertake crucial administration and procurement support to ensure the smooth running of the office and the water supply area.

Your main duties will include:

• Ordering of chemicals, PPE, equipment & materials for the supply team
• Managing invoices and delivery notes and credit card reconciliation
• Telephone call handling
• Meeting room management
• Occasional minute taking
• Updating employee training
• Organising electronic and paper filing systems

Using your strong organisational skills, you’ll support the management team with day to day tasks and requests from the supply team. You’ll also communicate with both internal and external stakeholders, contractors and customers, always providing a high standard of customer service.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private healthcare
• Life cover (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• 25 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

What does it take to be an Operational Administrator?

You will have experience as an administrator, ideally within a similar operational industry.

You must possess excellent organisational and communication skills with the ability to pro-actively liaise with a wide variety of people.

You’ll be IT literate and an advanced user of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.

As well as strong numeracy skills, you’ll have experience with data handling and spreadsheet preparation.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.