Job Description
Project Assistant
Working Pattern: 37 hours per week
Location: West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2
Via currently has a fantastic part time opportunity in our Major Projects & Improvements Team as a Project Assistant based at our Trent Bridge House Office.
The successful candidates will support the project team in the delivery of major highway infrastructure improvement projects
The Job
Key areas of responsibility will include: -
- Responsible for collating and storing documents relating to projects.
- Providing financial support to project managers to enable progress to be monitored against budgets.
- To liaise with and distribute project related information with the team and external third parties, assisting in collating, managing and publishing monthly project and programme reports.
- Support project managers to coordinate internal and external parties, that form the project team, to achieve the project programme and outputs
- Support project managers with communication, as an ambassador and contact for stakeholders
- Collaborate with the Integrated Management System Coordinator, ensuring that all documents are up to date and meet quality requirements.
- Assist in the preparation of a range of documentations for planning, land assembly, contracts and business cases
- Ensure adherence to Health and Safety management systems, processes and requirements
The Person
Mainly you will be excited to be a vital part of our Major Projects & Improvements team, but there are just a few other things we’d like from you: -
- Strong ICT skills including Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience in document management or similar.
- Excellent verbal and written skills, with experience of providing information, communicating and working collaboratively
- Excellent attention to detail, reliable, well organized.
- An understanding of the process of monitoring budgets and financial reporting.
- Ability to take minutes and write reports.
About Via
Based in Nottinghamshire, with a multi-skilled local workforce and a range of highly trained staff at a few different locations throughout the county. Via East Midlands provides sustainable highways services for Nottinghamshire and across the wider East Midlands region.
Our roles include highway maintenance, electrical works, mechanics, construction, forestry, road safety, civil engineering and much more. We combine a public-sector service ethos with a strong commercial focus and we are passionate about innovation and creating and delivering sustainable solutions safely across Nottinghamshire and the wider East Midlands.
Via is a great place to work if you value work-life balance and we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies, including generous annual leave allowances, with flexible working available to our office-based staff. With most of our work being based in the East Midlands, our front-line staff also enjoy short journeys to site each working day.
By joining us you will be part of a growing organisation that positively embraces customer and community aspirations.
If this sounds like you, it would be great to hear from you.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £25,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Canteen
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Work Location: In person