Team Administrator | £28K | Temporary contract

Ashford
10 months ago
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JOB TITLE: Team Administrator

LOCATION: Ashford, Kent

SALARY: £28,000 (£13.58ph)

TERM: Ongoing temporary contract

HOURS: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm

START: ASAP

Office Angels are excited to be working with this local expanding business in recruiting for an Operations Team Administrator. You will be joining a sociable and friendly team, based in large open plan offices in Ashford close to the M20 with free parking on-site. This is a 6 month maternity cover, however there could be permanent positions on offer for the right candidate.

Do you enjoy working in a varied and fast paced working environment where no day is ever the same? Are you available to start a new role almost immediately? Is so this could be the role for you so read on…

The day-to-day duties in your new job would be:

Progressing and administering production works orders to ensure availability of customer orders to agreed dates in liaison with Sales staff or occasionally direct with customers.
Working closely and effectively with Production Planning, Purchasing and Transport departments sharing the same objectives in a busy Retail Operations office.
Maintaining up-to-date training and awareness to be able to provide occasional cover for sickness and holidays in other departments in the shared office.
Ensuring quality, cost and efficiency objectives are met, and taking an active role in continuous improvement to drive out waste from all processes and to reduce cost.
Liaise with Sales (occasionally directly with customers) on stock availability, lead times and customer order progress queries
Booking production output onto stock ledger.
Maintaining accuracy of stock ledger for timber items.
Print and issue daily Works Order reports to Production and Treatment areas.
Raising and booking EQs (exceptional customer orders).
Maintain and update production status of items on production programmes.
Assisting Transport Dept with planning and administration of deliveries, and invoicing of customer orders dispatched.
Assisting Purchasing with co-ordinating supply of raw material to Production, administering outsourced machining orders and dealing with any invoice queries arising. Including arranging liaising with Transport to arrange logistics as necessary.
Assist in administering the company's annual audited stock-take at the end of September.
Ensuring that Company and Statutory Health and Safety, COSHH and Environmental requirements are met
Ensuring that all IT / Business System operational and procedural guidelines are followed so as to ensure data integrity.
Any other ad hoc tasks reasonably requested by your direct line managers, from time-to-timeWe'd love to speak to candidates who have:

Excellent communication skills
A strong administration background ideally working closely with production or supply chain
Strong system and IT skillsAMAZINGBenefits of becoming an Office Angels Temp:

Weekly Pay
Up to 28 days annual leave
Dedicated consultant to support your job search
First opportunity to see permanent positions
Access to free eyecare vouchers
Temp of the Month awards
Timesheets can be completed on mobile devices
Perks at work
Discount schemes
Access to Well-being platforms

Next steps…

If you're interested in this position and have the skills and attributes listed above then please apply today.

  • Please note if you're suitable and your skills match the role you'll receive an e-mail from us. Remember to call us on (phone number removed) ASAP/within 24 hours to discuss the position in further detail with Pippy or Lindsay. We look forward to your application. This is a Temporary role starting immediately so please only apply if you can start work within a few days' notice.

    Office Angels acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Office Angels UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

    By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Office Angels. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explaining how we will use your information is available on our website

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