Contract support Officer

* This is a long term tempoary contract with manpower - The sucessfull candidate would need to undergo the relevant security checks

The central technical organisation of the 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.

The support includes but is not limited to:-

• Working with the engineering 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 engineers, 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.
• 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.