Administration Manager
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At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Site Administration Manager at our Hinkley Point C site.
This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.
The role
As a Site Administration Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance.
Day-to-day, you’ll be the focal point for all site administration queries and for any communications between the central facilities management team and alliance partners. You’ll work closely between the construction, MEH site wide and site operation teams to ensure site office arrangements and agreements are adhered to.
- Lead and manage the site administrator team, ensuring the office functions and supports the construction delivery teams with admin support.
- Coordinate meetings, deliveries, and visitors, including scheduling, room booking, and inductions.
- Maintain office organization, including notice boards, desk requirements, and whereabouts sheets for the site team.
- Assist with administrative tasks, such as purchase orders, registering new starters, and managing outgoing post.
- Ensure compliance with procedures, including car parking bay allocation and site team training matrix updates.
- Perform miscellaneous tasks as directed by the Site leads, including attending workshops and training to support the admin role.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, and can be working across either a 5 day week, or 9 day fortnight working patterns.
Essential experience of the Site Administration Manager
- Effective diary management, ensuring seamless scheduling and coordination
- Travel and room booking, providing efficient logistical support
- Office supplies management, including procurement and inventory control
- Team leadership and management, with a proven ability to motivate and guide teams
- Exceptional organizational skills, with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
Qualifications for the Site Administration Manager
- NVQ 2 or proven experience in an office environment.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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Job Segment: Environmental Engineering, Electrical, Manager, Engineering, Management
For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.
At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Site Administration Manager at our Hinkley Point C site.
This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.
The role
As a Site Administration Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance.
Day-to-day, you’ll be the focal point for all site administration queries and for any communications between the central facilities management team and alliance partners. You’ll work closely between the construction, MEH site wide and site operation teams to ensure site office arrangements and agreements are adhered to.
- Lead and manage the site administrator team, ensuring the office functions and supports the construction delivery teams with admin support.
- Coordinate meetings, deliveries, and visitors, including scheduling, room booking, and inductions.
- Maintain office organization, including notice boards, desk requirements, and whereabouts sheets for the site team.
- Assist with administrative tasks, such as purchase orders, registering new starters, and managing outgoing post.
- Ensure compliance with procedures, including car parking bay allocation and site team training matrix updates.
- Perform miscellaneous tasks as directed by the Site leads, including attending workshops and training to support the admin role.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, and can be working across either a 5 day week, or 9 day fortnight working patterns.
Essential experience of the Site Administration Manager
- Effective diary management, ensuring seamless scheduling and coordination
- Travel and room booking, providing efficient logistical support
- Office supplies management, including procurement and inventory control
- Team leadership and management, with a proven ability to motivate and guide teams
- Exceptional organizational skills, with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
Qualifications for the Site Administration Manager
- NVQ 2 or proven experience in an office environment.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
#CAVDESTNUC
#LI-JW1
Job Segment: Environmental Engineering, Electrical, Manager, Engineering, Management
For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.