Receptionist

We’re looking for a Receptionist to join our Highways team based in Gloucester. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Location: Gloucester
Contract: Permanent, Fulltime
Salary: Up to £24.5k + 26 days of annual leave + Benefits

Responsibilities

As a Receptionist, you will support the Site Management team, with the management of Visitors, Incoming telephone call, emails and other duties.

Your day to day will include:

• Manage meeting room bookings and associated catering requests, office consumables and assist with facilities management
• Issuing and management of Access passes and related data
• Attending meetings and producing minutes as required
• Providing support to the Site Management/Admin team as required
• Support the admin team with data entry, ability to manage data and accurately transfer into systems and databases

What do we need from you?

This role of Receptionist is great for you if you:

• Have admin experience in a similar or support post and experience working within a customer facing environment within an admin function
• Have excellent advanced IT skills in Microsoft packages
• Have a good organisational and communication skills, both verbal and written, and good attention to detail

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We’re made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 2 May 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.