Essex Highways oversees the management and maintenance of one of the largest and most extensive highway networks in the country—spanning 5,000 miles of roads and an equal length of footways. Operated as a partnership between Essex County Council and our contractual partner, we are committed to delivering safe, efficient, and high-quality highway services.
As a key member of the Members Highway Initiative team, this office-based role plays a vital part in ensuring accurate project reporting and supporting the Highways Inspections team with essential data administration tasks. If you have a keen eye for detail and a proactive approach to administration, we’d love to hear from you!
The role
- Provide administrative support to the Member Highways Initiative project through using Confirm to ensure weekly reporting is correct
- To carry out a regular weekly regime of system checking of the works delivered by the programme
- To provide assurance that business processes are being followed and surface any issues as well as correcting where needed
- Provide wider support to the team when needed
- Assist with client data or audit requests as appropriate
About you
- Prior administrative experience
- Good standard of literacy and numeracy with previous experience of using Excel and Outlook
- Good at problem solving, analytical, consistent decision making and accurate approach
- Ability to focus on data centric tasks, spot patterns and correct errors
- Quick learning, specifically as they will need to use our primary asset system - Confirm as well as follow and understanding unfamiliar business processes
Benefits
At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.
Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.
In return for your hard work you will receive
- Sick Pay
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme
The company
We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.
Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.
If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on careers @ ringwayjacobs.com. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
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