Business Support Assistant

About the role

Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a  Business Support Assistant to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team based at Dartford. 

Within this role you'll provide administrative support to the facilities team, and to the wider business, oversee facilities management tasks and compliance records, liaise with suppliers and stakeholders, whilst also providing a courteous, effective, and efficient ‘front of house’ service to visitors if required.

What you'll be doing

As a Business Support Assistant you'll: 

On- site facilities liaison
Organise travel when required
Order lunches, stationery, and consumables
Maintain printers
Organise mail
Manage incoming and outgoing correspondence emails
Sign for deliveries and ensure these are immediately forwarded to the recipient
Carry out weekly office inspections
Look for way to constantly improve customer services within this area of the business
Support ad-hoc administrative duties, as required

Where reception duties are required:

(travel to other sites may be required, depending on location)

Receive all visitors in a friendly and courteous manner and comply with building security protocols.
Maintain meeting room diaries and ensure rooms are ready for use
Maintain the reception area, keeping it clean and tidy

Who we're looking for

Professional personal presentation
Strong customer focus and administrative skills
Organised and able to work on own initiative
Excellent team working skills, and able to build relationships at all levels
Facilities experience desirable.

Why work for us

CPS is a Joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other Highways project can offer.

About us

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at (url removed)/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion.

Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at