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Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Project Support Officer
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Job Description
Our client, one of the UK's leading Energy providers is looking to recruit a Project Support Officer to work within their Central Technical Organisation team which provides technical engineering and project services to all of its 8 Nuclear power stations. Nature and Scope * Supports the business in developing a year-ahead work plan constrained to the internal resources and funding available. * Provides support to those managing packages of work by helping them with a variety of standard business processes / systems / tools and liaising with appropriate internal stakeholders. * Provides management information to delivery teams to ensure that the current portfolio of work is matched to the internal and external resources and budgets available, and reallocated as effectively as possible when priorities change. Principal Accountabilities The support includes but is not limited to:- * raising orders for the spending of monies on goods and services, * ensuring that accruals/goods receipts are in place, * managing external budgets during the year, making changes where needed, * securing changes to planned levels of internal resource, * updating and inputting data for internal resources and planned milestones * problem solving on behalf of those managing packages of work to ensure good control, wherever this is appropriate and * input at progress meetings where required to provide supporting information to those managing the packages of work. * Ad-hoc support, in line with Business need. Qualifications, Experience * Previous experience of providing high quality proactive support to others in a business environment. * Strong 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. * Experience of working in a large organisation, or an organisation with 'matrix management is useful but not essential. 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. Please note - if successful for the role you will be employed by Manpower working at our client site, you will be expected to undertake a drugs and alcohol test as well as be security checked to BPSS level. This role is managed by our Manpower onsite team and not related to the Bristol office - if you have not heard from Manpower within 10 business days of submitting your application then unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted at this time.