Executive Assistant

Job Title: Executive Assistant

Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF60027

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 an Executive Assistant, at our Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role

As an Executive Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will support the executive team so that they can remain organised alongside their daily responsibilities to ensure the business is able to operate smoothly.

Day-to-day, you’ll act as the personal representative of the executive and liaise effectively with senior staff and external contacts on behalf of the executive such that activities of the department and executive are completed on time.

• Receive and assess incoming mail, respond directly on routine matters, direct elsewhere or present to executive, including (where necessary) obtain and provide additional relevant information from other departments.
• Take incoming telephone calls and visitors, refers to executive where necessary and acts as focal point and filter for calls and visitors.
• Schedule appointments, co-ordinate complex travel and accommodation arrangements and produces itineraries that optimise use of executive’s time.
• Collate and circulate information where issues may be particularly sensitive or confidential.
  
  

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2-3 days in the office and is based in Warrington, Cheshire.

Essential Experience Of The Executive Assistant

• Previous experience working in an Executive Assistant role within a large, complex organisation, with capability to adapt where necessary.
• Good communication skills, both oral and written, particularly in a presentation setting.
• Operates effectively within a team, as well as autonomously.
• Demonstrates sensitivity towards confidential material.
• Good judgment: capable of forward-thinking towards what needs to be brought to the personal attention of exec members and what can be managed on their behalf.
  
  

Qualifications For The Executive Assistant

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
  
  

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
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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 [email protected] 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.

Closing date: 22/10/2024

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