Administration Manager

This role does not provide visa sponsorship 

About the role:

We're looking for a confident and approachable Admin Manager who thrives on building strong relationships and engaging with people at all levels, from new joiners to senior leadership. In this role, you'll be the key point of contact for day-to-day administrative needs, drawing on your experience as a Personal Assistant to manage diaries, coordinate schedules, and ensure smooth communication across the business. You'll have the chance to take real ownership, using your initiative to improve processes and proactively support the team. A key part of the role will be creating onboarding packs for new starters, helping set them up for success from day one. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is highly organised, people-focused, and eager to make a real impact.

Key Deliverables & Accountabilities:

• Provide efficient support in diary management. (Project Leader and Commercial Leader's diary) 
• Provide efficient, and effective administration manager support and co-ordinate day to day activities with their teams and key stakeholders including ad-hoc administrative duties.
• Create and own the onboarding for new staff.
• Issue access passes for new people, training, inductions etc. 
• Communicate and liaise professionally with external key stakeholders as well as internal teams in all areas of our business, building strong collaborative relationships and a wide network of support.
• Assist the commercial team with time sheets.
• Distributing of internal project communications.

Key Skills & Personal Attributes:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise effectively
• Effective and professional communication skills at all levels, both verbal and written.
• Demonstrate calmness under pressure
• Taking initiative

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

#LI-TE1