Hire Desk Controller
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Pension, healthcare |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 June 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Birmingham, West Midlands, B37 7YG |
| Cwmni: | VolkerWessels UK |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | VW04690_1716580007 |
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VolkerWessels UK is a market leading contracting group of five closely linked businesses.
We provide integrated and ground-breaking solutions for the civil engineering and construction sectors, with specialisms in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.
We have a great opportunity for a Hire Controller to work in the central plant hire desk and facilitate orders for owned plant and hired plant for Volker Laser, Volker Fitzpatrick and Volker Highways. These businesses are your internal customers.
This is a wide ranging role and the goal is to ensure smooth operational delivery and performance for sites. Duties will include offering or facilitating specialist advice, resolution of queries, helping with `rush jobs' and emergencies, ensuring VW are compliant to health and safety regulation and VW policies, and recording information on the system to allow good management information and a reduction in invoice queries.
About you
- Previous experience operating as a hire controller is highly desirable
- Knowledge of construction and/ or plant is required
- Computer literate and comfortable to use Microsoft office software and Microsoft Dynamics 4PS system
- This role is a customer (internal) facing role so therefore good people skills and a positive, upbeat personality is essential
- The successful candidate will need to be able to work under pressure and prioritise and juggle workload when there are multiple tasks
- Good problem solving skills are required because due to the complexity of the tasks involved the individual will need to be able to question and find solutions
If your past experience doesn't match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.
Why work with us?
VolkerWessels UK operate through five separate, but complementary businesses, working in collaboration and using our specialist skills to deliver an integrated service for our clients. At any one time, our people are working on our sites or in our offices, for around 250 projects across the UK. Everyday we overcome challenges, fulfilling our commitments, no matter what. That's what our business is about, that's how our people find satisfaction in their jobs.
We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.
We offer a range of benefits, including:
- Competitive salary
- Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
- Private medical care
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
- Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
- Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mental health, physical health, and financial support
- 24/7 Virtual GP service
Fairness, inclusion and respect
We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.
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Additional information
Note for Recruitment Agencies:
Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.
We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed
VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.