Project Support Officer

Job Description

Project Support OfficerLocation: Office and Field Based - Office location Southampton or Aberdeen.Salary: CompetitiveContract: Full time, PermanentHours: 36.25 hours per week, Monday to FridayA career with DEKRA is never dull and offers unlimited opportunities for people with the desire to succeed who want to work with a forward thinking, customer-focused company.For over thirty years we have provided specialist services for the identification, analysis, prevention and management of fires, explosions and accidental chemical releases in the chemical and process industry.We specialise in cultural change and creating cultures that have care at their core. We pride ourselves on enabling organisations to make the right decisions at leadership levels, and to working with the workforce to give higher levels of engagement.About the Project Support Officer role: This is an important role as part of a newly formed Project Support Team, put in place to help our consulting team to deliver excellent work to clients.The purpose of this role is to support Consultants and Associates with their delivery work, including owning and updating the materials portfolio.In addition to this, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting consultants and associates with all administrative aspects of project delivery, including:
• Providing materials, course notes, presentations
• Arranging logistics
• Formatting reports and presentations for client delivery, conferences etc.
• Non-technical quality checks on client reports
• Reviewing, formatting and finalising project logs/ reports
• Reviewing and updating materials (training, conferences, CVs, templates)
• Supporting clients through client liaison and maintaining relationships with translators / other materials suppliers
• Owning materials development, including:
• Revising, updating and documenting all solutions
• Organising translation of materials
• Liaising with Service Division on new solutions, determining impact on materials need
• Assist Project Management Officer with core team activities and other Project Support Officers with tasks when required
• Raising Purchase Orders and Debit Memo Requests

Required knowledge, experience and qualifications

• This role is ideally suited to someone who thrives in a primarily administrative role, providing the glue between different parts of many, fast moving projects
• Experience of managing internal stakeholders and developing relationships is important, with particular emphasis on being able to support busy client-facing consultants and associates
• Good communication, verbal, written and report writing skills
• Good attention to detail
• Strong experience of Microsoft Office applications, including MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, is essential
• Experience working with SAP is ideal, but can also be trained
• English essential, Dutch and/or French highly desirable

In keeping with our Behavioural Vision and to be successful in this role, you will:

• Be proactive, responsive and inquisitive - always looking for ways to improve things
• Work well within and across teams, not in isolation
• Demonstrate creativity and flexibility

Benefits of working for DEKRA:

• 25 days holiday entitlement
• Contributory company pension scheme
• Life assurance cover
• Free parking
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Annual bonus scheme
• Flexible working

If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role click on "APPLY" today, forwarding an up to date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance.No agencies please.

Keyskills :
Customer ServiceProject ManagementProject SupportAdministration