Business Administrator

About the role

We are looking for a highly organised and proactive Business Administrator to join our team at the Ringmer Depot in East Sussex
. This pivotal support role plays a key part in ensuring the smooth running of training, competency management, and administrative processes for the East Sussex Highways contract.

The purpose of the role is to provide high-quality administrative support that enables our teams to maintain the highest standards of skills, safety, and compliance. You will be the go-to person for coordinating training activities, managing documentation, and supporting essential operational processes in a busy depot environment.

Within this role you'll be:

• Supporting the management of competency training for the East Sussex Highways contract
• Managing the training diary and ensuring delegates are fully prepared ahead of courses
• Organising training groups, issuing invitations, and tracking attendance for mandatory training
• Supporting the Observation triage process to ensure observations are appropriately tracked and closed out
• Booking CITB testing and supporting the overall CSCS certification process
• Providing general administration support, including taking minutes of meetings, typing, photocopying, and printing
• Co‑ordinating training groups and preparing rooms ahead of training courses
• Undertaking any other ad‑hoc admin tasks as required by your line manager

We are seeking a motivated, practical, and professional Administrator who thrives in a busy environment. The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organisational skills with excellent timekeeping
• The ability to multi‑task and work independently as well as part of a team
• High levels of computer literacy
• A proactive, honest, reliable, and professional approach

Previous experience in a similar administrative or training support role would be advantageous, but the right attitude and organisational ability are equally important.

If you are a motivated team player who enjoys keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes, we’d love to hear from you.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner's leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open…