Administration Assistant

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity?
Join Persimmon Homes as an Administration Assistant
and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

We're one of the UK's largest and most established house builders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Administration Assistant, you'll benefit from:

• 5
  * house builder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Bonus
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

This is an exciting opportunity for an Administrator to join the Office Administration Team on a fixed term period of 9 months
. This role typically reports to the Office Manager. We are seeking a proactive and highly organised Administrative Assistant to join our centralised support team.

In this role, you will provide flexible administrative support to multiple departments, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations across a wide range of projects. The workload is varied and fast-paced, requiring someone who can adapt quickly, prioritise effectively, and maintain a high standard of accuracy.

• Answer and direct phone calls, emails, and other correspondence.
• Assist in secretarial duties for the company, including, word processing and the use of excel spreadsheets
• Manage the diary for the meeting rooms within the office and to assist in the provision of refreshments where required
• Support the Technical team in completion of drawing issues
• Create sustainability certificates for plots
• Support the Sales team in issuing Reservation Packs to client following reservation
• Support the Sales & Commercial by processing Finishing Touches (flooring & kitchens)
• Ensure personal protective equipment supplies are stocked and reorder as necessary
• Archiving documents from closed sites
• All employees have responsibility to ensure their practice adheres with both legislation and the fairness at work policy

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Previous experience within an office environment
• Computer literate with experience of a number of different packages including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
• Ability to be well organised, self-motivated with high attention to detail