Receptionist

Our well established client is seeking a Receptionist/Facilities Services Assistant to join their busy Birmingham Office.

You will have a hands-on dual role, responsible for delivering all aspects of reception and facilities services duties to the highest standards. You will be welcoming visitors/clients, answering or referring enquiries to appropriate individuals within the firm.

You will provide excellent customer service to their clients as well as their personnel by performing the operations and duties which form the role. This includes, but is not limited to, the efficient and prompt answering of telephone calls, courteous interaction with visitors to our premises, arranging hospitality, meeting room management and event set ups, booking hotels, train and air travel tickets and completing general administrative duties as required, carrying out and array of reprographics works, contractor supervision, mail distribution and processing, updating and managing in-house spreadsheets/systems.

Day to day, you'll be successful in this role by:

Front of House:

• Courteously greet and interact with visitors to the premises
• Registering clients, visitors and contractors into the office, and issuing them with the correct access pass

• Recording information accurately on to systems
• Being able to demonstrate high level of customer service at all times
• Promptly and efficiently dealing with internal and external telephone calls
• Noting and relaying accurate messages as required
• Dealing with any other reception duties as required
• Ensuring reception area is clean, tidy and organised.
• Meeting room management; receiving bookings by phone, email and in person, booking meetingrooms, setting up meeting room, arranging catering and event set ups
• Managing the reception area/desk when required

Facilities Services Assistant:

• Awareness of health and safety requirements in the working area and raising any concerns with the Team Leader (TL) or Facilities Services Manager (FSM) and recoding information and taking appropriate action to mitigate the risk in accordance to the health and safety policy
• Raising any health and safety concerns with the TL or FSM and recording information/action taken

• Complying to the physical security policy
• Scanning, photocopying, printing, CD/USB copying, stationery stock review and ordering
• MFD/printer management (replacement of toner cartridges and attending to faults/paper jams)
• Post duties (inbound/outgoing - sorting, distribution and processing), including arranging couriers
• File management (liaising with relevant persons to archive files)
• Escorting contractors as and when and when required
• Recording office faults onto the systems and raising concerns to the TL or FSM
• Participate in any on site health and safety audits or assessments

Team Collaboration

• Supporting the wider facilities team to conduct tasks as and when required
• Flexibility to adjust to different working scenarios and working time parameters
• Liaising and communicating clearly with all levels of employees, both written and verbal

Hours are 37.5 a week working Monday to Friday, on a fortnightly rota between the hours of 8:00am - 6:00pm, 7.5 hours a day.

It is an integral part of this role that you comply with information security and all firm policies and procedures.

You should be proactive and flexible in working both individually and as part of a team, with the ability to use initiative and prioritise a number of different projects effectively with an enthusiastic approach.

As part of the Facilities Team you will need brilliant attention to detail and have health and safety at the forefront of your mind, working to health and safety guidelines under the supervision of the Facilities Services Team Leader

Communication will be one of your strong points and you will be enthusiastic about delivering an excellent service, as well as a keen eye for attention to detail.

We expect you to be able to use your initiative, and be a forward-planner, anticipating your colleagues' needs in advance wherever possible.

You will have good knowledge or Microsoft Word, Excel and Adobe Reader as well as basic IT skills in order to navigate yourself around our document management system.

To apply please send your CV to Kimberley Peterson as directed