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BMT • GBR - London

Reception & Business Support Assistant

Employment type:  Part time

3–4 days/week at home

Fully flexible hours

Job Description

Reception & Business Support Assistant

About the role

As a Receptionist & Business Support Assistant, you will be the primary point of contact for our visitors and colleagues ensuring the warmest of welcomes, with a professional and friendly approach for the best experience.

Working as part of the wider Business Support Team your primary role will be to provide reception services that are professional and welcoming. You will deliver excellent customer service to our visitors and employees and have responsibility for managing stationery, catering stock and postal services. You’ll also assist the wider team in maintaining and improving the offices to be safe, comfortable, and productive workspaces.

The role will also include other support functions including answering switchboard, management of meeting room bookings and acting as First Aider and Fire Warden (training will be provided)

This is a full time role based at the BMT Offices in Victoria, London

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to enjoy working in a front-line role, have excellent customer service and strong communication skills. You will also need to be able to work flexibly across multiple tasks by being highly organised and able to prioritise your tasks while coping with interruptions.

You’ll need a good grasp of standard Microsoft office packages and general computer literacy to be able to use the visitor management and helpdesk systems and accurately record information.

While mainly desk based you may need to be hands on to proactively solve issues when needed.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years.

About BMT

BMT is a maritime-orientated high-end design house and technical consulting firm driven by a passion for solving complex, real-world problems. To find out more about BMT please check out our website - bmt.org

BMT is open and committed to discussing flexible working. We believe that everyone performs at their best when they have the flexibility to make working for BMT work best for them.

BMT hires talented people and welcomes applications from everyone. At this time, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Minority ethnic, female, and non-binary candidates as we are underrepresented in these groups.

We know that diversity, equity, and inclusion is critical to achieving our purpose as a business which is to navigate the most important and impactful engineering challenges of our time (to find out more click here ). Our passion and goal are to build more diverse teams and to create an environment where employees are engaged, thriving, and feel a sense of belonging.

Benefits

At BMT, our employee benefits are designed to ensure you have the resources you need to thrive.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wide range of benefits in areas including health, family, finance, and personal development.

Don’t hesitate to ask more about our benefits during the hiring process.

Apply online

Does this sound like you? If so, please submit your application as soon as possible. We look forward to learning more about you.

A message to recruitment agencies: We receive applications exclusively via our ATS. Please note that we do not accept CVs submitted via email to the HR department or staff within our Operational teams. We will not progress CVs shared on a speculative basis by email and you accept our right to pursue such candidates with no obligation to third-party terms and conditions or liability to a fee

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Enhanced maternity leave – After 1 years service, enhanced maternity to max 18 weeks
26 days annual leave + bank holidays
Wellbeing budget - £250 per annum
Location
87%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
84%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
78%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
67%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
74%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
83%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at BMT

Company employees

1000

Gender diversity (male:female)

66% Male, 28% Female

Office locations

Teddington, Bath, Southampton, Fareham, Bristol, Plymouth, Weymouth, Leeds, Aberdeen, Glasgow

Hiring Countries

Australia
Canada
Netherlands
Singapore
United Kingdom
United States

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
Professional Services

Professional Services

Industry awards 2023