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Salary: £30,000 per annum, plus Veolia benefits & Pension
Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week
Location: Washington, NE38 8QU
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It’s why we’re looking for someone who’s just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life. We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look
after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you;
- 25 days of annual leave
- Access to our company pension scheme
- Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
- Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
- One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community
- Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
What you'll be doing;
- Effectively manage the administration team in all people related tasks and activities
- Provide support to the Service Team for projects and initiatives
- Assist the Business Manager to ensure People management processes and procedures are adhered to in line with company policies
- Liaise with relevant individuals to ensure customer queries are resolved.Escalate when required to Management
- Ensure that all safety concerns and near misses are logged on our Health and Safety Management System and closed off within the company’s agreed timescales. Appropriate feedback must be provided to the originator
- Ensure personnel details including payroll are entered into the systems correctly and within time limits
- Raise Purchase Orders for the supply of goods as approved by site management
- Liaise with suppliers for the procurement of goods & ensure delivery timescales are met
- Process invoices raised by suppliers to ensure that payment terms are met
- Administer purchase orders, disposal invoices, subcontracted collections and associated invoices
- Run and send reports as required to customers, including any Regional Accounts and high value accounts (i.e. any account that is £7K or above and requires a report to go with the invoice)
- Work closely with Regional and Area Account Executives, CET and the Sales team to maintain and foster good customer relations
- Running reports as required for the weekly snap projection and these include the Gross Revenue and Disposal reports
- Supporting the administration team where required to assist with disposal invoice matching and passing for payment
- Control of paperwork on a daily basis including monthly rebate reporting to customers
- Ensuring the answering of telephones are within the regional expectations
- Monitoring and maximising productivity and efficiency of all assets
What we're looking for;
Essential:
- Previous experience in an administrative function to include reporting on performance and processing of invoices
- Maintenance of systems and record keeping strong communication skills both verbally and written
- Awareness of transport legislation
Desirable:
- Experience working within the waste industry
- Experience of QHSE regulations and standards
- Experience of ISO compliance
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Skills Required
- Previous experience in an administrative function including reporting on performance and processing of invoices
- Strong communication skills both verbally and written
- Maintenance of systems and record keeping
- Awareness of transport legislation
What We Do
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation. We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of our water and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste. Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes. Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024. We're resourcing the world through our purpose of ecological transformation, and we're doing this by working together to constantly progress. We are reinventing the way things work to reduce our environmental impact and increase efficiency, whether in the reuse of wastewater or the recovery of waste, such as plastics. At the same time, we anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands. We do this through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the management of resources using digital and artificial intelligence. We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals. These aren't just empty words
