Administrative Assistant (Projects & Fermentation Production)

Job Title: Administration Assistant

Location: Nantgarw, Cardiff

Salary: £21,500 per annum

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent – Mon-Fri Hybrid working (Optional)

Closing date: 09:00 hrs Friday, 22^nd April 2022

Biocatalysts, a company that delivers world-class customer service, is the UK’s leading provider of specialist enzyme products to many of the world’s top food companies. Due to our accelerating growth, we have an opportunity for an Administrative Assistant with strong generalist business administrative skills and ideally, project administration experience who will coordinate and drive project tasks and support the Project Managers & Fermentation Manager.

About the role:

Provide a wide range of administration and co-ordination support within the company,

particularly focussed on projects and fermentation production

Key result areas:

1. On budget and on time delivery of project milestones
2. Samples labelled correctly right first time and dispatched on-time

About you:

You will be a self-starter, proactive and driven to get things done well to support the team. You will be thorough, methodical, and have excellent planning and organizational skills and willing to coordinate take on administrative tasks to help and support the fulfilment of customers’ projects.

Essentially you will have a GCSE in English A-C or equivalent, strong IT skills and ideally, an NVQ in Business Administration.

Need to know:

• Good IT skills with ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook
• Strong administrative skills

Need to be able to do: (Key activities)

• Provide administration support to the Project Managers, Fermentation Manager and

cross functional teams

• Planning project meetings and recording/circulation actions
• Participating in fermentation production meetings and recording/circulating actions
• Coordination and booking of activities with relevant project team and production team

stakeholders

• Supporting project and product delivery with the coordination of product samples

including labels and despatch

• Coordination and filing of batch records and other project related documents
• Input of project management information onto relevant project information software

platforms (e.g. Sage, Wrike)

• Monitoring key actions and milestones related to projects to ensure on-time

completion

• Working with administration processes and procedures
• Provide a wide range of administrative support across departments within the

company

• Ability to multi task and prioritise and undertake other tasks as required
• Carry out the responsibilities stated in the Managing Director’s Health & Safety Policy

detailed in paragraphs 9 and 10 of his management Directive

• Be conversant with and adopt the procedures stated in the Environmental

Management System (EMS) Manual and its supporting documents

Expected behaviours:

• High Quality Work on Time
• Planning & Organising
• Communication
• Team working
• Results Driven
• Initiative

If you have a positive and can-do attitude with the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively in a friendly and approachable way, then we would love to hear from you, please hit APPLY

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Office Assistant, Office Administrator, Property Admin, Office Admin, Administrator, Admin, Office Associate, Office Manager, Office Support, General Admin, Negotiator, Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, PA may also be considered for this role.