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Workplace Assistant
Pinsent Masons
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We are seeking a Workplace Assistant to be responsible for for assisting in the running of the Facilities department.

This role is a Fixed Term contract until 31 December 2026 and is working Monday to Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm.

**DAILY DUTIES AND **

1. Post and Fax

  • Daily receipt, sorting, distribution, collection and despatch of Royal Mail, DX and other deliveries

  • Local hand delivery and collection of mail

  • Ensuring mail and courier services used are appropriate to customer requirements

  • Distribution of incoming faxes

  • Care, operational maintenance and ‘first-line’ fault finding of postage system

  • Ascertaining originators of un-referenced mail by database search or issue of email notice

2. Reception/Meeting Rooms

  • Provide reception cover if required, in agreement with line manager

  • Review Condeco and liaise with the reception team to ensure correct set up of meeting rooms

  • Where required, prepare beverages and deliver lunches to rooms at booked times

  • Liaise with reception team to ensure rooms are cleared promptly and rearranged to standard set up

  • Ensure rooms are stocked with stationery

  • If required, assist with the set-up of IT/AV for meetings

3. Reprographics

  • High volume copying, printing, scanning, collating and laminating of documents

  • Binding documents for internal and external issue and for presentations

  • CD bible production (Glasgow)

  • Ensuring all documents are quality checked and returned within agreed customer timescales

  • Providing 'first line' fault finding capability on all MFDs

  • Calling out engineers to MFDs as and when required and recording outcomes

  • Replenishing paper stock and replacing toners at MFDs throughout the office

  • Arranging printing and copying with external providers within customer specified timescales

  • Ordering and distribution of stationery and maintenance of office stock levels

4. Health, Safety and Environment

  • Ensuring that the office is tidy and delivered items are cleared away promptly

  • Carrying out office inspections, completing forms and helping to resolve issues

  • Assisting with the co-ordination and control of contractors, including completion of authorisations etc.

  • Reporting and recording of accidents and near misses

  • Monitoring the correct use of waste and recycling facilities, highlighting issues to line manager

  • Participation in other safety and environmental related activities as directed by line manager

5. New Starts and Internal Moves

  • Carrying out health and safety and/or facilities inductions for new starts

  • Liaising with line manager, HR and IT to assist with the requirements for new starts and leavers

  • Assisting with all internal moves, including liaison with service providers and internal business units, arranging crates, printing labels, updating plans/staff lists and porterage

  • Be familiar with security pass set up and the procedures for issue of cards to new starts and have cards programmed for our needs

6. General Facilities Operations

  • Production and updating of internal signage

  • Responding to general requests from staff & partners (maintenance, porterage etc.)

  • Providing support with general office administration, including the processing of invoices, ordering of business cards and name/desk plates

  • Assisting with ordering of office equipment and furniture as required

  • Undertaking daily flushing and weekly clean of drinks dispensers

  • Ordering and distribution of catering consumables as required

  • Operation and maintenance of the Vivreau water bottling machine, ensuring supply of fresh water for all meetings and events

  • Participation in business continuity activities and upkeep of equipment and staff lists

  • Provision of management information as requested by line manager

  • Identifying opportunities for process improvement

  • To undertake other duties as reasonably required by line manager

Person Specification

Qualifications

  • Educated to GCSE or equivalent, including maths and English

Key Skills

  • Ability to work both as part of a team and unsupervised

  • Good communication skills

  • Ability to work under pressure

  • Ability to use PC based departmental systems effectively

Personal Qualities / Behaviours

  • Good attention to detail

  • Highly motivated with a ‘can-do’ approach towards all given tasks

  • Adaptable to work in other areas of Facilities operations

  • Understanding of privacy and confidentiality