Operations Assistant

Salary: £26,000 – £30,000 per year

Superb opportunity for a postgraduate or graduate calibre candidate to join an SME business with a successful and sustained growth projection. Working in the renewable energy sector, this business operates in the management and operation of their product & subsidiary companies. 

Operations Assistant – About The Role

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join their small team, the role is replacing a team member who has been promoted with the organisation. The candidate will need to be a self-starter, highly-organised and able to use spreadsheets as well as have a knowledge of database management and set up. Operations and process management, including:

• Assist in process management, help create better processes and systems to manage operational fleet.
• Improve database to provide management tool of analysing performance over time.
• Monthly management reports on the operational performance of the fleet set against a suite of metrics.
• Meter data monitoring and recording.
• Spreadsheet assistance for budgeting and analysis of profitability and satisfaction of banking covenants.
• Ofgem monthly submissions and certificates.
• Analyse and minimise local council business rates as well as liaise with local councils.
• Coordinate and streamline Sim card process for communications.
• Preparation and analysis of insurance terms to comply with lease terms and other obligations of the company.
• Review and coordinate all supplier contracts.
• Provide support to company secretarial function.
• Review export and import costings
• Quarter and year end adhoc assistance
• with adhoc office duties, inc filing, archiving
• Liaise with councils on planning issues, follow up with consultants.

The successful Operations Assistant will have:

• A professional and commercial business acumen
• A genuine interest in renewable energy
• Further education – ideally a postgraduate
• Ambition
• Ideally some office based operational work history

Operations Assistant – Benefits

Holiday pay

Pension scheme

Parking

Career progression

Howett Thorpe are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role and comply with all relevant UK legislation and do not discriminate on any protected characteristics. Due to the high volume of applications we currently receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you do not hear from a Consultant within 5 working days, please assume that you have not been successful.

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