About us
SMS Plc are leaders in the smart energy revolution, fitting over a million properties with smart meters and counting. At the heart of the UK energy market for over two decades, we play a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK energy system. We are proud of being both an equal opportunity employer and an accredited real living wage employer! We look out for our customers and our focus is ‘putting our people first’.
Our people enable us to do all of this by living our 5 core values: Safety, Customer excellence, Sustainability, Innovation and Pride
The Role
As part of the energy projects team you will be working on a project to install heating and cooling controls throughout a national hotel chain. You will be responsible for creating, issuing, filing and updating relevant project documentation to assist with the smooth running of the project. This role will involve regular lision with hotels, contractors and suppliers via phone and email to assist with scheduling and to resolve problems. Previous experience of coordination activities is essential for this role .
This is a fulltime permanent position . Working hours will be Monday to Friday between 8.30am - 5pm , 37.5 hours per week .
Typical Duties
- Establish good working relationships with both internal & external customers
- Organising site documentation into relevant folders
- Performing an initial review of site surveys to assess whether they are likely to meet project payback criteria and to flag any requests made by the surveyor for further information
- Ensuring that the project program is up to date and free of errors
- Raising purchase orders and issuing authorised purchase orders to subcontractors and suppliers
- Handling requests for offline room bookings
- Compiling and sending out site information packs to hotels
- Phoning hotels to inform them of works and checking hotels perspective of how the work is going
- Liaising with contractor throughout installations to ensure works are progressing as scheduled
- Managing handover documentation and filing of handover packs in relevant folders
- Issuing post completion handover information (what to do if there is a lighting fault)
- Reacting to installation faults / equipment faults and scheduling remedial works
Skills
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office packages (especially EXCEL)
- Able to organise and prioritise to meet deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Excellent problem solving skills are desirable
Experience and Education
- GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English is essential
- Previous experience of coordination activities is essential
- Energy, Construction or Hospitality Industry Knowledge is desirable
In return :
- 25 personal days per year, with an additional allocation of 8 public holidays
- After 5 years of service you will be rewarded with an additional 5 days annual leave taking it to 30 personal days and 8 public holidays.
- Refer a friend bonus (£500)
- Corporate season ticket travel
- Automatic enrolment into the Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme (will commence following 3 months employment)
- Eligibility to join the Share Incentive Plan following 6 months employment
- We also have you covered with Life Insurance where your next of kin will receive 4 times your annual salary
If you would like the opportunity to work with us, please apply via our careers page or send us a copy of your CV to Recruitment@sms-plc.com .