Better places, thriving communities.
ROLE: Administration Assistant
HOURS: Part‑time (24 hours per week, flexible days available)
LOCATION: Bury, Greater Manchester
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for an Administration Assistant to provide proactive administrative support across the business, ensuring smooth office coordination, efficient processes, and excellent client service.
Role Responsibilities
1. Act as the first point of contact for visitors, phone calls and shared inboxes, handling queries and escalating where required.
2. Maintain accurate and up‑to‑date records, trackers and reports, including data entry, document control and spreadsheet management.
3. Coordinate plant and equipment bookings, logistics, and track relevant requests.
4. Liaise with clients and suppliers to schedule works, confirm details and provide updates.
5. Support field staff with daily operational needs such as travel arrangements, documentation packs and kit allocations.
6. Assist with purchase orders, receipts and basic vendor administration.
7. Help ensure the office runs smoothly, including managing stock, stationery, meeting rooms and general administrative duties.
Required Qualifications
Applicants must meet the following requirements for the role:
8. Proven experience in reception, coordination or general administrative roles.
9. Strong organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage workload effectively.
10. High attention to detail and the ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
11. Clear and professional communication skills, with a collaborative and team‑focused approach when dealing with colleagues, clients and suppliers.
12. Good IT proficiency, particularly in spreadsheets and accurate data management.
Personal Attributes
13. Friendly, approachable and confident in dealing with a variety of stakeholders.
14. Adaptable and proactive, with a willingness to support wider team needs.
15. Ability to prioritise effectively in a fast‑paced environment.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Chloe Smailes at .