Construction Administrator / Personal Assistant Full Time NEW

Hours: 40 hours per week, 8.00am-5.00pm with 1 hour lunch break

Salary: Dependant on experience

Closing Date: 8 May 2026

Role Overview

Reporting to the Construction Directors, the successful candidate will provide key administrative support and co-ordination for the Construction team across both pre-construction and delivery, including PA duties for the Construction Directors.

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Key Responsibilities

• Personal Assistant support for Construction Directors, including diary management and personal administrative support
• Construction administration, including but not limited to document branding, co-ordination of holidays and absence management, diary co-ordination across the projects teams as required, co-ordination of training records
• Support pre-construction function with preparing, issuing and return of tender enquiries and bid submissions, including document and information management
• Support project delivery teams with project administration (on site and off site), inclusive of updating the project master trackers, maintaining project directories, maintaining risk and opportunities registers, and co-ordinating internal and external requests for information
• Provide administrative support for completing and distributing meeting minutes
• Provide administrative support for business reporting requirements, including but not limited to carbon data & sustainability, MY Compliance HSEQ, social value, supply chain feedback and business KPI’s
• Support the coordination of information and creation of Construction project case studies.
• Providing administrative support for the wider construction operational teams as required to meet the needs of the business

Requirements

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential

• A full driving licence, valid in the UK and own transport
• Previous experience in a construction administrative role
• A positive and professional attitude
• Good levels of computer literacy in Microsoft Office products
• Good communication and organisational skills
• Be able to work both as a team member and alone in a busy working environment
• Have a flexible attitude towards hours worked and interest in supporting the wider team during holiday and sickness periods

Desirable

• Previous experience in a personal assistant role is favourable

Sewell Group is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary, Dependent on experience
• Annual Bonus opportunity
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership – Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

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