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Site Support Assistant - Day Shift (12 Month Secondment)

West Thurrock

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Job ID 1062241 Job Category Logistics and Supply Chain Hours per Week 37.5

Date posted 12/16/2025

Site Support Assistant - Day Shift (12 Month Secondment)
£12.89 - £15.93 hourly rate (£12.89/hr base rate plus £1.94/hr weekend shift allowance and £1.10 Thurrock allowance)
Day Shift, 7am-3pm
37.5 hours per week, full time
Temporary, 12 Month Secondment
5 days over 7 inducing weekends
West Thurrock CDC, Oliver Road, West Thurrock, RM20 3ED

We’re looking for a site support assistant to join the depot at West Thurrock.

In this role, you’ll support a number of team managers and the senior operations team with every day administrative duties. No day will be the same as you help your colleagues with meeting and room bookings, minute taking and the organisation of the post. We’ll also look for you to help on reception, meeting and greeting visitors and making sure that every external visitor that enters our depot has a warm welcome.

What you'll do:

• manage and organise meetings, including room booking and diarising invites

• take minutes and prepare information for meetings

• meet and greet visitors to the depot, provide swipe card access and talk through directions and health and safety information

• support site leadership team with admin activity

• order uniforms for staff

• raise and receipt purchase orders, using Coupa

• create weekly management reports (sickness/absence and repair/ maintenance) to submit to finance

This role would suit someone who have:

• previous experience handling diaries and organising meetings

• a confident and outgoing approach

• excellent communication skills and able to work with people at all levels

• great attention to detail

• the ability to prioritise your work load and able to use your own initiative

• experience using Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

At Co-op you’ll do work that matters, and you’ll be rewarded for your hard work with a competitive salary (including additional shift allowances) and a benefits package which includes holidays starting from 30 days per year (including bank holidays), 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores, a pension with up to 10% employer contributions, plus:

• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

• Free employee assistance programme with extensive health, financial and wellbeing support

• Access to credit unions for loans and savings, plus rental deposit loans and season ticket loans

• Free eye tests every 2 years

• On-site facilities including a subsidised canteen and free parking

At Co-op, we’re owned by our members. And because we’re owned by you, we can do right by you. So when you join us, you’re not just taking a job, you’re joining a movement. We’re an organisation that puts people and communities first, and we’re powered by purpose.

We’re building diverse and inclusive teams that reflect the communities we serve.

We welcome applications from everyone and are committed to creating a workplace where colleagues can feel like they belong, supported by our inclusive policies and the ways we work.

We’re proud to be part of the Disability Confident scheme and offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for a job. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, we’ll support you. Learn more about our recruitment process at Your Co-op Application Journey and our inclusion commitments at Diversity and inclusion at Co-op

As part of the application process for this job, you’ll need to complete an online assessment. It will take around 10 minutes to complete the test.

We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.

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