Engineering Administrator

About the role

We are seeking an Engineering Administrator to provide essential administrative support to the Engineering Manager within a busy engineering team in Reading. This permanent position offers the chance to shape processes and grow with the department.

Key responsibilities

• Handle day‑to‑day engineering administration, including work orders and contractor coordination via the Emaint system.
• Maintain training records, bookings, compliance tracking and onboarding of new staff (logins, uniforms, inductions).
• Manage PPE and uniform issuance, stock levels, purchase orders and basic invoicing.
• Prepare and file permits, compliance documents and RAMS paperwork.
• Support site administration, visitor reception and occasional light engineering cleaning tasks.

Required profile

• Organised, proactive and able to work independently.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage a varied workload.
• Good IT and computer literacy.
• Technical or engineering awareness is an advantage.

Required skills

• Emaint maintenance management system.

What we offer

• Permanent contract with £13.80 per hour (£28,704 annual) salary.
• 45‑hour week (40 paid hours plus 5‑hour break) with flexible start time between 7:00 am‑9:00 am.
• 28 days holiday including a 3‑day Christmas shutdown and bank holidays as required.
• Opportunity to develop new processes in a dynamic engineering environment.