Project Administrator

The Vacancy

Social Housing & Retrofit Works

📍 Location: Tamworth Office
🕒 Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

We are looking for a highly organised Project Administrator to support our social housing projects, including planned and retrofit works. This is a full-time office-based role in Tamworth, ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working closely with site teams and clients.

🔧 Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and update project trackers and team inboxes
• Liaise with site teams to ensure smooth day-to-day operations
• Manage and update SharePoint activities
• Handle client calls and assist with project communications
• Provide general administrative support across multiple workstreams

🏘️ Project Scope:

• Social housing improvement programmes
• Retrofit and decarbonisation initiatives
• Planned works coordination

👤 Ideal Candidate:

• Strong administrative experience (sector background is flexible)
• Proficient in Excel and comfortable working with data
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple tasks efficiently

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.