Hire Desk/Contract Support Controller

Owing to our successful framework partnerships with a number of public and private sector organisations we are expanding our team here at Forkers!

We are currently looking for the right person to join our Hire Desk team to provide support to our own site teams who are working at various locations throughout the UK.

• Dealing with plant hire requests from site, including sourcing and organising hires (on/off hires, exchanges, breakdowns, etc)

• Working with our estimating department at tender stage to establish suppliers and hire rates

• Developing relationships with existing and new suppliers

• Liaising with our Transport Manager where internal transport may be needed

• Raising purchase orders, as well as processing on and off hires in a timely manner

• Responding to hire queries from Accounts Department

• Good organisational and time management skills, being able to react quickly to requests from site

• Excellent attention to detail

• Good commercial awareness and negotiation skills

• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and a confident telephone manner

• The ability to work under pressure – this role is within a very busy department so you must be efficient and have the ability to remain focused and work calmly to ensure site requests are fulfilled quickly and correctly

• Previous hire desk experience (or similar)

• An enthusiastic and positive ‘can do’ attitude and be self-motivated

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel

• Strong teamworking ability

• A good work ethic

• £32k 

• 35 days annual leave (including 8 bank holidays)

• Company pension

• Life assurance (2 x salary)

• Free on-site parking

• Friendly working environment

• Modern office

42.5 hours/week (Monday-Friday) 7.30am-5pm (1 hour lunch)

Please send your CV to hr@forkers.com