Customer Services Apprentice Administrator
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Company: COVERIS FLEXIBLES (GAINSBOROUGH) UK LIMITED
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Location: Burnley, BB10 2EJ
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage
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Sector: Business and administration
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Ref: NAS-2000036575
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Application Deadline Date: 11/08/2026
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Start Date: 07/09/2026
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Positions Available: 2
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Working Week: Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5.00pm.
Brief Description
To provide effective administrative support within the Customer Services team. To work with a positive outlook, ready to support both the internal and external Customer Service / Sales teams and prioritise workload to ensure that the deadlines set are achieved. The successful candidate will be required to be flexible in the role.
Training to be Provided
The successful applicant will enrol on the Level 3 Business Administration apprenticeship at Burnley College and attend day release.
Future Prospects
Potential progression into full time employment on successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Vacancy Detail
Principal Accountabilities:
Sales Order Entry:
- Raise Sales Orders & Acknowledgements
- Complete 2nd stage Price Checks
- Raise Origination Sales Orders & Acknowledgements
- Add Origination Sales Order Numbers to Graphics Tracker
- Maintain Despatch Schedules / Issue MPS report to planning / CR
- Order bank maintenance – daily date change management / balance clearing
- General housekeeping – Scanning / Saving PO’s & Acknowledgements to relevant drives
Job Maintenance:
- Run daily active jobs list, look for past due jobs not started – highlight any date issues to CS
- Run daily active jobs list – progress chase jobs through the factory
- Run weekly ‘R’ spec reports, highlight R jobs within the 4 week window - feed in to CS team for action
- Run weekly unconfirmed ‘A’ spec jobs within the 4 week window – feed into CS for date management
- Update graphics tracker with A Spec job numbers and live DTC’s
- Support with Outsource Process administration – copy works orders, print labels, create job packs etc.
Specifications:
- K3 Development completion – specification writing, stocking UOM conversion etc whenever required
- Create SKU Converter / Upload to Syspro SKU post creation
- Supersession Completion – deactivate stock code
Reports
- Preparation, clean up and circulation of weekly Aged Stock report
- Monthly Stock code housekeeping – run report to identify codes with no movement in 18months – start supersession process
- GDNI – Run weekly / checking for despatches not invoiced
- GDNI – Month end check, ensure all despatches are captured at COP on final working day
- Job Shortfall Report – populate & maintain for submission to planning
Support Functions:
- Provide holiday cover for both Administration and Customer Services team
- Assisting with answering incoming calls “within 3 rings” and attending meetings to support where requested by your Line Manager
- Will occasionally be required to support in other, more specialist areas across the department once fully trained and able to do so e.g. internal trial management / stock sheet support
- Will occasionally be required to provide support in other areas of the business e.g. Provide cover for Reception / Studio department