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PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS A 6 MONTH FIXED-TERM CONTRACT ON A PART-TIME BASIS

APPLICATIONS TO BE REVIEWED IN EARLY JAN 2026

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

This role is designed to help support the planning, development and delivery of clear, engaging, and timely internal communications across John Crane. Working closely with the Corporate Communications & PR Manager, this role will help ensure that employees worldwide are informed, connected, and aligned with our strategy, values, and business priorities.

The Key Activities & Accountabilities are as follows -

• Deliver high-quality written content for internal audiences, ensuring clarity, accuracy and alignment with leadership tone of voice.
• Manage day-to-day internal communications requests, ensuring prompt responses, prioritisation and timely delivery.
• Take ownership of drafting and circulating internal announcements, updates, leadership messages and campaign materials.
• Maintain and update the internal communications calendar, ensuring sequencing and dependencies are managed effectively.
• Support the coordination and delivery of major internal campaigns and initiatives, ensuring consistent messaging and clear supporting materials.
• Maintain accurate records, templates and asset libraries, helping to uphold high editorial standards across all content.
• Provide reliable administrative and project support, ensuring approvals, translations and content flow are fully managed.
• Build strong working relationships with departments across the business to gather information, source stories and ensure alignment.

Internal Communications Support

• Draft, edit and distribute internal announcements, newsletters, updates and campaign materials.
• Maintain a consistent narrative aligned to business priorities.
• Support content that strengthens understanding of major initiatives.

Content Planning & Calendar Management

• Help manage the global internal communications calendar.
• Support prioritisation of incoming requests.
• Track deadlines, translations and channel requirements.

Newsletter & Editorial Support

• Assist with the monthly 'Better Connected' newsletter.
• Source content, coordinate submissions, draft articles and proofread.

Employee Engagement & Platforms

• Support engagement with KnowHow, Sales Hub, Viva Engage and intranet.
• Coordinate posting schedules and content tagging.

Measurement & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor internal communications metrics.
• Support development of improvement recommendations.

Administrative & Project Support

• Organise meetings, approvals, translations and asset coordination.
• Maintain content files, templates and asset libraries.

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  Exceptionally strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, accessible content for global employee audiences.
• Proven experience in marketing, communications or internal communications.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage competing deadlines and multiple projects.
• Strong attention to detail, particularly in proofreading and accuracy checks.
• Confident using Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint and Teams).
• A collaborative working style, able to build relationships across functions, regions and levels.

Desirable -

• Experience within a global, engineering, technical or B2B environment.
• Familiarity with SharePoint, Viva Engage, intranet publishing systems or email distribution tools.
• Basic understanding of communications analytics.

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

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