Facilities & Safety Coordinator

Facilities & Safety Coordinator


Company
Dawn Aerospace
Location
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
6 days ago
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Job Description
We’re looking for a practical, highly organised Facilities & Workplace Coordinator to support the day-to-day running of our Christchurch site.This is a hands-on coordination role in a fast-paced environment, responsible for ensuring the workplace is safe, well-maintained, and operating smoothly for a large engineering team.This role is not an engineering position. It suits someone who enjoys structure, coordination, and keeping a busy site running reliably.What You’ll Be DoingCoordinating Health & Safety activities, including incident reporting, investigations, corrective actions, and compliance documentation.Maintaining Health & Safety records, registers, training records, and audit documentation.Supporting site inspections, audits, risk assessments, and compliance activities.Tracking Health & Safety actions to completion and ensuring follow-up activities are closed out on time.Coordinating building maintenance, repairs, and day-to-day facilities issues across the Christchurch site.Acting as the primary point of contact for landlords, contractors, and service providers.Managing contractor access, inductions, permits, and on-site works.Coordinating workplace changes, office moves, fit-outs, and facilities projects.Managing external service providers including cleaning, security, fire compliance, waste management, and maintenance contractors.Supporting site security, access control, emergency preparedness, and workplace compliance requirements.Ensuring facilities services are delivered safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to operations.Identifying opportunities to improve workplace safety, organisation, and site functionality.Providing general workplace operations support to ensure a safe, productive, and well-maintained environment for staff.What We’re Looking ForWe’re looking for someone with strong coordination, organisation, and administrative experience, ideally in a busy operational or office environment.You will likely have 2–5 years’ experience in roles such as Facilities Coordinator, Workplace Coordinator, Office Manager, Operations Administrator, Site Coordinator, or Health & Safety Administrator (administration-focused).You will be confident managing multiple priorities, working with contractors and internal teams, and maintaining accurate follow-up on tasks and actions. You’ll be proactive, practical, and comfortable working in an environment where priorities can change.Strong attention to detail, clear communication skills, and a reliable “get things done” approach are essential.What This Role Is NotThis role is not suited to:Engineers or technical specialists seeking design or R&D workSenior Facilities Managers or Property Managers expecting strategic ownership, budgets, or capital project leadershipSenior Health & Safety Managers focused on policy development or organisational strategyThis is a hands-on coordination role focused on execution, site support, and day-to-day workplace reliability.Why this role matters This role ensures the site is safe, well-maintained, and running as expected so that engineers and operational teams can focus on their work without interruption from facilities or compliance issues.Diversity & InclusionAt Dawn Aerospace, we believe that diverse teams build better solutions. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences are valued and supported to do their best work.About Dawn AerospaceDawn Aerospace is a space transportation company with a purpose.Our Mission Is To Enable The Next Generation Of Space Users By Providing More Sustainable And Scalable Ways To Access And Move Around In Space. We Believe This Access, In The Form Of a Transportation Network, Will Fundamentally Change What’s Possible From Space. We Currently Focus On Three Areas Of Space TransportationIn-space propulsion We're a leading supplier of turnkey green propulsion systems for various classes of satellites. Our systems utilise safe, accessible propellants and we have over 170 of these propulsion units on more than 40 operational satellites already. A further 200 units are in production.In-space servicing Coupled with our propulsion expertise, we are ensuring that our customers' satellites are refuellable. In the coming years, Dawn will offer a refueling service to enable life extension of customer satellites. This new market is aligned with our sustainability goal to ensue a clean and safe space for everyone! Spaceplane We are developing the fastest and highest-flying aircraft ever to take off from a runway, combining the extreme performance of rocket propulsion with the reusability of conventional airplanes to enable high-frequency, low-cost access to sub-orbital space.Our international teams are distributed across four locations: the Netherlands, France, New Zealand, and the USA.Apply for this JobImportant!If you think you have what it takes but are unsure that you check every box, we still want to hear from you.To all recruitment agencies: Dawn Aerospace does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our job’s alias, our employees, or any other company location. Dawn Aerospace will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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