Front Office Assistant
Dawn Aerospace, Netherlands
Job Description
Dawn Aerospace is looking for a highly organised and motivated Front Office Assistant to join us in our office in Delfgauw, The Netherlands.
Your role is to create, maintain and improve a pleasant work environment, ensuring high levels of organizational effectiveness and communication. Office assistant duties and responsibilities include, among others, being the face of Dawn to any visitor, handling incoming mail and parcels, scheduling internal and external meetings and appointments, making office supplies arrangements, and providing general administrative support to your colleagues. Ultimately, the Office Assistant should ensure the smooth running of the office and help to improve company procedures and day-to-day operation.
Previous experience as a Front Office Assistant, Office Administrator or other relevant roles is required.
Daily presence at the Dawn Aerospace office in Delfgauw is required.
Dawn is a dynamic and fast-growing high-tech company. We value a pragmatic hands-on attitude towards solving any issues that you encounter during your day, within or just outside your job description! This allows you to quickly grow into roles of increased responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Receive incoming guests, mail, deliveries, and phone calls.
- Ensure a professional and positive impression to the outside.
- Address employees’ queries regarding office management issues (e.g. stationery, hardware and travel arrangements).
- Arrange daily lunch facilities for on-site staff.
- Maintain the office condition, organize office operations and procedures, and order stationery and equipment.
- Assist with general administrative tasks and special projects as needed.
- Liaise with facility management vendors, including cleaning, catering, and security services.
Requirements
Required qualifications
- Proven experience as an Office Assistant, Front Office Assistant or Administrative Assistant.
- Professional and friendly demeanour.
- Great collaboration and interpersonal skills.
- Problem-solving skills with a hands-on attitude.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Dutch.
- Driver’s license.
Desired qualifications
- Strong organizational and planning skills in a fast-paced environment..
- General interest in the aerospace and technology sector.
- Familiarity with company operations in the 100 - 250 people range.
About Dawn Aerospace
Dawn Aerospace was founded to redefine near-space transportation. Redefine how we deliver assets to space, position satellites on orbit, and return things down to Earth to enable the vibrant and circular space economy of the future. To do this, we build scalable, accessible, and sustainable spaceflight technologies technologies that are sustainable for not just the foreseeable future, but the unforeseeable future.
The company has achieved a series of significant milestones in the past 12 months, including launching over 50 propulsion units to space from Europe, the USA, and Russia, and completing the successful first flights of the suborbital spaceplane, the Dawn Mk-II Aurora. Dawn was named Hi-Tech Startup Company of the Year (2020) and won the Supreme Award for medium/large business at the Westpac Champion Business Awards 2021.
Current customers include the likes of D-Orbit, Lynk, HawkEye, and a large number of yet-to-name constellations. Dawn’s satellite propulsion business is forecast to more than double during 2023. Based on current units in space and in production, we're fast on track to become the number one supplier of green-chemical propulsion systems globally.
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Important!
If you think you have what it takes but are unsure that you check every box, we still want to hear from you. For any questions you might have before applying or if you would like to have a general conversation about Dawn Aerospace, you can contact our Recruiter, Anna Thouvenin at .