Facilities & Safety Coordinator

Role overview

We are seeking a highly organised, practical Facilities & Workplace Coordinator to help keep the Christchurch site running safely and efficiently. This is a hands-on coordination position in a busy environment, supporting a large engineering team by ensuring the workplace remains secure, tidy, compliant, and well maintained.

This is not an engineering role. It is best suited to someone who likes structure, coordination, and making sure a dynamic site runs smoothly every day.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate health and safety work, including incident logging, investigations, corrective actions, and compliance paperwork.
• Keep health and safety records up to date, including registers, training logs, and audit files.
• Assist with site inspections, audits, risk reviews, and related compliance tasks.
• Monitor health and safety actions through to closure and ensure follow-up items are completed on time.
• Organise building maintenance, repairs, and general facilities issues across the Christchurch location.
• Serve as the main contact for landlords, contractors, and external service providers.
• Arrange contractor access, inductions, permits, and supervision of on-site work.
• Help coordinate workplace changes, office relocations, fit-outs, and facilities projects.
• Manage external vendors such as cleaning, security, fire compliance, waste services, and maintenance teams.
• Support site security, access control, emergency readiness, and workplace compliance requirements.
• Make sure facilities services are delivered safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to operations.
• Look for practical ways to improve safety, workplace organisation, and overall site functionality.
• Provide day-to-day workplace operations support to maintain a safe and productive environment.

What we are looking for

• Strong coordination, organisation, and administration experience, preferably in a busy operational or office setting.
• Likely background in a similar role such as Facilities Coordinator, Workplace Coordinator, Office Manager, Operations Administrator, Site Coordinator, or Health & Safety Administrator with an administration focus.
• Ability to handle several priorities at once, work with contractors and internal teams, and keep actions moving to completion.
• A proactive, practical approach and comfort working in a setting where priorities can change.
• Excellent attention to detail, clear communication, and a dependable attitude focused on getting things done.

Who this role is not for

This position is not suited to:

• Engineers or technical specialists looking for design or research and development work
• Senior facilities or property managers expecting strategic control, budget ownership, or leadership of capital projects
• Senior health and safety managers focused on policy creation or organisational strategy

Why the role matters

This position helps ensure the site stays safe, well maintained, and operating as expected, allowing engineers and operations teams to focus on their work without interruptions from facilities or compliance issues.

About the company

Dawn Aerospace is a space transportation company with a mission to enable the next generation of space users through more sustainable and scalable ways to access and move around in space. The company believes a transportation network in space will fundamentally change what is possible.

The business currently focuses on three areas of space transportation:

• In-space propulsion: turnkey green propulsion systems for a range of satellites, using safe and accessible propellants. More than 170 propulsion units are already operating on over 40 satellites, with another 200 in production.
• In-space servicing: building on propulsion expertise to make customer satellites refuellable and, in the coming years, to offer refuelling services that support satellite life extension and a cleaner, safer space environment.
• Spaceplane: developing an aircraft designed to be the fastest and highest-flying to launch from a runway, combining rocket performance with reusable aircraft capability to enable frequent, lower-cost sub-orbital access to space.

The company’s international teams are spread across four locations: the Netherlands, France, New Zealand, and the USA.

Diversity and inclusion

Dawn Aerospace values diverse teams and is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences are respected and supported to do their best work.

Additional information

If you believe you can do the job but do not meet every requirement, you are still encouraged to apply. The company welcomes hearing from candidates who can bring the right mindset and capability, even if their background is not an exact match.

Recruitment agencies are asked not to forward unsolicited CVs or candidate details. The company will not be liable for any fees connected to unsolicited submissions.