Facilities & Safety Coordinator Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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 doing Coordinating 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 for Someone with strong coordination, organisation, and administrative experience, ideally in a busy operational or office environment. 2–5 years’ experience in roles such as Facilities Coordinator, Workplace Coordinator, Office Manager, Operations Administrator, Site Coordinator, or Health & Safety Administrator (administration‑focused). Confidence in managing multiple priorities, working with contractors and internal teams, and maintaining accurate follow‑up on tasks and actions. 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 not Engineers or technical specialists seeking design or R&D work Senior Facilities Managers or Property Managers expecting strategic ownership, budgets, or capital project leadership Senior Health & Safety Managers focused on policy development or organisational strategy This 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 & Inclusion At 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr