Receptionist

Dawn Meats; Cork; On-site; EUR 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Dawn Meats is recruiting a receptionist for its Charleville site in Co. Cork. The role involves greeting visitors, handling calls, arranging meetings, travel, and general administration to support multiple departments. Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential.

The position is full-time and permanent, based on-site at Charleville, with responsibilities spanning front-of-house and administrative tasks across the site.

Qualifications

• Advanced PC skills including Word.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Prioritising work using time management and organisational skills.
• Good administration skills with ability to work both as part of a team and unsupervised on day-to-day duties and tasks.
• Punctual / flexible

Responsibilities

• Meet and greet visitors to the office.
• Issue security badges and complete visit paperwork.
• Answer incoming calls on a busy switchboard and relay messages by email.
• Provide back-up telephone cover for other sites when required.
• Coordinate reservations of meeting rooms using the booking system and arrange catering/equipment.
• Order catering, cleaning supplies, stationery, etc.
• Sort and distribute incoming and outgoing post and couriers.
• Receive, sort and distribute emails.
• Assist with travel arrangements for group/site employees (flights, trains, car hire).
• Provide administration support to various departments.

Skills

Word

Communication

Time management

Administration

Punctuality

Job description

Job Title: Receptionist

Reports To: Operations Manager

Contract Type: Full time, Permanent

Location: Charleville, Co. Cork

Role Overview

Dawn Meats is one of Europe's leading beef and lamb processing companies with locations across Ireland, UK, France and continental Europe employing over 7,000 employees. We are recruiting a receptionist to work in our Dawn Charleville site in Co. Cork. The receptionist is the first Dawn Meats representative that our customers, clients & colleagues will engage with when entering our offices therefore they must be courteous and focused on providing a consistently high standard of customer service & interaction.

Responsibilities

• Meeting and greeting visitors to the office.
• Issuing security badges and ensuring that all necessary visit paperwork is completed.
• Answering all incoming calls in a welcoming professional manner on a busy switchboard, taking messages if necessary and e-mail relevant individuals without delay.
• Providing back up telephone cover for all other sites when required
• Coordinate all reservations of meeting rooms using computerised booking system including catering/equipment requirements.
• Ordering of catering supplies, cleaning supplies, stationery etc
• Sort, distribute and coordinate all incoming & outgoing post and couriers.
• Receive, sort & distribute all emails.
• Assist with travel arrangements for group & site employees - including flights, trains, car hire etc.
• Provide administration support to various departments.

Qualifications

• Advanced PC skills including Word.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Prioritising work using time management and organisational skills.
• Good administration skills with ability to work both as part of a team and unsupervised on day-to-day duties and tasks.
• Punctual / flexible

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