UK OFFICE MANAGER

Planet A Ventures; Gloucester Point (VA); On-site; USD 24,000 - 35,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Education budget

Private medical insurance

Job summary

GA Drilling is seeking an Office Manager for our UK Product Center in Gloucester. This part-time, site-based role covers office administration, facilities, and health & safety support, reporting to the UK Product Center Manager.

You will be the main day-to-day contact for site needs, coordinating with colleagues in Slovakia and across the US and Brazil, helping engineers focus on new drilling technologies while keeping the site well-run.

Qualifications

• Experience in office management, administration, or facilities coordination.
• Ability to work independently on a small site.
• Budgeting and purchasing awareness.
• Good communication with cross-border teams (Slovakia, US, Brazil).
• Willingness to learn UK workplace health & safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Office & facilities management: keep office/workshop premises running, order equipment, supplies.
• Oversee contracted services, landlord relations and building management.
• Manage office keys/access and basic security arrangements.
• Act as local point of contact for health & safety on site.
• Admin tasks: post, deliveries, supplier invoices, simple record-keeping; liaise with Slovak HR.
• Support site events and cross-border coordination, including with Slovakia and Finance.

Skills

Office management

Administration

Facilities coordination

Communication skills

Independent worker

Job description

GA Drilling is developing next generation drilling technologies to unlock geothermal energy anywhere on Earth. Our mission is to make geothermal a globally scalable, baseload source of clean power by enabling access to hard, hot rock at depths and temperatures that conventional drilling cannot reach economically.

Our UK Product Center in Gloucester is home to a team of 11 engineers developing advanced downhole drilling tools, working closely with our New Product Development team in Houston. As the site grows, we need a reliable point of contact to keep the office and facility running smoothly on a day-to-day basis.

We are seeking an Office Manager to support our UK Product Center. This is a part-time, hands-on role reporting to the UK Product Center Manager, covering office administration, facility management, and health & safety support, on a site. You will be the main point of contact for day-to-day site needs.

The opportunity for you

As Office Manager, you will be the person who keeps our Gloucester site running day to day, from facilities and health & safety to office administration and coordination with our colleagues in Slovakia. It is a varied, hands‑on, role on a small but fast-growing site, where your organisation and initiative directly support the engineers developing next generation drilling technology.

Your work will give our UK Product Center the stable, well-run base it needs to grow, helping our engineers focus on developing and testing breakthrough technologies, including NexTitan and our reeled drilling systems, for offshore deepwater and geothermal applications.

You will own

Office & Facility Management

• Keep the office and workshop premises running smoothly — ordering equipment, supplies, and everyday essentials.
• Organize and oversee contracted services for the building.
• Act as the main point of contact for the landlord, building management, and local contractors (maintenance, repairs, deliveries), escalating decisions to the UK Product Center Manager as needed.
• Manage office keys/access and basic security arrangements, given there is no formal reception.

Health & Safety Support

• Act as the local point of contact for health & safety matters on site.
• Maintain first aid supplies, fire safety equipment checks, and required H&S signage and records.
• Support onboarding of new starters with site H&S inductions and PPE where relevant.

Administration & Cross-Border Coordination

• Handle day-to-day office administration: post, deliveries, supplier invoices, and simple record-keeping.
• Liaise with Slovak HR on UK employee administration.
• Support with organizing small team events or site logistics as needed
• Liaise with Slovak Finance/Accounting on invoices, expense processing, and purchases.
• Support the Finance Department in finalizing monthly documentation and, where needed, assist with communication with local suppliers

What we expect from you:

• Previous experience in an office management, administration, or facilities coordination role.
• Comfortable working independently and taking initiative on a small site with no dedicated support team, while following budget and purchasing decisions.
• Practical, hands‑on, and resourceful — to handle both administrative tasks and facility matters.
• Good communication skills; confident liaising with colleagues, suppliers, and our teams in Slovakia, US and Brazil
• Basic understanding of, or willingness to learn, UK workplace health & safety requirements.
• Reliable and well organized.

What we offer:

• Opportunity to be part of a team that develops unique and innovative technological solutions which have the potential to change how energy is produced in the world.
• Opportunity to grow to a full time role later.
• Competitive compensation & benefits (e.g. education budget, private medical insurance).