Office Manager – Wave Energy (M/F/NB)
Working at CorPower Ocean you will be part of a world class team, determined to make big impact. We are on a mission to Power the Planet with clean electricity from ocean waves. We offer autonomy and flexibility, combined with personal responsibility. CorPower Ocean is a global leader in wave energy, with a technology that has shown game-changing performance. Your work will contribute to the global energy transition by unlocking one of the largest untapped sources of clean energy on earth. Since the start in 2012 CorPower has raised more than 115mEUR to take our wave energy technology to market, supporting a growing commercial project pipeline.
Role:
We are looking for a person to take care of the daily activities of Portuguese office and local facilitates. This function is based in our Portuguese entity, in Viana do Castelo, where you will be part of the local team.
Responsibilities:
Daily activities of maintaining a pleasant workplace.
Establish and maintain relationships with office related subcontractors and suppliers.
Implementing and maintaining office administrative procedures.
Responsible for ordering office supplies and consumables, IT equipment and PPE
General administration and documentation tasks of the company.
Managing social activities at and around the office.
Support with team activities, travel bookings, scheduling meetings, and more.
Qualifications and skills
You have approximately 2-5 years of relevant experience as an office administrator, receptionist, or customer service. Your personality, experience, and interest in running the non-technical operations of a tech start-up is most important. You have a strong ability to structure and organize workflows making the daily operations of a high pace workplace as efficient and user friendly as possible. You like to bring order and clarity to internal processes. Multi-tasking between several activities is not a problem and you enjoy a high paced environment. You have a strong work ethic and a personality that brings energy and good spirit around you and your team. You are proficient in Portuguese and English, both spoken and written.
As a person, you:
are striving for excellence, putting quality into everything you do
are self-motivated and constantly seek the most efficient ways to work
search for simple and sustainable solutions to difficult problems
love to learn new things, and take pride in constantly developing your skills
are persistent, knowing it takes stamina to reach pioneering goals
are comfortable in presenting your solutions internally and externally
are data driven and strive to always back your points with solid analysis
Benefits include:
5 extra days of vacation
Meal card for the maximum non-taxable amount
Health Insurance
Company mobile phone and laptop
Flexible working hours
- Cpo teams
- CPO Portugal Lda
- Location
- Viana do Castelo
Viana do Castelo
Why join us ?
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Our mission
To bring competitive wave energy technology to the world, unlocking one of the largest untapped sources of renewable energy by harnessing the natural power of the oceans.
To solve a challenge that no one else has cracked before, whilst tackling climate change and achieving a sustainable low-carbon future.
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Your impact
Team members are given a high degree of autonomy and flexibility, combined with great personal responsibility. You will have the chance to face technical and commercial challenges that are complex to solve, cutting-edge and highly inspiring.
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Your wellbeing
We try and encourage a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment here at CorPower Ocean. Throughout the journey we share the highs and lows together, which brings us all closer together !
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Your benefits
We offer an attractive package including: competitive base salary, stock options , health & wellbeing support, pension plan, health insurance, and six weeks of paid vacation.
Join the Wave Technology revolution!
We are a dynamic, supportive, fun and a truly international team of more than 15 nationalities including industry experts, innovators, experienced interdisciplinary engineers and business professionals.
CPO strive to combine the best of world class knowledge from around the world with a true entrepreneurial spirit devoted to developing the best wave energy technology out there .
About CorPower Ocean
CorPower Ocean is a global leader in Wave Energy technology. The ocean forms one of the largest yet least explored renewable energy sources on earth. We bring a new class of high efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs) enabling robust and cost-effective harvesting of electricity from ocean waves. The design principle is inspired by the pumping principles of the human heart and offers five times more energy per ton of device compared to previously known technologies, allowing a large amount of energy to be harvested using a small and low-cost device. A unique transparent protection mode brings survivability in the toughest storm conditions. We are headquartered in Sweden with offices in Portugal, Scotland and Norway.