Receptionist

5 months ago


Sevenoaks, United Kingdom QinetiQ Full time

**Job Title**: Receptionist

**Location**: Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks

**Package**: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

**Role Type**: Full-time / Permanent

**Role ID**: SF17033

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Receptionist at our Fort Halstead site where you will have the opportunity to work with many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a Receptionist, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary. You’ll act as a first point of contact and front-of-house for our newly modernised research & development facility. You’ll undertake a range of reception duties across the business, always presenting a positive image of QinetiQ and ensuring that processes and procedures are followed.

**Day-to-day, you will**:
Deliver exceptional reception services and assist both internal and external customers with a welcoming and professional attitude

Efficiently manage and support complex visitor bookings and groups, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and security protocols

Assist in organising meetings and events, including booking rooms, catering, and resources, while liaising effectively with hosts

Produce, store, and retrieve Microsoft Office documents accurately; handle mail and goods following standard security procedures

Contribute to an agile Operations team, provide cover during holidays or sickness, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement

This role is a full-time position based at our Fort Halstead site 5 days a week.

**Essential Experience of the Receptionist**:
Previous experience in a customer facing role

High-level business support and administration or previous receptionist experience

Previous experience delivering excellent customer service

**Qualifications for the Receptionist**:
Computer literacy with a good working knowledge of Microsoft word and Outlook

Proven literacy, written and communication skills

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve for Security Clearance as a minimum.

Our Benefits

Adaptive and flexible working

Generous holiday allowance

Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance

Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance

Employee discount portal

Holiday Trading

Support for the Armed Forces community

Payroll Giving and Volunteering

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

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