Supply Chain Coordinator

Dawn Aerospace is building scalable space transportation. We're developing advanced spaceflight systems and creating a future where access to space is more frequent, sustainable, and affordable.

If you're looking for an opportunity where you can take ownership, learn quickly, and see the direct impact of your work on hardware destined for space, there is nothing else quite like this in Christchurch.

About the Role

As a Supply Chain Coordinator, you'll play a critical role in keeping materials flowing through the business. Working across Suppliers, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Finance, you'll ensure components are ordered, tracked, and delivered on time so our teams can execute at pace.

Key Responsibilities

Procurement Execution

• Raise and manage purchase orders for materials, components, and services.
• Follow up with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery.
• Maintain accurate purchasing records and documentation within ERP/MRP systems.
• Work with Finance to ensure purchasing, inventory, and financial records remain accurate and aligned.

Inventory & Materials Control

• Track incoming and outgoing materials and maintain inventory accuracy.
• Support stock control, serialisation, and preparation of materials for production builds.
• Assist with cycle counts and inventory reconciliation activities.

Supplier Coordination

• Communicate with suppliers regarding order status, delivery schedules, and issues.
• Identify and escalate supply risks, shortages, or delivery delays.
• Support onboarding of approved suppliers.

Engineering & Manufacturing Support

• Work closely with Engineering and Manufacturing teams to understand material requirements and priorities.
• Maintain accurate serial numbers, revisions, and specifications within business systems.
• Support the flow of hardware and materials through manufacturing.
• Help resolve material availability issues that may impact production schedules.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve procurement, inventory, and logistics processes.
• Support improvements to ERP/MRP data quality and workflow efficiency.
• Maintain accurate supply chain data and reporting.

Skills & Experience

• 3+ years' experience in supply chain, logistics, procurement, inventory control, warehousing, or manufacturing support.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent organisation skills and follow-through.
• Experience using ERP/MRP systems, or the ability to learn quickly.
• Strong Excel and data management skills.
• Ability to build effective relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Confidence identifying issues, escalating risks, and driving actions to completion.
• Understanding of procurement, inventory management, and logistics workflows.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Experience in engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, electronics, defence, or other technical industries would be advantageous but is not essential.

Why Join Dawn Aerospace?

• Be part of one of New Zealand's fastest-growing aerospace companies.
• Work on hardware destined for flight.
• Learn from experienced engineers, technicians, and operational leaders.
• Build a career in an industry unlike anything else available in Christchurch.

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.

About Dawn Aerospace

Dawn Aerospace is a space transportation company with a purpose.

Our mission is to enable the next generation of space users by providing more sustainable and scalable ways to access and move around in space. We believe this access, in the form of a transportation network, will fundamentally change what’s possible from space. We currently focus on three areas of space transportation:

• In-space propulsion

  We're a leading supplier of turnkey green propulsion systems for various classes of satellites. Our systems utilise safe, accessible propellants and we have over 170 of these propulsion units on more than 40 operational satellites already. A further 200 units are in production.

• In-space servicing

  Coupled with our propulsion expertise, we are ensuring that our customers' satellites are refuellable. In the coming years, Dawn will offer a refueling service to enable life extension of customer satellites. This new market is aligned with our sustainability goal to ensue a clean and safe space for everyone! 

• Spaceplane

  We are developing the fastest and highest-flying aircraft ever to take off from a runway, combining the extreme performance of rocket propulsion with the reusability of conventional airplanes to enable high-frequency, low-cost access to sub-orbital space.

Our international teams are distributed across four locations: the Netherlands, France, New Zealand, and the USA.

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