Receptionist (UAE National)
Turner & TownsendJobsCloseBy Editorial Insights
Turner & Townsend is looking for a UAE National Office Support / Receptionist for a full-time onsite role in Abu Dhabi. This front office position involves welcoming guests, answering calls, taking messages, formatting documents, assisting with reports, and maintaining logs and spreadsheets, while keeping reception and facilities tidy and compliant with safety procedures. You will also manage office supplies, coordinate maintenance with building management, oversee driver and mail logistics, arrange travel, organize lunches and events, and support health and safety trainings. The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, demonstrates excellent time management, can work under pressure and multitask, and has advanced skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. To apply, tailor your CV to showcase professional front desk experience, customer service excellence, and concrete examples of travel coordination, meeting support and admin tasks.
Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
Office Support
- Looking after the front office.
- Welcoming guests to the office.
- Answering the telephone and taking messages.
- Formatting of documents, assisting in preparation of reports, printing, binding, etc
- Maintaining excel spreadsheets / logs
- Maintaining safety, cleanliness and tidiness at the reception, meeting rooms and office facilities area by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Maintaining the office supplies inventory and purchasing.
- Liaising the maintenance work with the building management.
- Managing the driver and documents/ post or mails to be delivered to other offices.
- Arranging travel booking (i.e. Hotel/ Air / land transport).
- Organising lunches for guests, workshops, and celebrations.
- Organising trainings for Health and Safety.
- Serving refreshments to guests and senior management during meetings and events.
- Other adhoc admin tasks
Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree or equivalent.
- Excellent in time management.
- Must be confident working under pressure and multi-tasking.
- Advance knowledge in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Additional Information
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