Summer Trainee for Reception

Looking for a super cool summer job? Are you enthusiastic about science and technology? Would work with cutting-edge ultra-low temperature cooling systems and curious people be awesome? Do you want to be a part of progress and success? If you love interacting and communicating with people and feel passionate about customer service, then Bluefors could be the place for you this summer!

Our Reception team is now looking for a Trainee to support the great growth story of ours. Position in this team will support your studies and helps you to gain work experience and enhance the possible future career plans of yours. You would be a perfect fit to the team, if you are, for example, a student in the field of Business Administration. Previous work experience in customer service is seen as great advantage.

In this position you will be the first point of contact to our visitors and everyone coming to our headquarters. You will answer and forward incoming phone calls, make meeting arrangements, maintain office equipment and supplies, as well as take care of various other administrative tasks to support our whole organization – there are no two similar days, even though your work includes also routine tasks. You feel at home working in an international environment with colleagues and visitors from many different cultural backgrounds, while having a mindset for high quality and great customer service.

To succeed in this role, you are a positive team player with good communication and problem-solving skills and express a proactive can-do attitude. You want to be the warm and effective heart of Bluefors and definitely feel like home in rapidly changing situations. You are prompt and careful pro of organizing and want to offer exceptional customer service to both our visitors and Blueforsians. We offer you a versatile job in a nice team, where you will get the opportunity to develop yourself with challenging and varying tasks. Our work language is English on daily basis, but in this position, you need excellent command of Finnish as well – this position offers you a great opportunity to improve your strong communication skills even further.

What we expect from you
• Business Administration studies or equivalent
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Customer service attitude
• Positive, enthusiastic can-do attitude
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent command of both Finnish and English
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office programs
• Time management and prioritising skills

We also appreciate
• Attention to detail
• Hands-on experience with office equipment
• Good teamworking skills
• Brisk, hands-on attitude
• Additional technical or IT experience
• Other language skills

At Bluefors we’re all about continuous development, learning and collaboration in our international environment (we have people from almost 50 different nationalities!) and we always welcome new, uprising talents. You’ll be encouraged by your team, and you will learn from the best minds in your field. Our head office is in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki and your exact starting and ending dates can be discussed.

All the positions will be filled as soon as we find the perfect candidate, so be quick! Fill in the application by January 31, 2024 at BLUEFORS.COM in English, with your application letter and CV included. The recruitment process will include a video interview and a face-to-face interview at our premises. Come and be part of the progress!

For more information contact Facility Director Timo Palmu, email: timo.palmu@bluefors.com

Bluefors designs and manufactures measurement systems, that can provide clean and quiet environment for scientific research, even at ultra-low temperatures. We have a strong focus on the quantum computing and information community. Our systems have options including wiring and superconducting magnets and can be customized to meet the requirements of each customer. We are here to support scientists and industries go further. For this we brought together the best minds. We are curious to the core and have one mission: progress. Continuous development, learning, collaboration, and information sharing are fundamental to our way of working.

Bluefors is a well-known market leader with reliable, easy-to-use quality products. In our agile company structure customers are in direct contact with scientists and engineers who design their system. We deliver systems all around the world and the markets for our products are constantly growing. Currently we employ more than 600 professionals from over 50 different nationalities. We offer competitive benefits package, employee share program and a flexible working environment. Our head office is in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki. We are a non-smoking workplace.