Address: Unit 13A, Copperfield Gardens, 7 Seaview Road, Paraparaumu Beach, Kapiti, 5032, New Zealand
Telephone: 04 293 4833

RESTAURANT MANAGER

Our client, one of Kāpiti's leading dining establishments is seeking a creative, people-focused and proactive leader to manage their busy restaurant. You will be an integral part of delivering a top notch and personalised dining experience to the restaurant guests.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing premium hospitality to guests, based on the FOH Hospitality & Service Guidelines.

- Managing the reservation system/bookings.

- Overseeing the beverage list, creation, implementation and stock management.

- Leadership, training and guidance of hospitality staff.

- Cash handling.

The days of work are Wed-Sat, totalling approx 20 - 25 hours p/week.

Competitive remuneration and an excellent team environment are on offer for the right person.

For a full job description please contact Julia on 027 595 0146 or email julia@starpeople.nz

RECEPTION/JUNIOR ADMINISTRATOR

We're on the lookout for a junior administrator to join our clients current admin team. You will have a great personality, ideally with some experience working in reception or frontline work, be presentable with excellent communication skills, a quick learner, good attention to detail, a logical thinker, and computer savvy.

This role is Monday – Friday, approximate hours are 8am until 5pm with an hour for lunch.

You will assist our client’s administration team in ensuring the smooth operation of administrative and office systems, and accurate recording of job management and accounts.

To register your interest please call Julia on 027 595 0146 or email julia@starpeople.nz

TRUST ACCOUNT ADMINISTRATOR - PART TIME

We're looking for someone with accounts experience to take on a trust account administrator role in a lovely local law firm. The role involves balancing accounts and processing incoming/outgoing funds in relation to the trust account and conveyancing. Legal experience preferred but not essential as training can be provided.

The hours of work are Mon - Fri, 9am - 3pm. Or the role could be worked over 4 days, 9am - 5pm, but you must be available to work Fridays.

For a full job description please contact Julia on 027 595 0146 or email your CV to julia@starpeople.nz

SERVICE MANAGER - WELLINGTON

Do you have trades experience and are looking for a new challenge away from the tools? Or you may have experience managing a service department and are looking to join a dynamic and well established NZ business?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Service Manager located at our client's state-of-the-art, purpose-built headquarters based in Wellington.

The Service Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the after-sales department and resolving all warranty claims that come into the business. This includes managing internal service technicians as well as ensuring the scheduling and coordinating of external tradesman appointments are actioned in a timely manner.

Key responsibilities include:

Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
Developing and implementing policies and procedures to improve the efficiency and quality of the service department.
Responding to customer inquiries and complaints in a timely and professional manner, and taking appropriate action to resolve issues.
Providing technical support to customers and tradesman.
Managing budgets, including controlling costs of all service-related work.
Tracking and analyzing key performance indicators, such as customer satisfaction, quantity of pending service requests and quarterly service costs per supplier.
Preparing detailed service request reports for suppliers, and ensuring replacement products and service costs are claimed.
Overseeing the training and development of service technicians, ensuring they have the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their jobs effectively.
Staying up-to-date with systems and industry developments and incorporating them into the service department as appropriate.
Testing and reporting on products that have been returned under warranty.

To be successful as a Service Manager, you will need to be technically minded, have the ability to work hands on with products and have strong leadership, management and communication skills. You will also be highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work well under pressure.

If this sounds like you please contact Julia on 027 595 0146 or email julia@starpeople.nz

HOSPITALITY SHIFT MANAGER

We're seeking a responsible person with an interest in cooking and customer service for a Shift Manager role in Waikanae.

Responsibilities include:

Food preparation/cooking
Cash handling
Customer service
Closing up at the end of shifts

Hospitality experience an advantage but not essential. Full training will be provided and this opportunity could suit someone with the commitment and enthusiasm to step up.

The role is 25-27 hours per week, worked over 4 days. Tuesday 1pm - 8/8:30pm, Wed-Fri 2pm - 9/9:30pm. An occasional weekend shift every couple of months may be required.

If this sounds like you please call Julia on 027 595 0146 or email julia@starpeople.nz

SENIOR ENTERPRISE NETWORK AND SYSTEMS ENGINEER - HAWKE'S BAY

This full time (minimum 40 hours per week) permanent position is for a well-established IT company providing project and managed services from their Napier office.

This role provides strategic and technical expertise for systems design, architecture design and operational services, as well as sales and relationship management with clients.

As an Enterprise Network and Systems Engineer, you will provide operational support services for all clients, as well as supporting the delivery of these services by the rest of the team. This will require some travel in the Hawkes Bay area, and on occasion to Wellington to support contracted clients.

Some on call and rostered shifts may also be part of this role.

Key accountabilities:

Efficient management of Enterprise services, providing scalable solutions that are consistent and repeatable.
Excellent communications, relationship management and new sales to existing customers.
Supporting commercial management with accurate resource and cost estimates, and enthusiastically developing new customers.
Assisting customers develop their IT strategy and how to achieve it, servicing existing customers IT requirements, and deliver projects to customer and partner satisfaction.
Conduct preventative maintenance on customers systems (e.g. monitoring backups) and resolving any issues.
Provide operational support including 24x7 on call, as required.
Train and mentor staff and follow up completed jobs to ensure client satisfaction.

Skills you have:

Excellent communication, account management and customer relationship skills.
Leadership in delivering high quality customer support and documentation.
Commercial awareness and ability to deliver within defined scope and manage variations.
Good understanding of change management processes.
Incident management and reporting.
Proven knowledge of MS Active Directory Group Policies.
Excellent communication skills including clear and effective written communication skills, proven ability to manage a team.
Proactive with ability to self-manage.
Strong interpersonal, organisational and administration skills.
Ability to identify, priority and manage tasks at outages and other potential stressful situations.
Strong technical skills and experience with AWS and Azure Cloud infrastructure deployments and migrations.
Experience with managed wireless solutions: Ubiquity, Cambium, Ligo.
Ability to follow and apply excellent security practices.
Ability to effectively follow and document processes.
Experienced in developing IT strategy for a managed services environment.

Technical skills you have – you will have a minimum of ten years’ experience in the following:

AWS and Azure Cloud infrastructure deployments and migrations, GCP as and if required.
MCSE or equivalent level of certification with 10+ years’ experience working on Microsoft server environments (Active Directory, RDS farms and load balancers, DNS, DHCP, GPO, WSUS, PowerShell and NTFS permissions).
Advanced Knowledge of virtualisation and management of VM’s in VMware (Hyper-V a plus), Proxmox and KVM.
Extensive practical experience managing and configuring enterprise-wide LANs, WANs, WLANs, VPNs, SD-WAN, SASE, SSE etc. a must.
Advanced Knowledge of network security and ﬁrewall security (Firewall policies, L2 and L3 configurations, IPSec tunnels, Cert based VPN's, High-Availability (HA) deployments).
Experience administering and deploying Linux based services (DNS, SMTP, SYSLOG, DHCP, iSCSI targets and initiators, Nagios, LibreNMS, OpenVPN, cron schedules).
Experience in Backup and Disaster planning, deployments and testing strategies. (VeeAM And VMware platforms).

Other "bonus" skills:

Backup and BCP best practices Scripting.
RAID configurations.
Endpoint Security.
Mobile device management.
Database maintenance (SQL, Pervasive, MySQL).
Experience with Juniper firewall and switching hardware.
Experience migrating traditional MPLS networks to SD-WAN / SASE technology.

The ability to learn and the right attitude are paramount.

Training and mentoring will be provided to ensure that you are well supported and on a pathway to growing your own areas of expertise.

Send your CV to julia@starpeople.nz or give Julia a call on 027 595 0146 if you need further information.

HELPDESK L1/L2 SYSTEMS SUPPORT ENGINEER

Based in the Hawke's Bay office for this New Zealand based network and systems provider, your primary role will be to work on the Helpdesk, identifying and resolving issues for one of the Company's major clients. Additionally you will take on responsibilities as a Junior System & Network Support Engineer, providing first and second level support for contracted client's systems.

This will require some travel in the Hawke's Bay area, and on occasion to Wellington to support contracted clients. Some on call and rostered shifts may also be part of this role. This role is permanent, full time with a minimum 40 hours per week.

Key Accountabilities:

First level system support
Use of IT Services desk tools, processes and administration to ensure that accurate records are maintained in "real-time" and that customer SLAs are met
Escalation of issues that are unable to be resolved in the first instance
Provide IT Services desk reporting as required
Provide operations and on-call support
Provide IT and desktop services onsite at clients as agreed
Deliver projects to Customer and Partner satisfaction
Completion of documentation and administration as required

Skills You Have:

Ability and willingness to learn
Strong organisational and administration skills
Excellent communication skills, and ability to build relationships and to relate to people at all levels
Technical experience and problem solving skills across a variety of systems
Professional and responsive conduct
Operating Systems and Application Support and integration skills, including some exposure to Linux, virtualisation and MSoft O365 suite
Network and systems security expertise
Experience delivering high quality customer support
Commercial awareness
Ability to document processes - clear and effective written communication skills

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an elite team that is founded on the provision of excellent technical services to their clients. The ability to learn and the right attitude are paramount. Training and mentoring will be provided to ensure that you are well supported and on a pathway to growing your own areas of expertise.

So what are you waiting for? Send your CV to julia@starpeople.nz or give Julia a call on 027 595 0146 if you need further information. Please note, applicants MUST be resident in New Zealand, and have the right to work in New Zealand, to apply for this role.

HR COORDINATOR & EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT - WELLINGTON

Do you have a passion for people, administration and supporting a growing business? We have an exciting full time role managing our client's HR function as well as supporting the leadership team across all areas of the business.

This full time role, reporting to the Managing Director is an essential part of supporting the business's ongoing growth and success. You will have the opportunity to bring together your knowledge of Human Resource processes, recruitment, induction coordination, reporting and providing generalist HR support to the managers and 50 employees.
As well as this, the role also includes supporting the leadership team with administrative tasks, meetings and ultimately contributing to the efficiency of the business.

Key roles and responsibilities:

Payroll
Recruitment & Induction
Culture
Performance & issue management
Upskilling & Training
Health & Safety
HR Compliance
Maintenance of HR files, data, systems & policies/procedures documents
Executive Assistance
Coordination of team recognition and awards

Skills and experience:

At least 2 years' experience in a similar HR / People & Culture role ideally from within the private sector.
Experience as an Executive or Personal Assistant is also preferred
Understanding and knowledge of NZ employment law
Experience with recruitment, hiring & induction processes
Excellent communication and relationship management capabilities
Strong professional drive to succeed, excellent time management skills and high energy levels.
Well-developed analytical, negotiating, and problem-solving skills
An eye for detail to get it right the first time
A friendly, helpful and professional attitude

If you think this role would be right for you, get in touch today - email your CV to julia@starpeople.nz

HEAD CHEF

We're looking for an experienced and passionate Head Chef for a vibrant Kāpiti bar/restaurant. Previous experience in a Senior or Sous Chef role is desirable. This is a full time role with shifts rostered Mon - Sun.

Key qualities:

You are resilient and a good team player
You are passionate about food and can consistently deliver high quality meals
You have strong leadership and communication skills
You have creative flair for menu design

Requirements:

Knowledge of food safety practices and health and safety regulations
The right to work in New Zealand

Responsibilities include:

Menu planning/design
Food safety & quality control
Ordering and stock management

This is a unique opportunity to grow your career within a great team.
To register your interest in this role please contact Julia by emailing julia@starpeople.nz or call 027 595 0146

TRADES PEOPLE!

Jeepers! Where have all our tradies gone! We are looking for:

Full time Plumber/Gasfitter - excellent company and remuneration
Qualified Builder - $30 - $36 per hour
Registered Electrician salary bracket $60k - 80k - great for someone who's sick of house calls!
Plasterer $25 - 28 per hour
Landscape builders - senior and junior landscaping positions available locally
Steel Fixers
Civil construction people - excavators, concrete placers, truck drivers

Who do you know that wants a change in scene and a payrise - call Julia 04 293 4833 or email your cv to julia@starpeople.nz

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For more information on current vacancies or joining our temp services team:

RESTAURANT MANAGER

RECEPTION/JUNIOR ADMINISTRATOR

TEMP CLEANING - 2 DAYS WORK

ACCOUNTS ADMINISTRATOR - 6-8 hours p/week

CAFE STAFF

TRUST ACCOUNT ADMINISTRATOR - PART TIME

SERVICE MANAGER - WELLINGTON

CLEANER - SHORT TERM COVER

HOSPITALITY SHIFT MANAGER

SENIOR ENTERPRISE NETWORK AND SYSTEMS ENGINEER - HAWKE'S BAY

HELPDESK L1/L2 SYSTEMS SUPPORT ENGINEER

FRONT OF HOUSE - FULL AND PART TIME ROLES

BEAUTY THERAPIST

SEASONAL WORK

SOUS CHEF

QUALIFIED BUILDER

HR COORDINATOR & EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT - WELLINGTON

HEAD CHEF

CHEFS

CRANE OPERATORS

HEAVY TRADE MECHANIC

TEMPS, MINUTE TAKERS & DICTA TYPISTS

ACCOUNTS STAFF

HOSPITALITY ROLES

TRADES PEOPLE!