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Come join our family! Microbac Laboratories is an essential business offering competitive pay and benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, generous paid time off including vacation, holidays and flex-time, a wellness program, referral bonus, tuition reimbursement and more!
Whether you are just starting your career in science or looking to further it, Microbac will put you on the path of an exciting career with room to grow. Quality, safety, giving back to our communities, diversity and inclusion, customer success and employee wellbeing are part of our core culture. We are looking for motivated individuals to join our family as an Administrative Assistant.
ABOUT MICROBAC
Microbac serves our clients with the utmost expertise and respect for their market requirements, constraints and challenges. We embody a company-wide commitment to exceptional customer experience, which has been refined over nearly 50 years of trusted, analytical and measurement experience.
Through our network of laboratories, offices, and field services, we have the flexibility to meet the unique requirements for each client, project and scope.
As a privately held third-party testing company, Microbac operates with a commitment to safety, quality and compliance. Our diverse work portfolio includes broad accreditation offerings and tested insights across the environmental, food and life science markets.
JOB SUMMARY
The Administrative Assistant I is responsible for providing general clerical and customer service support by implementing and following administrative systems, procedures, and policies, monitoring administrative projects and assisting in the production of reports.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Provide timely support to staff by effectively addressing clerical needs
Greet and interface with office visitors, both via phone and in person, ensuring they have positive experience through addressing their needs and concerns in a timely, positive manner
Provide information by answering questions or inquiries from both internal and external customers
Execute basic office clerical duties such as copying, filing, faxing, shipping and receiving, forms/document management, answering phones, directing client inquires to appropriate parties and distributing mail
Collaborate with sales function to develop schedule of trade shows and support the participation in shows through creation, ordering and shipping of materials, trade booth equipment etc...
Support the sales and marketing teams through ordering and shipping of marketing materials
Other administrative duties as needed
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
High school degree or equivalent
Minimum 1 year of experience
Experience working with applications within the Microsoft Office Suite
General knowledge of office systems
Ability to independently prioritize workload and complete assigned tasks within communicated timelines
Excellent customer service and communication skills
Must possess above average organization skills and be able to maintain neat and orderly systems and work space
Must display a positive and enthusiastic demeanor while interfacing with clients and throughout the execution of all duties
WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The physical demands and working conditions described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools; talk or hear. The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit.
The employee must regularly be able to lift up to 50 pounds and occasionally exert up to 50 pounds of force. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision and depth perception.
Working Conditions:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee will split time between general office environment and laboratory environment.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
This job will require a minimum 50% travel up to 75%
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status
This is a split shift position. Monday through Thursday this is 11AM to 8PM. Friday is 9AM to 6PM.
8 hours per day excluding breaks.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or protected veteran status.
