Administrative Assistant

Join the Carolina Cat Team

As a family-owned company under our third generation of leadership, we have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity, and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed.

Since 1926, we've supported our communities by supplying equipment for critical infrastructure and commerce and by donating our time and resources to area nonprofits. We make smart investments in our company and continuously improve as part of our vision to be a trailblazing company that's built to last.

We're looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we're committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential.

Collectively, our employees work together to make a difference for our customers, our communities, and our company. Learn more about what it means to become a team member with Carolina Cat.

Summary

The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated, professional, and capable of managing their workload and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced environment. Performs diverse and advanced administration duties, which require the highest level of confidentiality. Typically manages different and conflicting objects, projects or activities at once.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for calendar management, requiring interaction with both internal and external executives and assistants, as well as consultants, to coordinate a variety of meetings.
• Communicate and handle incoming and outgoing communications on behalf of the executive and managers as needed.
• Assist executive and management team with preparation of presentation materials.
• Review, compile, and summarize miscellaneous reports and documents; prepare documents and outgoing mail as necessary (writing and editing skills required).
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, and follow through on issues in a timely manner.
• Arrange travel schedule and reservations for management as needed, including coordination of company airplane.
• Expense report preparation, submission, and follow-up throughout approval stages for multiple managers.
• Create Purchase Orders and goods receipts to pay invoices, charging to appropriate cost centers and GL codes.
• Responsible for sending recurring email reminders and reports to team and managing several due dates.
• Record meeting minutes as needed.
• Coordinate with external vendors to secure offsite meeting spaces, activities, and/or catering on a regular basis.
• Order office supplies, business cards, branded apparel and signage as requested.
• Maintain product literature stock and work with marketing department to stock more as needed.
• Coordinate and/or assist with employee and customer meetings and events (examples - trade shows, open houses, cookouts).
• Serve on Company committees as requested (examples - Weisiger Kickoff, Employee Appreciation)
• Perform related duties as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• 4 year degree highly preferred
• 3+ years of administrative support experience
• Excellent calendar management skills
• Strong proofreading and business writing skills
• Experience scheduling travel arrangements
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a positive self-starter attitude
• High sense of urgency, high integrity, high reliability
• Proactive approach to problem solving and resolutions
• Positive attitude with a level-headed approach to resolving issues

Computer Skills

• Experience creating PowerPoint presentations with graphs, graphics and animation
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Experience coding expense reports using Concur or a similar expense management system preferred

Workplace Requirements

The physical demands and work environment 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 Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We're committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

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EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.