Administrative Assistant

4 months ago


Waterloo, Canada DEI Consulting Engineers Full time

**Overview**

DEI Consulting Engineers is a professional mechanical and electrical consulting engineering firm providing services to architects and building owners in the building service industry since 1999. With a comprehensive list of completed projects ranging from residential, education, institutional, recreational, and commercial, DEI Consulting Engineers has the experience to provide full-service mechanical and electrical consulting for any development, building, or client.

DEI Consulting Engineer's goal is to hire an administrative assistant to join our administration team that supports our engineering and contract administration teams. This position is temporary full time contract position from 12 to 18 months to cover a leave of absence. Our team is looking to hire a capable, self-motivated, and professional individual that brings excellent oral and written communication skills, organizational skills, and the ability to learn new skills and industry specific requirements.

**Role Overview**

As an Administrative Assistant your role would involve working with our existing administrative team and our engineering staff to process and manage a variety of written and verbal correspondence specific to the construction industry. This correspondence would include editing specifications based on mark-ups from the engineering team, preparing and formatting change notices, addendums, supplemental instructions, and site reviews, preparing contractual documents such as CCDC contracts, certificate of payments, recommendation letters, processing shop drawings, maintenance manuals, etc. An overview of responsibilities is listed below:

- Assist Senior and Intermediate staff with preparing and formatting a variety of construction specific documents including change notices, addendums, supplemental instructions, site reviews, specifications, etc.
- Process shop drawings, maintenance manuals, and other incoming / outgoing documents.
- Prepare CCDC contracts, certificate of payments, recommendations letters, reports, and other prime consulting service requirements.
- Answer incoming calls, direct visitor within the office, accept and sanitization of packages, and other general reception duties.
- Book travel arrangements, register staff to attend educational events or other.
- Assist with organizing company events for the Hamilton office. Duties could include purchasing of supplies, event set-up / take-down, waste disposal, etc.
- General office duties including ordering water, garbage removal, coffee station cleanup, purchasing of snack items, and calling for copier services.
- Order office supplies online.
- Complete waybills and package items for shipping/couriering.
- Accounting of petty cash.

**Qualifications**
- Experience in an administrative office setting; experience in the construction industry is considered an asset.
- Ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadline and deliverable dates while working on a number of ongoing tasks.
- Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office software including Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and other standard computer software programs (i.e. PDF editors).
- High levels of attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and ability to retain company workflows and processes.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks and excellent judgement in decision-making.
- A high degree of professionalism in dealing with a variety of stakeholders.

**Appropriate accommodations will be provided upon request throughout the hiring process as required under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 18 months

Pay: $21.00-$24.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Additional pay:

- Overtime pay

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- On-site parking
- Paid time off

Flexible language requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person



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