Office Manager

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.

Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

Location: Reno

Employment Type: Full Time

Shift: 1st

Generac Clean Energy seeks a well-rounded individual to support our growing team of employees with a variety of facility-related tasks. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, with high energy and a desire to join a fast-paced growth company.  This position is based in South Portland, ME, and reports to the Office Manager.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Support the growing Clean Energy team in a myriad of business activities including:

Facility:

• Greet visitors, provide top-notch first impression and route to appropriate team members
• Oversee kitchen and general building cleanliness and liaise with office cleaning services or 3rd party contractors as needed 
• Arrange event logistics for onsite and remote events including meetings and interviews
• Provide facility access to employees and visitors 

Administration:

• Manage onsite meals, events, and employee activities
• Support the team on diverse projects that keep the office thriving
• Receive incoming packages and mail; assist with outbound shipping as needed

Purchasing:

• Stock and track inventory for kitchen, office, bathrooms from coffee creamer to pens to toilet paper
• Serve as a purchase requisitioner to assist employees with formal purchase order requests

Occupational Health and Safety Committee:

• Support the Occupational Health and Safety Committee

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED and 2 years’ work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2- or 4-year degree
• 1 years’ experience in property management, office administration, human resources, or a similar setting
• Direct experience in an early-stage high growth company or manufacturing environment

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Legendary Customer Service - interacts with others with compassion and patience
• Strong communication - ability to craft thoughtful, well-organized, articulate, context-sensitive emails and documents
• Event planning and management - takes pride in making events and the facility itself run smoothly
• Diligent follow-through - lets nothing slip between the cracks and conscientiously tracks details

Personal characteristics:

• Proven self-starter - takes initiative and adapts to changes.  Recognizes and capitalizes on opportunities
• Autonomous - independently follows through on tasks with the judgement of when to check in
• Flexibility – Able to roll with the punches and adapts to the dynamic needs and priorities of a fast-growing company
• Positive, high-energy individual - makes all tasks an opportunity to create, improve, and smile.  Identifies obstacles and tackles them to meet goals
• Passionate - Advocate for sustainability, clean energy and innovative technology

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and use hands to manipulate objects or controls.  The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.  On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 100 pounds with assistance.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to differentiate colors. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be working in conditions typical of a manufacturing environment including seasonal variation in temperatures and occasional exposure to manufacturing fumes or by-products as well as a typical office environment including frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.  On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”