What are the responsibilities and job description for the Administrative Assistant - Austin, TX position at LS Power Development, LLC?
Overview
About LS Power:
Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired 47,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Additionally, LS Power Grid operates six transmission utilities, serving more than 185 million people, and has built 780 miles of high-voltage transmission, with 350 miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised more than $60 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.
Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:
Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world
Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem
Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership
Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.
Benefits
We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.
About the Role
This role is assigned to the regulated electric transmission business of LS Power. This position supports the Austin business office and control centers and performs administrative duties for the various departments. Basic responsibilities include answering phones, handling expense reconciliations, accepting deliveries, visitor logging, ordering supplies and managing logistics for meetings. Advanced responsibilities will entail document management administration, budget preparation and reporting, and publication of newsletters and operational reports. This position reports to the Office Manager.
Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Maintain and update files, reports, forms, logs and procedure documents as necessary
- Support document management processes utilizing an Electronic Content Management (ECM) software platform
- Type and proofread memos, letters, reports
- Assist in processing employee training, travel arrangements, expense reimbursements, and vacation schedules
- Assist office staff with time sheets and expense reports and catalog a list of approved work orders for employee time tracking
- Receive, sort, and distribute incoming and outgoing mail
- Oversee break room supplies and manage office supply inventories
- Manage business meeting logistics and meal arrangements
- Arrange conference calls as needed, answer incoming calls and record phone messages
- Record and publish minutes of meetings as required
- Maintain a vendor/contractor contact list
- Coordinate meetings for office personnel as requested
Qualifications
We want you on our team because you:
- Hold a High school diploma with Associate’s degree or two years of business college or equivalent. Candidates with some business college coursework and at least five years of experience supporting a similar office environment (i.e. utility, technology, or engineering) will be considered
- Have three to five years of progressive experience as an office administrator or administrative assistant
- Are a licensed notary public or ability to obtain license
- Have strong competencies in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Are self‑motivated, disciplined, punctual and possess effective abilities necessary for the daily job duties to include excellent communication, organizational, human relations, and technology skills.
Ideally you will also have:
- Knowledge and understanding of electric utility business principles and operations
This position is available in our Austin, TX office. LS Power offers highly competitive compensation and benefits packages and is committed to the career development of its employees.
