Element Huntsville is seeking a highly detail oriented and professional Front Desk Administrator to serve as the welcoming face of our testing laboratory. In this vital role, you will coordinate front office operations, ensuring a smooth and professional experience for all visitors and callers.

Salary: $20- $27/hr DOE 

• Customer Relations: Warmly welcome and check-in all on-site customers and visitors, ensuring they feel valued and guided appropriately while disseminating and enforcing required rules that must be followed by visitors.
• Communication Hub: Manage incoming communications, including answering a multi-line phone system, greeting visitors, and accurately routing calls and messages to the correct laboratory personnel.
• Logistics & Coordination: Coordinate essential office logistics, such as distributing incoming and outgoing mail and packages, and arranging catering/lunches for customer visits and internal meetings.
• Administrative Support: Maintain a tidy and organized reception area and support general office administrative tasks.Security
• Service Coordination: Ensure flow of information from overnight security guards on arrival and to 2nd shift security guards at end of shift. Monitor security video of exterior exits during shift.
• Purchasing Assistance: In quieter periods, assist the purchasing department with routine monthly administrative duties and data entry.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with a professional and friendly demeanor.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to multitask in a busy environment.
• Proven experience in a reception, front desk, or administrative support role.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and Teams.
• A proactive approach and willingness to help across various departments.

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) 

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