Founded in 1957, Dessau is one of Canada's largest engineering-construction firms. With over 4,800 employees based in offices around the world, Dessau has state-of-the-art expertise in numerous engineering and construction disciplines.
Dessau has a subsidiary named LVM, a consulting engineering and testing firm of 1400 employees providing technical services in the areas of construction materials, pavements, tunnels, bridges, quality management, geotechnology and environmental engineering.
LVM is currently looking for a bilingual administrative assistant to join the Operations department at its Milton office. Reporting to the Team Leader, you will have to perform general office work. More specifically, you will:
Responsibilities
Manage the Regional Manager's agenda;
Be in charge of logistics pertaining to meetings, business trips & special events;
Participate in meetings, take notes and prepare minutes of meetings;
Collect information & prepare documents for discussion and presentation purposes;
Review, revise and correct documents for the team;
Coordinate the integration of the new employees;
Perform various simple acounting tasks, including budget monitoring.
Superior knowledge of Microsoft Office;
Superior document management experience;
Relevant training in office automation or administration (asset);
Bilingual, English & French (mandatory)
Flexibility, excellent interpersonal skills, project coordination experience, and the ability to work well with all levels of internal management and staff, as well as outside clients
Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
Dessau adheres to employment equity and equal opportunity programs and encourages all women, visible minorities, Aboriginals and disabled persons to apply.
Only selected candidates will be contacted. The masculine gender is used throughout without any intent to discriminate but solely to make the text easier to read.
