Plant Administrative Assistant

Lancaster Container is seeking an enthusiastic, responsible, and customer-oriented individual that has a positive attitude and shares the values of our company culture, which is built around teamwork, family, honest communication, and producing desirable results for our Washington Boro, PA manufacturing facility.

Function

This position is responsible for ensuring proper administrative duties are timely and accurately performed for Accounting, Employee Relations, and Production Departments in a manufacturing plant.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the following human resource administration is performed accurately and in a timely manner.
• New hire interviewing
• New hire processing and orientation including safety
• Insurance (medical / workers comp)
• Benefit administration
• Confidential Files
• Corporate monthly reports

Ensure the following Accounting Administration is performed in an accurate and timely manner.

• Payroll (daily review of employee activities)
• Accounts Payable (match invoice to purchase order, verify price and quantity and enter into Oracle)
• Purchase Order Filing
• Generate invoices for customer billing.

Ensure the following Production Administration is performed in an accurate and timely manner.

• Efficiency and scrap reporting
• Maintenance Management reporting
• Quality Management administration

Perform receptionist duties, when required, which include phones, visitors and mail.

Communicate employee issues and concerns to appropriate personnel.

Back up for Customer Service Representative

Assist, when needed, for production entries for Production Scheduler

Qualifications and Skills:

• High school diploma or equivalent; Associate’s Degree is preferred
• 3-5 years of experience working in an office environment; manufacturing setting is a plus
• 1-3 years working with accounting software is required; QuickBooks is required
• Proficient in MS Office including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience in processing payroll and payables; UKG experience is preferred
• Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment

Ability to:

• Collaborate with others and work effectively in a team environment
• Independently solving problems
• Work independently with minimum supervision while prioritizing workloads to meet deadlines
• Prioritize projects based on business needs to complete on time
• Take initiative to plan and complete assigned work with a high level of accuracy
• Travel between plants periodically
• Approach all work directed by management in an organized manner with meticulous and consistent attention to detail and commitment to accuracy

Additional Skills:

• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross functional team environment.
• Strong work-ethic, willing attitude, and collaborator.
• Ability to embrace and adapt to change.
• Strong listening, influencing and team building skills.
• Display a professional image in all situations.

Lancaster Container was founded in 1976 to provide customers with a dependable steel pail. In the beginning, Richard Pflumm saw a need locally in the marketplace for pail production. The company started by servicing Armstrong. Since that time, they have expanded to a much larger and broader customer base. Currently, they provide pails and containers to customers all over North America. Currently, we have two locations in Pennsylvania that support customers throughout the United States. Our goal is to continuously provide our customers with quality pails through excellent service at an outstanding value.

Lancaster Container offers competitive compensation based on commensurate experience and a comprehensive benefits program that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid holidays, attendance bonuses, and production bonuses.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour

Work Location: In person

Salary : $20 - $25