Legal Assistant Co-Op

About This Role

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Summary  

CAE USA Inc. is looking for a Legal Assistant Co-Op to support our in-house US legal organization: contracts, supply chain, legal operations, and trade compliance team supporting a variety of legal, administrative, ethics, and compliance matters for the U.S. Defense & Security Legal group. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Administrative Support: Responsible for small projects as directed and guided by management and senior colleagues by applying knowledge and experience from previous roles. Assist in preparation of quarterly newsletter communications, presentations, org charts, distribution lists, entity management, letter drafting, and other support, as needed 

• Data Analysis & Automation: Maintain and analyze data sets from internal and external sources accurately reporting/communicating analysis, process data both manually and via automated software, create frameworks to improve efficiency and consistency of data reviews 

• Internal Audit Support: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to demonstrate compliance and adherence to various internal policy and procedure standards  

• Risk Assessment: Comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential violations of policy based on data, and other supporting evidence  

• Legal Research & Support: Support regulatory compliance and monitoring through research and industry trends from credible sources, collect applicable documents for submission of legal applications 

• Policies and Procedures: Annually review legal policies to maintain current standards, suggest necessary policy updates, maintain policy library and other related tasks, as needed 

• May assist in the investigation of ethics cases, as needed 

• Work with cross-functional teams (Legal, Program Management, Finance, Engineering, Operations) to accomplish enterprise goals 

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