Administrative Assistant - Ames, IA

Administrative Assistant 

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.
• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

We offer:

• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits
• 401(k)

Reporting to the HR Manager, the Administrative Assistant is responsible for providing comprehensive administrative support to the Manufacturing and Human Resources departments to support the business priorities of the organization.  In this role the ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail and accuracy, high execution of task requested, ability to manage and maintain various types of HR related records for reporting and analysis, advanced communication skills and interpersonal skills to partner with customers at various levels of people in the organization.  In this role you will create, maintain, and ensure adherence to standard work that meets compliance requirements and will be trusted with sensitive and confidential information.  This job is relied on for coordinating and assisting with planning of meetings and events. 

This position will support site leadership (manufacturing), and the human resources team, work is located in Ames, IA and will be onsite with a 1st shift schedule typically Monday through Friday, 7:00am-3:30pm.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Assist employees and visitors with questions and provide resources via in person, phone and email.
• Main point of contact for recruiting, onboarding and offboarding with record keeping tasks and processes. 
• Work with site leadership and HR to create and send professional communications to all Ames associates.
• General office assistance.
• Expense reporting.
• Responsible for logistics of meetings and meeting rooms.
• Special event planning and coordination.
• Purchasing of supplies for the facility.
• Record keeping management for: visitor logs, attendance, personal protective equipment (PPE), badge system.
• Distribute mail.
• Schedule travel.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• HS Diploma or GED required, associate degree in administrative or human resources or business discipline or higher preferred.
• Minimum of 1-year experience in an Administrative Assistant role or Human Resources role preferred.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.).

Hach is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto's vibrant global network of 16,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

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