Office Assistant

Looking for a terrific place to build your career and write your own success story?

Balzer & Associates is searching for an Office Assistant. This is an incredible opportunity to lead and grow with an extremely successful firm. At Balzer & Associates, we have been delivering design solutions to clients for over 50 years and are looking for the right team members to contribute to our mission of serving the community. Our employees are recognized as the essential pillars to our development and success; therefore, our focus is on taking exceptional care of not only our clients, but of our team.

When you join our team, you are exposed to all aspects of the design process. As a multi-disciplinary firm, our staff has the unique opportunity to interact, learn, and grow in a collaborative environment where knowledge is gained every day. Our diversity of work and disciplines affords our professionals the opportunity to be involved with a wide variety of projects that provide a foundation on which an outstanding career can be built.

Job Summary:

The Office Assistant performs administrative duties and also serves as a courier, delivering items to clients and/or other offices.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Delivers items to and from other business establishments
• Operates office equipment such as copier, printer, blueprint machine, paper cutter and binding machine
• Files and retrieves records and documents
• Collects and distributes paperwork from one department to another
• Runs various company errands

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to write correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information to clients
• Ability to add and subtract, multiply and divide
• Ability to read, understand and carry out detailed written and oral instructions
• Ability to prioritize
• Ability to answer and route calls professionally and courteously
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
• Valid Virginia driver’s license with an acceptable motor vehicle record

Education and Experience:

• High school degree or equivalent

Competencies Required:

• Communication
• Customer Service
• Dependability
• Interpersonal Skills
• Organization Skills
• Productivity
• Problem Solving
• Sense of Urgency

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.