R&D- Administrative Assistant

This role will support our Performance Coatings Group (PCG) R&D team. Provides intermediate office or basic administrative support for a department. Responsibilities may include drafting documents, maintaining and updating records, and providing assistance to higher-level administrative support staff.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

* Publish all approved color formulations from internal and external color labs into all necessary color software systems.
* Store the electronic color standards and trial formulas into the necessary color software systems.
* Manage and maintain the color standards storage program, this includes organization of panels and keeping spreadsheets associated with each project up to date.
* Update the customer request project file daily.
* Enter color panel data to build the color matching cloud.
* Maintain all color usage and color tool information in Aurora and Paint Mixer Pro software systems.
* Update Navigator with published UFN data.
* Complete paper conversations as requested by the field.
* Be the first line of contact for the GI Color Support email account
* Ship color panels to customer, sales, and tech reps as requested and maintain a log of panels shipped.
* Manage and maintain SW data for the Guardian program. **New- to be started later in 2025**
* Panel and data management for Color Reader Pro program **New - to be started later in 2025**
* Requests lab supply orders.
* Provides basic administrative support, such as drafting documents, maintaining schedules, and utilizing specialized programs to track, maintain, and update information.
* Performs basic office duties, such as copying, filing, faxing, typing standard documents, preparing, sorting, and distributing mail, entering data, and running basic or standard reports.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status).
• Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math field.
• Must have a high school diploma or equivalent
• Must be proficient with MS Office
• Two years of clerical or office support experience.
• Computer knowledge for basic inputting, and communication
• Experience using complex software
• Experience compiling and maintaining information
• Experience coordinating basic office operations
• Experience providing customer service
• Experience communicating with co-workers to provide and receive direction