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Administrative Assistant - Part-Time

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc
  • Pullman, WA
  • $26–$40 Per Hour
  • Autofill and Review
9 days ago

Job Description

The Schweitzer Wellbeing (Aquatic) Center is seeking a friendly, organized, and service-oriented Administrative Assistant to serve as the first point of contact at our front desk. This position is expected to work evening shifts during the week and shifts on weekends, providing key support during some of the center's busiest operating hours. The role is essential to creating a welcoming environment for members and guests while ensuring smooth daily operations. Responsibilities include managing front desk reception, providing exceptional customer service, supporting membership sales and renewals, coordinating class and event registrations, and overseeing the center's general communications, including email and phone inquiries. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, tech-savvy, and passionate about promoting health and wellness in a community-focused setting.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Serve as the first point of contact for members, guests, and visitors, creating a welcoming, professional, and service-oriented experience.
  • Provide exceptional customer service by answering questions, resolving concerns, and assisting members with facility, program, and service information.
  • Support membership operations, including selling memberships and day passes, processing renewals, updating member records, and assisting with account inquiries.
  • Process registrations and payments for fitness classes, wellness programs, swim lessons, events, and other center offerings.
  • Manage front desk communications, including monitoring and responding to email inquiries, answering phone calls, and directing requests to appropriate staff.
  • Support the planning, promotion, setup, and execution of community events, programs, and member engagement activities.
  • Maintain accurate records, databases, correspondence, and filing systems related to memberships, programs, and front desk operations.
  • Assist with preparing, processing, and tracking purchases and supplies needed for front desk and facility operations.
  • Maintain the appearance, organization, cleanliness, and professionalism of the front desk, lobby, and shared member spaces.

Required Qualifications

  • Superior organizational skills and high attention to detail
  • Excellent grammar and communication skills
  • Ability to multitask and adapt to changing priorities
  • Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills
  • Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
  • Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
  • Proficient in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Background check results satisfactory to SEL
  • Availability to regularly work weekday evenings and weekend shifts
  • Negative drug test result(s)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in fitness, recreation, wellness, hospitality, retail, or membership-based organizations.
  • Experience with registration, scheduling, point-of-sale, or membership management software.
  • Cash handling and payment processing experience.
  • Social media, event coordination, or marketing support experience.

Competitive pay. Superior benefits. Inspiring work.

People are at the core of our company and we hire employee-owners. We welcome you to learn more about how we support employees.

  • We're 100% employee owned. Retirement benefits include an employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401(k) options.
  • We offer top tier medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • We recognize the importance of a healthy life balance and offer: 10 paid holidays, annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days, 9 paid sick days, and paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay.
  • We foster growth and development of our employees through avenues such as STEM courses, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, and engineering development programs.
  • Ask our team about other benefits including wellness, fertility, adoption, and flexible spending benefits.

Pay Range Data: $26.00-40.00 per hour

We set starting pay based on job-related factors such as your experience, training, knowledge, and skills.

Communication with Applicants

We communicate with all applicants. If you do not receive a response about your application, please check your SPAM filter or reach out to us at careers@selinc.com.

SEL is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Vets/Disabled.

Numbers & Facts

LocationPullman, WA
IndustryEnergy and Utilities
Salary$26–$40 Per Hour
Company Size2,500 to 4,999 employees
Year Founded1982
Websitehttps://selinc.com/

About Company

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories leads the electric power system protection industry in technology, service, and value. We design and manufacture systems, services, and products for protection, monitoring, control, automation and metering of utility and industrial electric power systems worldwide. Not only do we offer, challenge, and reward at our state-of-the-art headquarters in Pullman, Washington but we also provide a quality work environment and progressive benefits. We seek professional, meticulous individuals for our technical team. Learn more about what makes SEL successful by reading our company values.

An Award Winning Company
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has earned a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service. This has enabled us to expand within both the electric utility and industrial markets to include international customers and OEM markets.

SEL earned a spot on the 2012 FORTUNE Magazine 100 Best Companies to Work For list. This prestigious ranking celebrates the SEL 100% employee-owned culture as one of the best in the country. SEL has received numerous awards, including the Puget Sound Business Journal's 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State (1999 through 2003, 2010, and 2011), Inc. Magazine's 500│5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies (1990, 1991, 2008, 2010, and 2011), the Association of Washington Businesses (AWB) Manufacturing, Workplace, and Community Service Award (1998 through 2010), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA).

In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evens Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven performance categories including: technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. Since 2006, SEL has also held the elite VPP STAR status certification for outstanding safety and health programs.

Skills

  • Administrative Skillsunmatched
  • Background Investigationunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Community Programsunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Detail Orientedunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • Event Managementunmatched
  • Fitnessunmatched
  • Marketingunmatched
  • Microsoft Excelunmatched
  • Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
  • Microsoft Wordunmatched
  • Multitaskingunmatched
  • Negative Testingunmatched
  • Operational Supportunmatched
  • Operationsunmatched
  • Organizational Skillsunmatched
  • Payment Processingunmatched
  • Promotional Programsunmatched
  • Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
  • Record Keepingunmatched
  • Recreationunmatched
  • Resolve Customer Issuesunmatched
  • Retailunmatched
  • Salesunmatched
  • Sales Supportunmatched
  • Social Mediaunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Telephone Skillsunmatched
  • Writing Skillsunmatched

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