Office Services Specialist
Reed Smith LLP
New York, NY
Position summary
This position is responsible for:
- Reproduction of documents using high-speed and color copiers
- Performing various binding jobs
- Meeting deadlines
Additional responsibilities include:
- Preparing, sending, and receiving hand-delivered packages, UPS, and Federal Express packages
- Assisting with sorting and distributing incoming and interoffice mail
This role also:
- Assumes supervisory duties as needed
- Works as a team player and leader
- Maintains communication with attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, and other staff
- Prioritizes workflow
- Oversees use of outside vendors for overflow work
Job duties and responsibilities
- Reproduce documents on high-volume copiers/duplicators, including:
- Collating
- Binding
- Inserting number or letter tabs
- Clock in and prioritize all incoming jobs
- Key client/matter numbers into cost accounting and backup systems
- Bind documents in various styles and operate:
- Paper drill
- Cutter equipment
- Quality check copies and maintain logs and records
- Communicate with attorneys, paralegals, and secretaries
- Place service calls and coordinate with vendors and technicians
- Assist in oversight and distribution of overflow work to outside vendors
- Send facsimile transmissions and operate mail machinery
- Assist in sorting and distributing incoming and interoffice mail, including nightly mail drops
- Prepare, send, receive, and trace:
- Hand deliveries
- Federal Express packages
- UPS packages
- Assist in ordering and stocking supplies, including:
- Department supplies
- Printer and convenience areas
- Assist with office relocations, including lifting and moving:
- Boxes
- Furniture
- Equipment
- Assist in testing and evaluating new equipment
- Answer telephones and serve as a central point of contact
- Monitor inventory levels and reorder supplies as needed
- Coordinate with other office services staff to prioritize workflow and resolve issues
- Assist with invoice control and review as assigned
- Handle facility issues and vendor requests
- Cross-train with other departments (hospitality, records)
- Perform other duties as required
Job duties and responsibilities included are not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary. Reed Smith reserves the right to revise or modify job duties and responsibilities at any time.
Requirements
Education:
- High School Graduate or equivalent
Experience:
- Minimum of one year of experience on high-volume copiers
- Law firm office services experience preferred
Skills:
- Ability to understand and follow instructions
- Ability to organize and prioritize workload
- Strong decision-making and judgment skills
- Ability to program, operate, and troubleshoot copiers
- Ability to work under pressure
- Strong customer service and professional communication skills
- Strong time management and productivity skills
Other
Supervisory responsibilities:
- None
Equipment to be used:
- Personal computer
- Telephone, calculator, fax machine, copier, scanner, and other standard office equipment
Essential job functions:
- Ability to manage stress in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to handle multiple tasks daily
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to adapt to changing work situations
- Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Requires normal range of hearing and vision
- Ability to stand, bend, stoop, and reach throughout the workday
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds or more
- Ability to operate high-speed copiers and related equipment
Working conditions:
Works in a typical office setting. Occasionally called upon to work hours in excess of your normal daily schedule. The details of your weekly schedule will be discussed further with your direct supervisor.
Pay ranges
This represents the presently anticipated low and high end of Reed Smith's pay range for this position. Actual pay may vary based on various factors, including location and experience.
This is a non-exempt position. The hourly wage range for this role is $26.35 to $30.20, with an estimated annual compensation range of $48,000 to $55,000, based on a standard 35-hour workweek.
Employee benefits overview
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Medical Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Virtual Health Services
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability Coverage
- Long-Term Disability Coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Lyra Health Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Family Leave (for eligible Exempt and Non-Exempt staff)
- College Savings Plan
- Transportation Benefit
- Back-up Child Care Services
- College Coach Program
- Pet Insurance
- Paid Sick Time (for Exempt staff)
- Paid Time Off (available to all full-time, non-temporary employees)
Reed Smith offers a challenging work environment, business casual dress code and a total compensation package that includes a competitive salary, flexible benefits program, tuition assistance, and generous 401(k) plan.
Reed Smith is an Equal Opportunity Employer with Core Values of Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork & Respect, Innovation, and Impact. Reed Smith also provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with law, including in the application and interview process.
Qualified candidates only. No search firms.
About the Company
Reed Smith LLP
Although Reed Smith works from multiple locations, the firm's lawyers are linked by more than technology. All share a common culture, with Core Values supporting Reed Smith's firm-wide commitment to add value, achieve excellence, and promote professional development. These foster a workplace in which diversity and inclusion, pro bono service and community support are manifest.
As the firm continues to grow, it remains sharply attuned to its Core Values, which define its professional character as well as what clients can expect from Reed Smith lawyers, who live these values every day.