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Southern Company

Administrative Assistant

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Moss Point
State: 
Mississippi
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other

Job Summary

This position is responsible for providing administrative support at Plant Victor Daniel; including, but not limited to:

  • Provide administrative support for the Maintenance MGR and Maintenance staff, O&M MGR and Combined Cycle staff, and other employees throughout the plant as needed.
  • Coordinate onsite meal (catering) requests.
  • Coordinate logistics for plantwide celebrations, events, meetings, etc.
  • Provide computer/data/documentation support with high proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.) assist in maintaining databases and creating reports, presentations, compliance documentation, etc., as needed.
  • Coordinate/Manage timekeeping for multiple time groups to ensure compliance with designated processes and procedures
  • Organize/schedule meetings, while maintaining calendars as needed
  • Provide administrative support utilizing ORACLE: procurement card administration, invoice reconciliation/processing, and expense statements, while ensuring designated processes and procedures are followed
  • Ensure proper records management practices (records retention policies) are followed


Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Four-year degree in business or related field preferred
  • Proficiency in Microsoft applications including Outlook, WORD, EXCEL, Power Point required
  • 3 years or more of administrative support experience required
  • Invoice reconciliation experience required
  • Maximo or similar software knowledge preferred
  • ORACLE software experience preferred
  • Prior experience in timekeeping required
  • Previous work experience in an industrial environment preferred
  • Previous work experience in training/employee development preferred
  • Ability to be flexible, organize, prioritize, and perform multiple/diverse activities with minimal supervision
  • Ability to make administrative/procedural decisions using sound judgement
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills


Behavioral Attributes

  • Our Values - Safety First, Superior Performance, Total Commitment, and Unquestionable Trust
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and self-motivated
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels
  • Ability to work as team player and assist team members with variety of tasks
  • Ability to perform daily with safety-focused attitude and commitment to zero accidents and injuries
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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