Legal, Paralegal

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, CECO (NASDAQ: CECE) is a global leader in industrial air quality and fluid handling, providing innovative technology and application expertise to customers across the automotive, chemical, electronics, refining, pharmaceutical and textile industries, among others. The company helps its customers improve air quality and optimize the energy value chain with its custom engineered solutions.

For more information about CECO, please visit www.cecoenviro.com

POSITION SUMMARY

The major responsibilities of the position are listed below. To perform the job successfully, the individual must be able to execute each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties, assignments, and specific projects may be assigned at the discretion of executive management.

• Maintain day-to-day responsibility for our contract management process, including oversight of contract lifecycle management (CLM) technology.
• Draft, edit, review and finalize contracts and other legal documents.
• Develop, update, and maintain contract templates, forms, and guidelines.
• Maintain day-to-day responsibility for legal entity management, including maintaining corporate registrations for CECO’s entities in the United States and worldwide.
• Identify key legal and business issues and escalate appropriately.
• Track assigned projects, issues, and status related to transactions and documents.
• Open and close confidential legal files and perform notary duties.
• Manage and track the legal department budget.
• Other duties and special projects as assigned.

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  6 years’ experience as a paralegal with transactional experience (specifically, drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts)
• Experience with legal operations and legal department process improvement initiatives highly preferred
• Litigation and case management paralegal experience desirable but not required
• Ability to be flexible and prioritize
• High competency with Microsoft Office, MS Access. Office 365, and Net Documents or other document management system.
• Experience working directly with internal client contacts (if at an outside law firm) or working in an in-house environment.
• Ability to work in teams.
• Effective, clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-starter, ability to identify necessary tasks, plan projects and bring to completion.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills and ability to multitask.
• Ability to work effectively with internal and external clients and promote the reputation and integrity of the Law Department and CECO.

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  Typing, sitting, standing, walking.
• Office environment; constant mental and/or visual attention; the flow of work requires focused detailed attention while working at a computer monitor.
• The job is typically performed under comfortable working conditions; any disagreeable elements are generally absent during normal performance of the job.

• Compliance with company attendance standard. Work hours may vary during peak production cycles.