Corporate Governance Specialist (Hybrid)

Overview

For more than 100 years, our passionate mission of safety empowers us to protect lives.

MSA Safety is a global leader in the development of safety equipment and pioneering technology that helps protect people and facility infrastructures around the world. We are committed to providing the latest in innovative, best-in class safety solutions that feature integrated systems capability and allow our customers to return safely to their families and friends. Every day our customers place their lives in our hands. In response, we provide them with protection they can trust. It is gratifying to lead the way as a source of inspiration. Would you like to join our team of more than 5,000 employees world-wide dedicated to this purpose? We hope so.

The Corporate Governance Specialist position resides in the Law Department, reporting to the Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. This position plays a leading role in the corporate governance affairs for the Company, while regularly interacting with members of the Company’s Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team.

Responsibilities

Among other duties, this role:

• Maintains thought leadership, knowledge and expertise on current governance trends, best practices, benchmarking and regulatory developments. This includes monitoring ratings and voting guidelines for the Company’s top institutional shareholders and proxy advisory services.

• Administers the Company’s cloud-based portal for Board of Directors and committee materials. This also includes assembling board of directors and committee meeting materials, leading the preparation of the Company’s nominating and corporate governance committee meeting materials, maintaining the board’s director information repository, deploying questionnaires to directors and officers, and other responsibilities.

• Coordinates the Company’s board, committee and annual shareholders meeting administration processes. This includes setting the board’s annual calendar, coordinating director compensation, conducting corporate governance benchmarking and research, preparing board-level summaries, maintaining the annual shareholders meeting calendar and other responsibilities.

• Coordinates various legal and regulatory processes, including SEC stock transaction reporting (Form 4 reporting), completing periodic NYSE filings, overseeing the Company’s transfer agent and assisting in the preparation of the annual proxy statement. The role also monitors stock ownership for key insiders to ensure compliance with stock ownership rules and trading policies, while administering the Company’s insider stock pre-clearance process.

• Oversees maintenance of an entity management database, serves as the Law Department contact for the Company’s affiliate corporate governance compliance process, and supports business requests by providing notarial services, apostilles and legalized documents.

Qualifications

Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Solid oral, written and interpersonal skills.• Excellent organizational skills.• Proven ability to work well autonomously and within a team of fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.• Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines and reporting.

Education Required:

• Associate’s degree in business or related field.

Experience Required:

• 3 years experience supporting preparation of a company’s annual proxy or other SEC filings.

• Experience with SEC filings including Form 3,4 and 5’s for Section 16 insider reporting requirements.

• A bachelor's degree in business or related field may be substituted for the required experience.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.

• Experience with SEC filings including Form 3,4 and 5’s for Section 16 insider reporting requirements.

• Pennsylvania Notary appointment.

• Experience in stock transactions and SEC reporting.