Legal Assistant

Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world’s energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment. Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition.

We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve. As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations.

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Legal Assistant to join our team.

Role Summary:

The Legal Assistant role is responsible for providing legal support to VP, General Counsel/Secretary and Associate General Counsel.

Responsibilities & Essential Functions include:

• Handling administrative tasks as needed, including, but not limited to scheduling meetings, creating, compiling, and uploading files, reviewing and routing correspondence, obtaining signatures and directing finalized documents to the appropriate parties, and running reports and queries
• Matters relating to document retention; administering all aspects of legal invoicing, including receiving invoices
• Identifying relevant account coding and responsible attorney and forwarding for approval, uploading invoices to accounts payable system
• Approving, maintaining legal expense spreadsheet, retaining invoices, creating new vendors.

• Corporate governance maintenance and record responsibilities, including but not limited to, assisting various entity secretaries, including drafting minutes, resolutions, and reports

• Obtaining signatures for documents, filing records; and managing company’s relationship with its corporate service vendor to ensure proper business administration and compliance of company’s entities.

• Supporting litigation counsel with litigation matters, including drafting and administering legal holds, tracking and filing responses, and assisting with discovery.

   

Position Requirements:

•  Bachelor’s Degree and/or technical degree in a related discipline required.
• 5+ years of paralegal experience required.
• Experience in a transactional legal environment highly desired. Must be (or must have the ability to become) a Pennsylvania Notary Public. 
• Must be proficient using Microsoft Word (able to format large legal documents, including creating and utilizing styles, auto paragraph numbering, generating tables of contents, using headers and footers, preparing blacklines), SharePoint, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Workshare Compare, and Adobe Acrobat.

Certificates & Licenses:

• None required

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities:

• In order to succeed in this position, one must have excellent analytical and legal drafting skills, be capable of handling numerous assignments simultaneously, and be able to establish excellent working relationships with employees throughout the Company.
• One must also have the ability to appropriately and discretely handle confidential information.
• To be successful in this position, incumbents must possess excellent computer, organizational, and memory skills. The individual must be able to multi-task, prioritize, and manage varying workloads.
• Strong writing skills, including excellent grammar, editing, and proofreading capabilities, and exceptional attention to detail are essential.

Essential Functions:

• This position requires the ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and or/quantitative productivity standards.
• This role requires the ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• This position requires compliance with all personnel policies.

Safety and Physical Requirements:

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move inside the office to access file cabinets, office equipment, etc.
• This role continuously operates a computer and other office productivity equipment (i.e. a calculator, copy machine and computer printer).
• The employee is frequently required to effectively communicate with others. 

About You:

To be successful in the Buckeye culture, our employees must possess a demonstrated commitment to environmental responsibility and regulatory compliance. Excellent communication, both written and verbal, as well as strong organizational skills are paramount. You must work independently and be able to exercise tact, discretion, and professionalism when dealing with internal and external customers, and when handling sensitive and confidential information. 

Buckeye wants to create and reward an organizational focus that stimulates the creative and entrepreneurial actions of its employees that result in innovative ways of reducing costs, generating revenues, improving productivity, or improving processes. 

People First Culture:

From managing over 5,000 miles of pipeline to commercializing clean energy projects, our people collaborate to provide world-class service and meet the changing energy needs of our customers. Our employee-first culture means that we invest in our employees and equip them to be fully contributing members of high performing teams. We are focused on collaboration, inclusion, empowerment, accountability, and professional development. We want the best in you to bring out the best in us.  

Join us as we work together to build a business that is responsive to the needs of the future while continuing to serve the energy needs of communities today.