Corporate Paralegal

About Zep Inc.

Zep Inc. is a leading manufacturer of cleaning solutions for businesses and consumers with operations across the U.S, Canada, and Europe. Our purpose is to make the planet cleaner, safer, and more productive. To fulfill our purpose, we focus on understanding and solving cleaning needs for consumers, as well as business customers across a variety of segments including transportation, industrial, institutional, and food & beverage. We also have a strong presence in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) segment, where we develop products to help consumers and businesses maintain a clean and safe environment. Our products can be found online and at retail shelves at outlets like Home Depot, Amazon, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, Grainger, HD Supply, Walmart, and many others. We market our products under well recognized and established brand names, such as Zep®, Enforcer®, Misty®, TimeMist®, TimeWick, and Country Vet®. Zep was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. In 2021, Zep became the official cleaning partner of Atlanta United FC.

Job Description:

Position Overview

Are you a highly organized, detail-oriented legal professional who enjoys being at the center of the action? Zep is looking for a Corporate Paralegal to join our team and provide critical support to the Chief Administrative & Legal Officer and the broader business.

This is an opportunity to play a meaningful role across corporate governance, commercial contracts, litigation, risk management, and legal operations while partnering with leaders and teams across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Governance

• Maintain corporate and entity records, resolutions, consents, and governance documents
• Support corporate filings, renewals, certifications, and other legal requirements
• Assist with special legal and governance projects

Commercial Contracts

• Support the preparation, review, negotiation, and administration of customer and commercial agreements
• Coordinate contracts through review, approval, execution, and retention
• Track renewals, expirations, notice periods, and contractual obligations
• Identify non-standard terms and potential risks for escalation

Litigation & Risk Management

• Support litigation, claims, disputes, subpoenas, and other legal matters
• Coordinate information and document requests
• Assist with legal holds, document preservation, discovery, and other litigation activities
• Partner with outside counsel, insurance providers, and internal stakeholders

Legal Operations

• Conduct legal and regulatory research
• Maintain legal calendars, trackers, templates, databases, and document repositories
• Help improve legal processes, workflows, and document-management practices
• Collaborate with Finance, HR, Sales, Operations, Procurement, and other teams

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who is proactive, resourceful, highly organized, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced corporate manufacturing environment.

Education and Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree, paralegal certificate, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Prior paralegal or legal support experience in a corporate legal department or law firm, Manufacturing industry a plus!
• Familiarity with corporate documents, commercial contracts, and legal matters
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and sound judgment
• The ability to work independently while collaborating across functions
• Comfort learning legal, contract-management, and document-management technology

Why Join Zep?

This is more than a traditional paralegal role. You’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple areas of the business, collaborate with senior leaders and outside counsel, and help build efficient legal processes that support Zep’s continued success.

Ready to bring your legal expertise to a role with real business impact? We’d love to hear from you!

Thank You for Your Interest and Consideration in a Career with Zep!

www.zep.com

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. Zep Inc. provides full employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, ancestry, or veteran status or any other distinction outlined in all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Our Values

At Zep, we have developed a set of values focused on bringing even greater cohesion to our workplace. As part of this plan, we introduced a values framework called S.P.E.E.D. to align with our purpose of making the planet cleaner, safer, and more productive.

• Stewardship: We continuously improve the safety of our people and products, and we protect the planet by innovating solutions to reduce our environmental impact.

• Passion for Problem Solving: We listen to our customers and actively work to find solutions for unique situations. We think creatively to innovate and seize opportunities that will drive growth and make all our customers’ and consumers’ lives better.

• Empowerment: We encourage and lead our people to be accountable by equipping them to make decisions and own the outcome

• Expertise: We create innovative solutions and partnerships that are relevant to service our communities and customers.

• Doing the Right Thing: We expect our people to understand ethical boundaries and be inclusive of other backgrounds, ideas, and perspectives. Demonstrating honesty, respect and integrity in all actions is always expected.

Zep is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.