Sr. Legal Coordinator – Contracts, Immigration, Compliance

Mobis North America•Highland Park, MI

9h•Onsite

About The Position

The Paralegal serves as the primary operational resource for the Legal Department and reports directly to the General Counsel for Mobis North America. The role manages legal intake, contract and matter workflows, labor and employment support, immigration administration, insurance and risk management support and department reporting. The role supports automotive manufacturing and sales operations while preserving attorney control over legal advice, strategy, regulatory interpretations, settlements, and material risk determinations.

Requirements

Associate degree, paralegal certificate, or equivalent combination of education and relevant legal-support experience.
Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience in a corporate legal department, law firm, contract-management, labor and employment, immigration, compliance, insurance, or legal-operations function.
Demonstrated experience managing confidential records, critical deadlines, multiple concurrent matters, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Strong writing, proofreading, document-management, organizational, and Microsoft 365 skills.
Commercial judgment and disciplined issue spotting.
Exceptional deadline ownership and case-management accuracy.
Discretion with employee, bargaining, immigration, investigation, insurance, and privileged information.
Clear communication with Legal, Human Resources, plant operations, business teams, unions, outside counsel, brokers, carriers, and government-facing stakeholders.
Process improvement, data accuracy, service orientation, and confident escalation.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree and an accredited paralegal credential.
Automotive, manufacturing, OEM, Tier supplier, purchasing, sales, logistics, quality, EHS, facilities, insurance, labor relations, or supply-chain experience.
Experience with collective bargaining, grievances, arbitration, immigration counsel, corporate governance, insurance programs, litigation support, legal holds, and outside-counsel administration support.
Experience with contract-lifecycle or matter-management technology and legal dashboards.

Responsibilities

Administer a single legal intake process, classify matters, capture business owners and deadlines, assign priorities, and maintain current-status reporting.
Maintain contract and matter repositories, naming conventions, calendars, templates, and standard operating procedures.
Coordinate signatures, approvals, executed-document storage, renewal and notice tracking, legal invoices, outside-counsel engagement records, and budget data.
Prepare periodic workload, deadline, risk, and service-level reports for the General Counsel.
Manage intake, first-pass review support, routing, execution, and closeout for NDAs, purchase agreements, sales agreements, service agreements, vendor agreements, subscriptions, transportation and logistics agreements, tooling documents, and other approved contract types.
Maintain approved forms, clause libraries, approval evidence, signature records, and executed agreements.
Track effective dates, renewals, termination rights, notice deadlines, and outstanding approvals.
Identify nonstandard terms, missing approvals, operational conflicts, and potential commercial exposure for escalation.
Coordinate employment-based immigration intake with employees, managers, Human Resources, and approved immigration counsel.
Maintain visa and petition trackers, work-authorization records, document checklists, expiration calendars, filing deadlines, and reminder controls.
Coordinate questionnaires, support letters, signatures, filing packages, travel documentation, dependent matters, and counsel invoices.
Escalate possible status lapses, late filings, government requests, denials, audits, site visits, job or worksite changes, or other material immigration risk.
Coordinate with brokers, carriers, Finance, Facilities, Human Resources, EHS, Security, and business owners on renewals and claims.
Support claim intake, tender, reservation-of-rights tracking, loss runs, insurance audits, and outside-counsel coordination.
Review contractual insurance requirements against approved standards and escalate coverage gaps, exclusions, disputed coverage, or significant uninsured exposure.
Support warranty claims, recalls, chargebacks, quality disputes, nonconforming-goods issues, supply interruptions, payment disputes, litigation holds, document collections, and chronologies.
Coordinate investigation scheduling, evidence collection, file integrity, chronologies, action items, and privileged files.
Administer compliance calendars, ethics matters, policy records, training records, certifications, and internal-audit support.
Coordinate privacy requests, records-retention activities, legal holds, preservation notices, and document-disposition controls.
Maintain investigation, compliance, privacy, and records-management trackers and status reporting.