JOBS

DuPagePads is seeking a Case Manager to join their team. The Housing Specialist is responsible for creating and maintaining relationships with landlords, private and non-profit, who will work with the agency’s clients, engage with clients individually and/or in group sessions, to guide and assist clients in searching for and applying for housing, as appropriate, and guiding clients in overcoming barriers to housing whenever possible. Responsibilities:

• Operates within the DuPagePads Core Values, which supports providing care in accordance with the Trauma Informed Care Policy and Practices of the Agency.
• Outreach to community, business owners, realtors, landlords, housing developers, and other service providers to identify new and existing leasing opportunities and build strong relationships to better assist clients in accessing housing.
• Sustain landlord relationships and addresses and needs to ensure continued partnership on behalf of clients, including maintaining a list of currently available housing opportunities with partner landlords.
• Connect and collaborate with Client Services Case Managers regarding client housing needs, updates to clients’ housing searches and engagement with the Housing Specialist, including individual meetings and group meetings.
• Facilitate weekly Housing Group for clients to inform them of the housing process and options in the county and within the agency.
• Facilitate multiple weekly Housing Search Groups, guiding clients in searching for available and appropriate housing opportunities.
• Provide individual, group, or other services / duties 2-3 evenings per week, with later starts those days.
• May include some case management as assigned.
• Participate in staff meetings and training as directed by supervisor.

The Village of Glen Ellyn’s Public Works Department is currently accepting applications for temporary help positions on an extended seasonal basis. The purpose of these positions is to provide general labor assistance to maintenance crews during the spring, summer and fall months, and to also plow snow during the winter season (December – March). Duties include performing outdoor grounds and tree maintenance, street maintenance and repair (as well as trash removal and painting) and utilities assistance with water and sewer infrastructure. Training with vehicles/equipment and familiarization with department operations will be provided upon hire. You will start off earning $17 an hour. Responsibilities:

• Assists crews with related maintenance activities, including tree trimming, branch chipping, excavating, watering and tree removals.
• Assists crews with related activities, including sign fabrication, sign posting, pothole patching, street repairs and barricade maintenance.
• Assist crews with related activities, including catch basin repairs, storm sewer cleaning, and hydrant flushing.
• Performs minor equipment maintenance, including washing, waxing, vacuuming, cleaning and lubricating.
• Performs miscellaneous tasks and assignments, including community special event activities, site weeding, floor sweeping and window cleaning.
• Performs courteous and responsive customer service in the field.
• Plows snow and sidewalk snow removal during winter operations as needed.

The City of Warrenville is getting ready to hire Seasonal Public Works Workers. Under direct supervision, the Seasonal Worker is responsible primarily for grounds maintenance including watering, mowing, and trimming. Some duties may include the construction, repair, and maintenance of municipal streets, sidewalks, buildings, electrical systems, or storm drainage facilities. Although full-time hours are available, this is a temporary position for the summer months.

• Performs mowing, weeding, trimming, and weed whipping.
• Performs general custodial work.
• Operates a variety of small and medium sized lawn maintenance equipment.
• May set up safe work zones, including barricading, placing flashers and flagging traffic.
• Assists in storm damage clean up.
• Promotes and maintains responsive community relations.
• Performs related duties and manual labor as assigned.

Chervon has a Territory Sales Manager position open. The Territory Sales Manager drives sales and profit growth in his/her assigned region. The Territory Sales Manager works closely with current dealers, prospective dealers, professional landscape contractors, distributors, and internal channel partners to meet or exceed sales goals for our premier brand EGO. The Territory Sales Manager drives results through converting, prospecting, training, and developing effective sales processes and programs. Key Job Responsibilities:

• Meets or beats monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals.
• Recruits and signs new dealers in accordance with annual goals.
• Provides training and sales support for dealers in his/her region.
• Works closely with dealers and professional landscape contractors to grow their business. Activities include, but are not limited to, product demonstrations, product line reviews, ride-a-longs, training, and sales and service support.
• Attend company, national and regional events and meetings.
• Attend dealer, national and regional trade shows and meetings and events promoting EGO products.
• Manages time and travel schedule to provide the most efficient and effective productivity while managing costs.
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing accounts.
• Build trust and respect with internal and external customers by utilizing the utmost integrity.
• Fully support the EGO brand marketing initiatives at the dealer level.
• Provides channel feedback to Chervon regarding product performance, marketing initiative acceptance and competitive intelligence gathering.
• Implement the AIR program with Territory Managers.
  • Add dealers in open markets
  • Improve dealer development
  • Replace poor performing dealers

Chervon seeks a Product Safety and Compliance Engineer to join their team. Legal and regulatory product compliance are important for Chervon’s stakeholders and brands. The Product Safety and Compliance Engineer protects Chervon corporate interests by ensuring legal compliance and safety of our products. Responsibilities:

• Battery recycling program leadership. Work with recycling partners to ensure compliance, review contracts, support payments, and record and present metrics.
• Hazardous material support. At the product level, apply knowledge of known regulatory standards such as Proposition 65, to ensure compliance and provide compliance information to external customers.
• Safety escalation ownership. Manage safety escalations. Track safety cases from initial reporting through conclusion. Maintain tracking document and work with cross-functional teams to drive decisions related to product disposition and corrective actions.
• Root cause analysis and corrective actions. Work alongside Quality team for investigations related to safety cases to identify root causes and support implementation of corrective actions.
• Failure Mode Analysis. Support review of physical products that are the subject of safety or damage to property cases. Create failure mode reporting of the subject Chervon items, and in some cases, provide additional reporting relating to the customer use and environment for which the product(s) were used. Attend on-site investigations as needed.
• Retail and Dealer safety escalation support. Become key contact for retail and dealer accounts for escalations. Provide deliverables for their own internal safety escalation process.
• PTI and OPEI Support. Become key Chervon member within Power Tool Institute and Outdoor Power Equipment Institute trade groups. Represent Chervon’s interests as a voice in these trade groups and serve on working groups and sub-committees most relevant to those interests.
• Product safety reviews. Apply safety risk analysis for select high risk products. Provide report and follow through until product launch.
• Packaging and logistics support. Work alongside packaging and logistics team to understand compliance topics, particularly related to batteries. Work on select projects to support compliance topics.
• Safety testing. Support the development of test methods related to product safety. Work along Quality and Test Lab team members to develop test fixtures when needed.
• Expert witness. It is possible that this role represents Chervon in a court of law in cases of product liability.
• Take ownership of CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) reporting for escalated safety cases and respond to public complaints.

Chervon is seeking an Outbound Logistics Analyst to join their team. As an Outbound Logistics Analyst at Chervon NA, you will play a critical role in optimizing their outbound logistics operations. You will be responsible for analyzing and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their transportation, distribution, and customer service experience processes. Your insights and recommendations will directly impact their ability to deliver products to customers to the highest standards. Job Responsibilities:

• Collect, analyze, and interpret data related to outbound logistics operations.
• Generate reports and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the performance of transportation and distribution processes.
• Responsible for the daily management of our Sales Orders to DC facilities and provide guidance and expertise to support the completion of additional DC routing.
• Assist and provide support to help facilitate exceptional service to our DC’s and third-party carriers.
• Manage the documentation process for standard operating procedures within outbound transportation to support the flow of goods though the supply chain.
• Define and apply the methodology and standards to be used for various types of systematic corrections across all systems: WMS, EBS, TMS, etc.
• Represent the department in various logistics meetings.
• Assists in preparation of forecasting data and reviews.
• Understand all aspects of customer portal and monitor daily to ensure compliance and troubleshoot any issues.
• Coordination of all hazardous returns-reverse logistics.
• Compiles vendor scorecards and coordinates reviews.
• Monitor SLA performance to ensure quality.

Chervon seeks a Junior Demand Planner to join their team. The Junior Demand Planner position is responsible for all forecasting activities associated with customers and products. The Junior Demand Planner maintains forecast models for customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, and other sources.
The Junior Demand Planner is also the integration point into the sales and operations side of Chervon. Basic forecast modeling is the main responsibility of this position. This position aids in establishing the dialogue each month for products with key counterparts in Sales and Marketing as well as communicates forecasts to the Supply Planning team. Key Responsibilities:

• Maintains tools to help the communication of monthly variances to both sales and marketing and supply planning team.
• Reviews over/under sales patterns, research demand drivers, and prepares data to drive forecast changes.
• Engages in forecasting of new and transitional items to ensure project success.
• Participates in key monthly meetings with sales and marketing and other logistics support functions.
• Develop reports to monitor performance metrics (Forecast Accuracy, Sales Projections etc.) as defined by management.
• Works with the supply planning team on developing inventory and overstock tracking reporting.
• Addresses demand-related issues in an effective and timely manner.
• Defines continuous process improvement projects, other miscellaneous duties as assigned, and any ad hoc requests.

Chervon has an IT Support Specialist position open. The IT Support Specialist provides technical support to external and internal customers relating to personal computers and desktop applications. This person evaluates functional requirements and support for on-going effective utilization of applications. This role requires external vendor interactions for support of IT service delivery. Duties/Responsibilities:

• Support Windows and Mac desktop applications, including user interface, word processing, spreadsheet, database and application system integration tools.
• Setup, upgrade and install desktops and laptops. Configure, test, and install hardware, operating systems, peripherals and application software.
• Provide desktop technical support to all external and internal customers. Evaluate desktop (personal computers, printers, faxes, etc.) requirements and issues; and identify and recommend/implement corrective action.
• Assist IT applications group in support of administrative applications including Office 365, Adobe Cloud Services, etc.
• Support Order Management System (OMS), Oracle and AWS.
• Support IT service requests and hardware procurement including New Hire setups and separation removals. Work closely with the Network and System engineers (Regional & Global) in supporting the day-to-day operations of IT infrastructure.
• Provide administration and support of:
  • Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc.
  • ShoreTel Telephony systems
• Communicate project/request status and issues to IT management and IT customers. Notify management of issues and recommended solutions to ensure projects are completed, on-time, on-budget, and meeting project requirements from the business customer (in scope).
• Develop/identify training manuals and in-person sessions, coordinate training of users on desktop applications. Responsible for keeping support documentation current and published for team collaboration.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of company labs and desktop application products and trends.
• Support Microsoft Azure Cloud and Mitel phone system.
• Undertake responsibility and authority to identify departures from the quality system or test procedures and document such observations in accordance with the prescribed complaint system.
• Support and/or assist with projects including new site implementations related to networking, computer/printer connectivity, and telephony.

Chervon is seeking a Brand Manager to join their team. As the Brand Manager, you will be responsible for leading the SKIL brand by executing marketing programs that increase brand equity, build brand awareness, set new product roadmap and pricing strategies. You must possess good interpersonal skills and be able to work effectively with a variety of team member within the organization. Must have excellent project management skills and the ability to adapt to rapidly shifting assignments and deadlines. Key Job Responsibilities:

• Brand Strategy:  Responsible for determining long-term brand strategy and short-term tactics to maximize revenue and profit.  This includes positioning, user targeting, trade marketing and partnering to develop long term product vision.  These strategies and tactics must help drive new business and grow market share for the SKIL brand.
• Advertising Strategy:  Responsible for developing advertising strategies to create brand and product awareness. This includes managing media strategy, messaging strategy, advertisement creation and measuring results to create user demand.
• Brand Awareness:  Leads the development of programs designed to establish and maintain brand presence in market. This includes advertising and media planning, events/trade shows, merchandising, and end user targeting. This may be accomplished by engaging external agencies for creative.
• Agency & Supplier Management:  Responsible for managing relationships with 3^rd party agencies and suppliers leveraging their teams to gain insight and external support needed to support brand building and demand creation initiatives.
• Product Launch:  Developing new product launch campaigns including campaign strategy, asset development, packaging review, targeted retail price points and project management to ensure successful product launches in the market.
• Product Line Reviews:  Working closely with sales, deliver high quality, strategic presentations to customers comprehensively covering brand strategy, marketplace trends, key insights, demand creation and general sell-in strategy.
• Marketing Budget Management:  Responsible for managing the brand marketing budgets to drive the planned results.
• Brand Analytics:  Leads development of test plans to measure stated campaign objectives and recommends improvements.  Conducts competitive strategic analysis, consumer segmentation, consumer insight development, market share, and brand awareness to understand impact of marketing efforts. Analyzes sales, profit and expenses for all campaigns to effectively manage P&L elements and impact.
• Team Collaboration:  Collaborates with all marketing departments, sales management team and product management team to ensure effective brand strategy and execution.

Trossen is a small company in the field of educational and research robotics. They have a position open for part-time and full-time kit assembly. The hours are between 9am-5pm Monday through Friday. Full time candidates are strongly preferred; however, are open to part time opportunities for the right person. Advancement opportunities are always open to hard working candidates. This position is for the assembly of robot kits which involves the following:

• Bolting together of brackets, motors, and other robotics hardware for kit assembly.
• Managing the production of 3D printed parts on our printer farm of 8-12 printers.
• Running a CNC laser machine to cut plastic parts.
• Boxing up kits to stock in the warehouse.
• Shipping and receiving.
• Testing kits for QA.
• Helping with order fulfillment in the warehouse.
• Basic electronics soldering.

Inventus Power has a Production Supervisor position open for the 2nd shift. The Production Supervisor will be responsible for managing a diverse and talented manufacturing team. Primary goals include properly organizing staff members and achieving a reasonable workflow throughout the day. This position will also include directing, disciplining, training, and assisting lower-level manufacturing employees in a factory setting. The Production Supervisor will also be involved in hiring, discipline, terminations, and other supervisory responsibilities. Responsibilities are listed below. For full details about the position, click HERE. Interested candidates may send resume to the attention of Sr. Human Resources Manager, Lisa Atkinson, at latkinson@inventuspower.com.

• Meets customer delivery deadlines and production expectations with little or no supervision and directs and assigns work to the hourly production personnel to coordinate production activities.
• Know, understand, communicate, and facilitate a safe work culture, ensuring compliance with all company safety/environmental and housekeeping policies.
• Plan production operations and establish priorities and sequences for manufacturing products.
• Communicate between Production Manager, Customer Service personnel, and other supervisors regarding scheduling problems, and resolve issues that may affect the planned priorities.
• Inspects work areas to ensure operational performance and utilization.
• Monitors employee performance to assure that quality and production standards are met and assists in completing performance reviews.
• Assures that employees are trained to adequately perform assigned tasks.
• Builds and maintains morale in the hourly Production workforce and maintains a good attitude with fellow workers and management to enhance morale.
• Successful implementation of improvements and new processes.

Inventus Power is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join their team. The Senior Electrical Engineer will be responsible for designing and conducting analysis to support development of battery packs or chargers. The Senior Engineer leads concept phase, product specifications, design activities, reviews, and reports design’s progress with limited supervision. Assignments are broad in nature, requiring appreciable initiative, originality, ingenuity and excellent problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate will have excellent circuit analysis skills, advanced electrical engineering experience and a great understanding of power electronics, preferable with battery management system designs. The Senior Electrical Engineer also supports the growth of less experienced engineers through leadership, technical reviews, and mentorship. Responsibilities are listed below. For full details about the position, click HERE. Interested candidates may send resume to the attention of Sr. Human Resources Manager, Lisa Atkinson, at latkinson@inventuspower.com.

• Promote the spirit of teamwork and enthusiasm around fellow engineers.
• Establish a culture of learning, openness, and accountability.
• Develop complete electrical designs; including schematic, layout, DFM, BOM generation, with consideration to EMI/EMC.
• Design and document robust hardware analog/digital circuit architecture and power path structure suitable for use in high reliability embedded applications.
• Lead electrical hardware component selection/optimization for microcontrollers and battery/charger management devices.
• Perform worst case circuit analysis and circuit simulations via EMA tools.
• Perform de-ratings and power stack-up analyses.
• Provide necessary sustaining support to existing products, and work in a cross-functional team environment to assure electrical system level integration and design for manufacturability.
• Conduct Electrical DFMEAs to ensure products conform to customer specifications and requirements.

Inventus Power is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join their team. Working within a focus factory team as the Quality Engineer representative. Apply quality management techniques to ensure the organization meets its quality policy, objectives, and quality management system requirements to satisfy customers and other stakeholders. Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains documents to support assembly of Inventus Power products. Participates in new product development activities (NPI), relative to IQ OQ PQ and PPAP, as required. First point of customer contact on quality related issues. Supports supplier quality activities as required. Provides statistical information for quality improvement by gathering data on trends and root cause analysis. Responsibilities are listed below. For full details about the position, click HERE. Interested candidates may send resume to the attention of Senior Human Resources Manager, Lisa Atkinson, at latkinson@inventuspower.com.

• Serves as the QA representative in NPI activities by assisting/guiding internal & customer team members through the applicable IQ OQ PQ &/or PPAP activities. This includes documenting & reporting applicable validation plans, protocols, control plans, gage studies, new procedures, results, etc.
• Create applicable quality tracking reports, review quality trends, perform root cause analysis and institute corrective and preventive action for newly released and sustaining products until they achieve yield goals.
• Interfacing with the customer & internal team members.
• Serves as a key quality management system representative by administrating & overseeing ISO & other QMS activities.
• Lead/coordinate internal and external audits and subsequent follow up as assigned.
• Coordinate internal audit training, document control, and providing input into system risk assessments.
• Add improvements & preventive measures to assure conformance to ISO & other regulatory QMS requirements.