JOBS

DuPage Pads is seeking a Rapid Rehousing Employment Specialist to join their team. This position is responsible for preparing participants enrolled in the Rapid Rehousing programs to seek, obtain, and retain employment. This position is also responsible for networking with area businesses and industries to identify appropriate job opportunities near rapid rehousing apartment locations, provide job development and placement strategies, facilitate employment curriculum to provide ongoing support services; and serving as a liaison between the program and the job site. Some responsibilities are listed below. For full details about the position and instructions how to apply, click HERE.

• Operates within the DuPagePads Core Values, which supports providing care in accordance with the Trauma Informed Policy and Practices of the Agency.
• Assist with the screening, application, and assessment process for prospective workforce participants; ensuring the participants are fully committed to invest the time and apply the proper priority to program participation.
• Conduct regular visits in client homes across the county to assist participants with their employment and educational goals.
• Establish career goals in collaboration with participants and their respective case managers.
• Provide and facilitate employment workshops and training for job readiness and job retention. Be flexible to provide in-person workshops at locations near participant homes or in virtual formats.
• Provide accessibility and linkages to community-based education and training programs courses.
• Network with area business and associations to identify and advocate for appropriate job opportunities for program participants.
• Develop partnerships with businesses, industries, government and employment agencies to secure appropriate employment opportunities near and around participants’ residences.

Aqueity is looking for a Business Development Representative to join their team. For the past 28 years, Aqueity has been providing exceptional IT managed services and cybersecurity solutions to a variety of businesses. Due to tremendous growth, they are looking for a business developer to join their sales team and engage prospects. Successful candidate must be highly motivated to achieve weekly goals (50-75 calls per day) and be willing to schedule appointments for the sales team.  Responsibilities:

• Prospect outreach – cold call targeted prospects to share the Aqueity story about IT managed service and cyber security services.
• Generate leads by executing the initial steps of Aqueity’s sales play book.
• Align activities and follow-up efforts with marketing initiatives (e.g. calls into webinar attendees).
• Collaborate with marketing and subject matter experts to fine-tune messaging and approach.
• Promote brand awareness in the tech space.
• Maintain outreach records and key performance metrics to enable forecasting.
• Display confidence and tenacity in securing meetings with targeted organizations and individuals.

Aqueity is looking for an IT Deployment Technician to join their team. The IT Deployment Technician is responsible for performing all aspects of hardware and software deployment, including equipment configuration and imaging related to client-specific needs and infrastructure. Key areas of responsibility include creating and maintaining client images for laptop deployment, performing QA checklists on all equipment, meeting deployment timelines, troubleshooting problems, interacting with clients to ensure smooth onboarding/offboarding, and assisting with tracking and accounting for all assets in lab. Some responsibilities are the following:

• Configures, modifies, repairs, tests, and services various IT devices.
• Performs quality assurance checks on all devices and equipment prior to deployment.
• Identifies and troubleshoots hardware issues.
• Deploys images and customizes software based on project scope.
• Maintains and protects client assets.
• Cleans and deploys used laptops.
• Maintains up to date deployment guides and images for all clients.
• Escalates tickets when needed, with proper steps taken and documented within a ticket prior to escalation.
• Maintains lab organization including tracking and accounting for all client assets at all times.
• Demonstrates consistent deployment quality, following company guides and updating tickets appropriately.
• Tracks time properly within ConnectWise ensuring accurate billable against client agreements.
• Efficiently manages ticket queue.
• Completes and updates required documentation and adopts new company processes as needed.
• Demonstrates familiarity with vendor web sites for locating hardware updates, driver updates, and engineering changes on multiple products.
• Demonstrates product knowledge/expertise with client environments.

Aqueity is looking for a skilled IT Help Desk Support Analyst, who is responsible for handling service requests for our clients requiring IT support. The Help Desk Support Specialist will work on-site with their service delivery team to support and triage incoming issues on the following technologies: workstations, printers, servers, networks, and vendor-specific hardware/software. The ideal candidate has a true passion for technology and learning, enjoys problem solving, and has excellent customer service skills. Responsibilities:

• Provides IT Support relating to technical issues involving Microsoft’s core business applications, operating systems, and cloud services
• Supports disaster recovery solutions
• Provides technical support at the network level: WAN and LAN connectivity, routers, firewalls, and security
• Provides basic remote access solution implementation and support: VPN, remote services, and Citrix
• Monitors the remote monitoring and management system alerts and notifications, and respond accordingly through service tickets
• Triages and classifies incoming service requests by gathering information from clients and computer systems
• Documents and tracks all required information supporting accurate ticket reporting for the Service Desk
• Resolves service requests during the first phone call if possible, and escalates service requests to other resources as needed
• Communicates with customers as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages
• Displays an ability to patiently walk a user through the steps needed to address the issue
• Fast turnaround of customer requests – quickly and correctly identifies the user’s issue or problem, recommending the most efficient solution to address the issue
• Answers all web-based inquiries and phone calls within the response time goals for the Service Desk
• Documents basic support processes and knowledge base articles for recurring issues as needed, and escalates identified recurring issues to next level support engineers
• Ability to work in a team and communicate effectively – maintains a positive and friendly attitude towards all team members
• Handles difficult situations calmly and with confidence
• Displays empathy for our technology users and their day-to-day challenges
• Maintains good organization and follows each user service issue through to completion
• Productively fills down-time to improve our technology infrastructure and our organization
• Proactively makes suggestions for solutions to our most recurring user requests and technology service issues
• Improves customer service, perception, and satisfaction

The City of Naperville’s Transportation, Engineering and Development Business Group (TED) seeks a Chief Building Official to provide leadership and supervision to the Building team. This position reports to the Director of Transportation, Engineering and Development and directly supervises five staff members (two supervisors), and indirectly supervises approximately twenty employees. Some responsibilities are the following:

• Overseeing the timely review and issuance of all building permits, including new construction, commercial renovations, tenant buildouts, and simple occupancies.
• Ensuring adherence to all permit review deadlines.
• Attending Tenant Build-Out, Pre-Construction, Pre-Submittal, and Permit Review meetings to ensure that adequate plan review and code information is being provided to the external customer and to troubleshoot plan review issues.
• Serving as the Chief Building Official, issuing interpretations and findings on code requirements to internal permit staff and the external customer, as necessary.
• Overseeing the occupancy permit process, including issuance of temporary occupancy permits, as needed, and the timely completion of final occupancy permits.
• Updating building permit applications, forms, and codes, as necessary, to reflect current requirements.
• Maintaining an in-depth knowledge of the functionality of the software platform(s) used for permit management, assisting in upgrades, and ensuring proper use of all software and technology by team members.
• Securing and managing 3rd party reviewers, as necessary to provide plan review and/or inspection coverage for all commercial permit types. Directly supervising and working closely with the Operations Manager – Residential Plan Review and Permitting to ensure a seamless overall building permit, inspection, and code enforcement operation.
• Directly supervising team members responsible for Commercial Plan Review and Inspections.
• Conducting residential and commercial plan reviews, as needed.

The City of Naperville’s Fleet Division team is looking for an experienced Equipment Technician, with ASE certifications, to perform skilled repair, service, and maintenance on a wide variety of the City’s fleet, off-road equipment and heavy-duty trucks, including utility line trucks, fire apparatus and ambulances. Duties:

• Maintains a supportive working environment and provides excellent customer service to both internal and external customers, promoting the City’s core values of People, Respect, Trust, Pride.
• Inspects, diagnoses and repairs mechanical problems and heavy equipment with gasoline and diesel engines including hydraulic systems, computerized equipment, and pumping equipment in the shop and in the field.
• Performs scheduled preventative maintenance to keep down time at a minimum.
• Maintains current and accurate work, time, and materials records of repairs and maintenance using the City’s computerized fleet maintenance management system.
• Maintains all heavy-duty truck and off-road equipment and makes necessary repairs.
• Participates in training and remains current on the latest technology and repair procedures.
• Performs welding and fabrication on body and frame parts as well as custom built accessories and equipment.
• Cleans work area and follows safety rules and regulations.

Rohrer has a Maintenance Technician position to fill. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The Essential Functions are the following:

• Read work orders and specifications to determine machines and equipment requiring repair or maintenance.
• Prioritize different assignments based on how important the problem is and what order tasks should be done in.
• May help with installation with new machinery.
• Follow all safety rules and regulations. Take strong caution around the press.
• Help demonstrate and teach newer employees on proper machine usage and correct safety measures.
• Perform preventive maintenance on all production equipment.

Rohrer has a Process Technician position to fill. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The Essential Functions are the following:

• Review and maintain any required logs, check sheets, inspection sheets, and work orders.
• Obtain and ensure that the correct roll stock or any other material is being used at all times and located by machinery.
• Positions all rolls of material on unwinder and thread film through the machine.
• Performs Thermoforming Machinery start-ups and shutdowns.
• Ability to perform material jams/clearing in machinery.
• Monitors machines for mechanical problems by listening for unusual noises and visually checking gears, hoses, gauges, materials, etc.
• Lift heavy objects by hand or use hand pallet jack and cleans work area, machines, and equipment, using broom, rags, and cleaning compounds, to assist machine operators.
• Immediately take corrective action for any machine stoppage; notify Lead or Supervisor and request maintenance assistance in the event of serious problems with machinery of parts and assist in problem solving if other personnel are required.
• Recognizes and corrects safety hazards as they are identified.
• Maintain assigned lines in a clean and orderly condition; follow all safety policies and procedures including lockout/tag out, GMP practices to meet company standards.
• Participate in Lean Manufacturing Events as required.

WinCup is seeking Production Equipment Operators to join their team. Performs basic operator maintenance and repair of a manufacturing machine(s) that produce foam cups, bowls or containers. Job Responsibilities:

• Record timely checks to ensure that only quality product is manufactured and enters the packing bins.
• Comply with all safety rules, polices, procedures and practices to include performing lock-out/tag-out of production equipment when required.
• Diagnose and determine cause for machine malfunctions along with making operator repairs to assigned machines.
• Perform “scrap bin checks”, “line checks”, and all assigned quality tests to measure the quality of the product being produced. This requires frequent inspection of the product, allowing defective finished goods to be identified by the operator.
• Maintains established cycle times on assigned machines to ensure production goals are met.
• Immediately respond to any defective cups or other finished goods that a Packer, Print Operator or Packing Tech identifies.
• Maintain a safe and clean work area at all times.
• Performs all required daily preventative maintenance to equipment including eliminating all air, steam, and water leaks.
• Provides timely communication to Production Lead or Supervisor when assistance is required to resolve raw material, machine, handling equipment, quality or other problems.
• Follows WinCup OPERA Values, safety initiatives, and other related plant standards.

WinCup is looking for a Maintenance Mechanic to join their team. The Maintenance Mechanic II is responsible for performing mechanical, basic electrical and preventative maintenance on boilers, air compressors and manufacturing equipment of baggers, pre-expansion machines, cooling towers and conveyors used to produce foam cups, lids, and plastic straw. Functions:

• Installs, repairs, and maintains a variety of complex machinery that are mechanical, hydraulic or pneumatic in nature by using drawings, diagrams, operational manuals, manufacturing specifications, etc. Uses a variety of tools including specialized and precision measuring and testing instruments.
• Diagnoses and analyze problems by inspecting and disassembling equipment to determine extent of repairs.
• General understanding of how PLC’s and control wiring functions. Perform minor troubleshooting.
• Performs mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, hydro and basic electrical repairs to manufacturing equipment.
• Repairs and re-build parts used for lift, bagger, pre-expansion conveyors, pneumatic valves, molds, etc.
• Troubleshoots and rebuild motors, blowers, gearboxes, pumps, belts, valves, regulators, VFD and other mechanical equipment.
• Performs and troubleshoots minor electrical issues associated with boilers, air compressors, cooling tower, pre-expansion and ancillary equipment.
• Obtain hot work permits and completes minor welding jobs.
• Repairs cup molds and perform mold changeovers on cup machines.
• Actively pursues continuous improvement to reduce downtime and improve equipment efficiency.
• Comply with all safety rules, policies, procedures and practices to include performing LOTO of production equipment when required.
• Line shutdowns and start-ups to ensure all support equipment and utilities are ready for production.
• Diagnose and determine cause for machine malfunctions along with making troubleshooting adjustments to assigned machines.
• Responsible for informing the leadership team immediately of any failure to meet established safety and quality standards to ensure that corrective action is taken.
• Maintain a safe and clean work area and equipment at all times.

WinCup wants you to join their team as a Packer. The Packer visually inspects all products, properly separate and package finished products being manufactured. Notifies appropriate team individual when quality, safety or production problems arise that cannot be resolved by individual. Responsibilities:

• Ensures that adequate vital supplies, i.e., tape, bagging, stamp, labels, cartons (knockdowns), etc., are available to perform duties.
• Constructs cardboard cartons to contain finished products manufactured, ensuring that proper carton is being utilized to hold products from bins.
• Visually inspects product for proper print and seal through plastic bag or in bulk form prior to bagging. Periodically open random logs of product to perform close visual inspection.
• Performs quality control by opening random bags of product to perform a close visual inspection along with notifying Production Leader or Production Equipment Operator immediately of any quality defects.
• Packs product into cartons while ensuring that the correct number of bags of product is packed based on order specifications or manually counts the amount product going into the bag if hand-bagging.
• Properly seal the carton and apply proper stamping and label(s) while making certain that stamp is legible, and the correct code date is on each carton.
• Move the packed cartons of finished product to the designed stacking area and then place the stacks of cartons together in the correct configuration in preparation for pick-up by the forklift operator.
• Sets aside defective product for re-work or scrapping while making certain that no defective product is shipped to the customer.
• Work at an efficient and safe pace to keep packing bins or stacking tubes clear.
• Assures a smooth flow of product through the packing process by responding to any product jams (bells, buzzers or lights), clearing the product jam and restarting the equipment properly and safely.
• Follow safety procedures when starting, shutting down, un-jamming or tying the tail on a bagger.
• Adheres to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), food safety, HACCP and SQF process requirements and sanitation guidelines rectify and or report any and all non-compliance to Management along with maintaining a high level of personal hygiene.
• Assists other team members as required, without being asked. Attend meetings as required.

WinCup seeks a Material Handler to join their team. This position ensures that proper packaging materials are supplied to production, finished products are removed on a timely basis and properly staged, and that scrap and trash is always removed from production areas.  The Utility Person/Production Helper will conform to all GMPs and will be aware of all food safety standards, and quality procedures. Responsibilities:

• Adheres to all good manufacturing practices (GMP), food safety, HACCP and SQF process requirements; rectify and/or report any and all non-compliance to Management or the SQF practitioner immediately.
• Reports to all scheduled shifts and attends meetings as required
• Ensures that all adequate vital packaging supplies and any other needed supplies are supplied to the Inspectors/Packers. Ensuring to only bring in enough supplies such as cartons to last for two hours to prevent injury and/or contamination of supplies.
• Wraps and tags all products produced according to standards for specific products. Including stacking and wrapping product(s) for shipment. Including but not limited to code dating.
• Removes all finished products from the Foam and Print areas in a timely manner.
• Removes previous shifts’ finished production to appropriate areas in the warehouse.
• Bails the cardboard and plastic balers as needed.
• Gathers and removes all cardboard and plastic scrap bales form holding areas to the designated area in the warehouse.
• Maintains a neat and orderly area for knockdowns and film in the warehouse.
• Cleans designated areas assigned by shift Supervisor.
• Operates a safe forklift at all times.
• Successfully completes any added assignments and/or special projects assigned by the Shift Supervisor.

Viskase is seeking a Manager of IT Governance Risk Management and Compliance to join their team. This position will be responsible for overseeing cyber security, data governance, and IT controls audit topics, among other areas. This role will play a critical role in ensuring the effective governance, management, and compliance of their information technology systems and processes.
Key Responsibilities

• Develop and Implement IT Governance Frameworks: Design, implement, and maintain IT governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure the effective management and oversight of IT resources and activities.
• Risk Assessment and Management: Conduct comprehensive risk assessments of IT systems, infrastructure, and processes. Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and controls to minimize IT-related risks and vulnerabilities.
• Compliance Management: Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, industry standards, and best practices, including but not limited to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), GDPR, ISO 27001, and NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
  • Conduct compliance assessments by understanding business objectives, structure, policies and procedures, internal controls, and external regulations.
  • Assess the effectiveness of internal controls over key IT risk.
  • Improve control assurance by developing tests, compliance reports and security metrics.
  • Manage responses to and follow-up with internal and external audits.
  • Identify and recommend business process changes to strengthen internal controls.
  • Complete IT control self-assessments and related findings.

Edward Don has an opening for the Managing Director of Purchasing position. The Managing Director of Purchasing is responsible for supporting the implementation of supply chain initiatives and driving the development of standard best practices designed to improve operational efficiencies. This role is responsible for the cross-functional coordination of all activities related to accomplishing defined business goals. Will work closely with all corporate functional departments and levels and will also collaborate with external teams to develop and standardize the tools, processes, and solutions aligned with the key operating initiatives. Essential Duties:

• Collaborate with all functional departments including Sales, Marketing, Operations, IT and Finance to develop policies, routines, procedures, training, and other capabilities as required.
• Provide strategic insights and lead continuous improvement efforts in purchasing and vendor management.
• Lead the development of overall processes and reporting to ensure standardization and compliance.
• Serve as the Supply Chain owner for all technology development.
• Contribute to the achievement of financial and non-financial goals and objectives set forth by leadership.
• Creates and fosters a high-performance culture that is focused on engagement, accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement with a customer focus in mind.
• Participate in supplier meetings with an objective to improve supply chain efficiencies.
• Conduct customer business reviews to provide guidance and opportunities for improvements.

Edward Don is seeking a Class A Truck Driver who will be responsible for the delivery of merchandise to Customers within expected time parameters. This position reports to the Transportation Manager, interacts with staff from other business units as well as departmental peers, and delivers to local customers on a daily basis. Essential duties:

• Delivers merchandise according to pre-determined route.
• Unloads correct merchandise and checks order, noting any corrections.
• Completes all assigned reports and paperwork at the end of day.
• Communicates with Manager any system or documentation problems identified.
• Picks-up returned merchandise per return authorization.
• Complies with all DOT regulations.
• Performs safety and housekeeping duties as they pertain to Edward Don & Company and OSHA standards.
• Effectively communicates both verbally and in writing to customers and all levels of staff.