EMSI Skill: Innovation

Soft Skill

Office Administrator

Company and Position Summary

We, at Smart Retract, are looking for a professional, high-quality individual to join our team in the role of Office Administrator. The candidate for this role will help with a variety of administrative tasks including documentation, customer service, sales support, data entry, and inventory tracking.  These tasks and contributions will help support the administration of our sales and manufacturing of retractable safety gates and accessories.  This will be a dynamic role with a variety of growth opportunities which may include involvement in special office or production projects, and collaboration with other parts of our business.

We offer great compensation and full benefits that even many large companies do not offer. Our working environment is one that focuses on team collaboration yet knows the importance and value of balanced independence. This position will be challenging and fulfilling with a high potential for both personal and professional growth. This is not your typical company or position – get ready to learn and grow and contribute to your and the team’s future success!

Smart Retract is a team of hard working, smart, and innovative people focused on growing our business and being an industry leader of creative and highly functional retractable consumer products. We design, develop, manufacture, sell, distribute, and support our entire line of products making for a unique and unmatched supply chain management and business model. Our products are 100% Made in USA and we ship all over the world, every day.

Skills and Experience

Smart Retract spends a significant amount of time with personnel development and training, and we look at this as one of the best investments we can make for our team. We will provide full training and coaching on the skills and knowledge needed with our products and business processes, however the right candidate for this position will bring with them the following minimum skills and experience:

  • Driven and accountable for your own responsibilities and results
  • Five years or more experience in administrative type roles or activities
  • Have taken and benefitted from continuing training, self-improvement, or education supporting your past roles
  • Familiarity with selling and marketing products online
  • Familiar with basic home construction and tools to be able to communicate with customers regarding product installation
  • Proficient with using Microsoft Office applications
  • Highly organized, with the ability to simplify complicated issues into smaller manageable components to successfully solve problems
  • Sees problems as opportunities rather than roadblocks
  • Universal focus on quality and understanding of how it helps productivity
  • Smooth and fluent presentation and communication skills
  • Strong verbal, typing, and written skills
  • Able to handle challenging situations calmly and in control
  • Ambitious and willing to take on challenges
  • Doing “hands-on” work feels natural: curious, innovative, seeking knowledge, and oriented towards continual learning
  • A strong grasp of the importance of processes, process improvements, and streamlining
  • Understanding of what Alignment means and its importance to an organization

If you’re onboard so far and ready to take on a challenging, but very rewarding and growth-oriented role, please send an email to career@SmartRetract.com or call us at 563-588-2530 to submit an application and learn more about joining the Smart Retract team!

***All applications are kept confidential***

 Also, visit us at:
Retract-A-Gate.com to learn more about our product lines.

Manufacturing Technician

MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN

Company and Position Summary

Are you on-the-fence because you are somewhat satisfied with your career, but believe there’s something more you can be doing or achieving?  Don’t settle for a sub-par job, contact us to see if your skills are a fit for our team.  All applications are confidential.

We, at Smart Retract, are looking for the right people to join our team as a Manufacturing Technician. This person will assemble, test, and package our product line of retractable safety gates and accessories – plus many more opportunities for growth.

Come join our team family environment which is not like any other manufacturing environment you may have seen.  We’re a small but thriving organization and are leaders in our market.  Our production space is very well lit, climate controlled – so its comfortable in both summer and winter, exceptionally clean and organized, and a safe and secure workspace.  We offer a large variety of processes with a good balance of standing, sitting, moving, and operating different tools and equipment, so there is no risk of getting stuck doing just one thing.  The initial focus of the position will be to learn and perform our core manufacturing processes, and then continue to grow within our team and expand into learning advanced processes. Your growth would only be limited by your ambition!

We know how important training and personal growth are to you and our team’s success, so our on-boarding process as well as continuous improvement initiatives, includes substantial amounts of training and coaching time to help you achieve your best results.

We offer great compensation and full benefits that even many large companies do not offer. We know the importance of team collaboration as well as the importance and value of balanced independence. This position will be challenging and fulfilling with a high potential for both personal and professional growth. Smart Retract is not your typical company – get ready to learn and grow and contribute to your and our team’s future success!

A little more about us.  Smart Retract is a team of hard working, smart, and innovative people focused on growing our business and being an industry leader of creative and highly functional retractable consumer products. We design, develop, manufacture, sell, distribute, and support our entire line of products making for a unique and unmatched supply chain management and business model. Our products are 100% Made in USA and we ship all over the world, every day. With continued business growth and expanded product lines, we must increase our manufacturing organization to help support this growth.

If you’re onboard so far, call or send us an email to:

563-588-2530   or   career@SmartRetract.com

To submit an application and learn more about joining the Smart Retract team! 

Also, visit us at:

Retract-A-Gate.com to learn more about our product lines.

***All applications are kept confidential***

Our Lady of Guadalupe Spanish Immersion Principal

Holy Family Catholic Schools in Dubuque, IA is seeking a dynamic, faith-filled, educational leader to join our administrative team as principal of Our Lady of Guadalupe Spanish Immersion School effective July 1, 2022.

Holy Family Catholic Schools is the largest Catholic early childhood through 12th-grade school system in Northeast Iowa, serving over 1,800 students at seven sites. At Holy Family, we are dedicated to providing our students with a premier education that will prepare them for a lifetime of success. Our nearly 400 employees are the foundation that makes this mission possible. We strive to create a culture that encourages professional growth while maintaining a work-life balance.

The first of its kind in Iowa and internationally recognized, Our Lady of Guadalupe offers a Spanish immersion curriculum, which research shows is the best method for teaching a foreign language. Our Lady provides students in preschool through fifth grade the same comprehensive, innovative curriculum taught throughout Holy Family, but the instruction is in Spanish. With native-speaking teachers on staff, our students master the language and experience Spanish culture right here in Iowa.

Our ideal candidate will be a faithful, innovative, energetic, experienced, organized leader with the ability to work with our team, students, families, and the wider parish community to support our mission to form disciples of Jesus Christ through Catholic educational excellence. This candidate must also be a practicing Catholic and hold a valid Iowa Administrative Licensure. The ability to communicate in Spanish is strongly preferred.

Please consider joining our team and finding your calling. We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience, generous health and dental benefits and K-12 tuition remission. Relocation assistance may also be considered. 

Learn more by visiting our website at: https://www.holyfamilydbq.org/. You can also explore another big perk of the job – the historical and revitalized community of Dubuque – at: https://www.traveldubuque.com/ #whereiowastarted.

To apply, visit https://educateiowa.gov/teach-iowa and search “Wahlert Catholic High School Principal”

St. Columbkille Elementary School Principal

Application Deadline: 1/31/2022

Holy Family Catholic Schools in Dubuque, IA is seeking a dynamic, faith-filled, educational leader to join our administrative team as principal of St. Columbkille Catholic Elementary School effective July 1, 2022.

Holy Family Catholic Schools is the largest Catholic early childhood through 12th-grade school system in Northeast Iowa, serving over 1,800 students at seven sites. At Holy Family, we are dedicated to providing our students with a premier education that will prepare them for a lifetime of success. Our nearly 400 employees are the foundation that makes this mission possible. We strive to create a culture that encourages professional growth while maintaining a work-life balance.

St. Columbkille was named a 2018 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School and a 2011 National Blue Ribbon School. The focus at St. Columbkille elementary is on achieving academic and personal excellence. Serving children in preschool through fifth grade on Dubuque’s south end, St. Columbkille utilizes its culture or community and effective instruction as a Loras College professional development school, to ensure our students develop leadership skills inside and outside the classroom.

Our ideal candidate will be a faithful, innovative, energetic, experienced, organized leader with the ability to work with our team, students, families, and the wider parish community to support our mission to form disciples of Jesus Christ through Catholic educational excellence. This candidate must also be a practicing Catholic and hold a valid Iowa Administrative Licensure. 

Please consider joining our team and finding your calling. We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience, generous health and dental benefits and K-12 tuition remission. Relocation assistance may also be considered. 

Learn more by visiting our website at: https://www.holyfamilydbq.org/. You can also explore another big perk of the job – the historical and revitalized community of Dubuque – at: https://www.traveldubuque.com/ #whereiowastarted.

To apply, visit https://educateiowa.gov/teach-iowa and search “St. Columbkille Elementary School Principal”

Wahlert Catholic High School Principal

Application Deadline: 1/31/2022

Holy Family Catholic Schools in Dubuque, Iowa is seeking a dynamic faith-filled, educational leader to join our administrative team as principal of Wahlert Catholic High School effective July 1, 2022.

Holy Family Catholic Schools is the largest Catholic early childhood through 12th grade school system in Northeast Iowa, serving over 1,800 students at seven sites. At Holy Family, we are dedicated to providing our students with a premier education that will prepare them for a lifetime of success. Our nearly 400 employees are the foundation that makes this mission possible. We strive to create a culture that encourages professional growth while maintaining a work-life balance.

Wahlert Catholic High School offers 1:1 computing technology, a focus on personalized learning, ample opportunity for college credit and robust extracurricular activities with a tradition of success. Beyond the classroom, a thriving high school ministry program and commitment to service and community encourages all students to grow as responsible, conscientious adults, prepared for a future we cannot imagine.

Our ideal candidate will be a faithful, innovative, energetic, experienced, organized leader with the ability to work with our team, students, families, and the wider parish community to support our mission to form disciples of Jesus Christ through Catholic educational excellence. This candidate must also be a practicing Catholic and hold a valid Iowa Administrative Licensure.

Please consider joining our team and finding your calling. We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience, generous health and dental benefits and K-12 tuition remission. Relocation assistance may also be considered.

Learn more by visiting our website at: https://www.holyfamilydbq.org. You can also explore another big perk of the job – the historical and revitalized community of Dubuque – at: https://www.traveldubuque.com/ #whereiowastarted

To apply, visit https://educateiowa.gov/teach-iowa and search “Wahlert Catholic High School Principal”

Author Account Manager

We are looking for an Author Account Manager to create long-term, trusting relationships with our authors. As an Author Account Manager, you will work with authors to help upsell products and add-ons. This role is perfect for those who are just starting out in their sales career. No previous sales experience necessary! We are looking for coachable, highly motivated individuals.

 

Who Is Kendall Hunt Publishing?

Throughout its history, Kendall Hunt Publishing has grown with an emphasis on its employees, fearlessness in innovation, and a strong grip on its values. Today Kendall Hunt continues to expand by growing its number of educational products, creating new companies and extending its services across the country and beyond. Through diversity and willingness to adapt to the ever-changing publishing industry, Kendall Hunt is a company dedicated to growing with the public to best serve the people of the community.

When you work at Kendall Hunt you immediately notice the collaboration, friendliness, and a sense of purpose amongst our employees. Our customers, students, authors, and other outside contacts are always our top priority. We are constantly uncovering new sales channels for current product lines or finding new products to sell to current customers. Join our team of evolving employees to help us maintain our competitive edge in the industries we serve.

 

What Does An Author Account Manager Do?

  • Manage sales and relationships with assigned authors, including up-selling to existing authors to maximize sales
  • Travel to visit assigned authors or attend conventions to promote Kendall Hunt products
  • Initiate and manage revision and reprint process for assigned authors
  • Coordinate contracts and production process for revisions
  • Create schedules and communicates with authors to keep them on schedule
  • Generate leads for outside sales through bookstore contacts and author referrals
  • Proactively work to gain referrals for other potential authors and adopters
  • Implement successful sales strategies to increase sales and profits on assigned accounts

 

Characteristics of Who KH Looks For in an Author Account Manager – You are…

  • A top performer that’s used to going above and beyond the minimum expectations
  • Competitive, highly organized, and self-driven
  • Comfortable and disciplined enough to work from your home office
  • Someone who has “been there” bringing sales experience from any industry that will translate into success with us
  • Someone who holds a Bachelor’s Degree – we are looking for the right person, not a specific degree

 

Why Us? We Understand It’s More Than Just a Job!

Choosing a career path can be one of the most important decision in one’s life. Work is part of a person’s identity. People need compelling reasons to remain at a job and a company day after day, year after year. As you consider a career change, we understand the benefits an employer offers are just as appealing as the job itself.

Our companies offers –

  • Job Stability. Kendall Hunt and their family of companies have been around for over 75 years
  • Career Growth. Gain some great experience to promote to higher roles – many of our leadership and upper management staff worked their way up in our family of companies
  • Base hourly rate, plus commission.
  • Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance with Company paid life insurance, short term and long term disability
  • Generous company match on 401(k) plan, as well as profit sharing
  • 15 days of PTO at hire, plus paid holidays
  • Scholarship and tuition reimbursement

 

All applicants must have valid driver’s license and bachelor’s degree.

 

Outside Sales Representative (Acquisition Representative) – Dubuque

Kendall Hunt Publishing is currently looking for an Acquisition Representative, also known as an Outside Sales Representative. This role requires the candidate to be located in Dubuque, Iowa.

It’s your job to interview, listen for business potential, and persuade select candidates to work with your company by partnering with experts in their field. At Kendall Hunt Publishing, as an Acquisition Representative, you’re the driver and decision maker. You call and travel to different colleges and universities in your territory to identify business opportunities, interview professors, and persuade author candidates that have what it takes to become Kendall Hunt authors. We want to partner with talented educators in charge of lower-level, higher-enrollment courses to develop more interactive and engaging materials that solve the needs of their students and can make an impact in their college career and in the difference they make in the world in the future.

 

Who Is Kendall Hunt Publishing?

Throughout its history, Kendall Hunt Publishing has grown with an emphasis on its employees, fearlessness in innovation, and a strong grip on its values. Today Kendall Hunt continues to expand by growing its number of educational products, creating new companies and extending its services across the country and beyond. Through diversity and willingness to adapt to the ever-changing publishing industry, Kendall Hunt is a company dedicated to growing with the public to best serve the people of the community.

When you work at Kendall Hunt you immediately notice the collaboration, friendliness, and a sense of purpose amongst our employees. Our customers, students, authors, and other outside contacts are always our top priority. We are constantly uncovering new sales channels for current product lines or finding new products to sell to current customers. Join our team of evolving employees to help us maintain our competitive edge in the industries we serve.

 

Characteristics of Who KH Looks For in an Outside Sales Representative – You are…

  • A top performer that’s used to going above and beyond the minimum expectations
  • Competitive, highly organized, and self-driven
  • Someone who has some prior sales experience from any industry that will translate into success with us 
  • Someone who holds a Bachelor’s Degree, and enjoys spending time on college campuses, because in this job, you’ll be spending a lot of time on college campuses in your territory
  • You must be able to work out of our Dubuque, Iowa office
  • You must hold a valid driver’s license – there is travel

 

Why Us? We Understand It’s More Than Just a Job!

Choosing a career path can be one of the most important decision in one’s life. Work is part of a person’s identity. People need compelling reasons to remain at a job and a company day after day, year after year. As you consider a career change, we understand the benefits an employer offers are just as appealing as the job itself.

Our companies offers:

  • Job Stability. Kendall Hunt and their family of companies have been around for more than 75 years
  • Career Growth. Gain some great experience to promote to higher roles – many of our leadership and upper management staff worked their way up in our family of companies
  • Base pay, plus commission.
  • Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance with company paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Generous company match on 401(k) plan, as well as profit sharing
  • A generous PTO policy, plus paid holidays
  • Scholarship and tuition reimbursement

 

All applicants must have valid driver’s license and a bachelor’s degree.

 

HRDept@kendallhunt.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer

M/F/V/H

Publishing Specialist – Digital

Kendall Hunt Publishing is looking for our next Publishing Specialist – Digital to join our Higher Education team. You will focus on developing and coordinating projects with specialization in our online and digital projects.

 

What Will You Do?

As products evolve from print to digital, such as eBooks, websites, etc. the Publishing Specialist step in. The Publishing Specialist – Digital will manage and coordinate projects with specialization in web components. The development phase involves consistent communication between the Acquisitions Editor (sales representative), the Publishing Specialist, and the author to ensure the elements of the project are clearly defined before manuscripts arrive and production begins. The Publishing Specialists serve as an active mediator between several departments, establishing deadlines, collaborating with the Graphic Designers on the book cover, and working with the Permissions Editor to make sure all third part permissions are cleared. When the author has finalized the manuscript, an outside vendor is assigned to complete the copyediting, design layout, typesetting, and art placement. The Publishing Specialist and Acquisitions Editor (sales representative) still monitor the project through completion to ensure quality is maintained.

 

Who Is Kendall Hunt Publishing?

Throughout its history, Kendall Hunt Publishing has grown with an emphasis on its employees, fearlessness in innovation, and a strong grip on its values. Today Kendall Hunt continues to expand by growing its number of educational products, creating new companies and extending its services across the country and beyond. Through diversity and willingness to adapt to the ever-changing publishing industry, Kendall Hunt is a company dedicated to growing with the public to best serve the people of the community.

When you work at Kendall Hunt you immediately notice the collaboration, friendliness, and a sense of purpose amongst our employees. Our customers, students, authors, and other outside contacts are always our top priority. We are constantly uncovering new sales channels for current product lines or finding new products to sell to current customers. Join our team of evolving employees to help us maintain our competitive edge in the industries we serve. 

 

Who You Are…

  • You understand the importance of a positive customer experience and what your role is in that overall experience
  • You have a desire to work with online and web based books
  • You are proficient or knowledgeable of Internet software, Adobe Professional and other InDesign programs, and Microsoft Office programs
  • You don’t mind taking initiative and consider yourself an independent thinker
  • You are a great communicator, people person and problem solver
  • You have inside sales experience and are good at managing multiple opportunities
  • You have a Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or two-four years of related experience

 

Why Us? We Understand It’s More Than Just a Job!

Choosing a career path can be one of the most important decision in one’s life. Work is part of a person’s identity. People need compelling reasons to remain at a job and a company day after day, year after year. As you consider a career change, we understand the benefits an employer offers are just as appealing as the job itself.

Our Companies offers –

  • Job Stability. Kendall Hunt and their family of companies have been around for over 75 years
  • Career Growth. Gain some great experience to promote to higher roles – many of our leadership and upper management staff worked their way up in our family of companies
  • Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance with Company paid life insurance, short term and long term disability
  • Generous company match on 401(k) plan, as well as profit sharing
  • A generous PTO package at hire, plus paid holidays
  • Scholarship and tuition reimbursement

HRDept@kendallhunt.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer

M/F/V/H

 

 

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) TECHNICIAN / INTERN – WATER DEPARTMENT

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) TECHNICIAN / INTERN

WATER DEPARTMENT

 

DID YOU KNOW? The City of Dubuque has over 1,200 GIS data layers in its main database. These are layers that are used by most GIS users every single day. This number does not include the hundreds of department-specific data layers maintained elsewhere! The GIS Office makes maps and manages geographic information for the City of Dubuque. Anything that has a place is something we can map – hydrants, rental licenses, buildings, and more! The City of Dubuque invites applications for a GIS Technician/Intern in our Water Department. The GIS Technician/Intern will assist Water Department professionals in building, maintaining, modifying and using GIS databases; perform some custom application development and provide user support; create and edit desktop GIS data; transcribe information from hard copy documentation into GIS, create maps for other departments; and collect field data using ArcGIS Online and iPads. Knowledge of ESRI ArcGIS Desktop or Pro Applications; completion of a minimum of two introductory courses related to GIS (such as ArcGIS I & II); or the equivalent professional experience to the course requirement qualification is required. The successful candidate will possess the ability to follow a management philosophy that is input oriented and values equity, problem solving and the development of partnerships; and the desire to be part of an organization that values service, people, integrity, responsibility, innovation and teamwork. We offer an hourly wage of $14.89.  To learn more, please go to: www.cityofdubuque.org/employment. Applications will be accepted up to the posting deadline of January 25, 2022 at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/dubuqueia. Questions regarding the position or recruitment process may be directed to the Human Resources Department by emailing humanresources@cityofdubuque.org. EOE  

Utility Worker

UTILITY WORKER

 

The City of Dubuque has adopted an Environmental & Sustainability Commitment and is evaluating our operations and setting goals to lessen our negative impact on the environment. If you are interested in being a part of a team doing meaningful work that supports your community, please join us!  Whether in a City facility or out on city streets, our employees serve our residents, businesses, and visitors every day. We are input-oriented, see problems as opportunities, search for creative solutions, and work as a team to accomplish goals and build partnerships. We are dedicated to the community and to delivering excellent municipal services. The City of Dubuque invites applications for the fulltime position of Utility Worker in our Public Works Department. The Utility Worker will maintain municipal roads and rights-of-way; patch broken or eroded pavement and repair guard rails; mow and clear brush from along roads; plow snow from roadway; operate equipment used for applying concrete, asphalt or other materials to road beds or parking lots or for tamping gravel, dirt, or other materials; operate medium and heavy equipment; and perform and supervise performance of a variety of skilled and semi-skilled tasks in the maintenance, construction and operation of public works and park facilities. Minimum of one year of experience operating light, medium, and heavy construction equipment, and in both asphalt and concrete maintenance and repairs; possession of a Class B CDL with air brakes, combination, and tanker endorsements; confined spaces certification and CDL Class A future goals; and data entry or computer usage experience or education is required. The successful candidate will possess the ability to follow a management philosophy that is input oriented and values equity, problem solving and the development of partnerships; and the desire to be part of an organization that values service, people, integrity, responsibility, innovation and teamwork. In addition to an hourly wage range of $23.48 – $26.28, an attractive benefits package is offered, which includes competitive health and dental insurance, flexible spending options, tuition reimbursement and student loan forgiveness. For access to the position description and benefits information, please go to: www.cityofdubuque.org/employment. Submit your application for consideration at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/dubuqueia prior to the posting deadline of January 20, 2022. Inquiries may be directed to the Human Resources Department via phone at (563) 589-4125 or emailed to humanresources@cityofdubuque.org.  EOE