The Environmental Services Director is responsible for planning, organizing, and developing the overall operation of the Environmental Services departments of housekeeping and laundry in accordance with federal, state, and local standards and guidelines.  This role supports and directs front line staff to ensure the highest degree of clean laundry/linens and facility cleanliness is always maintained. This position is responsible for staffing, scheduling, training, by establishing daily work schedules, assignment of duties and training on supplies and equipment.  The Director establishes and monitors procedures to ensure efficient and standardized work methods are followed. The Director develops a strategic quality plan for the department in alignment with overall organizational plan to include a departmental dashboard to track, trend and report Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The role is also responsible for oversight of the facilities comprehensive waste management program including the handling and disposable of all hazard waste needs. The Director integrates infection prevention and control guidelines and standards within environmental hygiene operations, including waste management, housekeeping, and laundry. Qualifications:

• Associate degree in management, leadership, business, or closely related field preferred.
• Minimum of three years of general environmental services experience, including one year of supervisory experience.  Healthcare setting experience preferred.
• Consideration will be given for candidates with at least two years of general environmental services experience including one year of staff supervision, and/or an acceptable equivalent combination of experiences.
• Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Professional (CHESP) certification preferred.

Schedule: This position is scheduled Monday-Friday day hours.  Occasional evening needs to meet with the staff, conduct meetings, etc.

Hardware Project Engineer

We are seeking a results-driven Hardware Project Engineer to offer electrical engineering expertise within large-scale industrial food processing projects. Your role will focus on ensuring punctual delivery of engineering services that consistently exceed our customer expectations. Apply now to become a key player in our project-centric engineering environment.

‍Tasks

• Designs motor and control cabinets for plants and machines according to customer requirements and in correspondence to local standards?
• Uses ECAD systems to engineer electrical schematics, network concepts and layouts for (motor) control cabinets?
• Prepares all necessary project execution specification/documentation for purchase orders and ensures timely submission of purchase orders?
• Leads the interfaces to purchasing, manufacturing, electrical installation engineering and commissioning?
• Resolves issues and answers questions that may occur during the design, manufacturing, installation and/or commissioning phase of projects; may escalate more complex questions or issues to leadership personnel for resolution or guidance?
• Tracks project schedules to ensure tasks are completed on time and in totality?
• Manages assigned budget, including cost and quality of subcontracted design services?
• Participates in continual learning activities and applies practical applications to work performed?
• Performs other duties as assigned?

Required qualifications

• Technical/Vocational diploma or degree from an accredited institution in mechanical, electrical or automation engineering or related field
• Experience in hardware engineering with any ECAD system (EBase, Ruplan, Eplan, AutoCAD, etc)?is a plus
• Experience in cabinet layouts is a plus?
• Knowledge about local electrical standard UL 508A?is a plus
• Teamwork - works collaboratively with employees in order to achieve a common goal?
• Judgment/Decision Making/Problem Solving - utilizes effective approaches for choosing a course of action for developing appropriate solutions?
• Oral and Written Communication - presents information, analysis, and ideas in writing in a clear and concise manner; speaks clearly so that others can hear and understand what is being said?
• Managing Risk - takes actions in which the benefits to the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery are weighed against potential risks?
• Planning/Organizing - sets clear goals and functions effectively under critical and tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and other pressures?
• Speaks and understands English?
• Domestic and international travel ~15% time which may include long hours and non-traditional work schedules?

Benefits

• International and successful company with sustainable prospects for the future
• Wide technical & modern environment with interesting challenges
• Professional environment with an open communication culture
• Exciting development and training opportunities
• Great and dynamic work environment
• Health Insurance with Health Savings Account
• Dental
• Vision and Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• 401(k) with 6% company contribution
• 15 days vacation
• Sick Time
• Maternity and Paternity Leave

Quality Engineer II

With more than $1B in revenue, we are a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. We are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey here can take you places you never expected.

We are currently seeking a Quality Engineer II to support the Operations Department's mission to be the center of operational excellence delivering the highest level of customer satisfaction by focusing on continuous improvement activities and root cause problem solving.  In addition, this role is responsible for the continued development, maturation, and implementation of the Minneapolis Plant 1 quality management of ISO 9001.2015.  

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support action items from Tier I, II & III meetings
• Support Lean solutions – waste reduction – share successes with other plants around the globe
  • Identify, support and lead actions for implementing cost improvements/lean projects
  • Manage projects to develop new technologies & processes
  • Create & implement standard work to drive consistency and improve productivity
  • Lead Continuous Improvement Events (Kaizens)
• Support New Product Engineering and new product launches
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineers to develop capable processes – leverage technology & design improvement where possible
• Learn H.E.A.T. (Hydraulics, Electrical, Adhesives & Torque) Program for best build practices
• Maintain a floor presence to show support for the production team and foster positive working relationships
• Confer with vendors to determine product specifications and arrange for purchase of equipment, materials or parts and evaluates products according to specifications and quality standards
• Estimate staffing requirements, and related costs to provide information for management decisions
• Enact engineered poke yoke solutions on reoccurring quality issues
• Ensure the circulation and implementation of Quality Management System Guidelines within the plant, in compliance with international standards and consistent with related “best practices” and company strategies;
• Guarantees all the activities required in order to achieve and maintain ISO Certification for the Quality Management System, in accordance with Company strategies;
• Ensure reports and documentation about quality-related procedures which are implemented in the assigned site/plant;
• Guarantee a continuous internal auditing in the assigned site/plant for the Quality Management System adopted;
• Ensure the editing of reports about Quality indicators in the site/plant of his/her area of responsibility and the permanent monitoring of company process in accordance with company strategic plans

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Basic CAD / drawing knowledge
• Ability to use Microsoft Office programs including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with peers and leaders to document and improve key processes

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing Engineering OR related field
• 3+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment
• 4+ years of experience working in an ISO environment
• 2+ years documenting and leading a site in the establishment of ISO systems
• Strong experience in calibration
• Experience in Continuous Improvement and Lean manufacturing.
• Experience using poke yoke thought processes and root cause corrective action
• Proven track record of innovation, ingenuity, creativity, attention to detail, ownership, integrity, accountability and willingness to seek challenging tasks/projects
• Six Sigma Black Belt and Formal Lean Training / Waste Reduction preferred
• Experience with SAP or similar enterprise resource planning software
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

REQUIRED INTERPERSONAL & BEHAVIORAL SKILLS:

• Ability to problem-solve.
• Ability to concentrate on tasks, make decisions and work calmly and effectively in a high-pressure, deadline oriented environment.
• Willingness to be flexible with time and adjust to a changing work environment.
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships, both internally and externally, while maintaining a client service orientation.
• Ability to use sound judgment and discretion in dealing with highly confidential information.
• Consistent attendance either onsite or remotely as needed by the business.
• Ability to take direction and accept supervision. Ability to provide direction to a small team.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, organize and accurately prioritize work, be detail-oriented, understand when urgency is required and use good judgment in varied situations.

REQUIRED PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Must regularly lift and/or moved up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 40 pounds
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Regularly required to stand, use hands to grip, handle or feel objects, tools or controls and reach with hands and arms
• Frequently required to walk, talk and hear

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to wear safety glasses, steel toed shoes, protective gloves, and hearing protection

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Job Summary:

‍The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for creating software that delights our customers and users in a way that is also easily maintainable. The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of software solutions.  You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, design scalable architectures, and deliver robust, efficient software products.

‍General Responsibilities:

• Research, design, implement, and maintain software features through ongoing feature development, refactoring, and by addressing bugs.
• Build highly performant, fault tolerant, high-quality, scalable software.
• Actively seek to learn and improve the company, department, team, and themselves.
• Develop intuitive software that meets the needs of the company and our customers.
• Leverage technical knowledge, skills, and experience to improve department processes and software quality.
• Write quality unit and integration tests.
• Analyze and test programs and products before formal launch.
• Contribute and adhere to best practices in software development.
• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Communicate with and train stakeholders on completed work for documentation, customer training, troubleshooting, and quality.
• Provide mentoring for other Software Engineers.
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in software development and recommend new tools and techniques to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and methodologies.
• Participate in educational opportunities like online course materials, professional publications, conferences, meet-ups, etc.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

‍Additional Required Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Strong architectural and design skills, with the ability to architect complex systems and make informed technical decisions.
• Analytical and creative problem solving.
• High level of organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently.

‍Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of relevant experience developing enterprise scale, web-based software applications.
• 4+ years of C# experience.
• 2+ years of Microsoft SQL database experience required (4+ preferred).
• 4+ years’ experience developing applications using RESTful APIs.
• 4+ years’ experience developing REST API driven applications using C# .NET framework and/or ASP.NET.
• Expertise in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js), React preferred.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) to manage source code and facilitate collaboration within the development team.
• Experience with testing and mocking frameworks (e.g., MSTest, NUnit, XUnit, Moq)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and DevOps practices. Azure preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD, preferably Azure YAML pipelines.
• Experience with static and dynamic code analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube, Veracode, ReSharper).
• Experience with one or more of the following required: Domain Driven Design, event-based architecture, distributed systems, microservices, clean architecture, 12-factor App.

‍Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift to 10 pounds at times.

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‍Job Summary:

‍The Software Engineer is responsible for creating software that delights our customers and users in a way that is also easily maintainable. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and deliver high-quality software solutions that meet customer needs.

‍General Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain software features through ongoing feature development, refactoring, and by addressing bugs.
• Build highly performant, fault tolerant, high-quality, scalable software.
• Actively seek to learn and improve the company, department, team, and themselves.
• Develop intuitive software that meets the needs of the company and our customers.
• Write quality unit and integration tests.
• Analyze and test programs and products before formal launch.
• Contribute and adhere to best practices in software development.
• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Communicate with and train stakeholders on completed work for the purposes of documentation, customer training, troubleshooting, and quality.
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in software development.
• Participate in educational opportunities like online course materials, professional publications, conferences, meet-ups, etc.
• Coordinate with the Lead Software Engineer regarding the status of their work, ensuring that it meets expectations.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

‍Additional Required Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Analytical and creative problem solving.
• High level of organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently.

‍Education and Experience:

• Associate degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 2+ years of relevant experience developing enterprise scale, web-based software applications.
• 1+ years of C# experience.
• 1+ years of Microsoft SQL database experience required.
• 1+ years’ experience developing applications using RESTful APIs.
• 1+ years’ experience developing REST API driven applications using C# .NET framework and/or ASP.NET.
• Experience in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js), React preferred.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) to manage source code and facilitate collaboration within the development team.
• Experience with testing and mocking frameworks (e.g., MSTest, NUnit, XUnit, Moq)

‍Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift to 10 pounds at times.

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Senior Human Resources Generalist

Eagan, MN (Moving to Bloomington summer 2024)

Job Summary:

The Senior Human Resources Generalist is an assigned HR Business Partner to departments and consults with management at all levels on employee relations and department initiatives, including advising on employee performance and development, strategic planning, and problem-resolution strategies. The Senior HR Generalist manages HR projects with varying complexities while ensuring alignment with the company’s mission, vision, and values. The Senior HR Generalist administers employee health, welfare, and 401(k) plans and provides administrative support to the human resources functions.

General Responsibilities:

•    Consult with assigned business partners on HR functions while ensuring alignment with HR best practices and department/company goals

•    Train and partner with leaders on supervisory related responsibilities such as performance management

•    Manage HR projects while ensuring alignment with company goals and initiatives

•    Implement improvements in and create processes and policies

•    Navigate complex HR related situations at all levels of the company and contribute to the decision making process

•    Identify areas of opportunity to improve the employee experience and develop and implement solutions

•    Seek professional development opportunities in the HR realm and translate new knowledge by making improvements to the business

•    Monitor HR trends and best practices and ensure employment laws are followed and develop solutions to ensure alignment with the market  

•    Administer and manage health, welfare, and 401(k) plans, including audits, invoices, and open enrollment process

•    Complete all HR tasks associated with the employee onboarding and offboarding processes while automating processes as applicable

•    Maintain employee personnel files and process changes through payroll and benefits to ensure accurate record-keeping

•    Process internal payroll on a biweekly basis

•    Respond to employee questions while following the service level agreements

•    Provide administrative support to Human Resources Management

•    Perform other related duties as assigned

Required Skills and Abilities:

•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills

•    Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills

•    Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related software

•    Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

•    Advanced understanding of human resources principles, practices and procedures

•    Ability to work well independently and in a fast-paced environment

•    Ability to convey information clearly and accurately

•    Ability to maintain sensitive and confidential information

Education and Experience:

•    Bachelor’s degree in human resources or related field and/or equivalent experience required

•    4+ years of experience in human resources, staffing, recruiting, or related field

•    Experience consulting with leadership at all levels of an organization

•    Experience managing HR projects and ensuring HR initiatives align with company vision

•    Experience processing payroll  

•    Knowledge of HR and benefits software

•    Knowledge of local, state and federal labor laws and regulations

•    SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP highly preferred

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‍Job Summary:

‍The Lead Software Engineer works with a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality code in a timely manner.

The Lead Software Engineer is responsible and accountable for the quality of the code produced by their team as well as the timeliness of its delivery. The Lead Software Engineer cooperates with other roles to ensure that risks are communicated so that projects can adapt, and expectations can be managed. The Lead Software Engineer uses their knowledge of our company, its customers, its code, and their team to ensure that all members of the team are productive and effective in their assigned tasks.

‍General Responsibilities:

• Acts as scrum master, leading their assigned team through scrum ceremonies (standup, refinement, planning, review, retro)
  • Proactively identifies when team members are blocked but have not communicated it
  • Respects the team’s time by tabling larger discussions for the appropriate audience
  • Ensures the team understands business requirements
  • Revises practices to streamline the team’s operation.
• Adapts their leadership style to accommodate the skills and experience of their team members. Assigns and documents tasks at the appropriate level of detail.
• Ensures the team:
  • is unblocked quickly and effectively, tapping appropriate additional resources as necessary
  • consistently delivers on commitments
  • makes commitments approximating the Capacity Budget.
• Reviews code written by any engineer, regardless of team, in their own area(s) of expertise.
• Uses code reviews to maintain standards, quality of code, coaching team members on best practices, and growing team skills.
• Promotes cross training of team members and balances that with team deliverables.
• Acts as point of contact for the team to external stakeholders (i.e., Architect, UX, Technical Project Manager, Business Analyst, Software Engineering Manager.
• Coordinates with external stakeholders to ensure that the team’s work meets their expectations.
• Works with external stakeholders to make high level decisions about team workload, project timelines, business requirements, quarterly deliverables etc.
• Spends approximately 10 – 20% of their own time writing code or performing other technical duties related to assigned projects.
• Engages in continuous personal growth of their own software knowledge and skills.
• Proactively improves their team, department, and the company.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Additional Required Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
• Understands individual strengths and areas of opportunity for members of their team.
• Communicates technical concepts to non-technical individuals.
• Identifies when and how to create a compromise in a group with multiple stakeholders.
• Documents technical requirements clearly for their team.
• Manages expectations of stakeholders by presenting multiple options instead of single solutions.
• Effectively negotiates changes to scope, delivery date, and team size when such changes are needed.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrated leadership experience, with the ability to inspire and motivate team members, resolve conflicts, and drive consensus on technical decisions.
• Experience in project planning, resource allocation, and execution.
• 5+ years of relevant experience developing enterprise scale, web-based software applications.
• 4+ years of C# experience.
• 2+ years of Microsoft SQL database experience required (4+ preferred).
• 4+ years’ experience developing applications using RESTful APIs.
• 4+ years’ experience developing REST API driven applications using C# .NET framework and/or ASP.NET.
• Expertise in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js), React preferred.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) to manage source code and facilitate collaboration within the development team.
• Experience with testing and mocking frameworks (e.g., MSTest, NUnit, XUnit, Moq)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and DevOps practices. Azure preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD, preferably Azure YAML pipelines.
• Experience with static and dynamic code analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube, Veracode, ReSharper).

‍Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting and/or standing at desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift to 10 pounds at times.

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‍Description

This position is in our Maple Grove, MN or West Des Moines, IA offices.

‍We have an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer III to join our team. We are looking for individuals who want to embrace the advantages of technology and dedicate importance to ensure our software packages are the easiest and most efficient in the industry. Bring your passion for innovation to an Agile environment to help serve quality software products to our farmers, agents, and re-insurers. You will primarily work with your team and external teams to solve challenging problems, communicate status to stakeholders, implement process changes and research new technologies. Rely on your broad experience and leadership skills to plan your team’s upcoming work in collaboration with a lead engineer and mentoring less experienced team members. Your role is critical in keeping the team focused and moving at a sustainable pace.

‍In This Exciting Opportunity You Will‍

• Help lead the development team to ensure that software products deliver business value, are completed on time, are of high quality, and minimize technical debt.
• Assist in the coding efforts within a project team while clearly communicating actionable information to the team.
• Establish and uphold firm expectations and ensure that deliverables are self-certified prior to transitioning to the downstream consumers of the deliverable.
• Participate in the assessment and identification of project and/or business risks.
• Participate in Software Development, team, or individual meetings with management, preparing discussion topics and presenting information in a professional manner.
  

What You’ll Bring‍

• 6-8 years of relevant and progressive professional experience in software development and developing .NET technology solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field, or the equivalent education and/or experience.
• Strong skills and experience in C# and React 18, ag-grid, and responsive design concepts.
• Working knowledge in
  • SQL/PostgreSQL
  • .NET Core & EFCore Code-First
  • Entity framework
  • Git/TFS
  • TypeScript
  • Unit testing
  • AWS/Azure cloud technologies
• Desire to learn and upskill.

What We Represent‍

• Part of something bigger: We offer a career with purpose as you support the farmers and ranchers who create food, fuel and fiber for the world.
• Personal connections: We are built on strong relationships and appreciation of your individuality.
• A team who cares: We look out for each other personally and professionally because we care about each other.
• Innovators by trade: We’re committed to a brighter tomorrow for our team members and for agriculture.

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The Director of Nutrition Services is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the activities of the nutrition services department. By fostering teamwork, this role will oversee the day-to-day operations in providing high quality food and nutrition services to acute care patients, GlenFields residents, Orchard Estates tenants, employees, and guests.  This position is responsible for maintaining safe food practices in accordance with current state and federal regulations along with instilling the highest clinical and food service standards for the department’s success.

Qualifications:

• Will need to meet the conditions of one of the following options:
  • Be a certified dietary manager; or
  • Be a certified food service manager; or
  • Have similar national certification for food service management and safety from a national certifying body; or
  • Have an associate's or higher degree in food service management or in hospitality, if the course study includes food service or restaurant management, from an accredited institution of higher learning.
• ServSafe certification required.
• 3+ years in food service management experience.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills required.
• Strong computer skillset with knowledge of Windows-based computer systems.

Schedule: This position has a Monday through Friday schedule with an occasional weekend availability as needed.

Senior Business Tax Manager - Construction / Real Estate

The Sr. Tax Manager will work closely with the Business Tax Services leader to develop and assist in growing our services with Construction and Real Estate clients.

We will take a vested interest in your personal and professional development- come grow your career with us!

The primary responsibilities of this position include:

• Prepare complex returns
• Conduct initial review of tax returns
• Assist with year-end and general tax planning
• Perform high-level tax research projects
• Support all aspects of client services and foster client relationships

The successful candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Active CPA license
• At least 5 - 10 years of public accounting experience in Tax with a focus on construction and/or real estate clients
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Capacity to manage multiple projects
• Advanced technical knowledge of tax concepts and the ability to apply these services to various client situations
• Demonstrate personal commitment to the Firm’s core values – Caring, Committed, Continuously Improving, Confident and Connected
• Positive attitude and willingness to work in a team environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

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Business Tax Manager

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Our Business Tax team is seeking a talented and initiative-taking professional with a tax background in public accounting.  The position will serve an instrumental role by upholding our reputation with clients that we care!

This role will work closely with the Business Tax Services leader to develop and assist in growing our services in a variety of industries including Manufacturing and Distribution, Construction and Real Estate, Engineering, Healthcare, Technology and Nonprofit.

We will take a vested interest in your personal and professional development- come grow your career with us!

The primary responsibilities of this position include:

• Prepare complex returns
• Conduct initial review of tax returns
• Assist with year-end and general tax planning
• Perform mid-level tax research projects
• Support all aspects of client services and foster client relationships

The successful candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Active CPA license
• At least 5 - 10 years of public accounting experience in Tax
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Capacity to manage multiple projects
• Advanced technical knowledge of tax concepts and the ability to apply these services to various client situations
• Demonstrate personal commitment to the Firm’s core values – Caring, Committed, Continuously Improving, Confident and Connected
• Positive attitude and willingness to work in a team environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

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Senior Tax Associate

This role will work closely with the Business Tax Services leader to develop and assist in growing our services in a variety of industries including Nonprofit, Manufacturing and Distribution, Construction, Engineering, Healthcare, and Technology.

In Office in St. Paul or White Bear Lake 5 days a week

We will take a vested interest in your personal and professional development- come grow your career with us!

The primary responsibilities of this position include:

• Prepare complex returns
• Perform initial review of tax returns
• Assist with year-end and general tax planning
• Perform mid-level tax research projects
• Support all aspects of client services and foster client relationships

The successful candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Active CPA license or plans to pursue in the short term
• At least 2 years of public accounting experience in Tax
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Capacity to manage multiple projects
• Advanced technical knowledge of tax concepts and the ability to apply these services to various client situations
• Demonstrate personal commitment to the Firm’s core values – Caring, Committed, Continuously Improving, Confident and Connected
• Positive attitude and willingness to work in a team environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

About:

Our firm helps clients make more informed decisions that contribute to their financial well-being by providing proactive, innovative, and value-driven CPA and advisory services for closely-held businesses, private equity, government entities, and nonprofit organizations. Core commercial industries served include manufacturing and distribution; construction, real estate, and engineering; and technology.

Areas of service expertise include audit and assurance; personal, business, and international tax; state and local tax; sales and use tax; and succession and estate planning. Our company also guides clients throughout the entire business life cycle with performance optimization and process improvement; M&A advisory, including corporate and deal strategy, due diligence (financial, tax, operations, and IT), financial modeling, and M&A integration; accounting and management outsourcing; and valuations.

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Senior Controls Engineer

Description

We are hiring a Senior Controls Engineer who is responsible for the control systems on the manufacturing and packaging equipment at the Minnesota site. This role will support the design, procurement, installation, and qualification of GMP process equipment.

Job duties:

• SME for PLC, HMI, and Robot software updates and programming.
• SME for audit trails, batch trails, and data integrity on commercial equipment.
• Responsible for creating new Robot recipes for packaging new product.
• Maintain database of software backups on all commercial equipment.
• Assist with network and LDAP authentication within the manufacturing IT network.
• Draft User Requirement Specifications (URS) for manufacturing and packaging equipment.
• Organizes and generates all relevant controls data to prepare project scopes, cost estimates, economic justifications, and capital appropriation requests, as required, to obtain management approval. Manage and maintain project budgets; ensure project execution per planned budgets.
• Create and update GMP documentation as needed by the project, including, but not limited to, equipment qualifications, change controls, SOP’s, equipment manuals.
• Troubleshoots complex equipment related issues and develops sound engineering solutions to address identified problems for assigned systems.
• Engage with both internal personnel and external vendors for issue resolution.
• Supports site reliability efforts by monitoring key equipment performance variables and proactively identifying and addressing issues before they cause unplanned equipment downtime.
• Initiate and own change controls for equipment modifications.
• Lead investigations to adequately identify root cause and implement appropriate corrective and preventative actions (CAPAs) to prevent reoccurrence.
• Routinely interact with internal Technical Services, QA, and EH&S personnel to achieve project and production goals.
• Lead for the execution of start-up and commissioning activities for minor and major equipment upgrades.
• Contributing to equipment safety reviews.
• Champion the use of continuous improvement.
• Mentors and trains other engineers on automation practices.
• Domestic and International travel required.
• Perform other Tasks as assigned.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field
• 6 or more years (6+) of relevant work experience in a pharmaceutical or similar manufacturing engineering environment
• Experience with the procurement, installation, and validation of complex equipment
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical GMPs and regulatory (FDA, DEA, OSHA) requirements
• Strong written and oral communication skills, technical writing experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and prioritize critical tasks
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, and some or all of: CAD software, ladder logic programming, Rockwell Automation software/hardware, Siemens software/hardware, Fanuc Robots, Universal Robots, and ABB Robots

About Us:

Our focus is on health care products that improve people’s lives. We are a market-leading generic prescription pharmaceutical company that specializes in “extended topical” medications, like creams, foams, mousses, gels, liquids and inhalable products. It’s a great time to join our team because we have a high growth trajectory with now more than 1,300 employees across six locations in the United States and Israel. We’ve already established a successful track record of launching first-to-file and first-to-market generic pharmaceutical products that have helped to make prescription products more affordable for patients and reduce costs for the healthcare system. Our team members work in a dynamic environment where opportunity is built on a foundation of honesty and transparency. Please consider joining our team where great things are happening and you can make a difference.

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We are hiring a Global Supplier Development Engineer at our Global Innovation Center in Golden Valley, MN.  The Supplier Development Engineer (SDE) will bring strategic component suppliers from prototype to volume production. In this highly visible role, the candidate will act as a key technical leader for components of products and evaluate production capability, supplier qualification, process and component qualification, technical roadmaps and reliability plans within New Product Development (NPD). The successful candidate will identify areas of quality improvement for suppliers, develop methods and tools to monitor the improvement and will work with several cross functional teams in NPD, Engineering, Operations, and Global Supply to conceive and implement programs of strategic importance to product quality roadmaps.  The scope of this role also encompasses strategic initiatives and activities to support continuous improvement and lean methodologies.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Proactively engage with assigned suppliers in NPD Early Supplier Involvement initiatives and coordinate cross functional team activities around defined actions enabling aligned specifications, supplier validation and delivered quality.
• Drive a structured approach, with suppliers, during the NPD phases utilizing tools such as capability assessments, process mapping, PFMEA, and part qualification - Material Design Review and First Articles
• Facilitate supplier drawing design reviews encompassing supplier design simulation, testing, and validation activities to ensure delivered quality at both the prototype and product launch phase
• Partners with design engineering team to review component drawing including tolerance, GD&T and identify areas of improvement and influence improvements
• Initiates and authors deviations, coordinates and owns Engineering Change Order (ECO) process task for the release of production parts, and manages and resolves quality notifications
• Participates in the development of project plans, schedules, and metrics.  Tracks and reports progress to leadership.
• Actively identify areas of risk with mitigation plans to ensure project execution and improved performance
• Lead projects as requested pertaining to process development, fixture development, and/or equipment implementation leading to cost reductions and speed improvements
• Communicate and enforce supplier manual and Performance expectations
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with open communication to key internal work partners and suppliers
• Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to the Supply Chain / Suppliers including Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Transformation Plan, Root Cause/ Counter Measure (RCCM) and Project Charter (A3)
• Own and lead continuous improvement activities and strategic initiatives

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Bachelor level degree in Engineering. Electrical Engineering preferred.
• 5+ years component and quality experience with focus on electrical components, harness, batteries, and chargers, among others.
• Industry leadership in the area of high quality, reliability, and availability components and products
• Demonstrated problem solving skills, experience in statistical methods of data analysis including DOE and SPC
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, requirements, and specifications
• Experience in defining, executing, and continuously improving component qualification/certification/audit specifications and criteria
• MS Office, SAP, or related ERP experience

REQUIRED INTERPERSONAL & BEHAVIORAL SKILLS:

• Results oriented with a strong focus on quality systems
• High level of customer service and collaboration skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships, both internally and externally, while maintaining a client service orientation
• Strong negotiation skills
• Ability to execute on and implement strategic initiatives
• Up to 20% Travel

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Company is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of individual skill, ability, reliability, productivity, and other factors important to performance. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, military service, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information (including family medical history), marital status, gender identity or expression, parental status, political or any other non-merit based factors protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.

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