Job Postings

.Net Developer
Our client is hiring a .Net Developer for their team in Vancouver, Washington. This contract .Net Developer position is in the Transmission Technology System Development and Support (TTSD) organization. The TTSD organization develops and implements customized technology solutions to support our client's Control Centers. This position will assist in interpreting design specifications, assist with technical design, and provide coding software following test and deployment procedures, Work will be performed in compliance with project documentation requirements and participating on a development team using a mix of development methodologies including Agile.

Organization & Culture
TTSD is unique in that we are the only group within the company that does custom design, development, and maintenance of grid operations software solutions. Our group consists of six sub-teams, of .Net and Java expertise across multiple systems.  Candidates must have strong technical and team skills to be able to do the job.  Utility experience is ideal.  Our team members must be able to learn and understand the complex interactions between multiple interconnected systems in order to build creative solutions and find and fix unique problems.  We look for people who possess intuition and sleuthing skills beyond the basic diagnostic skills. Candidates also need the ability to understand and fulfill the various compliance requirements that regulate our business, supporting the safety and security of our systems.

.Net Developer Responsibilities
Design, develop, test and deploy n-tier C#.Net applications utilizing the .Net 3.5 framework and later.
Perform occasional administration of Windows Server (2008 or newer) in both virtual and non-virtual environments including applying Microsoft security patches.
Design, document, and communicate effective technical solutions for programs or applications meeting end-user requirements.
Design, develop, test and deploy n-tier web and client-server applications.
Design, develop, test and deploy User Interfaces. 
Work collaboratively with users and technical staff to design streamlined and efficient user interfaces.
Develop code in accordance with the system requirements.
Identify or resolve problems in applications at all system tiers (Application, Server, Database, Network) 
Troubleshoot performance and interoperability problems between desktop applications, servers and databases.
Participate in creation of implementation strategy and plan, and review of deliverables.
Actively participate and assist in the day-to-day implementation schedule preparation and activities. 
Leverage automated testing to consistently deliver reliable, high-quality code.
Participate in developing unit and functional test plans. 
Design, develop and conduct automated unit and regression tests.
Document and implement software deployment procedures, leveraging existing control center tools and creating custom solutions as needed.
Analyze, test, and apply changes to the application environment while following established change management procedures and requirements.
Utilize SQL to perform data modeling tasks and manipulate data in Microsoft databases.
Utilize C# .NET to produce text, HTML, and Excel-based reports (including charts).
Develop batch programs, Windows services; DCOM distributed processing programs, web services, and web user interfaces using C# .NET.
Suggest changes in data collection and reporting processes based on subject matter expert’s interpretation of national and regional reporting requirements.
Work with users to design custom web-based tools.
Utilize the PI-Software Development Kit (SDK) to programmatically fetch data from the PI historian.
Answer questions internal personnel have about information stored in the data historians.
Perform occasional Internet Information Server (IIS) administration tasks.

When needed, provide technical expertise to support the following:
Break down technical work into tasks and provide reasonable time estimates to complete them.
Review other developers’ code and provide technical and constructive feedback where necessary to verify that their code follows company and team coding standards and programming best practices.
Communicate status of project development work to project team, users, information system owner and others.
Analyze and interpret system functional and non-functional requirements and propose technical designs that satisfy the requirements that also minimize the long-term maintenance of the system.
Identify and escalate technical bottlenecks and impediments to the project manager, information system owner (ISO), and ISO delegate.
Produce needed technical documentation.

Mentor and assist other members of the software development team.
Produce robust, efficient, and secure code for applications that interact with end users in high availability environments.
Participate in creating team resources and reusable code libraries.
Participate in developing technical, user documentation, and training materials. 
Work collaboratively with users and technical staff to design streamlined user interfaces.
Develop Web pages incorporating interactive elements using Java, XML or Active X.
Collaborate with software developers, testers and users throughout the System Development Life Cycle.
Productively integrate with an existing Agile development team. 
Communicate technical information verbally and in writing to technical and non-technical users.
Support Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards and North American Electric Reliability Corporation critical infrastructure protection (NERC-CIP) compliance when performing assigned work.

.Net Developer Qualifications
Education & Corresponding Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a directly related field is preferred.
With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 8 years of experience is required.  
Without an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 12+ years of experience is required.
Experience should include demonstrated software programming work experience in Computer Science/Information Technology and developing and implementing technology solutions.

Required Technical Skills & Experience:
8+ years of experience in software development with at least 5 years of this experience using Microsoft technologies
5+ years of experience developing with .NET framework and C#
5+ years of demonstrated expert level .NET programming within an experienced development team
5+ years of experience with the following:
Object Oriented design principles
Database Access (design and query Microsoft databases using SQL)
Microsoft Visual Studio IDE 
Microsoft Office Suite applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Project). 
5+ years of experience utilizing software industry best practices for code development, critical system deployment, and software documentation
5+ years of experience with Microsoft shell languages (DOS/PowerShell)
5+ years of experience with Microsoft NTSF file and folder security controls
3+ years of experience with ASP.NET web applications and console-based applications using C#

Preferred Skills & Experience:
Experience producing SOAP and/or REST web services in C#
Experience producing Windows Services in C#
Experience programmatically generating Excel spreadsheets using C#
Experience making configuration changes to Microsoft’s IIS version 7.5
Experience collaborating with software developers, testers and users throughout the System Development Life Cycle
Experience with XML schemas and data structures
Experience using the Aspose Cells API 
Experience using the PI-SDK object model
Knowledge of how program demands affect both server virtual and non-virtual resources
Utility experience is highly preferred including business knowledge of transmission information, equipment ratings, and components used in the electric utility industry.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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.NET Technical Lead
The Digital Technical Lead will provide software development leadership, technical guidance, and hands-on coding experience into the web and mobile application development project streams.

Work with enterprise architects and oversee development teams to provide scalable, secure, and innovative solutions that align with business roadmaps and exceeds customer expectations.

Drive development team implementations in technologies that include .Net core, C#, Angular JS, Node JS, DevOps CI/CD, unit testing, JSON/Restful APIs, XML, SQL, Biztalk.

.NET Technical Lead Responsibilities 
Lead by example the software development team and maintain synergy with different teams 
Provide technical direction for the digital portfolio while staying aligned with enterprise architecture team
Ensure digital applications are security/NIST compliant, sufficiently unit tested, and PCI compliant
Manage the development of the feature backlog as prioritized by product owners.
Act as scrum master when necessary for the digital development teams.
Take operational responsibility for the code that is delivered by the digital development team
Resolve process inefficiencies in the code development process and help
Conduct code reviews to enforce design decisions, coding standards, and UI standards.
Collaborate with product development teams, build engineers and SQA on CI/CD development pipeline and testing automation.
Participate in toolset selection, vendor management and enterprise integration.
Other job duties as assigned.

.NET Technical Lead Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, is preferred or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Minimum of three years relevant experience in leading web and mobile software development implementations with proven results and 7 years development experience is required.
Scrum Master certified is preferred.
Hands-on coding experience with modern technologies; passionate in leading software development solutions is required. 
Environment where pets are present.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

3D Material Artist
Our client is hiring a 3D Material Artist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. They need an expert 3D material artist contractor who is exceptionally proficient in authoring complex photorealistic materials. Part of the digital transformation hinges on the ability of the 3D materials team to deliver photorealistic footwear materials and textures. Our best material artists are technically minded, highly organized, and savvy with a breadth of digital tools while ambitious to learn new programs and techniques. They can work independently, efficiently problem solve, and bring enthusiasm to the team. They will have a firm comprehension of how light interacts with geometry, complex materials, and color as well as how our eyes spectrally perceive these interactions. They can demonstrate a mastery of PBR and energy conservation SVBxDF models.

3D Material Artist Responsibilities
On the daily, you will utilize your 3D material authoring skills to contribute in the creation of accurate 3D footwear materials that reflect company technical guidelines while ensuring consistency and quality across a large volume of assets. Additionally, you will self-manage project resources and track project status to keep the team updated on progress. You will speak accurately to the work as needed and professionally represent the team. You will be charged with creating some of the most complex materials that exist today. You will need to be able to solve for such things as lenticulars, holographic, retroreflection, and micro-color-shifting-dispersive materials at microscopic resolution. You will work on the Digital Product Creation footwear production studio team alongside world class modelers, material artists, compositors, and coordinators. You will work with the production studio management as well as footwear capabilities and technology stakeholders. You will also collaborate process and workflows with the footwear 3D design teams.

3D Material Artist Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Design/Art, 3D Art, Game Design or related field.
5+ years’ experience successfully delivering results in a production or creative studio.
Substance Designer experience to author algorithmically generated textures preferred.
An understanding of end-to-end modeling, texturing, rendering workflows.
Proficiency in lighting, rendering & composition.
An exceptional eye for matching the appearance of physical materials.
Expert level proficiency in standard 3D tools, 3D material authoring techniques; Maya & Modo experience preferred.
Professional experience working in raytracing pipelines such as Vray, Arnold & Octane.
A portfolio that demonstrates photorealistic material/texture authoring abilities.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Accountant
Our world renowned client has been in the retail clothing business for over 150 years. They are looking for an Accountant to support month end closing for their office in Eugene, Oregon. This role is a great opportunity to gain professional development in a stable company in the heart of Oregon Duck country. 

Responsibilities of the Accountant
Monthly account reconciliations.
Month end schedules.
Journal entries.
Manage cash and credit transactions.
Ad hoc reporting and analysis as requested.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Accountant Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA a plus.
1-3 years of accounting experience; public accounting background preferred.
MS Office Suite experience, with intermediate skills in Excel and Word.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accountant
Our Vancouver client is looking to add a high energy and dynamic Accountant to support accounts receivable functions for their team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing company and gain professional experience.

Accountant Responsibilities
Manage bank functions.
Cash management.
Set up AP invoices in Quickbooks.
Post payments.
Assist with month- and year-end closing.
Financial statements.
Other duties as assigned.

Accountant Qualifications
Associate or Bachelor's degree in Accounting preferred.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel, Outlook, and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Knowledge of QuickBooks. 
Excellent customer service and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accounting Manager
Our local Tigard client is seeking an Accounting Manager to oversee all accounting functions. This role will be working with a well-tenured group and is a great opportunity to be a key player in a company that is experiencing a good amount of growth.

Responsibilities of the Accounting Manager
Develop, train, and mentor accounting staff.
Oversee accounting functions and processes.
Lead the continuous development and implementation of accounting policy, internal controls, best practice, and process improvements.
Financial reporting and analysis.
Ensure compliance.
Budgeting and forecasting.
Cash flow analysis.
Oversee month- and year-end closing.
Financial statements and analysis.
Risk assessment.
Oversee accounts payable.
Lead audits.
Manage tax filings.

Accounting Manager Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA preferred.
5 years of accounting experience, with at least 3 years in a managerial role.
Knowledge of GAAP.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Excel and Word.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accounting Manager
Our eastside client is seeking an Accounting Manager to join their team. This role provides the opportunity for a driven individual to step up to the next level growing their management experience and showcasing their solid accounting skills. This company was listed as a fastest growing company in recent years with beautiful office spaces in the center of Portland. 

Accounting Manager Responsibilities 
Supervise and mentor team members.
Oversee month-end closing; cost accounting & analysis.
Ensure tax compliance and cash applications.
Maintain internal controls and required documentation in support of internal control audits.
Provide support with annual audits and tax requests.
Maintain accurate files and thorough documentation aligned to company policy and accounting practices.
Support additional projects as needed.

Accounting Manager Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field; CPA a plus.
4 years of accounting or audit experience; knowledge of accounting principles, general ledger, and financial chart of accounts.
2 years of supervisory experience preferred. 
ERP systems experience; NetSuite experience a plus. 
Proficient in MS Office. 
Excellent communication skills.
Strong organization skills and attention to detail.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounting Specialist
Our client is seeking an Accounting Specialist to join their team in Portland, Oregon. This company has been serving the Pacific Northwest community for more than 35 years. This role is an opportunity to be involved with all aspects of the accounting operations. 

Accounting Specialist Responsibilities
Prepare journal entries, post receipts, process credit memos/refunds and account adjustments. 
Process manual checks and weekly check runs.
Reconcile statements to invoices received. 
Create AP reports for payment approvals. 
Track AR aging and cash summary reports for payment irregularities and discrepancies. 
Maintain accounting and vendor records. 
Perform other duties as assigned.

Accounting Specialist Qualifications
2 years of accounting experience. 
Knowledge of US GAAP.
Proficiency with MS Office including Excel.
Experience with Yardi a plus.
Highly accurate and detailed oriented. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounts Payable Specialist 
Our international manufacturing client has an immediate opening for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join their team. This company is employee-owned and provides excellent benefits. 
 
Accounts Payable Specialist Responsibilities 
Complete vendor invoices, travel expenses and check requests in US and Canadian currencies.
Review and process credit card bills.
Assist with month-end close by preparing accruals for expenses.
Reconcile monthly statements, correcting discrepancies, and addressing vendor inquiries.
Track expenses are being allocated to the correct account/department.
Maintain accounting records and documentation. 
Assist with annual 1099 reporting.
Occasional backup coverage for receptionist.
Other accounting duties as assigned.
 
Accounts Payable Specialist Qualifications 
3 years’ accounts payables experience; previous manufacturing experience a plus.
ERP systems experience highly preferred. 
Proficiency in Microsoft Office; intermediate Excel skills. 
Ability to perform business math functions.
High attention to detail and organized. 
Ability to multi-task and manage time.

This company is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounts Payable Specialist
Our Tigard client is looking for a Accounts Payable Specialist to join their team. This company is a market leader serving the Pacific Northwest. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a fast-paced dynamic environment looking for the opportunity to grow their accounting career.

Responsibilities of the Accounts Payable Specialist
Account reconciliations.
Process AP invoices.
High volume data entry.
Process credit card payments.
Provide some administrative support.
Other duties as required.

Accounts Payable Specialist Qualifications
2+ years of accounting experience.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; QuickBooks preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Admin / Team Coordinator
Our client is looking for an Admin / Team Coordinator to join their team.

Admin / Team Coordinator Responsibilities
General Support: 
Performs normal office functions such as setting up and maintaining files; interviewing callers and making proper referrals; arranging meetings and conferences; and receiving, referring, or answering mail. 
Reviews drafts and finished documents for appropriate grammatical usage; answers questions relating to office operations and established policies and procedures. 
Gathers, compiles and reports on information relevant to supervisor's assignment. 
Prepares expense reports and purchase orders and maintains office supplies; updates organizational charts; coordinates department or equipment moves. 

Reception: 
Responds tactfully and promptly to inquiries and problems within scope of established authority.
Handles confidential information. 
May serve as the central contact for general department information. 

Logistics: 
Coordinates a full range of meeting, event, and travel arrangements; manages calendars.
Works with internal/external contacts for venue requirements and selection, room set-up, catering, and materials delivery. 
Utilizes online reservation system to ensure that travel policy is followed in order to provide cost-effective and convenient travel arrangements. 
Works with travel agents, airlines, and others regarding planning and customer service issues. 

Presentations: 
Utilizes computer skills to create high quality graphic and text presentations often under tight timeframes. 
Interprets needs, determines and produces effective presentation layout, and organizes final documents. 
Prepares special reports requiring the selection of relevant information from a variety of sources.
Maintains and updates on going reports or databases. 

Admin / Team Coordinator Qualifications 
3 years of progressively responsible experience in an administrative support capacity. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

Admin Assistant
Our client is seeking an Admin Assistant to join their team. This is a great opportunity to gain experience within a large well-known healthcare company in Portland. 

Admin Assistant Responsibilities
Schedule meetings and book conference rooms; confirm presenters.
Coordinate travel arrangements. 
Serve as the primary contact for recruitment and onboarding activities. 
Analyze data, maintain spreadsheets and databases, and generate status reports. 
Track expenses and assist with preparing budgets. 
Proofread presentations materials and suggest edits. 
Maintain and order supplies. 
Other administrative duties as assigned. 

Admin Assistant Qualifications 
Associates degree in Business or related field; equivalent combination of education and experience. 
2 years of general office or secretarial experience. 
Strong Excel and Word skills with ability to learn various software programs quickly.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
Attention to detail and ability to multi-task. 
Strong organization skills. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Admin Assistant
Our client is looking for an Admin Assistant to join their team.

Admin Assistant Responsibilities 
General Support: 
Performs normal office functions such as setting up and maintaining files; interviewing callers and making proper referrals; arranging meetings and conferences; and receiving, referring, or answering mail. 
Reviews drafts and finished documents for appropriate grammatical usage; answers questions relating to office operations and established policies and procedures. 
Gathers, compiles and reports on information relevant to supervisor's assignment. 
Prepares expense reports and purchase orders and maintains office supplies; updates organizational charts; coordinates department or equipment moves. 

Reception: 
Responds tactfully and promptly to inquiries and problems within scope of established authority.
Handles confidential information. 
May serve as the central contact for general department information. 

Logistics: 
Coordinates a full range of meeting, event, and travel arrangements; manages calendars.
Works with internal/external contacts for venue requirements and selection, room set-up, catering, and materials delivery. 
Utilizes online reservation system to ensure that travel policy is followed in order to provide cost-effective and convenient travel arrangements. 
Works with travel agents, airlines, and others regarding planning and customer service issues. 

Presentations: 
Utilizes computer skills to create high quality graphic and text presentations often under tight timeframes. 
Interprets needs, determines and produces effective presentation layout, and organizes final documents. 
Prepares special reports requiring the selection of relevant information from a variety of sources.
Maintains and updates on going reports or databases. 

Admin Assistant Qualifications 
3 years of progressively responsible experience in an administrative support capacity.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Administrative Assistant
Our client is hiring an Administrative Assistant for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Administrative Assistant Responsibilities
Performs normal office functions such as setting up and maintaining files; interviewing callers and making proper referrals; arranging meetings and conferences; and receiving, referring, or answering mail. 
Reviews drafts and finished documents for appropriate grammatical usage; answers questions relating to office operations and established policies and procedures. 
Gathers, compiles and reports on information relevant to supervisor's assignment. 
Prepares expense reports and purchase orders and maintains office supplies; updates organizational charts; coordinates department or equipment moves. 
Responds tactfully and promptly to inquiries and problems within scope of established authority. 
Handles confidential information. 
May serve as the central contact for general department information. 
Coordinates a full range of meeting, event, and travel arrangements; manages calendars.
Works with internal/external contacts for venue requirements and selection, room set-up, catering, and materials delivery. 
Utilizes internal on-line reservation system to ensure that company travel policy is followed in order to provide cost-effective and convenient travel arrangements. 
Works with travel agents, airlines, and others regarding planning and customer service issues. 
Presentations: Utilizes computer skills to create high quality graphic and text presentations often under tight timeframes. 
Interprets needs, determines and produces effective presentation layout, and organizes final documents. 
Prepares special reports requiring the selection of relevant information from a variety of sources. 
Maintains and updates on going reports or databases.

Administrative Assistant Qualifications
3 years of progressively responsible experience in an administrative support.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Administrative Assistant
The only way to deliver a single, global, mobile network is with satellite communications – and our client is making it a reality. They deliver unique products and services, leveraging their extensive IP portfolio, to unlock the untapped potential of satellite spectrum. Our client’s mission is to be the singular authoritative voice for seamless services across satellite and satellite-cellular connectivity.

Join their team in developing exciting new technology which will change communication all over the world. Come work alongside brilliant colleagues who share a commitment to each other’s success and know how to have fun!

 The Administrative Assistant is the FACE of the company! The admin team is responsible for general administrative and office duties to support day to day operations for internal staff. This includes acting as the receptionist to greet visitors and notify employees of guests, ensuring that break area(s) and food selection is stocked, and office supplies are maintained.

Responsibilities
Act as the point of contact for internal/external clients-EXCELLENT customer service.
Order, receive, and maintain office supplies and snacks, research new suppliers, place business card orders.
Receive and sort mail and deliveries.
Prep conference rooms for interviews, set up laptop, erase white boards.
Assist with onboarding new employees-Example: name tags, folders, making badges, updating files
Update and maintain Admin policies/procedures.
Attention to details and problem-solving skills.
Track inventory for company swag.
Maintains security by following procedures to include monitoring online system (Envoy) and issue visitor badges.
Answer telephone, screen and direct calls, maintain all contact lists for vendors.
Coordinate company events and activities. Examples:  lunches, team celebrations, Happy Hours.
Organize conference and meeting room bookings, erase white boards, tidy room for next meeting.
Submit and reconcile expense reports, maintain all receipts for autopay card/monthly reconcile.
Coordinate the repair and maintenance of office equipment including coffee and water machines.
Provide general administrative and clerical support to various departments, Example- maintain NDA filing via electronic/paper copy.

Qualifications
High School diploma or equivalent.
Minimum of two years’ experience as an Administrative Assistant in multi-department.
Experience working in a dynamic, fast paced environment, wearing multiple hats.
Excellent time management skills, ability to prioritize work.
Communication abilities including verbal and written communication, maintain confidentially and work effectively, able to organize your work using tools like MS Suite, the willingness to discuss questions or uncertainties in job assignments and to be able to positively interact with co-workers.
Ability to communicate information using standard Microsoft applications including Excel, Word, Office, Power Point, Project and Visio.
Ability to use company-wide tools and systems to execute the key duties and responsibilities of the job.
 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

$18 - $24 an hour pay

Administrative Assistant
Our client is seeking an Administrative Assistant to join their team in Tigard, Oregon. This role will provide a variety of administrative and clerical support during the upcoming busy tax season. 

Administrative Assistant Responsibilities
General administrative support.
Sort through files and binders.  
Remove and recycle documents. 
Print, scan, copy, and fax documents as requested.
Reorganize file cabinets.
Assist with other projects as needed.

Administrative Assistant Qualifications 
1+ years office or secretarial experience. 
Proficient in Microsoft Office. 
Strong organizational skills. 
High attention to detail and able to multi-task.
Maintain a high level of professionalism and confidentiality. 
Can work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Administrative Assistant
Our client his hiring an Administrative Assistant for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Administrative Assistant Responsibilities
General Support: Performs normal office functions such as setting up and maintaining files; interviewing callers and making proper referrals; arranging meetings and conferences; and receiving, referring, or answering mail. 
Reviews drafts and finished documents for appropriate grammatical usage; answers questions relating to office operations and established policies and procedures. 
Gathers, compiles and reports on information relevant to supervisor's assignment. 
Prepares expense reports and purchase orders and maintains office supplies; updates organizational charts; coordinates department or equipment moves. 
Reception: Responds tactfully and promptly to inquiries and problems within scope of established authority. 
Handles confidential information. 
May serve as the central contact for general department information. 
Logistics: Coordinates a full range of meeting, event, and travel arrangements; manages calendars.
Works with internal/external contacts for venue requirements and selection, room set-up, catering, and materials delivery. 
Utilizes internal on-line reservation system to ensure that company travel policy is followed in order to provide cost-effective and convenient travel arrangements. 
Works with travel agents, airlines, and others regarding planning and customer service issues. 
Presentations: Utilizes computer skills to create high quality graphic and text presentations often under tight timeframes. 
Interprets needs, determines and produces effective presentation layout, and organizes final documents. 
Prepares special reports requiring the selection of relevant information from a variety of sources. 
Maintains and updates on going reports or databases.

Administrative Assistant Qualifications
3 years of progressively responsible experience in an administrative support capacity.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Administrative Services Assistant
Our client is hiring an Administrative Services Assistant for their team in Portland, Oregon.

Administrative Services Assistant Responsibilities
Keep and update records and prepare statistical reports concerning hires, transfers, profile changes, and terminations.
Support our Contingent Workforce Program office - admin duties, prepare presentations (PowerPoint and Excel), expert in reporting and gathering stats.
Help maintain and audit our contingent workforce list and keep up to do with codes, start and end dates, manager, supplier, etc
Chance to assist in elevating the Contingent Workforce Program to make it optimal for the business.
Involvement with our marketing, branding, etc to the business of our program.
Candidate will be providing overall administrative and technical support to Corporate Personnel Administration.
Contract Employee and Contract Agency Data Base, start date, end date, rate, report to manager, coding, etc (in both Peoplesoft, excel, Workday).
Provide corporate office temporary employment needs, coordinate placement, and follow up to assure company performance standards are met.
Good working knowledge of Excel is a must have.
Knowledge of peoplesoft or Workday would be a plus. 
Manage pool email box. 
Manage form from the business and check for accuracy before inputting info. 
Able to communicate well, have difficult conversations, deal with all kinds of personalities and handle them in a polite and professional manner. 
Experience working with a large organization would be a plus.
Able to multi-task and be self-driven. 
Great attention to detail and accuracy is a must. 
Compliant handling of sensitive information is a must.

Administrative Services Assistant Qualifications
2-4 years related experience required in a personnel function requiring effective communication skills and discretionary use of confidential information is required.
Must have excellent PC skills to include database, spreadsheet and word processing proficiency.
Must have problem definition, data collection, and fact-finding experience.
PeopleSoft or Workday experience a plus Excellent excel, database, spreadsheet work is a must.
Experience working on Powerpoint presentations for exec level as well as reporting analytics is a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Administrative Services Assistant
Our client is hiring an Administrative Services Assistant for their team in Vancouver, Washington. This contract Administrative Services Assistant will provide a wide range of administrative and confidential support as well as data entry and tracking to our client's Strategy & Program Management (TPO) organization, to include the TPO manager, TPO supervisor, TP AMPP lead and all of TPO personnel. 

Organization & Culture
The TPO organization is responsible for establishing and ensuring implementation of Transmission asset management strategies and developing a multi-year integrated plan relating to system expansion, upgrades and additions, replacement, and maintenance. Candidates should be self-starters, motivated to work independently in a collaborative manner with their own team members and internal stakeholders.  The ideal candidate should enjoy working under pressure and timelines, while maintaining accuracy and excellent records management. This position is very busy and resides in a fast paced environment.  Multi-tasking with the ability to adapt to change is essential.  

Administrative Services Assistant Responsibilities
Provide a wide variety of confidential administrative/clerical tasks for the managers and staff for the assigned organization, managers and support staff.
Greet and screen visitors; address questions and business involving established policy, take messages, set appointments and/or refer visitors to other personnel as appropriate.
Create draft, edit, and proof documents, correspondence, research, and presentations using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat.
Build, maintain and post Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations to SharePoint sites. 
Proof, review, and when applicable, draft, correspondence and documents prepared for manager signature and validate conformance of the established administrative policies and regulations, confirm proper coordination and timely compliance with assigned action.  
Provide recommendations and instructions to staff to maintain conformance with general policies and correspondence procedures.
Attend meetings, record meeting minutes as requested, transcribe and disseminate as needed.
Maintain a tracking system of action items to verify timely compliance with scheduled responses or actions.  Coordinate and monitor work unit responses to time-critical documents; alert manager / personnel of any concerns or response delays.
Answer and screen telephone calls; respond to most questions and complete most business involving established policy or routine matters; forward questions and matters to appropriate personnel as needed, following up to verify a timely response.
Respond to questions and complete business according to established policy and/or forward matters requiring action to appropriate staff, following up to verify a timely response.
Process and screen incoming and outgoing correspondence to include proof reading, to consist of the following: 
Review incoming correspondence and forward matters requiring action to appropriate staff.  Verify proper coordination and timely completion of assignments.
Sort and distribute incoming mail to appropriate recipient(s); as requested, review incoming correspondence.
Process outgoing mail and prepare materials for mailing, including providing self-addressed stamped envelopes, when appropriate.

Establish and maintain internal and external communication channels to coordinate smooth flow of information and positive working relationships.  
Perform faxing, scanning, photocopying, and work with the internal print shop to request printing services.
Update and maintain desk reference manual.
Serve as back-up to Tier II and Tier IV level Administrative Assistants as needed.
Come up to speed quickly on manager and organizational priorities in order to track meetings, work, and delegated projects or tasks to maintain accountability, confirming established targets are met.  
Validate on-time documentation submission to Human Resources (HR) and verify all processes are tracked to completion within established timelines. 
Review and update project trackers (performance, training, etc.) for the manager, alerting appropriate parties of any noted issues / concerns.
Serve as liaison between organizations, work units, and management support staff.  
Keep up to date on issues, priorities, and sensitivities affecting work of the organization through consistent communication with the manager, frequent interaction with other managers, and outside contacts. 
Coordinate with and provide administrative guidance to lower-level contract support personnel; may delegate assignments to lower level contract administrative personnel at the request of the manager.

Administrative Team:    
Organize and coordinate Organizational Administrative Team Meetings.
Attend mandatory Administrative Team Meetings.
Participate as a team member and in team meetings both professionally and collaboratively.
Work as a team member to:
Standardize, streamline and improve overall Administrative processes throughout the organization.
Help resolve organizational administrative issues and work on solutions as a group.
Complete team work assignments

Coordinate managers’ daily Outlook calendars and schedules with full responsibility for scheduling and prioritizing Tier III and IV managers’ appointments, meetings, conferences and calendar:
Coordinate appointments, including commitments of time.  Advise manager of appointments and other commitments that might have a bearing on future decisions.  
Organize, plan, prioritize, coordinate, schedule and verify appointments, meetings (in-person, phone conferences, web-based), conferences, and training for managers and other staff (securing rooms, phone bridges, projection, and other meeting supplies).  This may include drafting agenda and other meeting materials and developing background information for review, consideration and finalization by appropriate manager / personnel.
Accept meeting invitations, assist with outside visitor requests and schedule interviews.
Schedule and arrange meetings, conferences and training, including associated logistics and any necessary equipment (securing rooms, phone bridges, projection equipment, etc.).
Assist, compile, organize and verify appropriate files, notes and other materials are in order and ready for use at meetings, appointments, etc.
Draft agendas, coordinate speaking points, make arrangements for guest(s) / guest speakers and research and draft background information / materials as requested.
Arrange for representation by others if manager’s time and priorities make necessary.
As requested, attend and take meeting minutes / notes, transcribe / draft and distribute as appropriate.
Inform manager and staff of appointments and other commitments that might have a bearing on future decisions. 

Assist manager in a variety of personnel and other actions, including:
Prepare and enter requests for personnel actions into HRMIS.
Prepare worker award requests in HRMIS for manager review/approval, track awards, and prepare recognition certificates for the organization.
Prepare retirement documentation.
May be designated as a power-user and/or back-up for the e-Performance management system. 
Coordinate and assist manager with development of annual performance appraisal plans for internal personnel by assisting in implementing, completing, and facilitating documentation management.  
Schedule and track to completion all performance appraisals, progress reviews, mid-point reviews and discussions, while performing associated follow-up to obtain requisite signatures and approvals.  Validate documentation submission to Human Resources (HR) is accurately completed within established timelines.
Coordinate and track reporting requirements and activities related to staff including creation/submission of travel documents and telework agreements and required training.
Register manager and staff for internal/external training classes and conferences.
Assist manager with employee engagement activities and planning.
Verify completion of all required training for employees and managers by communicating what training is due, how to obtain training, submitting external training requests, and tracking training completion status.
Maintain Employee Tracking Log, on-board reports, training, medical surveillance, emergency contact, and reimbursement tracking information.
Update and maintain survey records; follow up with organizations to update the survey information.
Assist manager by recommending and implementing approved staff recognition opportunities.
Track, maintain, update, and distribute annual renewal of Motor Vehicle Driver Authorizations, Travel Authorizations, and Telework Agreements. 
Track and maintain Overtime/Comp Time authorizations for personnel.
Complete appropriate new employee on-boarding activities and retirement documentation.

Prepare employee assignment extension documents; implement, oversee and complete related documentation, and submit for proper review and approval, while performing associated follow-up to obtain required signatures and approval.
Designated as a proxy for the performance management system.  
Coordinate and assist managers with development of annual managers’ and employees’ performance appraisal plans by assisting in implementing, completing, and tracking documentation management.  
Schedule and track to completion all managers’ and employees’ progress reviews, performing associated follow-up to obtain required signatures and approvals.  
Apply strong familiarity with manager’s performance contract to prioritize and track meetings, work, and delegated projects or tasks to maintain accountability and to assist in ensuring established targets are met.  
Validate on-time documentation submission to Human Resources (HR) and verify all processes are tracked to completion within established timelines.  

Arrange travel (domestic, invitational and foreign), such as airline arrangements, hotel accommodations, and rental car and shuttle reservations, for manager, Lead and staff as needed, which may include: 
Assist in preparing and submitting passport documentation as necessary.
Assist management and staff in setting up profiles in the internal travel system.
Prepare / draft necessary foreign and domestic forms associated with travel.
Prepare and process travel authorizations and vouchers for group managers and staff.
Validate that travel is complete and process travel documentation in a timely manner and in accordance with company travel procedures and policies. 
Track, monitor and notify manager and subject personnel of needed approvals, signatures or other actions to enable timely reimbursement processing and reporting.

Coordinate with managers and staff to coordinate Time & Attendance per established procedures, which may include:
Prepare and review personnel time and attendance reporting to verify accuracy for certification by manager(s) and supervisor(s) using the HRMIS and other programs.  
May serve as timekeeping power user (able to input time for others as requested).
Maintain and reconcile employee leave calendar submissions with payroll.
Check leave slips to verify accuracy using organizational leave calendars and other documentation.  Verify that time has been approved.
Review time sheets for contract personnel to verify that reporting is accurate.
Verify time and attendance procedures, policies and practices, including any special time recording requirements (admin leave, holidays, etc.) are communicated to management and staff in a timely manner.

Assist with scheduling interviews; preparing interview packets for assigned manager(s).
Provide overall administrative support to staff members by acting as the liaison with HR, IT, Security, Safety, Motor Pool, Facilities / Space Management and administrative services groups to process, coordinate, request and track:
Office moves and workstation adjustments.
Onboarding activities for new contract and/or full time personnel.
Computer, software upgrades IT equipment and other resource requests.
Computer, copier, and printer maintenance. 
Requests for needed office supplies and distribute to appropriate staff per established procedures. 
Coordination of badge return.
Coordination of cell phone requirements and inventory for staff, including ordering, receiving, service setup, delivery, collection.
Serve as organization’s central point of contact for accident reporting, including collection, correction, and distribution of required documentation, and communication with employees, managers, safety office, HR, and other resources regarding policy, regulations, etc.
Maintain office supply stock. Act as a point of contact for troubleshooting, configuration, inventory, and maintenance of office systems and processes.

Maintain the organizational SharePoint site including updating changes and adding new content.
Establish, maintain, and administer SharePoint organization, team and other meeting/project sites including setting up document repositories, calendars, workspaces, and tracking lists.  Assists with content and permissions.
Maintain a tracking system of suspense items to verify timely compliance with scheduled responses or actions utilizing SharePoint. Coordinate and direct work unit responses for time-critical documents.
Maintain all records management within SharePoint, including physical and electronic official files, retention and conformance. 

Manage all records in accordance with the appropriate policy and procedure and compliance requirements: 
File and disperse documents/letters to appropriate personnel. 
Validate that official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.  
With oversight and approval of the manager / internal personnel, provide an annual review and inventory of official files and maintain the organizational file outline.
Review and process Transmittals for Administrator/CEO Approval (TACs) for assigned organizations and ascertain conformance to administrative policies, procedures and regulations.  Verify proper coordination and timely compliance with assigned action.  Advise and provide guidance to confirm conformance with general policies and correspondence procedures.
May coordinate or assist with organizational and company events such as: presentations, retirements, and project or employee recognition celebrations. 

Administrative Services Assistant Qualifications
Education & Corresponding Experience:
High school diploma or equivalent is required.
Associates Degree in Secretarial Science, Administrative Management or related field is preferred.
6+ years of demonstrated administrative/clerical experience is required.

Required Technical Skills & Experience:
4 or more years of relevant work experience in administrative support functions with Microsoft Office Suite programs such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook (Microsoft Office 2010 proficiency required). 
Intermediate to advanced skills/experience with SharePoint or other similar system, that provides the required skill and ability sufficient to:
Support, manage, edit and maintain site.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Administrative Technician
Great opportunity to help out a local school district! Our client is seeking some detail oriented individuals to assemble Science Project Kits. The position will be 40 hours per week for two weeks, Monday through Friday and pays $12 - $14 per hour. Location is close in North Portland with Public Transit available.

Administrative Technician Qualifications
High School Diploma.
Reliable Transportation.
Attention to detail.
Must be able to start as soon as possible.
Must be able to stand all day and lift up to 25 pounds frequently.

 

Antenna Test Engineer
Our client is seeking an Antenna Test Engineer to join their team in Redmond, WA. Help in developing exciting new technology which will change communication all over the world.  Come work alongside brilliant colleagues who share a commitment to each other’s success and know how to have fun!
The successful candidate will be responsible to provide state-of-the-art RF measurement capacity for research, design, development, and production.

More specifically, the candidate will derive RF test & measurement requirements from product requirement; and design, develop and implement the RF test methods, fixtures and automation as a part of Test Engineering team. The candidate will accept ownership to create/sustain the internal antenna test ranges, test equipment and its procedures/processes; to train users. The candidate will participate in development of the product V&V collaborating with RF, Software, Mechanical and System engineers. They are seeking persistent, curious, self-motivated and self-discipline individuals who enjoy working in a dynamic environment. 

Responsibilities
Development of RF test methodologies, approaches and hardware per Product Requirements.
Design, Develop and implement the RF test hardware, fixtures and automation.
Periodically assess Antenna Test Ranges and RF test procedures.
Improve confidence and alignment between the various test chambers.
Oversee Antenna Range Maintenance and Upgrade Plans.
Develop strategies to improve test throughput & methodology.
Work with Systems & RF Engineering teams on Test Plans, Test reports.
Prototype test scripts when applicable using our Automated Microwave Measurement Systems.
Provide test support for debugging of prototype antennas.
Support Test Operations with troubleshooting and training.
Documentation of procedures and processes.

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or other relevant technical field (e.g., math, physics) required.
 3+ years of performing RF measurements in X or K Higher band Antenna test ranges.
Demonstrated ability to perform NIST 18 Term antenna test range error assessments.
3+ years of operating and maintaining Antenna test ranges (CATR, Planar Near Field, Spherical Near Field).
Demonstrated experience in Electromagnetics theory and Antenna fundamentals.
Demonstrated experience in RF measurement theory and practice using VNA, Spectrum/Signal Analyzer, Power Meter, etc.

Preferred
Experience with commercial Antenna Test Software (Orbit/FR 959, NSI/MI-3000).
Familiarity with Python or MATLAB or equivalent programming capability.
Experience with RF simulation tools.
Experience with an A2LA certified organization.
Experience within an industry work environment performing antenna, electromagnetic (EMI EMC) and / or Radome test and measurements.
Relevant granted Patents and/or articles published in IEEE Journals (or equivalent).
Experience with advanced math skills and tools.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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API Product Line Manager
Our client is seeking an API Product Line Manager to join the Product team in Beaverton, Oregon. They are looking for an API Product Line Manager who lives and breathes APIs, and someone who is ready for an exciting opportunity to guide a market leader into the future with new innovative RESTful APIs and a powerful set of microservices that support them.

The API Product Line Manager will own and manage their developer portal. This role will manage and oversee the requirements, epics, and stories for continuously evolving roadmaps while coordinating internal product line integrations and requirements as well as third-party partner integrations and their own APIs and requirements.

This person should be an expert at both internal and external facing communication. They should also have an interest in staying on top of our microservices offering, developer advocacy, site documentation as well as other related content for the areas that their portfolio spans.  A sharp business acumen is expected in order to ensure the company is fully leveraging its capabilities in the marketplace and with our customers.

With insight into market trends, integration partner relationships, collaboration from internal stakeholders and awareness of customer pain-points the Product Line Manager will be the voice of the customer thus ensuring product solutions that provide sustainable customer value. The position will work closely with Software Development, Product, Marketing, Sales and Support to deliver world class microservices and API capabilities to market.

API Product Line Manager Responsibilities
Own the API integration product portfolio; define business objectives supporting key business goals, create actionable roadmaps and deliver products/features/enhancements with a specific focus on world-class freight matching, rating, tracking and workflow document solutions.
Practice customer-driven product management methodologies within an agile environment.
Ensure clarity of expectations and accountability via measurable goals and objectives.
Develop and maintain subject matter expertise, best-practice insight, optimal solution delivery of freight matching and rating solutions for our flagship products (Freight Matching, Rates & Analytics, Tracking Visibility).
Manage the prioritization of work, helping to ensure quality and on time delivery within budget; maintain product roadmap(s), initiative and feature definition and work with product team to deliver executable user stories to the engineering team(s).
Partner with marketing, sales and customer service to develop and execute go-to-market and marketing communication plans.
Develop a robust understanding of the truckload freight and freight matching competitive landscape and opportunities for differentiation.
Champion effective attribution via API integration with customers, vendors and other solution providers.
Identify KPIs that effectively measure results.
Ensure an effective user acceptance testing framework in place for all product releases.
Maintain close relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to continuously understand customer challenges and identify new opportunities.
Working with internal stakeholders identify external customer groups to obtain insight into customer pain-points.
Communicate effectively with all (external and internal) stakeholders to ensure that platform product development, usability and its impact on the business is understood.

API Product Line Manager Qualifications 
Experience working in high volume data environments with data science and software engineering resources.
Heavily analytical mindset with an ability to use data to define and support digital product strategy.
Strong ability to demo, test and troubleshoot APIs.
Expertise as an Agile Product Owner with demonstrated proficiency in managing product backlog, prioritization of business needs and writing epics/user stories.
Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to collaborate and communicate at all organizational levels.
Success in managing both internal and external business, vendor and client relationships with a focus on collaboration and transparent communication.
Ability to conduct market research, analyze data, gain insights and foresee, interpret and respond to changes.
Ability to anticipate and effectively solve complex problems.
Strong project management and organization skills, with the ability to seamlessly multi-task.
Ability to build buy-in and alignment, act with urgency, drive results and take educated risks.
Proficiency with Google Apps, Google Developer Console and Google APIs suite of products.
Intimate familiarity with the suite of tools available from AWS.
Experience with JavaScript and popular JavaScript based frameworks and technologies like Node.js, Angular, Snowflake.
Success in collaborating with remote engineering teams.
Ability to occasionally travel.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, business or a related field.
5+ years of relevant digital product management experience.
Proven expertise as the product manager/owner of API product solutions.
Proven expertise with Agile methodologies.
Experience managing partnerships or partner products a plus.
Pragmatic Product Management certification a plus.
Basic analytics experience (SQL, Tableau) a plus.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Associate Producer
Our client is hiring an Associate Producer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As the Digital Flagship Specialist, your job will be to manage the process for our client's app launch. You will implement the vision and go-to-market offense for our key digital product. You will build the process and support key stake holders, ensuring timely execution(s) of the digital product rollout.

Associate Producer Responsibilities
Lead project schedules, driving overall end to end process with cross-functional teams.
Key point of contact for communication of key milestones. 
Manage the tracking of seasonal content from Global to Geo. 
Partner with the digital operations team to ensure there are no gaps in training or functionality capability rollout.
Elevate opportunities to optimize strategy and process of the GTM offense.
Track status of key feature rollouts and report back.
Manage asset tracking for any content channel marketing team is creating for testing purposes.
Key partner from channel marketing team to the global authoring team.

Associate Producer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or closely related discipline.
2+ years’ experience in consumer marketing or related marketing industry.
Knowledge of project management tools and systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Pro-active, excellent organizational skills.
Can operate autonomously.
Excellent team spirit.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Associate Product Line Manager
As Associate Product Line Manager, you'll provide support for all facets of the product process. You'll be responsible for creating insightful and impactful product briefs, as well as analyzing consumer and competitive trends in the market. You'll spend time with consumers, learning the channels of distribution and conduct analyses of the current business (including bookings and sell-through by channel, country, GEO, style and color, etc.) with direction from the product team. With direction from the Product Director and PLM’s you’ll help to manage the line planning, pricing and product creation processes. You'll participate in all facets of the product creation process. You'll also work with the PLM’s to meet key deliverables each season, including line planning, proto reviews, Product Read Out, and GTM tools, VMLP & line plan updates, pricing, sample flagging, managing the color process, etc.

Associate Product Line Manager Qualifications 
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Retail Merchandising, or a related field.
2 additional years' experience in lieu of a degree.
2 years' relevant experience in product-related roles.
Creativity and strong passion for product.
Strong business acumen.
Can foster and maintain relationships with Product Creation teams, Global merchants, Brand team and other key partners.
Has an appreciation for fashion, color, style and art.
Ability to tell compelling stories through product.
Effective verbal and written communication skills, including presentations.
Proficient information-seeking skills and a drive for results.
Exceptional attention to details and deadlines.
Strong organizational skills.
Travel up to 10%.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Associate Product Manager
Our client is looking for a Product Manager to join their Product Management team in Beaverton, Oregon.

As Product Manager, you will lead and set the vision for a cross-functional team that is charged with product line innovation. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products inside your vertical. Working with marketing, competitive intelligence and customers, you will build products. The ideal candidate must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.

You must be able to communicate with all areas of the company. You will work with an engineering counterpart to define product release requirements. You will work with marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, working closely with sales and key customers.

Associate Product Manager Responsibilities
Brings new products to market by setting the product vision by developing market based requirements and product marketing programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and product launch teams.
They should have an unyielding passion when it comes to shaping the future of design and engineering.
They should act as the critical connection between customer needs and business strategy, solution design, software development and go-to-market execution.
They should be able to create and maintain product information documents, technical guides, and other support materials for assigned products, as needed.
Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production.
Determine product pricing by utilizing market research data; reviewing production and sales costs; anticipating volume; costing special and customized orders.
Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
Driving a solution set across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, product contract, and positioning.
Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute.
Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product.

Associate Product Manager Qualifications
2-3 years of experience working within a software as a service business (SaaS), or experience in multi-sided network dynamics.
1-2 years of experience as a product owner working as a Business Analyst, Program Manager, Product Owner or equivalent work experience is required.
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Marketing (MBA preferred).
Experience in managing agile/scrum development processes and lean methodology.
Experience in story mapping and feature prioritization techniques.
Ability to demonstrate creative problem solving, thoughtful product scoping, and flexibility in a fast-moving environment.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with engineering, design and product marketing to set realistic goals and stay on track.
Understanding of user experience design principles and customer-centric solutions development.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

AWS Backend Engineer
Our client is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. The Software Engineer creates high-quality craftsmanship-level software for clients and internal users and are expected to be proficient in the software languages used or required. This includes meeting all requirements/ specifications, testing/QA requirements, methodologies and other internal software/product requirements. This position must be adaptable to changing technology environments and work collaboratively with all participants in a software development project.

The Software Engineer may be called upon to fulfill functions related to software development that are not specifically software programming, such as requirements gathering, producing documentation, quality assurance testing, mentoring other developers, and leading projects. As required, this position provides guidance to the junior Software Engineer positions.

Responsibilities
Write awesome code.
Create prototypes to help clarify software requirements.
Create realistic design specification documents from software requirements.
Plan and perform development tasks from design specifications.
Provide accurate time estimates for development tasks.
Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications.
Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to resolve software defects.
Collaborate with project architects and assist team members to prove the validity of new software technologies.
Engage and improve software development methodology.
Promote agile processes among development and the business, including facilitation of scrums.
Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization.
Strong Preference given to those with backgrounds in Math/Science.

Qualifications
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Minimum of 2 - 4 years progressive experience in a software development.
Excellent object-oriented design & programming skills, including the application of design patterns and avoidance of anti-patterns.
Strong AWS skills (Lambda, Terraform, SNS, SQS, etc).
Experience working in a collaborative team of application developers and source code repositories.
Demonstrated ability to follow through with all tasks, promises and commitments.
Ability to communicate and work effectively within priorities.
Ability to work under tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.
Good understanding of software design concepts.
Understanding of software development methodologies.
Ability to solve complex problems.
Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation.

Proven experience having designed one or more major components of an application, preferably of a software product.
Proven experience working across multiple tiers of an application, including a database, network, operating system, and containers.
Experience working in an AGILE environment.
Experience working in a SCRUM environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

 #VHDi 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

AWS DevOps Engineer
Our client is hiring a AWS DevOps Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As an AWS DevOps Engineer, you’ll work with a variety of talented teams, serving as both an expert for internal users, as well as a driving force for performance, best practices, and data integrity within the environment. You will be required to understand and follow through with the entire data pipeline, from providing advice on proper data formats to app teams, to troubleshooting and tuning forwarders and search cluster, ultimately ensuring timely and accurate data is searchable 24x7.

AWS DevOps Engineer Responsibilities
Installing, configuring and maintaining log management solutions and tools.
Design and build resilient, cost-efficient and scalable data pipelines/applications to transform and transport data to various reporting platforms.
Build proactive monitoring solutions to detect failure across various components within pipeline.
Conduct investigations for root cause analysis of problems or issues across data pipelines and platforms.
Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sources.
Adapt to rapidly growing ecosystem and integrate demanding technologies with reporting solutions to provide complementary solution.
Plan, engineer, and implement robust and cost-effective computing environments, exploiting emerging technologies to provide compelling solutions.
Identify process improvements and build creative automated solutions.
Inspect, cleanse, enhance, and monitor the integrity of a variety of data sources.
Collaborate with the engineering team, application developers, management, and infrastructure teams to assess near- and long-term needs.
Improve the standards of the consumer’s experience by providing metric visibility into applications performance.
Serve in the role of technical subject matter expert, assisting in upholding search best practices, through user activity audits, and functional alerting.
Provide expertise to support groups that require performance and troubleshooting guidance, including query tuning and upholding best practices.
Participate in process development with customers and service providers.
Effectively communicate tool capabilities and processes to varying stakeholders.
Participate in on-call rotations.

AWS DevOps Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Business Administration, or a related field; or, an equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
Minimum of 5 years of experience with implementation, operations, maintenance of IT systems and/or administration of software functions in multi-platform and multi-system environments.
Strong knowledge of AWS architecture and services.
Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services.
Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application.
Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform.
An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS.
An understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services.
Experience with Orchestration tools like Terraform, Cloudformation.
Strong Linux (Red Hat, CentOS) background with troubleshooting and administration skills.      
Experience with configuring/maintaining log interfaces/tools such as ryslog and syslog-ng.
Experience implementing/maintaining log management tools like Splunk, ELK, Devo, Sumologic, Microsoft Operations Management Suite, nxlog.
Experience implementing nxlog manager and managing nxlog collectors at scale.
Understanding and experience with configuration management tools and concepts such as puppet, chef, Ansible, SCCM.
Advanced scripting skills to include but not limited to: shell scripts and supporting program languages – python, bash, regular expression, perl.
Experience with logging practices and log transport; data on-boarding; and field extractions.
Understanding of nxlog configurations, modules and integrations with various applications.
Strong communication skills and ability to interact with management and all teams involved in the operational or development process.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

#VHDi

Azure DevOps Engineer
The primary purpose and function of the Azure DevOps Engineer is to support new development of code by creating or merging many parallel development efforts and provide production support to applications. This position will work closely with other Build & Release Engineers to research, customize, and automate the effective delivery of multiple versions of software to a targeted user base. This position is responsible for documentation, implementation, operational delivery, coordination of software builds, and automation of setup processes using Microsoft-centric technologies.

This role will chart the journey of the team to the cloud and bring skills to bear on a build and release pipeline that is fully cloud based.

Azure DevOps Engineer Responsibilities 
Collaborate with architects, developers, project managers, and test engineers to assist in the definition and maintenance of set-ups, builds, automation, and best practices to ensure a repeatable and traceable process for software releases.
Implement and deliver complex software products according to specifications for multiple releases and versioning.
Maintain build environment, scripting and automating the build process, maintenance of software revision history; ensure the delivery of software release notes from the developers and validate delivery requirements against checklist.
Identify and correct any problems and report any issues to the appropriate team.
Lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure as code automation of environments and configuration in the cloud.
Document the build system and process.
Always be value focused for our customers and contribute in any manner possible in a team moving to agile.
Propose improvements to the Technical Lead or Development Manager and implement approved improvements.
Identify and correct any problems and report any issues to the appropriate team.
Other job duties as assigned.

Azure DevOps Engineer Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science preferred, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Minimum of four years of programming build and release.
Experience working with Azure DevOps, TFS (Team Foundation Server), Azure Fabric, YAML, Hyper-V Server Management, PowerShell Scripting.
Experience working with multiple tasks and large complex projects simultaneously within a fast-paced and entrepreneurial-type work environment is required.
Effective communicator and presenter with the ability to lead and influence colleagues, cross-functional teams and leaders is preferred.
Experience with cloud deployment is required.
Environment where pets are present.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

#VHDi

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***
 

Back End Software Engineer
Our client is seeking a Back End Software Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR.  You will play a critical role in providing programming interfaces and micro services to internal and external ecommerce partners. Their services and applications play a central role in facilitating payment authorization and stored payment solutions for a variety of platforms. As a Software Engineer, you will be partner with your teammates to ensure our software is of the highest quality and that we meet all deliverables on a demanding schedule. Software engineers on the Payment team partner with other domains and the Architecture team to help shape the technical vision and deliver systems that serve consumers worldwide.
 
Back End Software Engineer Responsibilities:
Participate in the Scrum with the team
Contribute code to the team’s business deliverables
Participate in design sessions and implementation plans.
Resolve technical issues and remove blockers for your team
Encourage innovation with new technologies and elegant solutions
Provide solution/code reviews and give feedback. 
Evaluate technical decisions and their impact on the architecture
Help Onboard new team members
Ensure successful quality software with emphasis in: Security, Privacy, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Performance
Work through dependencies and integration with other engineering teams 
Partner with the Product Owners to drive clarity on requirements. Define technical options, provide estimates on effort and risk, and evaluate technical feasibility.

Back End Software Engineer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering 
5 years’ experience in highly distributed systems with high transaction volume
Experience with working on projects in highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary development teams
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, MVC architecture, and design patterns
Experience designing APIs and creating Java RESTful microservices
Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, test driven development, static analysis, and automated integration tests. Continuous delivery experience preferred.
Experience delivering software in a Scrum development process
e-Commerce experience is a plus
Cloud infrastructure and development experience (AWS preferred)

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Big Data Engineer
Our client is looking for a Big Data Engineer to join their team.

Big Data Engineer Responsibilities
Develops action plans and processes, in coordination with management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives. 
Facilitates or performs application support, problem solving, and issue resolution with internal and external resources. 
Contributes and reviews recommendations for technical solutions. 
Manages and/or contributes to the technical components of the RFP process. 
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation. 
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects. 
Provides technical estimates for project budget input to Senior/Project Manager. 
Leads and owns engagements with software vendors to ensure that code and configuration requirements and deliverables are met. 
Enforces architecture, governance, security, and global process standards to system changes and deployments. 
Coordinates compliance issue identification and remediation. 
Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design. 
Contributes to database design and creates critical-path, high-risk, advanced technical designs. 
Approves proof of concept efforts and reviews results. 
Enforce company and department architectural direction and ensure consistent technical approach within department. 
Decide on engineering tools based on recommendations. 
Allocate resources based on performance monitoring and tuning results. 
Manage and enforce performance thresholds and standards. 
Review and approve performance test results, recommendations, and tuning results. 
Oversee and is responsible for the creation of test plans, test execution, and validation of test results.
Support Product Team, work with BSAs and Product owner to deliver products to Business.
Refine stories and deliver timely.
Analyze requirement documents and STM.
Develop integrated and aggregated objects for consumption.
Work with Production Support to analyze and fix Production issues.
Comprehensive documentation and knowledge transfer to Production Support.

Big Data Engineer Qualifications
Preferred candidates possess some of the following in their skillset.
Spark/Hive 
Python 
Airflow 
AWS
S3
EMR
Snowflake

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Budget and Forecasting Analyst
Our client, a Northwest Healthcare company is seeking to add a Budget and Forecasting Analyst to their team.

Budget and Forecasting Analyst Responsibilities
Prepare financial reports and statements. 
Manage budget and allocation requests.
Establish annual budgets, and support budget tracking.
Communicate with business leaders regarding annual budgets, long term plans, and forecast updates.
Prepare for annual audit (Form 990 and CT-12), deliverables, and ad-hoc requests.
Design, develop, and maintain reporting tools.
Assist with streamlining and process efficiencies.

Budget and Forecasting Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting and 1-3 years related experience.
Social service and health-related experience preferred.
Proficient with MS Office (including intermediate Excel) and Sage 100 & Sage Fixed Assets.
Knowledge of GAAP and financial/accounting principles.
Solid written and oral communication skills.
Able to identify process and strategy improvement opportunities and provide recommendations.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Business Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team in Seattle, WA. As a Business Analyst Contractor working within the CustOps team, you will focus on auditing and analyzing the support experience. You will be supporting the Quality program through providing insight on break points in our support experience, identifying process improvements, and advocating for the customer within internal teams.

Responsibilities 
Review urgent and critical incidents for quality.
Queue reviews with engineers to ensure quality and efficiency of support.
Report high visibility cases, escalations, customer trends to management.
Act as information resource to the management team.
Calibrate with managers on audit methodology.
Analyze and identify process improvement opportunity.
Collect and manage Quality data points for analysis.
Pull reporting /automate reporting in the system as needed.
Visualize break points for report out to leadership.

Qualifications
Ability to understand complex systems and workflows.
Ability to research complicated problems and engineer solutions through online research as needed.
Ability to write SQL queries.
Strong Excel experience.
Ability to join multiple types of data sets to identify trends.
Ability to visualize data to drive recommendations effectively.
Understanding of how CRM systems work and function.
Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure products and how it functions.
Solid verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills with the ability to make presentations.
Excellent organizational, time-management and multi-tasking skills.
Looking to continuously grow and learn and does not look for the path of least resistance.
Ability to think and act in an innovative and creative way.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team. The ideal candidate is a self-starting flexible individual who thrives in a fast-paced dynamic environment. This role works cross-functionally with many stakeholders testing and analyzing data for implementing processes within their receivables. 

Business Analyst Responsibilities 
Participate in user acceptance testing.
Perform customer data corrections.
Documenting processes and procedures.
Research statutory invoicing requirements.
Maintain and enforce accounts receivable policies and procedures; assist with accounts receivable audits.
Assist with AR issues and resolve accordingly.
Support projects and other duties as needed.

Business Analyst Qualifications 
2-3 years of account receivable and project administration experience.
Strong MS Office skills; knowledge with financial management software.
Exceptional problem-solving analytical skills. 
Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to multi-task and prioritize. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Business Intelligence Specialist
Our client’s Business Intelligence team is adding a Business Intelligence Specialist  to help deliver and support data and analytics solutions. Their technical teams are tightly integrated and collaborate closely with stakeholders across several different lines of business on data strategy and objectives. Team members are expected to gather information to ensure business requirements are being fulfilled throughout the entire data & analytics lifecycle. 

Responsibilities
Partnering with business areas to assess reporting, analysis and data visualization needs.
Developing knowledge of local business processes and recommending technology-driven process improvements.
Assisting in the documentation of requirements and specifications. 
Partnering with technical subject matter experts to determine and document the optimal design 
Developing, testing and deploying smaller reporting and end user computing solutions. 
Collaborating with business unit and OIA associates on the execution of larger projects identified within the business unit. 
Facilitating change and innovation to legacy systems and processes.
Design and implement visualizations based on KPI calculations, perspectives, hierarchy structures, scorecards that identify patterns, trends and exceptions. 
Uses data to tell meaningful stories to clients and stakeholders. 

Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Math, Computer Science/Information Technology or MIS, or equivalent work experience.
2 – 4 years experience building content and dashboards in business intelligence and data visualization tools (e.g., Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik).
Strong desire to innovate and advance internal technologies and processes.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (particularly Word and Excel).
We are a Power BI shop and give strong preference to individuals who have used that platform for data querying and SSAS Tabular models (i.e. creation of calculated columns, measures, and relationships.) 
Understanding of Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) formula and query language for Microsoft PowerPivot & Power BI Desktop. 
Working knowledge of SQL and VBA. 
Strong interpersonal skills and customer focus. 
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities/deadlines.
Highly motivated to make impactful improvements for our business partners.

Preferred Qualifications
3 - 5 Experience in a corporate environment, preferably in an analytical role within the financial sector 
Knowledge of various SDLC and process methodologies (e.g. Agile, Scrum, etc.) 
Specialty in Supply Chain Management and Logistics strongly preferred. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

Business System Analyst
Our client is seeking a business A system Analyst to join their team in Vancouver, WA. The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) is responsible for understanding the business operations and aligning information systems to support business objectives. The BSA functions as the liaison between the business and the Information Technology teams, translating business requirements into technical specifications.

The BSA builds on their technical knowledge of information systems and uses that knowledge to continuously improve system efficiencies by recommending systems use changes or business process improvements. The BSA builds strong relationships with internal stakeholders. The BSA is an excellent communicator and drives the project forward. This position reports to the Program Manager, Insurance and Accounting and is highly collaborative with all members of the team. 

Responsibilities
Elicits business requirements and performs analysis and designs systems to leverage information systems to accomplish business objectives.
Works with business customers to understand existing processes and problems as well as new requirements and then applies knowledge of the application
Works with business customers to identify current state processes and systems, solicit and manage new requirements providing creation of future state process or systems, gap analysis, decision support, business rules or business intelligence designs.
Partners with business customers to make sound decisions – e.g. workflow diagrams, data analysis summaries, cost benefit/ROI assessments, process maps, creation of user stories and managing of backlog
Brings a continuous improvement mentality and sense of curiosity to daily activities
Identify problems, hypothesize solutions, and test concepts to resolve systems and business issues. Collaborate with the Operations Center and Field Service teams to bring solutions to reality.
Engage with existing communications channels in our mentor groups and task forces to grow strong ties, build trust and convey messaging regarding issues, opportunities and change.
Be a systems expert for questions, troubleshooting, brings a continuous improvement mentality and sense of curiosity to daily activities
Develop process documentation, test scripts, requirements. Maintain user guides, knowledge base and other documentation regarding systems and business process in collaboration with IT, Learning and Development, and Branches. Leverages best practices, innovation, research in emerging solutions and business process improvement tools to develop long term solutions.
Collaborate with Internal Audit and Development Teams to ensure adherence to security and compliance requirements.
 
Qualifications
Qualified candidates must have a BS or BA degree in Business, Technology, or equivalent degree
Strong working familiarity with HR, Insurance, Accounting or Payroll Processes in a service environment
5-7 years working as a Business Systems Analyst or equivalent job role.
Familiarity with API’s , web services and/or Micro services 
Experienced in Agile Scrum and KanBan as well as Waterfall Project Methodologies.
Curiosity
Business Acumen
Business Owner Empathy
Ownership and Accountability
Leader and Mentor
10%- 20 % Travel

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

Business Systems Analyst
Our client is looking for a Business Systems Analyst to analyze and spread financial data related to new and renewal loan requests, including lines of credit, commercial real estate, working capital, equipment financing, loans for business start-ups, and business acquisitions, which typically would require a government guarantee.
 
Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities 
Presents facts and offers opinions/recommendations to Business Development Officers (BDOs) concerning applicant's credit worthiness.
Prepares summary and/or credit approval report documenting credit analyses and recommendation for credit decision to approving authority.
Assists BDOs in gathering details for new loan requests and in processing servicing actions for existing relationships, maintaining contact with clients and resolving issues.
Reviews annual financials on existing loans and analyzes the risk associated with the borrower's financial condition, recommending risk-rating changes when appropriate.
Reviews and monitors commercial and/or real estate loan documents for accuracy, completeness and adherence to approval conditions.
Follows up with customers to obtain all necessary information and clarification on financial analysis materials and resources.
May work with attorneys, the SBA, USDA, and financial or other legal resources to obtain correct and accurate documents to fully protect the financial institution's interests in the credit relationship.
May participate in customer and prospect calls with the BDO.
Demonstrates compliance with all regulations for assigned job function and applies to designated job responsibilities -- knowledge may be gained through coursework and on-the-job training. Keeps up to date on regulation changes.
Follows all policies and procedures, compliance regulations, and completes all required annual or job-specific training.
Maintain a working knowledge of written policies and procedures regarding Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, Bank Security and other regulations as applicable to this job description.
May be asked to coach, mentor, or train others and teach coursework as subject matter expert.
Actively learns, demonstrates, and fosters the corporate culture in all actions and words.
Takes personal initiative and is a positive example for others to emulate.
May perform other duties as assigned.

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
5-8 years of relevant credit analysis or commercial underwriting experience and SBA lending knowledge.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with prior consumer, and commercial lending experience, wide-ranging and in-depth knowledge of industry practices.
Strong credit and credit quality skills including accounting, financial statement spreading, and cash flow analysis experience.
Strong knowledge of credit policies, procedures, practices and documentation.
Strong knowledge of SBA SOP's.
Demonstrated sales skills and business development.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Ability to work effectively with individuals and groups across the company to manage internal and external customer relationships.
Proficiency with personal computers and related software packages such as Word and Excel, and other business machines.
Must have completed accounting and credit training courses.
Occasional travel.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Systems Analyst 
You are curious.
You want to understand the WHY… the purpose.  You might be a fan of Simon Sinek.
You love the process of qualifying information and creating clear expectations.  
Our legal services client will be hiring a mid-level Business Systems Analyst for a 2 year Contract in Beaverton.
Critical skills include: solution-focused mindset, thick skin, ability to hear what people are trying to say even when they can’t explain themselves. 
This position will be responsible for the testing, analysis, documentation of all Print & Mail work running through Prepress. 
This individual will play a key role in supporting developers with translation from internal and external client needs to technical solutions and operational requirements.

Pay rate: $35.00/hr. W2

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Create, deploy, maintain and support print Implementations and projects.
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to create innovative business solutions.
Provide print Creation and processing support for internal business clients.
Ensure that projects are consistently on-scope and on-time.
Draft effective documentation of procedures for training and reference purposes.
Implement standard processes for formatting and converting non-electronic information and data into print and customer output data. 
Monitor task transitions and procedural flow within the group from creation to delivery. 

***Curious about this job? Tell us why you love being an Analyst!***

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
2 years of experience gathering, testing, and documenting requirements.
You geek out when creating reports and manipulating data within Microsoft Excel and Access.
Experience writing SQL queries.
Preferred
Experience with Sefas OpenPrint software suite preferred.
Entry level user in VBScript.
Strong data analysis and research skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Systems Analyst
Our client is hiring an experienced BSA for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Be a Product advocate; can describe the Product, its value, how it works, how it is adopted, speak to upcoming changes and tailor the information to the audience.
Understand the Product Roadmap and use knowledge of future features to improve current stories and tests.
Assist in customer adoption through personal interaction and written documentation.
Identify, escalate and remove roadblocks, triage defects, and provide clarity from customers on issues where appropriate.
Work directly with customers and team members to capture details of Feature requirements, understand use cases, collect samples, and find tests; apply knowledge of Product and business drivers to enhance work.
Write and refine stories for clarity, business value, and acceptance criteria with guidance from Product Management.
Work with Team to translate any internal "Enablers" into value driven stories.
Assess, provide input and potential improvements to Product Owner on impact to business partners' current processes and their current use of the Product.
Conduct feature mapping, gap analysis, data flow to help assess business implications of feature, tool, or platform.
Conduct analysis to determine how features are performing, level of customer satisfaction, and provide suggestions for improvements.
Highlight risks, escalate impacts and assist in analyzing possible solutions for complex issues.
Conduct Product demos.

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field.
5 years of relevant professional experience.
In-depth understanding of the Agile principles and methodologies and how they’re applied in workplace culture.
Able to solve complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions.
Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.
Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
Excellent communication, collaboration, team dynamics, and conflict resolution.
Experience working with internal and external customers.
Sufficient understanding of technology systems and the ecosystem the team works in to help team in overcoming roadblocks.
Proven presentation and facilitation skills.
Knowledge and hands-on creation of key artifacts including use cases, user stories, user acceptance criteria, configuration stories, or specifications.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Systems Analyst
Data Services is the team within ECAR which manages and shepherds data through the entire lifecycle of a class action or similar matter, such as a mass tort claim. Each case, while unique, undergoes a similar lifecycle and series of operations, including initial gathering/scrubbing/loading of client data, notifying potential class members, receiving claim information, computing and disbursing settlement amounts, and so on. Each of these steps will be reflected by and/or have material effect on the underlying case data. The Business System Analyst (BSA) is responsible for understanding the requirements for a particular case, or step of a case, and determining how those functional requirements translate into technical specifications. The BSA translates functional requirements into a technical statement of work from which developers can code solutions. The BSA works directly with Client Services, Technical Project Managers, Data Analysts, QC Analysts, other BSAs, department Team Leads, and others to understand all aspects of the case and to determine and document the data-oriented solution.

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Understand the entire lifecycle of a class action or similar matter, determine what data is required based on functional requirements, and define how that data and business rules will translate to internal applications.
Develop and publish technical specifications, technical requirements, and other documentation, as required.
Design data mappings and transformations which will be used to drive ETL procedures.
Work with QC Analysts to design testing strategies and plans to ensure all outcomes are as expected.
Using tools such as Excel, Access, SQL Server, and others, directly query, assess, and analyze data to ensure requirements are being met.
Serve as liaison between Client Services (business) and Data Analysts (technical) teams to keep production work flowing smoothly.
Work with Technical Project Managers to ensure all required steps and actions are captured in project plans, and that project timelines seem reasonable.
Lead, conduct, or consult in user acceptance test exercises to ensure results are acceptable and meet requirements.
Follow prescribed software development standards, processes, procedures, methodologies, etc., according to departmental policies and conventions.
Interact and correspond professionally with team members, project management, clients, and other stakeholders.
Account for and accurately log time against project work.

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
Four-year college degree or equivalent industry experience.
Experience as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Process Specialist, or other role where business functional requirements are captured and decomposed.
Proficient with MS Office tools, particularly Excel.
Experience with relational databases and ability to comprehend moderately complex SQL logic desired.
Basic understanding of data modeling and data organization desired.
Basic understanding of and experience with extract, transform, load (ETL) concepts, tools, and practices desired.
Ability to work in an environment with immediate deadlines and shifting priorities.
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing; able to adjust for intended audience. Fluent in English.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

Business System Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Systems Analyst to join their team in Portland, OR.

Responsibilities
Completes what’s assigned. For the non-XML work this is level 2 user support which includes system research, more complex break fixes than our service desk can support, application testing etc. For XML related work this is requirement writing, XML configuration of our correspondence templates, and testing.
Participates in meetings and conference calls.
Embodies humble, hungry, and smart.
Not only completes what’s assigned, but actively looks for ways to improve our process and our user interactions. Try and eliminate any need to reach out in the first place where appropriate.
Wants to learn about the business.
Interested and actively working to grow their technical skillset.
Can quickly adapt to needs on the team.
Have the excitement to build something new, make something better, and change user experiences for the better.

Required Skills
Writing requirements for correspondence letters (Claims letters), coding those requirements into reality. These letters go out to customers, letters are built in XML.
Preference to XML Certification, demonstrated knowledge in the XML space (wants to knowledge to hit the ground running)
XML knowledge
Clear written and verbal communication (turning what the business gives into what IT has)
Good interpersonal skills

Preferred Skills
XML Certification
Technical writing background

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Systems Analyst
Our client is hiring a Business Systems Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Generates reports and regular datasets or report information for end- users using system tools and database or data warehouse queries and scripts. 
Integrates data from multiple sources to produce requested or required data elements. 
Programs and maintains report forms and formats, information dashboards, data generators, canned reports and other end- user information portals or resources. 
May create specifications for reports based on business requests.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

CAD Designer-Control Systems
Our client is a global manufacturing company headquartered in Portland, OR with their brand in over 110 countries around the world. They are looking for a CAD Designer with electrical drafting experience to join this growing, dynamic team! The person in this role will be responsible for creating and maintaining engineering documentation for their new manufacturing equipment and facilities, as well as supporting the build and repair of automated equipment. Working with a wide variety of customers, this role is responsible for using CAD software and data management tools to create documents that help their internal customers perform their work safely and efficiently. Working within their Machine Design group, this role focuses on creating and documenting the electronic control systems on their custom manufacturing equipment.

Responsibilities
Creates or modifies layouts, schematics, detail, and assembly drawings using CAD software (AutoCAD primarily, potential to adopt SolidWorks Electrical).
Reviews and develops change requests with the project engineer for clarity as needed.
Creates and updates Bills of Materials (BOMs) as required in ERP system (SAP).
Creates and distributes print packages per local plant procedures.
Converts legacy drawings to current CAD software and templates.
Incorporates redline changes into revision controlled documentation.
Establishes new part numbers for custom and commercially available components or documents.
Contributes to development and maintenance of department standards.
Helps customers find or clarify information regarding engineering documentation.
Looks at ways to improve their own methods focusing on reducing inefficiencies and throughput time of changes.
Helps distribute workload amongst other members of the design / drafting team.
Supports ERP data creation and modification for the entire department as needed.
Consults with suppliers to identify obsolete components and appropriate replacements.
Consults with internal and external control panel builders to ensure functional and quality needs are met.
Collaborates with electricians and other technical team members to identify potential solutions to production issues.

Qualifications
Five to seven years’ electrical drafting experience required.
Exposure to machine/equipment drafting and facility layouts desirable.
Able to complete responsibilities in a timely, professional and quality-focused manner.
Solve problems analytically; search out relevant information and gauge its importance when making decisions.
Effective written and oral communication skills; able to express oneself clearly and in appropriate terms for the target audience.
Creative and logical thinker.
Demonstrate ability and willingness to learn; seek out development activities to improve skills and increase knowledge; learn from other team members and own mistakes.
Collaborative and effective team player able to work with globally dispersed teams.
Take initiative, seek and act on opportunities to improve organization performance.
Ability to translate specific goals into action and follow through to achieve goals.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and data management software (SAP preferred).
CAD software proficiency - must be able to create 2D drawings to acceptable drafting practices (ANSI, NEC, etc.) in a timely manner.
Able to document new equipment designs well as revise existing designs with help of engineering staff.
Able to create, modify, and interpret Bills of Materials and Engineering Change Orders.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

#VHEng

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Capability Enablement Coach
Our Beaverton client is looking for a Capability Enablement Coach to join their team. The Capability Enablement Coach will focus on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems, and technologies, with an emphasis on enabling brand marketing capabilities.
As the Capability Enablement Coach, you’ll lead and implement learning and development strategies that create a clear competitive advantage for the business. Your primary focus will be to drive training programs to enable capabilities in key marketing areas where process or technology changes are in play.

Capability Enablement Coach Responsibilities
You will partner with a team to develop consistent training (delivered in a variety of ways: learner led, instructor-led, one-on-one, e-Learning, etc.) that will improve performance and effectiveness. 
You will guide and inspire, convey passion and train on fundamental to advanced knowledge required to perform job functions. 
You’ll work with a team to make sure appropriate training materials are developed that best support and drive required outcomes. 
You’ll also create a learning atmosphere, which appeals to a variety of learning styles and needs.
You’ll partner with business leaders to improve organizational performance requirements based on employee demographics, skill inventories, business strategies and challenges. You’ll analyze data, extrapolate critical factors and make appropriate recommendations to improve current and future organizational performance and business results.
You will assist in the management, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the training learning technology, data, and associated devices (e.g. Training environments, mobile learning devices, etc.). 
You will partner with Product teams to ensure all technical aspects of the training environments are covered. 
You will help troubleshoot and resolve basic user issues, manage training user IDs, manage training packets and exercises, and update learning assets and programs in conjunction with the org’s training needs.
You’ll participate in the measurement/assessment processes, analyze the results and determine appropriate solutions. 
You’ll participate in the development of measurable learning solutions based on analysis of individual and organizational performance gaps identified in partnership with senior business management. 
You’ll deliver and deploy a variety of learning solutions and formats to address individual and organizational performance gaps.
You will be accountable for training delivery logistics, including planning, scheduling, coordinating resources, and maintaining training records. 
You will maintain and procure adequate supplies needed for training.
You’ll maintain a growth and performance focused mindset and partner with the Learning & Development community to create innovative learning solutions that align to business strategies. 

Capability Enablement Coach Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Training, Communication, Education, Design/Development or similar and 2+ years relevant training work experience.
Experience in a Marketing environment.
Ability to translate technical information to non-technical users.
2+ years people leadership experience.
High competency with PC, MS Office – Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Project.
Broad business exposure and direct experience in implementation of business change and process improvement initiatives.
Ability to use sound decision making and problem solving/resolution skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills - with ability to tailor message to audience.
Strong analytical, investigative, interpersonal, written, and communicative skills.
Excellent organizational influence and critical thinking skills.
Strong team orientation, confidentiality, and ability to influence.
Ability to multi-task and work independently with minimal supervision.
Experience in driving consensus across teams.
Available to work flexible schedule when needed to accommodate remote training or meetings with global stakeholders.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Category Merchandiser
Our client is hiring a Category Merchandiser for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Category Merchandiser Responsibilities
Creates category assortment framework and module grids market wide. 
Ensures consistent Brand and Category Storeytelling through the creation of modules. 
Act as the hub for the category to marketplace. 
Own decision rights for target wholesale & retail price architecture. 
Collaborate and drive key Brand and Category stories through defining items & key items market wide. 
Set Global/Geo alignment of Geo adoption of seasonal strategies & assortments.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

CIS Program Manager
Our client is looking for a CIS Program Manager to join their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. They require a strong Program Manager with experience working in an agile environment who will lead self-organizing teams and programs to ensure cross functional communication and execution. This role will provide support to CIS teams with a focus on managing the relationships and deliverables associated with cross functional CIS work. The ideal candidate has strong experience with process refinement and organization design.

CIS Program Manager Responsibilities
Focus on defining tools and processes to support overall organizational excellence.
Schedule/Plan management: assist in facilitation of work breakdown sessions.
Create initial project schedule and maintain with minimal oversight.
Facilitate program level process and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and risks, as well as escalates blockers.
Coordinates and facilitates iterative program level planning.
Accountable for program execution and delivery of work.
Monitors and reports program health (i.e. progress of feature completion) with the purpose of providing transparency on program delivery of value.
Supports manager in executing project/program communication plan (internal and external) and provides status reporting and health/metrics to organization.
Defines risk management plan, analyzes for criticality, probability, and impact and develops plan to address potential risk.

CIS Program Manager Qualifications
Minimum 2-year work experience with previous experience supporting teams.
Bachelor’s Degree.
Technology/security experience preferred.
Strong verbal and written communication, as well as information-seeking skills.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to drive recommendations.
Proficient in Microsoft Powerpoint, Word, Excel; Mac skills also highly preferred.

Required Skills:
Experience with formal project management methodology (Waterfall, Agile).
Excel in team-oriented role that relies on ability to collaborate with others.
Strong oral and written communication with ability to influence others (stakeholder management skills).
Experience resolving issues with higher levels of management.
Able to lead cross functional work and prioritize changing demands.
Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Experience, interest, and adaptability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Must be trustworthy in keeping sensitive data confidential.

Preferred Skills:
Knowledge of information security best practices and principles.
Project Management certification (PMP).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

CIS Program Manager
Our client is in need of a strong Program Manager with experience working in an agile environment who will lead self-organizing teams and programs to ensure cross functional communication and execution.  This role will provide support to CIS teams with a focus on managing the relationships and deliverables associated with cross functional CIS work.  The ideal candidate has strong experience with process refinement and organization design.

CIS Program Manager Responsibilities
Focus on defining tools and processes to support overall organizational excellence.
Schedule/Plan management: assist in facilitation of work breakdown sessions.
Create initial project schedule and maintain with minimal oversight.
Facilitate program level process and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and risks, as well as escalates blockers.
Coordinates and facilitates iterative program level planning.
Accountable for program execution and delivery of work.
Monitors and reports program health (i.e. progress of feature completion) with the purpose of providing transparency on program delivery of value.
Supports manager in executing project/program communication plan (internal and external) and provides status reporting and health/metrics to organization.
Defines risk management plan, analyzes for criticality, probability, and impact and develops plan to address potential risk.

Key skills:
Experience with formal project management methodology (Waterfall, Agile).
Excel in team-oriented role that relies on ability to collaborate with others.
Strong oral and written communication with ability to influence others (stakeholder management skills).
Experience resolving issues with higher levels of management.
Able to lead cross functional work and prioritize changing demands.
Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Experience, interest, and adaptability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Must be trustworthy in keeping sensitive data confidential.

CIS Program Manager Qualifications
Minimum 2-year work experience with previous experience supporting teams.
Bachelor’s Degree.
Strong verbal and written communication, as well as information-seeking skills.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to drive recommendations.

Preferred:
Knowledge of information security best practices and principles.
Project Management certification (PMP).
Technology/security experience preferred.
Proficient in Microsoft Powerpoint, Word, Excel; Mac skills also highly preferred.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Client Communication and Service Specialist
Our client is seeking a Client Communications and Services Specialist to join their team in Portland, OR. The main function of the Client Communication & Service Specialist is to respond to telephone inquiries and process change requests. You will prepare correspondence, calculations, and monitor status of requests as appropriate to ensure timely response and customer satisfaction.

Client Communication and Service Specialist Responsibilities
Respond to a wide variety of customer service inquiries via an 800 line and e-mail alias. 
Promptly and accurately summarize information about company products. 
Provide callers with policy information, guidance completing forms, plan provisions and procedures for effecting policy changes. 
Process point-of-call policyholder changes, policy summaries, and policy changes.
Prepare and coordinate periodic policy owner communications and business retention notices. 
Monitor and follow-up on the status of requested work.
Solicit customer feedback to identify areas for customer service improvements; develop and modify procedures; recommend changes to internal forms, process and procedures.
Support divisional projects as assigned, particularly activities related to front-end service delivery.

Client Communication and Service Specialist Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Accounting, Finance or related field preferred.
6+ months experience.
Experience in a high-volume customer service, call center, insurance, brokerage, banking or accounting environment or the equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience.
Basic knowledge in insurance and disability plan industry.
Excellent written and verbal communication, able to interface with customers in a professional manner.
Basic computer skills including Microsoft Office.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail.
Ability to handle multiple tasks with frequent interruptions in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

Clojure Development Engineer
Our client is seeking a Clojure Development Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. They are looking for engineers who can bring in fresh ideas from different areas, like distributed computing, scalability and storage, security, data analytics & visualization, UI design, and mobile. They need engineers to be versatile, demonstrate leadership qualities, and be eager to tackle new problems across the full-stack as we venture to make healthcare more accessible to all.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will be involved in requirements gathering, design and development of new features for the platform, handle scalability, and performance challenges. You will participate in a high-paced agile environment with deep focus on best software practices, cutting edge technologies, innovation, and code quality.

Clojure Development Engineer Qualifications
1+ year experience on Clojure or any functional programming (Scala, Elixir etc.).
2+ years of experience on strong development life cycle.

Preferred:
Clojure programming skills.
Strong experience with these technologies is preferred: Python, Java or Clojure, Scala, Docker, AWS (DynamoDB, S3, RedShift), database design, Git, Jenkins, Cucumber.
Competency in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
Experience in working with microservices and standard APIs.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Cloud Application Engineer
Our client is hiring a Cloud Application Engineer for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Cloud Application Engineer Responsibilities
The nature of the work is focused on the company's computer and telephony technology tools used to create, store, exchange, and use all forms of information. 
Understanding and experience in one or more Hot Skill Technology (Java, .net, SAP, PeopleSoft, See Beyond). 
Manages employees, sets goals, coach's staff, supports development, collaborates on hiring decisions, disciplinary actions, performance management, and recognition, and rewards.
Develops action plans and processes, in coordination with management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives.
Facilitates or performs application support, problem solving, and issue resolution with internal and external resources. 
Contributes and reviews recommendations for technical solutions. 
Manages and/or contributes to the technical components of the RFP process. 
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution Manages and/or contributes to the technical components of the RFP process. 
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation. 
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects. 
Provides technical estimates for project budget input to Senior/Project Manager. 
Leads and owns engagements with software vendors to ensure that code and configuration requirements and deliverables are met. 
Enforces architecture, governance, security, and global process standards to system changes and deployments. 
Coordinates compliance issue identification and remediation. 
Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design. 
Contributes Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design. 
Contributes to database design and creates critical-path, high-risk, advanced technical designs. 
Approves proof of concept efforts and reviews results. 
Enforce company and department architectural direction and ensure consistent technical approach within department. 
Decide on engineering tools based on recommendations. 
Allocate resources based on performance monitoring and tuning results. 
Manage and enforce performance thresholds and standards. 
Review and approve performance test results, recommendations, and tuning results. 
Oversee and is responsible for the creation of test plans, test execution, and validation of test results. 

Cloud Application Engineer Qualifications
Skills: .Net, SAP, See Beyond, PeopleSoft, AWS, Java/Python/Node, Rest services, Automated Testing, CI/CD using Jenkins.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***
 

Cloud Engineer
 
Our client is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to join their dynamic team building and supporting the planning tool for our client’s Direct-to-Consumer Operations. This position is located in Beaverton, OR. The tool is used across the global operations teams to plan, track and coordinate consumer product offerings. The application platform is a cloud-native stack spanning across a number of AWS products.
 
Cloud Engineer Qualifications:
Computer Science Degree and 4+ years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
2+ years of professional Java development experience following Agile practices (Scrum preferred).
Demonstrated collaboration and iterative problem-solving with teammates to deliver valuable solutions.
2+ years of public cloud experience (AWS preferred).
Professional experience managing deployments, including automated testing.
Professional experience with relational (SQL) databases (AWS Aurora or other RDS preferred).
Professional experience with Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda preferred).
 
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of Groovy.
Experience with Docker (deployed on AWS Fargate).
Working knowledge of DevOps practices – own your own infrastructure, build, deployment and production support.
Experience with AWS Step Functions.
Experience with Vue.js or other JavaScript client frameworks (e.g. React).
Experience with Dynamo DB.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Communication Specialist
Our client is looking for a Communication Specialist to join their team. The Communication Specialist engages in broad internal/external communication projects to support organization-wide programs and initiatives, and assists with developing consistent, clear messaging to all audiences. In collaboration with department leadership and teams, the specialist performs various communication tasks and functions to support the strategy, planning and delivery of communication efforts.

Communication Specialist Responsibilities 
Proven ability to work independently writing, creating and implementing high-quality communication plans, messaging and copy, and story development that meets company standards.
Provide ongoing strategic communication counsel and support. Ensure alignment of organizational and region/service area/ministry messaging and communication programs.
Support assembly and delivery of information and messaging to caregivers and other audiences. Monitor and improve on an ongoing basis.
Work closely with marketing and communication leadership at the system and regional level to align and coordinate messaging and positioning across audiences.
Support budget and invoice management and tracking, perform to budget and goals.

Communication Specialist Qualifications
2 years demonstrated experience in communication, preferably healthcare required.
Communication experience in health care preferred.
Demonstrated experience in developing communication programs and business relationships.
Demonstrated experience working in highly matrixed and geographically dispersed organizations and teams.
Demonstrated writing and editing excellence.
Demonstrated healthcare experience.
Knowledge of integrated health care and communication practices.
Ability to work collaboratively across a diverse, matrixed marketing and communication team to ensure messaging and programs are delivered quickly, consistently and powerfully across multiple channels and locations.
Ability to drive practice powerful messaging in support of brand position.
Agility and flexibility in coordinating multiple high-level projects, and just-in-time issues and work assignments.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Communications Manager
Our client is hiring a Communications Manager for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As Communications Manager, you are an important member of the Global Operations Team (GOT). In this role, you will manage the communication strategy and execution for our workplace of the future across Americas. This role will create strategic communications plans and drive communications delivery focused on experiences and moments that matter to inspire and engage employees as part of our workplace evolution. As needed, the role will also support implementation of global GOT initiatives and recognition programs in the geo.

Communications Manager Responsibilities
Develop highly innovative and targeted communications strategies, messages and experiences for workplace strategies, programs and projects in Americas to engage employees and external audiences where appropriate.
Know how to develop and deliver engaging content and deliver messages through video, infographics, and written content with the ability to test and learn from other mediums with the goal to connect with and engage employees.
Deliver high-impact, relevant and measurable communication deliverables, using a variety of channels.
Build credible relationships with business stakeholders across functions, geo and territories.
Partner with communications teams in the geo, territories and global to ensure smooth activation and adoption.
Create plans, track timelines and manage a project-based budget. Manage internal and external approval processes.

Communications Manager Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Journalism, PR, English, Communications or related discipline.
5+ years professional experience in a high-profile corporate communications role, supporting globally branded organizations preferred.
Excellent communications planning, writing and editing skills combined with speed, flexibility, and attention to detail.
Ability to develop communications that engage across multiple platforms (i.e. intranet, video, digital newsletters, script writing, presentations etc.).
Proven ability to communicate plans and work collaboratively across a complex matrix on a corporate, geo, territory and functional basis.
Demonstrated experience in working effectively at senior-level management and ability to provide guidance and direction to peers.
Ability to Travel, 5 – 10%.

Preferred:
Knowledge of sports culture, footwear or apparel industry.
Experience in both internal and external communications.
Ability to understand challenges or underlying concerns, share ideas, and develop effective responses, or elevate to higher management.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Content Developer / Instructional Designer
Our client is hiring a Content Developer / Instructional Designer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. You will support a variety of operations programs including: Inventory Excellence, Buy Online Pickup in Store and Ship from Store, Stockroom Organization, Sustainability, Checkout & Operational Excellence. You will write training content, design activities and resources, and work as a thought partner with the extended operations and training team. You will organize, lead and participate in meetings to gather the right content and translate information into creative and impactful policy, procedures and standards. A keen sense of inquiry and the ability to distill complex information into its most critical pieces are essential.

Content Developer / Instructional Designer Responsibilities
Support Global and Geography Retail Operations teams with policy, procedure and standard research.
Lead the development of new operational content from ideation to delivery.
Managing multiple priorities and deliverables while ensuring stakeholder needs are achieved.
Produce high-quality work with proven ability to meet aggressive deadlines.
Collaborate and communicate effectively with teammates and cross-functional team members.
Develop subject-matter knowledge and expertise for assigned content areas.

Content Developer / Instructional Designer Qualifications
Experience developing and designing procedural, policy and standards.
Experience developing and designing training content.
Retail experience (working in a retail store environment or contact center).
Excellent written communication skills and ability to influence across various leadership levels.
Experience with digital/mobile learning tools a plus (e.g. Articulate Storyline, Rise, Zunos).
Attention-to-detail, multitasking ability, and desire to excel in a fast-pace environment.
Proficiency with Keynote and Microsoft Office products.
Bachelor's degree, preferably in Education, Business, Adult learning, Instructional Design, English/Writing or a related field.
3-5 years of professional work experience creating operational procedures or training.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Contract Specialist
A large international company with North American headquarters in Portland has an immediate need for a Contract Specialist to support their underwriting team. This is an opportunity to gain experience in a large financial organization that loves to promote from within. 

Contract Specialist Responsibilities 
Evaluate requests, documentation, and enter related data into the system.
Create accurate and legally defensible contracts, amendments and contract-related documents.
Audit documents for completeness and accuracy.
Ensure risk management by complying with company and legal requirements and individual state-specific requirements.
Collaborate and communicate with internal stakeholders regarding policy issues and discrepancies.
Complete system testing for process and system improvements.
Provide ongoing support to projects and other tasks as assigned

Contract Specialist Qualifications
0-2 Years' Experience
High school diploma and/or equivalent experience.
Ability to produce documents and work with multiple shifting priorities. 
Previous experience with computer applications, such as Microsoft Word, and any other related software a plus.
Attention to detail and accuracy in a high production environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Creative Director
Our client is seeking a Creative Director to join their Marketing team in Beaverton, Oregon.

The Creative Director is responsible for developing and executing messaging platforms for company and product brands, and all creative strategies for product and/or service initiatives. Creative strategies must support the achievement of the business' strategic objectives and revenue goals.

The Creative Director is a leader who inspires the creative team to deliver content that engages and feeds the funnel in a well-established, first-class marketing organization. The ability to think outside and inside the box from different angles of vision is required to appeal to a variety of target audiences within multi-sided network business.

The Creative Director works closely with the Vice-President of Marketing, and the Marketing Director.

Creative Director Responsibilities
Develops and shapes the go-to-market "story" for the business that supports effective product, sales, brand execution and information leadership initiatives.
Manages the creative execution of the brand experience, and conveys value proposition across all marketing channels
Together with key stakeholders, develops marketing strategies and measurable department goals that support the achievement of business objectives.
Manages multiple priorities and produces quality creative, that responds to dynamic market conditions, and a rapidly changing competitive environment.
Directs the creative execution of web content, marketing materials, media, press activities, social media and other lead generation tactics, consistent with brand guidelines.
Leads strategic brainstorming sessions, creative brief and campaign development, and directs creative execution.
Defines the content, identifies keynote speakers and collaborates with stakeholders to produce the annual User Conference, our signature customer event.
With the Product Development department, ensures brand implementation is consistent with brand experience.
Manages media relationships for the most effective distribution of messaging and positioning,
Directs outside agencies, freelancers and other contractors who assist with marketing activities.
Understands the cost-effectiveness (ROI} and overall value of creative programs and activities, and strives for constant improvement.
Other duties as assigned.

Creative Director Managerial Responsibilities
Manages a team of copywriters and designers, and inspires innovative thinking that results in business goal achievement.
Carries out supervisory responsibilities according to the organization's policies and applicable laws.
Manages contract relationships including: defining and monitoring the delivery of work scope within budget limits.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Credit Analyst
Our client is seeking a Credit Analyst to join their team. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment with leadership qualities within their growing Portland headquarters.

Credit Analyst Responsibilities 
Manage accounts receivable in an assigned set of accounts.
Address customer concerns and resolve issues to receive payment.
Set credit limits within established thresholds by analyzing customer financial statements, credit reports, and payment history.
Assist with escalations and make recommendations on collections and legal actions.
Support month-end close and reporting.
Special projects as assigned.

Credit Analyst Qualifications 
Associates degree in accounting, finance, or related field preferred.
3 years’ experience in credit and/or collections.
Working knowledge of accounts receivable, credit and collections, and sales tax regulations.
Intermediate proficiency with Excel; previous ERP systems experience a plus. 
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
Experience in an auto/truck industry a plus.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

Cryptography and Secure Computation Researcher 
Our client is seeking a Cryptography and Secure Computations Researcher to join their team in Portland, Oregon. They tackle the hardest problems in computer science. They are a team of researchers and engineers who enjoy the challenge of problems that have never been solved before. Their mission is to assure trust in critical systems, including cryptosystems, that protect the privacy and integrity of information in the real world. They are currently seeking researchers to develop cryptographic techniques to assure this kind of information security for the last mile: during computation. The techniques they draw on include multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, functional encryption, private information retrieval, program obfuscation, and zero-knowledge proofs.

Our clients engineers participate in one or more projects concurrently, and specific roles vary greatly according to skills, interests, and company needs. Your role might include cryptographic research, prototype development, diving deep to understand what our clients’ requirements really mean, formally verifying key aspects of our prototypes, or project leadership. 
Research that leads to publication is highly encouraged, providing lots of opportunity for advancing the state of the art.

Cryptography and Secure Computation Researcher Qualifications
Minimum of a MS in computer science or mathematics. 
PhD in CS or mathematics desired but optional.
Required Technical Expertise.
Significant fundamental or applied research focus in cryptography, and in particular, secure computation.
Demonstrated capability to take theoretical constructions and turn them into working implementations, and then optimize them toward practical use.
A pragmatic understanding of building practical, performant systems that incorporate such advanced cryptosystems into a smoothly integrated whole that meets the needs of our clients.
Must work well with customers, including building rapport, identifying needs, and communicating with strong written, verbal, and presentation skills. 
Must be highly motivated and able to self-manage to deadlines and quality goals expected by those customers.
They are seeking people who can invent, learn, think, and inspire.
creativity and thrive on collaboration are rewarded.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Customer Service Specialist
Our client is hiring a Customer Service Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Customer Service Specialist Responsibilities
Answer in-coming telephone, emails, and chats from Consumers. 
Proactively sell product based on knowing the specific needs of the customer, offering suitable alternatives when product is not available. 
Drive the relationship with the customer through constant communication maintaining a proactive approach. 
Maintain KPIs for coverage and service. 
Communicate professionally, with Consumers, Operations Management, Sales Management and Sales Representatives through effective verbal and written communication. 
Drive the relationship with internal stakeholders: Sales, Credit, Business Units, and Distribution Centers as needed. 
Enter orders for fulfillment requests and follow the order process to conclusion. 
Track and maintain orders: analyze and interpret system generated reports. 
Resolve credit issues and allocation holds working through Credit and the Planning team. 
Ensure accurate and timely delivery of products to accounts. 
Handle all aspects of returns and claims interfacing with the customer and all internal stakeholders.

Customer Service Specialist Qualifications
Strong verbal and written communication skills & multi-tasking required. 
Computer skills: MS Word, Windows, Excel, Power Point.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Cyber Security Metrics Analyst

As a Cyber Security Metrics Analyst, your role on the Governance team will include leveraging your knowledge of automation, data analysis and visualization to support our clients information Security Program. You will play a critical role in ensuring that security controls are effectively measured, monitored, and communicated to senior leaders.

Cyber Security Metrics Analyst Responsibilities
Provide analysis and insights into data supporting the effectiveness of technical and process-based cyber security controls.
Establish automated data pipelines that feed data visualization tools, such as Tableau.
Liaise with GRC and other CIS and Technology stakeholders to ensure alignment between all groups.
Develop cloud-based web application which serves as primary method of content dissemination.
Must take ambiguous high-level language and translate it into real world operations.
Influence teams to implement a security metrics framework by demonstrating its value and tactfully provide guidance on existing operations to ensure smooth adoption of the framework.
Ability to socialize and influence others to buy into a process-oriented approach to their work.
Ability to gain a deep level of technical and process knowledge across multiple security domains in a short amount of time.
Ability to think both strategically and tactically to enable a better future state while continuing to execute against current milestones.
Stay current on information security technologies, trends, standards and best practices.
Ability to obtain a deep level of technical and process knowledge across multiple security domains in a short amount of time.

Cyber Security Metrics Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field and minimum of 3 years relevant experience.
Experience programming with Python, JavaScript, PHP, Java, C, Swift, HTML/CSS.
Experience with the setup and maintenance of AWS EC2 instances running Puppet and Elastic Load Balancing.
Experience with databases such as MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Experience as a full-stack developer in an enterprise environment.
Experience establishing automated data pipelines and/or measuring security control effectiveness and an enterprise environment.
Experience working as a BSA/Lead on multiple projects and business functions is a plus.
Comfortable working with ambiguity is a must.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to gather relevant data and information, actively listen, dialogue freely, verbalize ideas effectively, negotiate tense situations successfully, and manage and resolve conflict.
Proven presentation and facilitation skills.
Demonstrated expertise of building a consensus across business partners and technology leaders, and influencing successful outcomes.
Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.
Experience working successfully in a highly matrixed work environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Data Analyst
Our client is hiring a Data Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. We are looking for a world-class professional in data science and analytics to join our team and, with a focus on strategic, retail partner environments, help grow our product member base. As a Data Analyst, you’ll work as an extended member of the North America Membership team, serving as an expert in analytics and in the omnichannel consumer. You will focus on evaluating and optimizing the overall partnership for us and for our consumers, through deep understanding of the consumers we’re serving. You will play an integral role in determining which programs & benefits are delivering value, and you will identify opportunities for growth. The ideal candidate will have a background in a quantitative or technical field, will have experience working with large data sets, experience scaling data-driven decision making solutions, and a passion for serving consumers. You should excel in cross-functional teams and thrive in a fast-paced organization.

Data Analyst Responsibilities
Collaborate with the NA Member Services team to identify opportunities use data and analytics to answer key business questions about member engagement and purchasing behaviors related to key, retail partner environments.
Work with cross-functional teams to develop insights and understand decisions that drive omni-channel member acquisition and engagement.
As necessary, collaborate directly with external partner account and analytics teams on joint-initiatives.
Design, execute and scale end-to-end testing and analytics solutions that improve member on-boarding and experience, and that help to determine partnership efficacy.
 
Data Analyst Qualifications
3-6 years’ experience doing quantitative analysis on loyalty/membership programs, digital products or digital marketing, with a history of driving impact within an organization.
Experience working as an embedded partner to product management, marketing or business strategy teams.
Experience initiating, designing, prioritizing and reliably delivering key analytics insights to business stakeholders.
Experience identifying acquisition and growth opportunities, optimizing member retention and engagement, measuring the efficacy of benefit offerings.
Experience utilizing a combination of first- and third-party data and applying sophisticated statistical methods (e.g., analysis, experimentation, modeling) all with respect to key consumer segments.
Proven history of translating opportunities uncovered through analytics into compelling stories, influencing the work of cross-functional partners.

Required:
Fluency in SQL (Hive, Impala) or similar experience in analyzing large structured and unstructured datasets.
Experience using analytics to understand consumer behavior and identify opportunities to accelerate engagement.
Experience utilizing a statistical package such as R, MATLAB, SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc. is a plus.
Practical or academic experience utilizing Python is a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Data and CAD Technician
Our client has an outstanding opportunity for an exceptional and talented Contract Designer/Drafter, in their facility located in the Portland, Oregon area. They are seeking a Data & CAD Technician to track and validate vendor part engineering data, correct 3D CAD structure, and review 2D CAD drawings as they relate to forklifts and mechanical parts such as engines, etc. The Records Team ensures adherence to data and engineering standards and translates external vendor part data into our systems. Most internal company processes are now digital so strong computer skills are essential. Accuracy is a critical component of everything our team does.

Data and CAD Technician Responsibilities
Work with business partners to retrieve part data of mechanical systems to migrate data into internal systems. 
This migration may be manual or automated using Microsoft Excel macros.
Review 2D Engineering drawings for completeness and accuracy. Knowledge of ANSI GD&T symbols and dimensioning rules a plus.
CAD model maintenance (i.e. correcting structural or records discrepancies in CAD software).
Assist with data integrity testing tasks.

Data and CAD Technician Qualifications
AS Mechanical Technology or Associates in CAD & Drafting or equivalent work experience.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and technical manuals.
Critical thinker.
Good problem solving skills.
Attention to detail and quality.
Ability to focus on complex tasks.
Proficient user of computer systems with aptitude and willingness to learn new systems.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word.
Working knowledge of mechanical vehicle components (engines, axles, etc.).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Data Engineer
Our client is searching for a Data Engineer to join their team in Beaverton, Oregon.  As a Data Engineer, you will be a key member of a growing and passionate group focused on collaborating across business and technology resources to drive forward key programs and projects building enterprise data & analytics capabilities. 

Data Engineer Responsibilities
Design and build product features in collaboration with business and IT.
Design reusable components, frameworks, libraries like User Defined Functions. 
Build continuous integration and test-driven development environment.
Performance/scalability tuning, algorithms and computational complexity.
Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver high - quality software releases every 2 weeks through Sprints.
Troubleshoot production support issues post - deployment and come up with solutions as required.

Data Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology or related field. 
2+ years’ experience in a professional organization collaborating across multiple functions. 
Good understanding and application of modern data processing technology stacks. For example, AWS, Snowflake, SQL, Airflow, EMR, Spark, and building out performant data consumption layers.
Familiarity with Agile project delivery methods.
Experience with AWS components and services (E.G. EC2, EMR, S3, and Lambda). 
Experience with Jenkins, Bitbucket/GitHub and scheduling tools like Airflow. 
Strong programming, Python, shell scripting and SQL. 
Good understanding of file formats including JSON, Parquet, Avro, and others. 
Experience with data warehouses/RDBMS like Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake. 
Experience with data warehousing, dimensional modeling and ETL development.
Demonstrable ability to quickly learn new tools and technologies.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
Passion for data with demonstrated ability to use data to tell a story and influence decision making.
Detail oriented with strong information seeking skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Data Engineer
Our client is looking for a Data Engineer to join their team. You will be part of an organization that is revolutionizing technology platforms and architecting a data and analytics landscape that is simplified, modern, flexible. 

As a Data Engineer within the North America Marketplace Analytics team, you will be a key member of a growing and passionate group focused on collaborating across business and technology resources to drive forward key programs and projects building enterprise data & analytics capabilities across the company.

Data Engineer Responsibilities
Good understanding and application of modern data processing technology stacks. For example, Snowflake, SQL, Spark, Hadoop ecosystem technologies, and others.
Design and build product features in collaboration with business and IT.
Design reusable components, frameworks, libraries like User Defined Functions.
Build continuous integration and test-driven development environment.
Performance/scalability tuning, algorithms and computational complexity.
Develop architecture and design patterns to process and store high volume data sets.
Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver high - quality software releases every 2 weeks through Sprints.
Troubleshoot production support issues post - deployment and come up with solutions as required.

Data Engineer Qualifications 
A Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology or related field.
2+ years’ experience in a professional organization collaborating across multiple functions.
Familiarity with Agile project delivery methods.
Experience with AWS components and services (E.G. EMR, S3, and Lambda).
Experience with Jenkins, Bitbucket/GitHub and scheduling tools like Airflow.
Strong programming, Python, shell scripting and SQL.
Good understanding of file formats including JSON, Parquet, Avro, and others.
Experience with data warehouses/RDBMS like Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake.
Experience with data warehousing, dimensional modeling and ETL development.
Demonstrable ability to quickly learn new tools and technologies.
Machine learning frameworks & statistical analysis with Python, R or similar.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
Passion for data with demonstrated ability to use data to tell a story and influence decision making.
Detail oriented with strong information seeking skills.

Competencies:
Effective communicator.
Broad business process and systems understanding.
Analytical and focused.
Strategic thinking and tactical execution.
Continuous learner.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

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Data Engineer
Our client is hiring a Data Engineer for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Data Engineer Responsibilities
Develop and support data solutions in support of Supply Chain Planning reporting and analytics requirements.
Engage with product owner, technology lead, report developers, product analysts, and business partners to understand capability requirements and develop data solutions based on product backlog priorities.

Data Engineer Qualifications
5+ years of experience with data engineering with emphasis on data analytics and reporting.
Experience developing with scripting languages such as Shell and Python.
Strong experience developing with PySpark, preferably leveraging AWS EMR managed service.
Expert experience with SQL and Relational database engineering (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata)— expert-level SQL abilities.
Experience with agile delivery methodologies– Scrum, SAFe, Extreme Programming.
Experience working with source-code management tools such as GitHub and Jenkins.
Ability to partner with business and technology team members, to understand business requirements and translate those into value-add technology solutions.

Preferred:
Experience developing solutions in Snowflake.
Experience with workload automation tools such as Airflow, Autosys.
Knowledge of building solutions with data visualization and reporting tools (Tableau, Cognos).
Knowledge of Supply Chain Operations / Manufacturing business processes and objectives.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Data Quality and Affirmative Action Analyst
Our client is looking for a Data Quality and Affirmative Action Analyst to join their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Data Quality and Affirmative Action Analyst Responsibilities
Act as an internal consultant and build strong relationships with HR leadership, business unit heads, and key organization stakeholders. 
Facilitates discussions, makes recommendations and influences leadership to more effectively use data. 
Develop actionable, proactive metrics that drive forecasting capabilities and strategic insights. 
Presents insights concisely and effectively in both oral and written formats to a wide variety of users including Sr. Directors and VPs; determines the best approach and format based on the audience.
Help elevate our data to the next level and beyond by ensuring quality and accuracy. 
Collaborate with business and IT partners to ensure data is understood, accurate, and trusted to be used for reporting and insights. 
Lead system enhancement testing in collaboration with the HR Analytics and TA teams. 
Identify inaccurate or incomplete data and work with the appropriate partners to correct data gaps within our systems. 
Develop and implement global data governance processes within TA. 
In partnership with our legal team, you will also manage the build out of annual Affirmative Action reporting to analyze employment data, applicant flow, hires, promotions, transfers, and other movement within the organization.

Data Quality and Affirmative Action Analyst Qualifications
5-7 years experience in metrics reporting and analysis. 
HR or finance/accounting experience preferred. Expansive knowledge of metrics, data, and business intelligence strategies. 
Ability to effectively analyze and synthesize large amounts of complex data into relevant insights. 
Ability to connect tactical deliverables with enterprise objectives and strategy. 
Ability to present data in a dynamic and concise manner to all levels of the organization. 
Ability to manage ambiguity, risk and changing direction of projects and strategies. 
Possesses high professional standards for customer service, confidentiality and quality of work. 
Strong business and/or financial acumen. 
Strong problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Data Software Engineer
Our client is hiring a Data Software Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. In this role, you will work closely with data scientists and machine learning engineers to build and maintain infrastructure that transforms and analyzes data at scale. By applying your knowledge of data models, scalable pipelines, execution frameworks, and cloud infrastructure, you will write code, build tests, organize data, and collaborate with others to enable large scale data processing. Insights derived from the tools you build will directly impact the direction of product development.

Data Software Engineer Responsibilities
Contribute to the data processing infrastructure used to evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms at scale.
Maintain data models for optimal storage and retrieval of time series sensor data, event labels, system logs, and aggregate metrics.
Build and automate scalable data science workflows.
Automate data quality monitoring, ETL operations, and testing.

Data Software Engineer Qualifications
2+ years of relevant industry experience.
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
Experience building and maintaining data processing pipelines for machine learning.
Demonstrated experience and an interest in learning more about data science infrastructure tools.
Working knowledge of SQL, Python, relational databases, and cloud infrastructure.
Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Designer II
Our client is hiring a creative Designer II for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Designer II for Digital Brand Design, you will play a fundamental role in the digital creative strategy and development process. Your creative will elevate the consumer brand experience across our digital channels, including email, apps, social media and various websites.

Designer II Qualifications
Skills:
Excels at the craft of design and has an in-depth knowledge of design systems.
Actively identifies and grows individual design strengths.
Well-versed in the current design software and tools and is a specialist in one or two of them.
Understands User Experience design and consumer journeys.

Communication:
Communicates in a clear, constructive and professional manner with members of the team.
Excels at storytelling when talking about the work.
Presents design work and concepts to Senior Designers and the team.

Teamwork:
Understands the studio process and is accountable to the Manager and Producer.
Takes creative feedback from Senior Designers and Design Directors and revises the work to reflect their input.
Designs under the direction and guidance of Senior Designers and design leadership.
Collaborates with Designers across teams.
Works with multiple people on more than two projects at a time.
Accountable to individual timelines for individual projects.

Leadership:
Responsible for the completion of a phase or multiple concepts within a project.
Influences team workflow and collaboration methods.
Grows collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners.
Builds productive relationships with colleagues and participates in forums and cross-functional syncs.
Knows how and when to self-start within the team and on projects.

Strategic Thinking:
Collaborates on strategies for design with Senior Designers and Creative Directors.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Designer II
Our client is hiring a Designer II for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Designer II Responsibilities
Under the direction/supervision of a Senior Designer or Director, collaborates in the development of innovative ideas for 2d and 3d design projects including graphics and/or environments. 
Utilizes advanced design skills to create original design solutions Communicates and presents design concepts to team/leader/Director Creates presentation materials that effectively communicate design concepts Works with design leader and category team to ensure feasibility of designs, budget, merchandising needs and overall program needs.

Designer II Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Graphic, Architectural or Industrial Design and 5 plus years of progressively technically sophisticated design experience. 
Proven ability to apply and perform design skills, including drawing/sketching, typography, ideation, color theory, use of texture, spacing, and scale, visual presentation development and layout that is supported by a portfolio of non-computer-based creative art and design. 
Knowledge of and sensitivity to trends influencing design in general, and the athletic industry specifically. 
Demonstrated high level of expertise using design software. 
Strong oral and written communications skills in local market language, including meeting facilitation and presentations. 
Ability to clearly articulate goals and objectives. 
Ability to work cooperatively with staff, share ideas and develop effective responses. 
Proven ability to work in a rapidly changing, high-growth environment. 
Ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands, and changes.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

DevOps Engineer
Our client is currently seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Beaverton, OR. This position will work collaboratively with IT infrastructure and software engineering to deploy and operate custom built applications and commercially available systems and applications. This position helps automate and streamline IT operations and processes, build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. Additionally, the DevOps Engineers troubleshoot and resolve issues in all environments, including development, quality assurance, UAT and production - both on-premises and in the cloud.

DevOps Engineer Responsibilities
Create and maintain infrastructure as code in Azure using Terraform and Ansible.
Create Azure DevOps/Jenkins pipelines to automate code deploy/release and infrastructure creation/destruction.
Assist development team in refactoring legacy application to modern cloud native architecture.
Assist in troubleshooting and resolving production issues with Node.js microservices using ELK stack.
Collaborate across technical and business teams to speed delivery of their applications and foster open communication and learning.
 
DevOps Engineer Qualifications and Skills
4+ years relevant work experience.
Experience supporting cloud scalable high-performance data solutions preferably on Azure.
Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and operations.
Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or equivalent.
Experience with modern build strategies. Continuous delivery experience preferred.
Knowledge of Kubernetes administration.
Expert knowledge of Jenkins.
Experience with VMware virtual networking.
Experience with SQL and NoSQL.
Strong working understanding of code (JavaScript, YAML, PowerShell).
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.
Ability to effectively work in a team environment and independently as needed.
Ability to be on call after hours as needed.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

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DevOps Engineer
Our client is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. 

DevOps Engineer Responsibilities
Participate in cross functional feature teams to bring operational perspective during the development cycle in the form of non-functional requirements; develop and evangelize best practices for commonly needed design patterns.
Driving deployment automation towards repeatable, consistent, and safe outcomes.
Driving down systemic risk through failure mode analysis, instrumentation, and mitigation.
Driving testing of reliability and scalability.
Provide operational support for highly critical real time APIs to meet SLO and SLA objectives.
Troubleshoot issues with our systems at all levels of the stack by performing deep problem analysis to identify root cause and appropriate resolution.
Work to reduce manual toil through automation and development of standardized practices for managing systems and services.
Take part in a 24x7 on-call rotation (current on-call rotation is once every 9 weeks).
Perform routine care and feeding tasks of the production environment including deployments, data corrections, and upgrades.
Tools we use:  Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, Perl, Git, Go Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, ActiveMQ, MySQL Puppet, Rundeck, Docker, Kubernetes, CentOS, Sensu, Collectd, Graphite, JMX JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket.

DevOps Engineer Qualifications
At least 3 years of development operations and/or application development experience, including demonstrated experience in a SaaS environment.
Proven experience performing root cause analysis and advanced troubleshooting.
Experience with systems management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible and concepts of configuration management in a large-scale environment.
Strong experience supporting customer-facing applications on a Linux platform.
Practical knowledge of at least one scripting language (Bash, Ruby, Python, Perl).

We’d Love to See
Experience operating SQL and NoSQL data stores in a high throughput, high availability, low latency environment.
Experience with capacity planning practices or methodologies.
Familiarity with Java debugging tools.
Familiarity with operating software based on Spring Cloud and/or associated components.
Experience operating Apache Cassandra, Elastic Search, Lucene, Solr or Katta in a production environment.t
Experience operating containers (Docker, rkt) in a production setting.
Experience using Kubernetes, Marathon, Docker Swarm or another container orchestration platform.
Experience troubleshooting and/or building systems in the JVM.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

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Digital Brand Manager
Our client is hiring a Digital Brand Manager for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Digital Brand Manager, you will be responsible for bringing our client's brand storytelling to life across the digital ecosystem.  As a member of the digital brand category team, you will partner and work closely with our client's brand and business, merchandising and membership teams. Aligning on seasonal priorities and driving brand stories across digital channels and performance marketing/paid media. You will also collaborate and work closely with the full digital brand team and have a strong understanding of all digital channels including apps, email, site experience, social and paid media. You will own digital campaigns and launches for the brand as well as collaborating with other categories to ensure that a company POV is represented in appropriate campaigns. You will be responsible for developing holistic digital consumer journeys, briefing the full digital brand team, driving successful campaign launches and sustaining/recapping performance across all digital activations. As a manager on this team you’ll also be responsible for helping drive and define future strategies and tactics that create the future for the Digital Brand team.

Digital Brand Manager Responsibilities
Create and manage all seasonal and weekly plans for the digital brand.
Lead, partner and collaborate on the seasonal priority briefing process.
Work closely with channel leads during priority briefing process to inform, collaborate, plan, share and execute seasonal priorities.
Partner with digital creative design to program and produce digital assets supporting brand stories.
Be a thought partner, leader, executer and resource for brand and business leads.
Partner with merchandising and site merchandising to develop demand creating journeys around priority products for the brand's digital business.
Manage timelines and deliverables during game plan and briefing process.
Communicate clearly and effectively as you manage and sustain marketing programs and provide informative recaps.
Partner membership to plan and orchestrate journeys for brand members across digital channels and territories.
Manage day to day process flow and project management during briefing process.
Create and maintain project planning and presentation tools to share project updates.
Drive and report results that support brand and bottom line business goals.
Mentoring and coaching digital brand category peers and specialists.
Development of future best practices for digital consumer journeys.

Digital Brand Manager Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing or a related discipline.
5+ years' brand experience (digital marketing or related experience in marketing strategy, consumer marketing, marketing planning and marketing implementation).
2 years additional experience in lieu of a degree.
High Affinity for sneaker culture.
Demonstrated experience in strategic planning and expertise across Brand and Category management and grassroots event activations.
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Preferred:
Previous experience in the footwear or apparel industry.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Brand Specialist
Our client is hiring a Digital Brand Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Category Digital Brand Specialist, you will sit at the intersection of the brand and business. You will help develop and execute seasonal plans that are driven by our product assortment, the sport calendar, and key consumer moments in the marketplace. These seasonal plans must not only deliver business results, but also elevate our brand across all of our digital channels.

You will report directly into a Digital Brand Director. Together, you will be responsible for the development, implementation and management of seasonal plans, which orchestrate the efforts of our digital channels - .com, apps, email, site experience, social and performance marketing. This will require the development of holistic digital consumer journeys, briefing the full digital brand team, driving successful campaign launches, development of creative content, and sustaining performance across all digital activations. 

Digital Brand Specialist Responsibilities
Seasonal Plan Development:
Work alongside Digital Brand Manager to develop seasonal and weekly planning executions within NA Digital Brand.
Partner and collaborate with the Digital Brand Manager on the seasonal briefing process. Manage timelines and deliverables from brief through the execution and sustain phases of the campaign.
Partner closely with functional and geo partners, following the briefing process, to inform, collaborate, plan and execute category seasonal storytelling across digital channels and media. 
Collaborate with the Membership and App teams to drive the digital execution of membership in North America.
Communicate clearly and effectively as you execute marketing programs, while also providing informative recaps.
Meet with channel and merch teams to confirm product info, launch dates, sell-through expectations and units.

Creative & Content:
Partner with digital creative design for content creation planning and programming that supports key category stories.
Compile asset requests across multiple teams.
Photo shoot prep, managing workback and facilitation on asset feedback.
Manage product samples, tracking and shipping.
Prep creative review files and run of shows.

Reporting:
Compile metrics for Brand or Other partiers upon request.
Build out recap presentations and debriefs.

Project Management:
Manage day-to-day process flow and project management during the entire life of the campaign.
Create and maintain project planning and presentation tools to share project updates with Digital Brand Manager and other partners.

Thought Leadership:
Identify opportunities to expand what digital innovation looks like for the Digital Brand in North America.
Be a thought partner, leader, executer and resource for category brand and business leads.

Digital Brand Specialist Qualifications
BA/BS degree.
3-5 years of work experience in digital/online marketing or a related field.
Strong understanding of digital marketing strategy and tactics across key channels including digital apps, email, .com experiences, paid media and social.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentations.
Strong analytical skills and comfort with leveraging art and science to inform plans and decision making.
Strong understanding of digital analytics best practices and proven capability to use data to drive business decisions.
Previous experience managing a marketing channel for a multichannel retailer, combining both online and offline success criteria, is preferred.

Desired:
Strong attention to detail.
Organized and able to juggle multiple tasks.
Highly adaptive and comfortable with changing parameters.
Proactive, self-starter who doesn’t wait for an assignment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Flagship Specialist
Our client is hiring a Digital Flagship Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As the Digital Flagship Specialist, your job will be to support the Flagship brand channel team and co-ordinate and partner with categories, geographies and the membership team. You will be responsible for coordinating and managing team meetings, agendas and recaps and help build and improve the process with key stakeholders.

Digital Flagship Specialist Responsibilities
Team specialist to support projects and work within the flagship brand team.
Responsible for keeping geo partners updated on marketing initiatives and executional development. Owns the agenda and call recaps for bi weekly geo calls.
Responsible for owning and managing the weekly channel/ category share-out sessions. Owns the agenda and call recaps.
Manages in-take process with categories and geos. Works back with teams to refine brief and share with product marketing counterparts.
Manages channel roadmap alignment, updates and share outs with channel, NDM categories and geos. 
Manages planning an execution of projects smaller in scope supporting brand managers and director.  
Facilitates invoice processing by receiving invoices and sharing with ops for timely billing.
Co-develops documentation including, but not limited to, Marketing Plans, Channel Strategies and briefs.
Develops digital subject matter expertise, bringing new, innovative trends and thinking to the squad.
Hold counterparts to agreed upon production timelines. Drive projects towards on time delivery.
Ensure project status visibility and elevate risks.

Digital Flagship Specialist Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or closely related discipline.
2+ years’ experience in consumer marketing or related marketing industry.
Knowledge of project management tools and systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Pro-active, excellent organizational skills.
Can operate autonomously.
Excellent team spirit.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Digital Marketing Director
The Digital Marketing Director is a highly-innovative individual who will lead all aspects of our r Lead Generation, SEO, PPC, Social, Web, Path to Purchase, the Sales Force/Marketing cloud tech stack and how to make use of these tools to be world class in Lead Generation.   This person will also be instrumental in the modernization of our digital infrastructure and ways we do business, identify and drive new digital business creation, and a key leader in the delivery of a superior customer experience and loyalty program. The Digital Marketing Director will help grow the brand’s influence while also increasing brand loyalty and awareness.  The duties will include planning, implementing, and monitoring our digital marketing campaigns across all digital networks.  

Digital Marketing Director Responsibilities
Translating a vision for online marketing into a coherent digital marketing strategy.
Developing and executing integrated online strategy with wider company marketing plans.
Leading and managing the digital marketing team.
Leading ecommerce by increasing web visibility, traffic, and conversion rates.
Using PPC, SEO, email campaigns, blogs, forums, and other social media experience to generate leads.
Establish and manage the marketing cloud and tech stack.
Manage and optimize the customer journey through the digital touch points.
Establish and manage the CRM program.
Understanding analytics and measuring ROI.
Increase brand awareness.
Managing the Digital Marketing budget.
Managing performance by setting and proactively managing KPI’s.
Other duties may be assigned.

Digital Marketing DirectorQualifications
A minimum of 10 years’ experience in a digital marketing or advertising position.  
Must be an outstanding communicator with demonstrated experience leading a team, excellent interpersonal and analytical skills. 
Bachelor's degree in Marketing or relevant field from four-year college or university. Ideally with a digital marketing or advertising qualification or certificate. 
Having broad expertise or unique knowledge with experience in marketing, art direction, and social media management.  In-depth knowledge of various social media platforms, best practices, and website analytics. Up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies in digital marketing.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Product Designer
Our client is hiring a Digital Product Designer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As the Digital Product Designer, you'll generate new ways of thinking about how modern technologies and services can be used to craft innovative experiences and products. You’ll work with NXT partners including Footwear and Apparel Innovation teams to create game-changing experiences that elevate innovation concepts, as well as new disruptive capabilities that accelerate product creation. You’ll collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to explore new business opportunities, gather insights, and design intuitive, user-centered experiences that drive product design and development. You’ll collaborate with technology partners, vendors and creative partners to deliver innovative solutions in an ambiguous and constantly evolving environment.

You’ll produce both digital and physical design outputs, including user flows, personas, user journeys, wireframes, design comps, and motion studies—anything you need to help you articulate your ideas. You’ll balance hands-on execution of design deliverables with strategic and critical thinking to drive projects and collaborate with teams. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate a combination of strategic, conceptual and design skills.

Digital Product Designer Responsibilities
Execute and own design deliverables, including conceptual models, personas, scenarios, user journeys/flows, wireframes, and visual designs.
Contribute to the experience strategy for various projects and collaborate with product owners to define requirements.
Uncover and understand business opportunities through user research and insights-gathering; synthesize insights to ground product strategies.
Evangelize user-centered thinking with partners and stakeholders to guide towards thoughtful process and technology change.
Educate and inspire team members by communicating an experience-based vision for the project while involving people at optimal levels for project success.
Lead meetings with key stakeholders; ensure that they meet the stated objectives and stay on agenda.
Ensure all deliverables are of the highest quality, including the management of visual QA and hand-offs to development teams.
Work in an independent fashion, solve problems, make decisions, and communicate effectively in difficult situations.
Be passionate about delivering a premium solution but find ways of producing it that do not jeopardize schedule and budget.
Facilitate meetings and make persuasive presentations.

Digital Product Designer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Design, Art or related field.
Several examples of successfully launched projects that demonstrate strategic, conceptual and creative thinking.
At least 3+ years experience in digital product design, with a focus on experience or visual design.
A solid understanding and demonstration of user-centered design principles.
Demonstrated ability to lead the design of large and complex systems of interactions.
A solid understanding of what types of experiences are made possible by current digital technologies.
Ability to develop innovative design approaches to complex design problems.
Ability to collaborate as part of a multi-disciplinary team, as well as communicate and influence across organizations.
An innovator mindset with a propensity and passion for out-of-the-box thinking and ideation.
Must be organized, able to act independently, and able to switch rapidly between different projects in a fast-paced environment.
Can work with grace under pressure and operate effectively and proactively in an ambiguous environment.
Proficiency with Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote, PowerPoint.
Experience conducting internal/external user research a plus.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Prefer deep expertise in one of the following areas: digital prototyping, product knowledge, creative & innovative problem-solving, design thinking, user research, motion graphics design, or environmental design.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Product Manager
Our client is hiring a Digital Product Manager Responsibilities for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As Product Manager for the 3D Customization Platform, you will drive competitive distinction for us by owning a platform which powers our product customization experiences across all direct-to-consumer channels. Your product is used by multiple web and app teams to deliver footwear and apparel customization experiences across all consumer touchpoints. You will own the feature roadmap for this product - leading the end-to-end discovery, design, development and delivery of features that enable strategic business initiatives. You have an analytical mindset and are continually assessing your product for value and prioritizing features to align. You can manage through complex technical challenges and tradeoffs, using advanced analytics and qualitative research to support your point of view. You are a great collaborator – you will proactively build trusting relationships across the organization to inform your roadmap, including functional partners and geography teams. 

Digital Product Manager Responsibilities
Develop a product roadmap based on a clear understanding of consumer needs and in-depth data analysis. 
Articulate clear value drops and how they impact our consumer and internal partners. 
Drive and prioritize the product roadmap in partnership with other teams and stakeholders.
Effectively design project plans based on priorities, set clear/measurable objectives and deploy team resources appropriately to achieve business goals. 
Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of a product from conception to implementation.  
Build and maintain the product backlog and ensure that it is constantly prioritized to ensure the delivery of features with maximum business value.  
Manage delivery challenges and define pilot/rollout strategies. 
Make thoughtful decisions on the fly, constantly clearing roadblocks to getting your product live. 
Lead a product squad composed of multidisciplinary team members. 
Create and document user stories for implementation.  
Participate in scrum team meetings and provide advice, clarification, and guidance during the execution of each sprint.  
Inspect and accept completed work at the end of each sprint.
Collaborate with engineering, operations, and business strategy teams to bring your product to life. 
Remove obstacles and help the team navigate and align the organization to optimize success.
Analytics and Experimentation: Develop and measure clear product KPIs, derive key insights, and devise and execute proof-of-concept executions to learn. 
Develop metrics to measure success and ensure ability for on-going monitoring of post-launch results through analysis and reporting.
Continuously monitor and share emerging technology trends, competitive experiences and best-of-breed customization executions. 

Digital Product Manager Qualifications
8+ years’ experience in software development.
Seasoned product manager with 5+ years of digital product background. Proven success stories in launching customer-facing digital products end-to-end with measurable outcomes. Experience bringing digital experiences to life preferred.
Demonstrated success working with various, cross-functional, internal and external groups to deliver meaningful results on time and on budget with limited direction. 
Examples of successful working relationships and processes with engineering, design and product teams. 
Proven ability to develop, communicate and gain consensus on a product roadmap for a customer-facing digital product. 
Experience managing priorities with key partners and third-party vendors.
Strong analytical skills with supporting examples of using metrics in all aspects of the product lifecycle.
Experience thriving in a fast-paced, high growth environment. 
Results-driven with the ability to anticipate needs, innovate, multi-task. Nimble and flexible with regards to changing priorities & business needs.
An assertive, direct communication style, with the ability to inspire and motivate others across the company. 
Collaborative, energetic and hands-on team player.  
Strong communication and “story-telling” skills – ability to articulate a vision or concept in simple terms to a broad audience at every level.
BA/BS degree required.
Ability to work in JIRA, Confluence, New Relic and Adobe Analytics.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Director of Digital Advertising
Our client in is seeking a Director of Digital Advertising. The Director of Digital Advertising is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the digital advertising teams. This position will play a vital role in driving both managers and individual contributors to achieve monthly goals, deliver consistent levels and quality of services, execute on opportunities to hit growth and revenue targets, and ensure the overall health of the teams. The Director will create and maintain a strong balance of efficiency, quality of performance, and scale.

Director of Digital Advertising Responsibilities 
Forecast advertising media spend and service revenue projections and managing the business to achieve monthly goals.
Ensure that the service strategies, customer-facing communications, and outcomes for all digital advertising tactics provide a unified client experience.
Act as the ultimate escalation point for the digital advertising team on customer concerns or issues that arise.
Identify solutions, communicates wins, and recommends service additions or strategic revisions as needed.
Remove roadblocks and inefficiencies in business processes, systems, and workflows to improve time, quality, and accuracy of service execution.
Design playbooks and training plans for successful skills development across digital advertising functions.
Provide mentorship, structured assistance, instruction, and inspiration to the team. Understand how defining responsibilities, setting direction, outlining goals, and holding people accountable improves employee satisfaction.
Ensure new media channel testing and optimization for PPC, Display, Behavioral, Mobile and Social advertising.
Play a key role in maintaining a culture focused on results for our clients.
Work with Product to facilitate appropriate technology build-out in supporting and scaling online marketing best practices through automation.

Director of Digital Advertising Qualifications 
8+ years of experience leading a digital advertising team.
Proven mastery of digital advertising (paid search, display, paid social, native, retargeting, mobile, local search tactics, on-page elements, citation management, keyword analysis, performance audits).
Deep understanding of agency-style business operations; leveraging performance tactics to ensure long-term customer success and continued revenue growth.
Ability to solve problems and identify opportunities through the use of analytics tools, vertical expertise, and critical thinking.
Experience onboarding software tools & systems to scale programs (Kenshoo, Marin, Acquisio, Yext, BrightEdge, Conductor).
Experience managing complex, multi-channel digital marketing strategies across clients or franchise locations preferred.
Superior analytical skills – must have prior hands-on experience working with large data sets and conversion analysis.
Ability to research and stay ahead of digital media industry trends.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Director of Purchasing
Our client with local headquarters has a new opening for a Director of Purchasing. This role provides the opportunity to partner with the CFO at a stable company that has experienced continuous growth.

Director of Purchasing Responsibilities
Create and implement a best practice purchasing vision, strategy, policies, and procedures.
Develop and manage strong relationships with key suppliers.
Coordinate supplier selection for new products.
Prepare budget and savings forecasts, monitor and report data and drivers to achieve goals.
Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and communicate the purchasing impacts.

Director of Purchasing Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field. 
7 years’ experience with purchasing, strategic sourcing, and logistical concepts.
Experience with system implementation and reviewing contracts required.
Strong analytical skills to determine how to best leverage purchasing.
Ability to research, develop strategies, and implement programs.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to handle multiple tasks, with awareness of deadlines.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

Editorial Associate
Our client is seeking a Senior Scientific Editor to work with their scientists and engineers on the preparation and writing of scientific manuscripts, primarily in the area of computational chemistry, structural biology, software, and hardware for biomolecular simulations. Responsibilities will include coordinating (and contributing to) the writing and editing of manuscripts, corresponding with journals, and working with the group’s senior members to communicate both particular research results and the lab’s long-term scientific mission.

Editorial Associate Qualifications
Proven editing and proofreading skills
Experience writing and editing scientific manuscripts is a plus.
Management of multiple ongoing editorial projects.
Scientific background preferred, but not required.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Electrical Designer
Our client has an immediate opening for an Electrical Designer to join their dynamic, fast-paced team in Hillsboro, OR.

Electrical Designer Responsibilities
Electrical Design for the tool installation for a large semiconductor client.
Create electrical drawings to meet design and client needs.
Perform all appropriate calculations (e.g. distribution panel loading, short circuit, voltage drop, conduit & conductor size and cable tray fill) required for the electrical design packages.
Conduct field investigations of construction site and clean room environments to verify existing conditions and incorporate findings into design packages.
Manage and incorporate electronic redlines from the Electrical Engineer using established company workflows.
Coordinate with other design disciplines (Mechanical, Structural, Architectural) for design package needs.
Ensure quality control by complying with team Design and CAD standards.
Attend design review meetings, note all design comments, and pick up the resulting redlines.
Assist colleagues with CAD support.
Provide quality reviews of models and documents prepared by others to assure design and project standards are met.
Coordinate with document control personnel for review and transmission of design packages.

Electrical Designer Qualifications
High School Grad School Grad (Required for this position) 
Degree in Electrical a plus 
Electrical EIT/PE a plus

Must be available to work a minimum of 40 hours weekly on site 
Living in, or be willing to self?re?locate to the Portland OR area on a permanent 
basis 
Have good verbal and writing communication skills 
Be able to work within and contribute to a Team environment 
provide support as a Design Team Member 
Be able to clearly provide verbal support for Electrical design and individual 
skill set(s) 
Be willing to assist and support other discipline designs when needed 

Software Experience and Proficiency of Use Required in the following: 
Autodesk AutoCAD 2D Proficient (Requirement) 
Autodesk 3D, Revit and/or Inventor (Requirement) 
Excel?Word?Outlook?365 Proficient 
EasyPower Proficient (Preferred) 

Electrical Design Experience Required in the following: 
Proficiency in understanding NFPA 70 and 79 
Proficiency in understanding NEC Class 1,2 and 3 wiring definitions 
Proficiency Required in performing Calculations for the following: 
Distribution Panel Loading 
Short Circuit 
Voltage Drop 
Conduit & Conductor Size 
Cable Tray Fill 
Knowledge in the design of Power Circuits and I&C Systems 
Knowledge in Electrical Schematic layouts and Electrical design definitions 
Worked within a Team environment 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.
 

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Electrical Engineer
We are seeking a talented Electrical Engineer to join our clients engineering team and help build a positive service experience for our internal and external customers. The Electrical Engineering team designs and builds embedded systems that form the core of our clients most important products. Hardware design and testing is about 1/3 of the activity, with firmware development and testing the remainder. It is a quick moving environment with lots of projects and lots of creativity. This position will be located in the Portland, Oregon facility. 

Electrical Engineer Responsibilities
Design and troubleshoot all aspects of Analog and Digital circuits for an embedded system. 
Use CAD software for schematic capture and PCB layout. 
Integrate products using USB/serial or wireless methods to computer systems for control and monitoring. 
Design products to comply with EMC regulations as well as coordinate and conduct EMC testing.
Develop product specifications and test plans for electrical and electromechanical assemblies. 
Conduct research, test concepts, and create technology briefs. 
Interact with Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineers to develop complex electromechanical assemblies. 
Identify process improvements to eliminate defects and waste. 
First article review and approval of components for manufacturing approval. 
Ongoing design improvement, component consolidation and cost reductions of existing product lines. 

Electrical Engineer Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:  
BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related field.  
Firmware experience using C. 
Experience using basic communication interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, USB and similar. 
Hardware experience with schematic and PCB layout design.
Experience troubleshooting/testing both hardware and firmware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, programmable supplies, and programmable loads.

Preferred Experience: 
Schematic and PCB layout design using Altium Designer.
Firmware development with PIC, AVR, Freescale or similar platform using C.
Create schematic, layout and firmware from PCB specification document.
Developing PCB specifications.
Developing test specifications for PCBs.
Hand soldering PCBs and PCB rework.
Developing automated tests for PCBs.
Designs using DC motors and solenoids. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

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VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Electro-Mechanical Test Engineer 
Are you an Electro-Mechanical Test Engineer  looking to play an important role in the validation of new products? We have a 12 month consulting project for a world class manufacturing company located in Portland, OR! We are looking for a talented Engineer to join the test operations team and interact with all aspects of the organization, including design, test, marketing, manufacturing, and procurement to ensure they deliver quality products that meet customer requirements and acceptance. This is an exciting opportunity to work for a highly collaborative team that genuinely cares about their employees and consultants. 

Electro-Mechanical Test Engineer Responsibilities
Conduct test plans (DVP&R, cycle tests, durability tests) for functional systems testing.
Instrument and test new systems and components, both on and off vehicle.
Design/Develop required test apparatus and fixtures.
Identify and resolve development issues working closely with Design groups and suppliers.
Maintain accurate records for all system/component test input/outputs.
Troubleshoot field/service issues.
Maintain a list of work priorities and appropriately schedule people/resources to ensure on-time completion while providing guidance to technicians and mechanics.
Communicate both verbally and through written reports.

Electro-Mechanical Test Engineer Qualifications
BS/MS in Engineering with 2 or more year’s work experience in an engineering field.
Knowledge/skill in automotive, industrial equipment, materials handling, agricultural or similar vehicle technologies.
Knowledge/skill in drafting practices, CAD, engineering analysis, design layouts.
Highly motivated with solid leadership skills and ability to work with limited supervision.
Desire for ‘hands on’ work in a shop environment a must and ability to operate lift trucks.
Excels in innovative thinking, troubleshooting, problem solving, written and verbal communication skills.
Desire for ‘hands on’ work in a shop environment is a must.
Experience interpreting engineering drawings (components, weldments, hydraulic and electrical schematics).

Preferred
Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Practical understanding of machining practices, manufacturing methods and tolerances.
Experience with Data acquisition systems such as SOMAT EDAQ, Vector CANalyzer including knowledge of CAN communication.
Practical understanding of machining practices, manufacturing methods and tolerances.
Experience in a product development environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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Electronics Manufacturing Engineer
Our client is looking for an Electronics Manufacturing Engineer to join their team in Redmond, Washington. The Electronics Manufacturing Engineer will use their expertise to provide manufacturing input and support for electronics, connectors and wire harness designs, coordinate initial manufacturing of prototype assemblies and support activities in the shift of manufacturing to production scales.  In addition, they will coordinate the development of PCBA functional test equipment in the production environment and will use statistical methods to champion continuous improvement activities.

Electronics Manufacturing Engineer Qualifications
Ability to coordinate actions across engineering, technicians and on/off-site production personnel across multiple time zones.
Ability to conduct multidisciplinary rapid problem-solving activities and propose solutions to prototype and production manufacturing challenges.
Ability to quickly come-up-to speed on new technologies and engineering challenges.
Ability to provide a strong sense of ownership to all assigned areas of responsibility and proven track record in driving continuous improvement in those areas.
Communication abilities including verbal and written communication, the willingness to discuss questions or uncertainties in job assignments and to be able to positively interact with co-workers.
Extensive experience interfacing with various suppliers and services including printed wiring board, electronic assembly and cable harness assembly.

Training: 
Broad knowledge in Surface Mount Technology (SMT) techniques, processes and procedures.
Experience in schematics and circuit design for use in providing feedback during the design process and in performing debug/root-cause-analysis (RCA) activities in sustaining engineering settings.
Proven ability in using EE troubleshooting equipment (voltmeter, oscilloscope, signal generators) and PCBA rework equipment.
Previous experience in developing functional verification test equipment in support of production PCB testing.
Experience in scripting (python, C++, .NET) highly desired.
Competent in printed circuit board design software such as Altium or Mentor.
Lean six sigma and statistical analysis package (e.g. Minitab or JMP) competency highly desired.
Ability to communicate information using standard Microsoft applications including Excel, Word, Office, Power Point, Project and Visio.
Ability to use company-wide tools and systems to execute the key duties and responsibilities of the job.

Experience:
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in surface mount (SMT) process development and PCB manufacturing experience.
Minimum of 3 years’ experience writing work instructions, process travelers and working with assembly personnel in a manufacturing environment.
Experience in transitioning on-site prototype manufacturing and small volumes to off-site contract manufacturing and production volumes

Education:
B.S. from an accredited institution in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Physical Electronics or related fields.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Employee Engagement Support Technician
Our client is looking for a Employee Engagement Support Technician to join their team.

Employee Engagement Support Technician Responsibilities 
Services computing hardware, software, telecommunications and audio/visual equipment. 
Performs troubleshooting and makes repairs within established guidelines. 
Gathers system requirements, user needs and makes initial software and hardware recommendations.
Responds to service requests and provides technical support and problem resolution. 
Elevates and coordinates out of scope technical issues. 
Monitors issue occurrences and documents events. 
Maintains support logs and issue tracking. 
Installs desktop computers, peripheral equipment, and software. 
Performs initial system configuration and setup. 
Assists users in understanding basic system operations

Employee Engagement Support Technician Qualifications
Skill to perform varied administrative activities such as data input, record or log keeping, information monitoring and follow-up, etc.
Works effectively and cooperatively with others; establishes and maintains good working relationships.
Knowledge of and the ability to utilize communications and network tests (e.g., sub-system, system, installation, performance, operational, built-in test, qualification, acceptance). Knowledge of test methodologies for voice and data networks and communications equipment.
Knowledge of IT standards for the company, operating group, division, and specific organization.
Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships.
Ability to read, understand and interpret engineering technical information (e.g., drawings, handbooks, industry standards and specifications).
Knowledge of different IT disciplines (e.g., infrastructure, information, application, security, system management, system integration).
Knowledge of integrated computer systems and associated peripherals to include printers, media storage, and interface cards. Demonstrates the ability to perform data back up and restoration, diagnostics, configuration control and problem solving of the system.
Ability to understand the big picture and the inter-relationships of all positions and activities in the organization, including the impact of changes in one area on another area. This includes the ability to see and understand the inter-relationships between components of systems and plans and anticipate future events.
Ability to instruct others on discipline specific operations, tasks or systems.
2 or more years of related experience with an Associate’s degree preferred.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Employee Relations Manager
Our client is hiring an Employee Relations Manager for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. Employee Relations Managers leverage their experience with employment law principles to conduct workplace investigations. ER Managers provide advice, consultation and guidance to foster sustainable solutions to team members and to address organizational challenges. ER Managers steward company values by making fair and consistent recommendations and resolving matters in a proactive consultative manner.

Employee Relations Manager Responsibilities
Investigate complex workplace matters in accordance to internal polices and ER Service Level Agreements.
Maintain required documentation within the ER case management system for advice and counsel and investigations.
Present investigation findings and provide recommendations to influence business leaders and partners to make decisions that align with internal policies and procedures. 
Provide recommendations to improve organizational health.
Advise and consult on policies, Performance Action Plans and Corrective Action.
Utilize analytics to engage in proactive ER practices to 1) reduce the total number of complaints received 2) improve organizational health.
Facilitate Training on ER related topics (including internal policies).
Actively manage caseloads and partner with appropriate Stakeholders to ensure timely resolution.
Serve as Subject Matter Expert on internal ER procedures and serve as first point of contact on escalated items.
Must operate with integrity, confidentiality and demonstrate good judgment when engaging with others and making decisions.
Other duties as assigned.

Employee Relations Manager Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required in Human Resources, Labor/Industrial Relations, Business or equivalent.
Advanced degree, JD, or other specialized training in Labor Relations/ER a plus.
Three to Five (3-5) years of experience in an HR Generalist, ER, or a related role, conducting investigations related to Federal, State, Local employment and Labor laws for multi-site organization.
Extensive knowledge of workplace complaint investigations, union avoidance, employee advocacy and EEO compliance.
Solid understanding of Federal and State Employment & Labor Laws.
Strong influencing skills with proven success in influencing employees at all levels of the organization in a consultative methodology.
Strong Written and Verbal communication Skills.
Project Management and Facilitation Skills.
Technically proficient in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Organizational skills; including the ability to effectively prioritize and meet deadlines, as well as multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to establish trust and credibility.
Able to work effectively at all levels in the organization.
Travel: Less than 10%.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Endpoint Security Engineer
Our client is looking for an Endpoint Security Engineer to join their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Endpoint Security Engineer Responsibilities
Designs, tests, and implements state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products. 
Conducts risk assessment and provides recommendations for application design. 
Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access May use encryption technology, penetration and vulnerability analysis of various security technologies, and information technology security research. 
May prepare security reports to regulatory agencies. 
The nature of the work is focused on the companys computer and telephony technology tools used to create, store, exchange, and use all forms of information. 
Designs, tests, and implements state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products. 
Conducts risk assessment and provides recommendations for application design. 
Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access.
May use encryption technology, penetration and vulnerability analysis of various security technologies, and information technology security research. 
May prepare security reports to regulatory agencies. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Engagement Management Analyst
As a Corporate Information Security (CIS) IT Security Engagement Management Analyst, you'll be responsible for the successful development of tools and processes of engagement with all lines of business.

Engagement Management Analyst Responsibilities 
Collaborate effectively with leaders, managers, employees, and partners to provide deliberate and thoughtful engagement throughout the company.
Perform day to day support and maintenance, work with the functional team to develop training materials, and coordinate support and development efforts within the team.
Keep people (both business and project) focused and energized by the project effort.
Help with the development & execution of a centralized CIS website. 
Formalize and document new intake procedures and process flows.
Effective, positive verbal and written communication skills.
Strong analytical and innovative skills for strategic planning, sound decision-making, and problem solving and ability to work well under tight business driven deadlines.
Experienced supporting process improvement initiatives.
Develop and execute training modules & content for the Keep It Tight program.
Ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders & SME’s to ensure content is up to date.
Collaborate for any and all training related LMS needs including but not limited to: reporting, staging, & course completion tracking.
Experience building and testing new E-learning courses primarily within Adobe Captivate.
Experience working with global communications, events, branding, and creative marketing to bring new ideas to the program.
Experienced creating and developing high-quality PowerPoint presentations.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Engineering Technician
Our client is hiring an Engineering Technician for their team in Redmond, Washington.

Engineering Technician Responsibilities
Conduct design reviews and develop test solutions to mitigate test escapes.
Hands-on skills in complex system design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
Assists in the coordination and resolutions of technical issues.
Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional, multicultural team environment and to understand and apply technical concepts.
Experience writing test cases, or proposing test setups, to verify and or validate subsystem and product requirements.
Ability to interpret new technologies from specifications and architecturally plan a test strategy or test procedure content.
Good communication skills with local and remote employees.
Experience working in databases to create test plans.
Ability to review test plans and procedures from other engineers and provide guidance to update to increase coverage or optimize.
Ability to write automation using Python and having familiarity with SCPI protocol.
Ability to report test data in meaningful formats including tables and graphs. 
Familiarity with numpy, matplotlib, or organizing data in excel.
Demonstrated ability to perform hands on system test execution.
Knowledge in TCP/IP routing preferred.
Linux/unix experience preferred
Must be able to lift 50lbs.

Engineering Technician Qualifications
BS Electrical Engineering preferred, related discipline or equivalent experience.
Programming experience a preference.
RF Knowledge a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Engineering Technician
The only way to deliver a single, global, mobile network is with satellite communications – and Our client is making it a reality. End-to-end broadband communications are delivered with connectivity services using the world’s first and only electronically steered, flat-panel satellite terminal that goes places traditional satellite dishes cannot.  Join their team in developing exciting new technology which will change communication all over the world.  Come work alongside brilliant colleagues who share a commitment to each other’s success and know how to have fun!

Engineering Technician Responsibilities
Daily test execution following detailed test procedures.
Collect data from large number of test units, organize the findings and identify product
Defects.
Preparing and documenting test results.
Troubleshooting test equipment, test setups and automated tests.
Setting up the test articles for testing in Environmental chamber, EMI / EMC or Connectivity validation.
Develop and construct mechanical/electromechanical load test fixtures for running specific control tests.
Work in a team environment and manage testing deliverables to meet project deadlines for respective control.

Engineering Technician Qualifications
BS in Mechanical Engineering preferred.
Ability to understand and execute test scenarios.
Thoughtfully deal with competing demands and planning priorities.
Ability to work with diverse engineering teams to provide them detailed test reports.
Documentation and communication skills with technical subjects.
Familiarity with test software and software test tools.
Experience working in lab environment, set up test equipment and working with
automated tools and tests.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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Enterprise Application Architect
If you’re an experienced software applications programmer with 5+ years of experience and you’re looking for a new challenge, our client could be right for you. We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Architect to oversee and advise on overall system design, program and maintaining of operational software systems to support business objectives. You would create the overall system architecture, including but not limited to software architecture, system architecture and business system architecture.

Driving high-quality software architectural standards to support functionality, usability, reliability, availability and security will be key in your role. Working within an agile development process, you would be joining a highly collaborative environment with a culture of open feedback and support. You would review and mentor our product and engineering teams while also contributing to individual project architecture and design. 

Some Highlights:
Join a team of super-smart and fun engineers and technology experts.
Perfect your existing skills and build new ones in a highly supportive environment designed for learning and personal growth.
Mentor Engineering leads and junior architects in architecture practices.
Be on the cutting edge of American healthcare with a rapidly growing company.

Enterprise Application Architect Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field of study or relevant experience.
Proficiency in general software application programming.
Proficiency in enterprise and application software architecture.
Demonstrated experience in creating sound software architecture decisions and delivering successful software projects.
Familiarity with system operations tools and environments (Linux/Unix, OS X, Windows, etc.).
A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Enterprise Architecture Program Manager
Our client is looking for an Enterprise Architecture Program Manager to join their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. As a Program Manager, you will be part of a highly visible, strategic team focused on aligning strategic objectives with tactical demands. 

Enterprise Architecture Program Manager Responsibilities
Design and manage program structure, schedule and resource allocation model to support both Agile and Waterfall methodology.
Define, implement, maintain, and communicate program, product and project management procedures and processes to enable work streams to deliver against the defined project goals and scope on time and on budget.
Develop financial model and annual operating plans.
Enable effective, efficient working relationship with related and assigned teams.
Responsible for program/project scope, change, issue and risk management; Identify and manage risks, changes, issues and scope. Facilitate mitigation through relevant stakeholders and governance processes.
Define, implement and monitor metrics and KPIs to report project status and ensure ongoing strategic alignment with short and long-term business objectives.
Establish and maintain best practices and standardized frameworks, tools and operational processes related to project management, collaboration, knowledge management, resource planning, vendor management, and dashboards.
Need to demonstrate a proven track record of successfully managing multiple simultaneous large, complex programs in a results-driven environment, and accountability of deadlines and value propositions. 
Manage project budgets and scope, and will conduct resource mitigation planning for risks that are proactively identified.  

Enterprise Architecture Program Manager Qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Technology or related field. MBA preferred.
7-10 years’ experience leading and managing large-scale programs; should include comprehensive experience as a business/process leader or as a leader in a functional role. 
Minimum of 5 years’ experience working on technology products or projects.
Formal training in project or portfolio management methodologies and/or certifications.
Demonstrated success in cross-functional integration/relationships and program execution.
Deep understanding of application and execution of program metrics and KPI’s.
Ability to drive large-scale change/projects.
Expert level project/program management skills. Lean process design experience preferred.
Proven track record of being results orientated with demonstrated ability to achieve aggressive goals.
Proven presentation and facilitation skills.
Demonstrated success reporting to C-suite leaders to influence decision making.
Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.
Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
Experience working in a highly matrixed organization.
Demonstration of strong influencing skills.

Competencies:
Strong Leadership Identity.
Innovation Mindset.
Enterprise-level Program/Project Management.
Capacity Planning / Management / Optimization.
Project and Program Management Acumen.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Enterprise Project Manager
Our client is hiring an Enterprise Project Manager to join their team in Portland, OR. This candidate will have experience leading projects focused on strategic planning, visioning, and innovation in the Digital space. A successful candidate needs to be experienced in leading high-profile projects, with significant executive-level communication and coordination. They will also need a solid grounding in project management principles, including scheduling, budgeting, and vendor management. A PMP or similar certification is preferred. This is a hands-on position and requires someone willing to roll their sleeves up and execute project fundamentals, while also helping to bring structure and calm leadership to a fluid, fast-moving exploratory project.

Enterprise Project Manager Responsibilities
Responsible for delivering projects to successful completion; accountable for the quality and timeliness of all defined projects, and for issues (goals, resource allocation, release planning, technology architecture, etc.) within the projects.
Plan, direct, coordinate and report project management activities in accordance with Enterprise Program Management Office policies and standards.
Manages the overall project plan(s). Prepares and presents project plans and status reports to organizational leadership, project teams and client/customer groups.
Responsible for project outcomes through effective project planning, task definition, scope management, resource allocation and negotiation, risk mitigation, cost management, and stakeholder communication.
Manages vendor relationship and deliverables.
Assembles project team, assigns individual responsibilities, identifies appropriate project resources and provides guidance and direction to project team members.
Defines, collects and analyzes metrics to ensure projects are on target.
Proactively recommends courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness.
Ensure timely resolution of problems within the scope of the assignment.

Enterprise Project Manager Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science or other related field, plus a minimum of 7 years' progressive project management experience to include managing multiple, large scale or highly complex projects concurrently, with a PMP or similar certification preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Demonstrated ability to manage large scale, highly complex work efforts successfully and within budgetary guidelines.
Demonstrated strong leadership skills including ability to influence without authority
Demonstrated presentation experience to all levels of management.
Demonstrated experience working with business sponsors and partners to identify and implement solutions.
Demonstrated applied success in leading multi-disciplinary, high-performance work teams. Familiarity with automated project management software tools.
Ability to capture technical requirements generated by the project team.
Familiarity with the Project Management Institute (PMI) Guide and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
Demonstrated ability to identify problems, mediate issues, develop solutions and implement a course of action.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written) with a customer service orientation.
Ability to mitigate project milestones/deliverable delays and critical resource allocation issues from the work breakdown schedule. Skilled in the identification, assessment and contingency planning for risk factors.
Functional competencies include Budgeting, Change Management, Client Management, Methodology Approach and Business Life Cycle, Mission /Vision/Strategy, Project Planning and Organization, Risk Management.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a strong plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Events and Recruiting Specialist
Our client is hiring an Events and RecruitingSpecialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Events and Recruiting Specialist Responsibilities
Creates, updates and communicates marketing calendar and priorities. 
Help to direct and elevate consumer-facing assets to ensure consistent delivery of category programs. 
Create tools and best practices and drive global awareness and adoption. 
Maximize Merch Center to support category game plans and merch excellence. 
Help to direct and elevate consumer-facing assets to ensure consistent delivery of category programs. 
Engage with vendors to meet marketing needs with regards to timelines and budget. 
Elevate consumer-facing assets to ensure consistent delivery of category programs.
 
Events and Recruiting Specialist Qualifications
Typically requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 0-1 years directly relevant work experience.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Executive Assistant
Our client has an immediate opening for an Executive Assistant. The ideal candidate is flexible, a self-starter, and thinks outside the box for solutions. This client is a leader in their industry and offers great benefits and fun company events.

Executive Assistant Responsibilities
Manage calendars and set up meetings (including international conference calls); coordinate events.
Organize and book complex international and domestic travel plans. Support in arranging travel documentation if needed.
Communicate with clients and internal staff on behalf of the CEO answering correspondences.
Prepare presentation and meeting documents, draft letters, memos and reports.
Track and organize project deadlines; communicate statuses with appropriate internal parties.
Prepare and track reports, budget expenditures, purchase orders, and expense reports in Excel and filing. 
Anticipate the needs of the CEO and team.

Executive Assistant Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required.
3+ years’ experience as an Executive Assistant or Personal Assistant. 
High proficiency with Microsoft Office; Adobe a plus.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
Highly organized and skilled in time management and strong attention to detail.
Fluent in Russian a plus.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***
 

Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer
Our client is seeking an Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. Our client is always on the offense, and they are looking for a talented and energetic self-starter with a passion for analytics and security to join their growing Cyber Threat Analytics team. As an Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer, you will shape the future of security analytics and cyber threat detection within our client’s Corporate Information Security. Their Technology organization blends engineering and process expertise into streamlined consumer- and customer-oriented solutions for our $30B+ business, enabling businesses and brands worldwide.

As an Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer, you will lead data-driven security and perform analytics on a petabyte platform. You will perform root cause analysis and implement leading-edge approaches to identify malicious and suspicious behavior. You will identify real-time and persistent threats using data modeling techniques. You will also help manage a portfolio of technology partners and solutions to keep our client’s security posture responsive. This role is perfect for a team player with strong security analytics experience, curiosity, and communication skills. You must be a proven problem solver, adept at making good decisions under pressure, comfortable with cross-functional and distributed teams, and flexible with changing priorities.

The Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer will elevate security analytics by distilling complex analytical concepts to business and technical audiences alike using clear, eye-catching visualizations. You will enable a culture of data-driven decision making by rising above the numbers and explaining insights to business users. You know how to minimize complexity and focus on results. While you rely on data to prove your point, you love to think outside the box and solve problems creatively. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment.
 
Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
Five years of information technology experience with preferred three years in an information security-related role.
Knowledge of information security standards, principles, and practice.
Computer programming and/or scripting languages (Python, Powershell, Java Script, Go, etc.).
Experience with massive log aggregation and analysis.
The ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly.
Strong written and oral communication skills.
Comfortable with interfacing with other internal or external organizations regarding security policy and standards violations, security controls failure and incident response situations.
Ability to assess and communicate risk within a business context.
Passion for Nike, for security, and a drive for continuous learning.
Ability to balance and prioritize work.
Proficiency with Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
Understanding of network, desktop and server technologies.
Proven track record of success in fast-moving organizations with complex technology applications.
Additional skills and qualifications preferred, but not required.
Certified Big Data Administrator/Architect.
Database administration.
Experience leveraging automated server configuration tools (such as Puppet or Chef).
Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP).
Experience with network intrusion methods, network containment, segregation techniques and technologies such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS).
SIEM experience preferred.
Forensics or cyber intelligence experience a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Finance Project Manager
Our client is seeking a Finance Project Manager to join their team in Broomfield, Colorado. This role is responsible for documenting process flows, responsibilities, checklists for a month-end close process across multiple teams.

Finance Project Manager Responsibilities 
Create, maintain and manage large complex projects.
Track progress of issues that affect the project work.
Provide financial performance information and insights for decision making & problem-solving. 
Execute on month-end responsibilities.
Ensure revenue and expenses are accurately posted to projects.
Distribute standardized reporting methods.

Finance Project Manager Qualifications 
Experience in a project management role with an accounting background.
Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Analyst 
Our client is seeking a Financial Analyst to support their Business Operations team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for making business processes more efficiently and thrives in a fast-paced environment. This position will be located in either Broomfield, Colorado or New York City.

Financial Analyst Responsibilities 
Revenue recognition and revenue data tracking.
Maintain data ingest tools to maximize effectiveness and formalize data ingest processes.
Act as a point of contact between the Accounting and Sales teams.
Work cross-functionally to improve and automate month-end processes.
Design and maintain datasets. 
Provide ad-hoc finance support.

Financial Analyst Qualifications 
1+ years’ experience with revenue operations, accounting, sales operations, or analytics.
Advanced Excel skills, knowledge of SQL, ETL automation, Salesforce or other CRMs.
Experience with large complex sets of data. 
High attention to detail and ability to handle multiple priorities at one time. 
Excellent communication skills; team player. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Analyst
Our international tech client is looking for a Financial Analyst to join their team. This role will be a partner with customers to research and resolve compensation-related inquiries.

Financial Analyst Responsibilities 
Analyze and adjust transactions; review and process approved sales credit adjustments.
Submit commission payments within specified deadlines.
Assist Sales and Finance customers in the reconciliation of sales credit and commission.
Engage with customers to resolve commission and/or bonus payment related inquiries.
Provide guidance/training to key customers and stakeholders on commission relevant processes, deadlines, reports, reconciliation responsibilities, and eligibility.
Partner with internal teams to ensure accurate booking of complex orders.
Effectively communicate improvements for process or policy deficiencies.

Financial Analyst Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or related field.
2 years of related experience.
ERP Systems experience; Intermediate Excel skills. 
Innovative problem solver with strong analytical skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with a customer service focus.
Ability to meet strict deadlines and work under pressure.
Able to learn quickly and adapt to change.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Reporting and Accounting Analyst
With headquarters in Portland, a large national corporation has an immediate need for a Financial Reporting and Accounting Analyst. This is an opportunity to gain valuable experience with an industry leader on a successful finance team.

Financial Reporting and Accounting Analyst Responsibilities 
Prepare financial statements, develop analysis of financial results, and interpret complex accounting transactions.
Compilation of data and information then analysis and interpretation of results.
Support regulatory reporting.
Draft and review communications to third party stakeholders.
Assist with continuous development and implementation of accounting and finance policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Ensure compliance with accounting guidance and regulatory requirements.

Financial Reporting and Accounting Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related field.
CPA or CPA in-process.
3 years of public accounting audit experience preferred.
Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP or IFRS and key finance and accounting principles.
Previous experience with analyzing accounting transactions or preparing financial statements.
Intermediate to advanced Excel skills.  
Excellent attention to detail and analytical/problem-solving skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Reporting Manager
Our client is in search of their next Financial Reporting Manager. This role will design and develop reports and databases to support their Accounting and Finance teams. You will be partnering with key stakeholders to provide resources and create proactive reporting tools for decision making. The ideal candidate has a passion for data and standardizing reporting with strong business acumen. This role is located in Beaverton, Oregon.

Financial Reporting Manager Responsibilities
Review, analyze and integrate data from multiple data sources into one coherent database system to streamline information.
Identify, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets, and resolve issues identified from such analyses.
Use in-depth knowledge of SQL programming to design scripts and programs to analyze, organize and maintain data and database functions.
Monitor performance and quality control plans to identify new process improvement opportunities.

Financial Reporting Manager Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Information Management or Statistics or equivalent experience.
3+ years of experience in an accounting or finance related industry with experience creating reports, dashboards, analytics tools, and system implementations.
Work with sensitive information with the highest degree of integrity and confidentiality.
Advanced SQL, Access, and Excel.
Knowledge of data warehouse principals, hierarchies and tools.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Reporting Manager
Our client is seeking a Financial Reporting Manager to join their team in Portland, Oregon. This company is a global technology leader with many long-tenured employees. 

Financial Reporting Manager Responsibilities 
Oversee daily accounting operations and financial reporting.
Ensure accurate financial reporting.
Complete monthly and yearly close processes.
Prepare financial statements and coordinate on reviews and audits. 
Support tax compliance and reporting.
Assist with implementing system improvements. 

Financial Reporting Manager Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in accounting or Finance. CPA and/or MBA preferred. 
7 years’ experience with financial reporting; experience with payroll and tax a plus. 
3 years’ supervisory experience. 
Knowledge with accounting principles, GAAP, and IFRS.
Intermediate to advanced Excel skills; SAP highly preferred. 
Strong communication skills. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Firmware Engineer
Our client is hiring a Firmware Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. You will be responsible for embedded firmware design of innovative consumer electronics products that help make athletes better.  This role will assist in the development of a robust firmware platform by designing efficient, testable, and scalable code that can execute across different hardware platforms to enable amazing athlete product experiences.  The successful candidate will have proven industry experience driving system architecture, from initial prototypes to production code, including driving the ability to manufacture at scale.

Firmware Engineer II Qualifications
Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
Minimum 2 years of work experience in embedded systems firmware development.
Experience developing firmware for different microprocessors and with different tool chains including small footprint embedded systems preferred.
Experience identifying hardware requirements based upon system firmware requirements a plus.
Works with Engineers, Designers, Innovators, and other experts to architect and realize intent and experience design of embedded systems and solutions.  
Uses concept sketches, pseudo-code, engineering design/ideas, and other communication methods to assure clear understanding of technological capabilities and limitations.
Understanding of embedded firmware architecture and system design.
Proven strong understanding of software design processes, methodologies and approaches.
Experience in data compression technologies targeted to a resource-constrained embedded environment.
Ability to support all phases of the product development cycle including architecture, design, development, debugging, documentation and validation.
Experience developing firmware for systems using low power 32-bit microcontrollers.
Experience writing or designing firmware for BLE, UART, SPI, I2C, USB and other communication protocols.
Experience writing or designing embedded low power management firmware.
Demonstrated expertise in design of multitasking, event driven real time firmware using C and understanding RTOS concepts.
Experience in low-power hardware design.
Ability to read schematics and work through hardware level system issues.
Excellent creativity, communication, presentation, troubleshooting, time-management and analytical skills are required.
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
Available for frequent late-afternoon/evening conference calls.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Firmware QA Engineer
Our client is hiring a Firmware QA Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. You will be responsible for the qualification of innovative consumer electronics products that help make athletes better. This role will assist in the test and validation of a robust firmware platform by designing efficient, testable, and scalable code to enable amazing athlete product experiences. The successful candidate will have proven industry experience driving quality into the software/firmware system architecture, from initial prototypes to production code. Join us and help define the future of sport.

Firmware QA Engineer Qualifications
Master's or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field; or relevant work experience.
Proven experience in a QA role, with an emphasis on testing embedded and mobile experiences.
Minimum 2 years of work experience in embedded systems.
Engage Product, Program, Engineering, and Design teams to design test strategies, guide unit and integration testing conducted by engineering teams, and compose test plans for automated, manual, and performance tests.
Experience in developing test plans, assessing risk, writing defects, and providing relevant data for test reporting.
Ability to create, document, and automate test plans for embedded systems in C, including unit, subsystem, and system testing.
Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle including test-driven development with experience working in an agile development environment.
Familiarity with continuous integration processes and test reporting capabilities.
Understanding of embedded firmware architecture and system design.
Knowledge of mobile software QA processes and methodologies for iOS and Android mobile targets.
Proven strong understanding of software design processes, methodologies and approaches.
Excellent creativity, communication, presentation, troubleshooting, time-management and analytical skills are required.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Footwear Training Content Communicator
Our client is looking for a Footwear Training Content Communicator. You will be responsible for assisting with ongoing updates to existing footwear-focused employee training classes as well as helping to develop new training content.

Footwear Training Content Communicator Responsibilities
Assisting the Footwear Technical Training team with various types of employee-training content: presentation decks, QRGs, one-pagers, printed class handouts, interactive online content, etc. 
Adjusting, updating, formatting, and applying branding to existing content.
Content design and design consultation/collaboration for new training content.

Footwear Training Content Communicator Qualifications
Intermediate to advanced skills with: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, MS Office programs (esp. PowerPoint), cloud-based storage (Box). 
Ability to work independently and within tight deadlines.
Creativity and ability to provide fresh perspective. 
Interest in education/training a plus. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Fraud Analyst
Your role as a Fraud Analyst will consist of evaluating transactions using established standard operating procedures to detect potential incidents of online fraud. Follow procedures to cancel, suspend or further investigate suspicious orders. You will be expected to understand and identify fraud warning signs and report any noteworthy trends.   

Fraud Analyst Responsibilities
Review and prioritize work based on needs of the business and queue volumes.
Resolve queued transactions within service level agreement to avoid the potential of consumer friction while minimizing the loss of fraud.
Maintain individual performance metrics based on team average.
Maximize orders reviewed and processed while minimizing errors and fraud losses.
Identify trends and make recommendations to improve the fraud tool platform.
Support departmental initiatives aimed at minimizing fraud loss and maximizing company revenue.
Collaberate with other members of the team to continuously improve internal processes whenever necessary.
Review individual chargebacks regularly to understand and improve fraud loss and individual performance.
Self-starter and comfortable taking initiative while quickly grasping concepts and processes.
Ability to think analytically and make accurate decisions.
Ability to work individually and within a team environment.
Critical thinking skills with the ability to detect and analyze activity in an eCommerce environment using multiple web-based tools.
Strong time management and organizational skills, including ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks.
Ability to meet critical deadlines in a fast paced environment.
Strong attention to detail with consistent accuracy.

Fraud Analyst Qualifications
A minimum of 2 years experience in an eCommerce fraud operations analyst role or equivalent eCommerce analytical background.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
Strong proficiency working with web browsers and web-based tools.
Proficient with Microsoft applications, such as Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Bachelors or equivalent work experience.
Must be able to work weekends and non-traditional shifts.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Front End Developer
Are you interested in building large-scale distributed cloud infrastructure from the ground up? Our client’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform that operates at a large scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. The largest names of enterprise in technology and global business choose our client because they provide the best in class end-to-end integrated compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. This team is growing fast, still at an early stage, working on ambitious new initiatives and is looking for engineers who have a passion for solving challenging problems.

The Accounts, Signup, and Ordering teams are creating a seamless experience for our customers to step into the cloud business. Their goal is to make sure that the entry gate to both IaaS and SaaS offerings are extremely fast, reliable, and enjoyable. This organization's charter is own end-to-end the onboarding of all new customers, own the experience for upgrading and maintaining their accounts and their orders of IaaS and SaaS SKUs, and drive the transitions between states for accounts. They work closely with financial systems as well as our anti-fraud team to ensure a high bar is held throughout. Scenarios include new trial signups, new customer order signups, adding new tiers of services and new SaaS/PaaS services, supporting our free tier, support different models of payments like subscriptions or pay-as-you-go, increase the flexibility and self-service options for customers, and own account transitions over their lifecycle.

The primary accounts services are tier-1 and customer facing, they are the gatekeepers of the first run experience for all customers. They own critical data needed by IaaS and SaaS services about the customer account, adding complexity to systems like maintaining global eventually consistent replication of data. They also need to scale to handle load spikes, unlike other services they are driven by events such as customer learning sessions and OpenWorld where they can expect sudden, very high spikes in signups to happen on a regular basis.

The Accounts, Signup, and Ordering teams share the pace, growth, execution, iterative improvements, and the culture of a startup without many of the risks. Your responsibilities will include design, development, troubleshooting and operating (full ownership) of software for the next generation of cloud capabilities. As front-end focused member of the software engineering team, you will lead projects and also provide technical guidance to other team members. You should be both a rock solid front-end engineer and a capable generalist, able to understand any part of the stack and low level systems, as well as understand broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Front End Developer Qualifications
Works with software development engineers, project managers and senior UX engineers to fix bugs and support feature development of front-end components front-end components such as web interfaces.
Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of the development of features for front-end system components such as web interfaces in a cloud environment.
Familiarity and understanding of modern web application development with deep experience in HTML/CSS.
Development experience in JavaScript and at least one modern web application framework such as React/AngularJS/Ember and using it with REST APIs.
Write correct, secure, maintainable, robust code and appropriate tests for front-end code.
Influences visual designs in collaboration with Design stakeholders.
Provides input to API stakeholders to ensure delivered APIs support required user experiences.
Drives design of their features & subsystems.
Drives operational readiness & excellence of their features & subsystems.
Experience working with other cloud platform teams and accommodating requirements from those teams (compute, networking, search, store).
Comfortably in a collaborative, agile development environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Front End Developer
Are you interested in building large-scale distributed cloud infrastructure from the ground up? Our client’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform that operates at a large scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. The largest names of enterprise in technology and global business choose our client because they provide the best in class end-to-end integrated compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. They are growing fast, still at an early stage, working on ambitious new initiatives and is looking for engineers who have a passion for solving challenging problems.

Identity and Access management services is one of the most critical pieces of their platform infrastructure. It provides the platform for Authentication, Authorization and Federation for services that use and are part of Cloud Infrastructure. Identity services includes components like Control Plane, that allows CRUD on resources like Users, Groups, Policy, Dynamic Groups; Data Plane that provides the API keys for request signing, performs authZ check; Sign-on UI Page that authenticates the users with user name and password for Console and CLI access.

Identity and Access management team shares the pace, growth, execution, iterative improvements, and the culture of a startup without many of the risks. Your responsibilities will include design, development, troubleshooting and operating (full ownership) of software for the next generation of cloud capabilities. As front-end focused member of the software engineering team, you will lead projects and also provide technical guidance to other team members. You should be both a rock solid front-end engineer and a capable generalist, able to understand any part of the stack and low level systems, as well as understand broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Front End Developer Qualifications
Works with software development engineers, project managers and senior UX engineers to fix bugs and support feature development of front-end components front-end components such as web interfaces.
Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of the development of features for front-end system components such as web interfaces in a cloud environment.
Familiarity and understanding of modern web application development with deep experience in HTML/CSS.
Development experience in JavaScript and at least one modern web application framework such as React/AngularJS/Ember and using it with REST APIs.
Write correct, secure, maintainable, robust code and appropriate tests for front-end code.
Influences visual designs in collaboration with Design stakeholders.
Provides input to API stakeholders to ensure delivered APIs support required user experiences.
Drives design of their features & subsystems.
Drives operational readiness & excellence of their features & subsystems.
Experience working with other cloud platform teams and accommodating requirements from those teams (compute, networking, search, store).
Comfortably in a collaborative, agile development environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Senior Full-Stack .NET Software Engineer
 Our client is seeking a Senior Full-Stack .NET Software Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will design and develop the next generation of employment screening services and products. Every day, our client's amazing team provides solutions to prospects and clients, gaining their trust while enhancing long-term partnerships. When you join their team, you'll be part of a high-performing team that truly values your contributions will allow you to grow within the business. If you are a self-starter who can meet the challenge, keep reading!
Our team works in an Agile/Scrum environment with both back and front-end stories. We encourage our Engineers to learn, to fail, and to ask great questions.  

This is an ideal position for you, if: 
You enjoy working in an agile team to develop software prototypes and solutions.
You stay current and up to date with existing and upcoming development technologies.
You take ownership and will strive to ensure that delivers the highest quality products possible.
You can refactor existing code to current patterns and practices.
You may be a natural leader, which is awesome, but you can also contribute as an individual contributor and as a team member and enjoy doing so.
You love diving into the unknown and enjoy building your expertise in unknown technical domains.
It’s all about community, you love to share and refine ideas that lead to key discussions within the department.
You enjoy participating in setting the strategic direction and advocate that vision both inside and outside the department.

Senior Full Stack .NET Software Engineer Qualifications
Competent self-motivated Engineer with 5+ years of software development experience.
Aptitude to rapidly ramp up on new technology and evaluate its value in a business domain.
Able to collaborate, communicate and work with team members and stakeholders.
Experience with the following technologies: C#, .NET Core, Angular, Typescript, NodeJS, REST, HTML, CSS, SQL.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

Full Stack Developer - Java / JavaScript
Our client is a rapidly-growing technology company in Portland, Oregon with deep software development and digital marketing capabilities. They are currently looking to add a Java Developer to our team.

This specific position on the Research & Development team focuses on data collection systems for Foureyes®, their sales intelligence platform. These systems are tasked with collecting and storing customer and inventory related data to power a suite of products and services. Foureyes® is the only technology in the world that can connect phone calls, forms, and chats to website activity. 

Fourbot, their inventory data collection application, is responsible for the processing of 2 million+ vehicles across multiple industries. Features include data-driven job execution engine, graphql powered API for searching, and machine learning models for data validation and classification.

The selected candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining application servers written in Java and built upon the Spring Boot Application Framework. This includes both proprietary business logic and integrations with 3rd party APIs such as Amazon Web Services. Candidates will also develop and maintain administrative websites written in JavaScript.

Responsibilities include collaborating with other developers and design and product teams, developing new product features, writing unit tests, performing code reviews, and improving development process efficiency.

Full Stack Developer - Java / JavaScript Responsibilities
If you join the team, you'll be:
Building cool stuff. Foureyes and Fourbot are feature-rich technologies that are continuously growing and evolving to meet the needs of their users and optimize their digital marketing strategy.
Working with a collaborative, high-performing team of strong technical talent. The right candidate will wow them and be challenged by them.
Balancing a combination of innovation and new feature development with the maintenance of existing technology.
Part of the solution. We want developers who have a perspective, and you’ll have a voice in the approach.

Full Stack Developer - Java / JavaScript Qualifications
You are an ideal candidate if:
You have a strong academic record. A CS degree is preferred but not required with relevant experience.
You are a problem solver. You can understand the full scope of a problem and build a solution that addresses the need from start to finish. And you love to do it.
You have at least 4-5 years of professional Java experience. We’re looking for someone with knowledge of all of our technologies used: Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, JPA/Hibernate, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, AWS.
You bring sought after expertise. Networking, database administration, redis caching, and automated testing and deployment.
You get things done. You don't just solve problems. You find new ones and solve those too. You can identify code inefficiencies and how to refactor them while taking full code ownership for your latest release.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Full Stack Developer - Vue.js & Node.js
Our client is a rapidly-growing technology company in Portland, Oregon with deep software development and digital marketing capabilities. They are currently looking to add a Full Stack Developer to their team.

The selected candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining applications using Vue, SCSS, and JavaScript on the frontend, along with integrating APIs and advancing various systems and components with node.js on the backend.

Responsibilities also include collaborating with other developers and our design and product teams, writing unit tests, and performing code reviews.

They want to hire smart people who like to work, love a challenge and want to be a part of something special!

Full Stack Developer - Vue.js & Node.js Responsibilities
If you join the team, you'll be:
Working with a collaborative, high-performing team of strong technical talent. The right candidate will wow them and be challenged by them.
Balancing a combination of innovation and new feature development with maintenance of existing technology.
Part of the solution. We want developers who have a perspective, and you’ll have a voice in the approach.

Full Stack Developer - Vue.js & Node.js Qualifications 
You are an ideal candidate if:
You have a strong academic record (CS degree preferred but not required with relevant experience).
You have at least 1-2 years of full stack experience.
You are versatile.
You care about user experience (UX) and take pride in exceeding the user's expectations.
 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Functional Support - Maintenance Control Specialist
Our client is looking for a Functional Support - Maintenance Control Specialist that gathers, inputs, records, tracks and verifies data and information from multiple sources. This role reviews maintenance data and records for field equipment to ensure accurate completion. This position performs data entry into computerized maintenance management system, CMMS. May utilize software to compile and generate reports, statistics, timelines, tables, graphs, correspondence and presentations. Supports department process improvement.

Functional Support - Maintenance Control Specialist Responsibilities
Ensures deploying personnel complete required maintenance records according to the published policies and procedures. 
Enters maintenance records data into a computer system daily.
Receives maintenance records and logs them in according to work instructions.
Coordinates/communicates with various departments to ensure maintenance records are completed in accordance with company instructions.
May be required to create reports about data received and errors outstanding for correction.
Compiles records and checks for accuracy and completeness requires attention to detail.
Works in cooperation with maintenance controllers to validate flight and maintenance data.
Requests assistance and guidance from a maintenance controller when records contain errors or are not returned promptly for quality checks.
Frequent communication directly or through electronic means with field personnel to train and assist with records return or entry.
Ability to learn the records requirements and quality check data submission with a high degree of accuracy and requires little oversight.
Ability to write work instructions that assist with the collection, entry or processing of maintenance records.

Functional Support - Maintenance Control Specialist Qualifications
High School and 2 years of related experience.
Basic understanding of expense reporting and accounting.
High level of proficiency in MS Office software products; specifically:
Microsoft Excel 2007 or later: create, edit, format and print basic worksheets; insert graphic objects, create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, create and analyze data, and work with Excel on the web.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or later:  create and format slides, work with tables, charts, images, objects, prepare presentations; work with design templates, diagrams, special effects, custom slide shows, collaboration functionality and advanced presentation delivery.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated organizational skills and scheduling abilities.
Demonstrated ability to successfully interact with people at various levels, honoring confidentiality in a dynamic, fast paced environment.

Desired:
Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management system data entry.
Experience in Department of Defense equipment maintenance.
Experience maintaining equipment that requires maintenance records entries.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Functional Support - Maintenance Control Specialist
Our client is looking for a Functional Support - Maintenance Control Specialist that gathers, inputs, records, tracks and verifies data and information from multiple sources. This role reviews maintenance data and records for field equipment to ensure accurate completion. This position performs data entry into computerized maintenance management system, CMMS. May utilize software to compile and generate reports, statistics, timelines, tables, graphs, correspondence and presentations. Supports department process improvement.

Functional Support - Maintenance Control Specialist Responsibilities
Ensures deploying personnel complete required maintenance records according to the published policies and procedures. 
Enters maintenance records data into a computer system daily.
Receives maintenance records and logs them in according to work instructions.
Coordinates/communicates with various departments to ensure maintenance records are completed in accordance with company instructions.
May be required to create reports about data received and errors outstanding for correction.
Compiles records and checks for accuracy and completeness requires attention to detail.
Works in cooperation with maintenance controllers to validate flight and maintenance data.
Requests assistance and guidance from a maintenance controller when records contain errors or are not returned promptly for quality checks.
Frequent communication directly or through electronic means with field personnel to train and assist with records return or entry.
Ability to learn the records requirements and quality check data submission with a high degree of accuracy and requires little oversight.
Ability to write work instructions that assist with the collection, entry or processing of maintenance records.

Functional Support - Maintenance Control Specialist Qualifications
High School and 2 years of related experience.
Basic understanding of expense reporting and accounting.
High level of proficiency in MS Office software products; specifically:
Microsoft Excel 2007 or later: create, edit, format and print basic worksheets; insert graphic objects, create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, create and analyze data, and work with Excel on the web.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or later:  create and format slides, work with tables, charts, images, objects, prepare presentations; work with design templates, diagrams, special effects, custom slide shows, collaboration functionality and advanced presentation delivery.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated organizational skills and scheduling abilities.
Demonstrated ability to successfully interact with people at various levels, honoring confidentiality in a dynamic, fast paced environment.

Desired:
Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management system data entry.
Experience in Department of Defense equipment maintenance.
Experience maintaining equipment that requires maintenance records entries.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Global Logistics Sustainability Analyst
Our client is hiring a Global Logistics Sustainability Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As the Global Logistics Analyst for Sustainability, you will be responsible for partnering with the Logistics teams to drive the sustainability agenda, inclusive of environment and labor. You will play a key role in reporting and metrics to support the sustainability strategy. You will work with Global Logistics, Geographies and Affiliates, and as well as cross-functionally with Global Sustainability, Global Procurement, and others. We are seeking an individual who is self-motivated, impact-driven, and passionate about his/her work. You must be a flexible thinker and an outstanding communicator who is comfortable working cross-functionally and influencing different personalities and perspectives.  Your success will depend on your ability to quickly form professional relationships with colleagues.

Global Logistics Sustainability Analyst Responsibilities
Coordinating with the Geography Transportation teams and DC teams on monthly carbon, energy, and waste data submissions and owning verification processes.
Driving internal leadership reporting processes, including preparing relevant materials.
Managing carbon reporting tools and data quality, as well as developing insights and actions based on analytics.
Owning data and commentary submission process, as well as assurance efforts, for external company reporting.
Coordinating with Global partners to maintain logistics facility and partner information.
Orchestrating the collection, analysis, and archiving of compliance monitoring efforts.

Global Logistics Sustainability Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and 1-3 years’ experience in business, logistics, operations, sustainability, or related field.
Demonstrated interest and experience in Sustainability.
Experience in analytics, reporting, and data visualization.
Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
High tolerance for ambiguity.
Ability to drive results and thrive in a highly matrixed, cross-functional, cross-cultural, and complex organization.
Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics in a visually engaging and compelling manner to a variety of audiences.
Strong relationship-building, facilitation, and influencing skills; ability to create trust among those with diverse personal styles.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Help Desk Anlayst
Our client is seeking a Help Desk Analyst to join their team in Bothell, WA

Qualifications
MS Tools/Technologies experience.
Must have strong Customer Service experience.
Ability to work under pressure.
A+ certification would be a plus.
MS Service Manager experience a Plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

HR Advisor
Our client is hiring an HR Advisor for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. As an HR Advisor, you will provide a premium customer service experience to company employees in the United States, Mexico, SOCO and Canada for all HR related inquiries. Our contact center operates from a variety of contact channels that include phone, email, text and live chat.

HR Advisor Responsibilities
As an HR Advisor, you’ll use effective written and verbal communication skills, applying sound judgment and critical thinking in serving our employees. In addition, you will utilize various systems and other support tools to ensure accurate responses to employee inquiries, while consulting and looking for opportunities to educate employees. This is a very fast paced, employee focused environment requiring you to multitask and deliver premium service with a sense of urgency. You enjoy responding to employees’ needs with the discipline to adhere to confidentiality, policy & compliance rules. This role is part of a fun, supportive and collaborative team that operates on set schedules with various shifts. You are motivated by the challenge of continuous learning and the opportunity to develop a career in Human Resources.

HR Advisor Qualifications
Experience in a service center environment highly desirable.
Knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures in HR a plus.
Bilingual Spanish/English preferred both written and verbal.
Strong verbal and written customer service skills critical, with an emphasis on soft skills, customer-focused resolution, and de-escalation.
Strong problem-solving, resolution, and decision-making skills, including the ability to quickly understand and analyze new information and situations.
Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills.
Must demonstrate initiative and the ability to work independently within a diverse team environment.
Intermediate to Advanced working knowledge of personal computers, including MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
Ability to sit or stand at a desk for long periods of time.
Ability to work flexible hours.
Experience providing customer service via multiple contact channels (phone, e-mail, live chat, face-to-face, written correspondence, text, etc.).
Knowledge and understanding of HR systems and platforms preferred (SAP, Cronos).

One of the following:
Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
2-3 years relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
Four years’ military service in a related MOS/MOC.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

HR Manager
Our client in the Willamette Valley is looking for a hands-on HR Manager to join their team. This role will serve as the contact point for employee relations and benefits, develop policies and programs, and support recruiting efforts for the company.

Responsibilities of the HR Manager
Serve as liaison between employees and management.
Coordinate recruiting for corporate roles including onboarding, benefits administration, and pre-employment screenings.
Consult with management regarding employee training initiatives, disciplinary action, and terminations.
Manage leave of absence, worker's comp, and FMLA requests and procedures.
Ensure company compliance and understand local employment laws and regulations.
Coordinate personnel record-keeping efforts.
Organizational planning and market data analysis.
Maintain company job descriptions and employment classifications.
Manage HR policies and procedures, as well as employee handbook.
Special projects and duties as needed.

HR Manager Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field; PHR/SHRM-CP certification preferred.
5+ years of human resources experience, including policy development; construction, manufacturing or logging trade experience highly preferred.
Understanding of labor law, leave of absence and worker's comp requests, and HR best practices.
Prior supervisory and management experience highly preferred
MS Office Suite experience, with strong Excel.
ERP, HRIS, and payroll systems knowledge; ADP preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with an ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Must be able to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive situations.
Effective multi-tasker with great time management and organizational skills.
Ability to assess situations before making changes.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

HR Benefits Analyst
Our downtown client is seeking an HR Benefits Analyst to join their team. This role will be an expert on the company’s benefit plans/programs and responsible for benefits administration focusing on ADA leave programs.

HR Benefits Analyst Responsibilities 
Manage leave and ADA cases; coach internal staff regarding leave usage and accommodations.
Review and analyze leave and ADA data and assist with program and process improvements.
Create and analyze reports while auditing for data entry/process discrepancies.
Manage benefits training materials and sessions.
Respond to incoming benefit questions; process employee transactions and data requests.
Maintain legally compliant policies, notices and communications.
Participate as needed on special departmental projects.

HR Benefits Analyst Qualifications 
2 years Human Resources experience; leave administration or ADA experience preferred, disability benefit program or claims a plus.
Associate/Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field a plus.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Intermediate to advanced skills in Excel and proficiency in Microsoft Office; Workday a plus.
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Human Resources Learning Content Development Specialist
Our client is seeking a Human Resources Learning Content Development Specialist to join their team in Portland, OR. The Learning Content Development Specialist is responsible for working with stakeholders and subject matter experts through needs analysis and problem identification to determine specific learning needs and to identify, recommend and develop formal and informal solutions. The HR Learning Content Development Specialist is also responsible for the design, storyboarding, development, and testing of video and eLearning content.

Human Resources Learning Content Development Specialist Responsibilities 
Analyzes, Designs, Develops, and builds Evaluation of video, eLearning, webinar, and classroom content.
Understands and can apply state-of-the-art knowledge of learning technology.
Uses best practices in adult learning to create eLearning and blended learning experiences.
Evaluates and applies feedback from program participants and project stakeholders.

Human Resources Learning Content Development Specialist Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years’ experience in software, process, or operations learning and development, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Extensive knowledge of adult learning theory (andragogy).
Technical competencies in eLearning toolkit including Articulate Storyboard, Adobe Captivate, TechSmith Camtasia or Adobe Premiere, and Adobe Photoshop.
Proficiency in office productivity tools including MS Office.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts into easily understandable instructional materials.
Work independently or with teams to meet deadlines.
Understand current trends and limitations of learning technology.
Work with client/subject matter experts (SMEs) and successfully manage client relationships.
Work with clients to concept/design the “look and feel” of the training concurrently in content development.
ADDIE, SAM, or LLAMA experience.
Project management experience
Knowledge of healthcare provider industry.
Ability to apply strategic thinking skills to diagnose a business problem, propose multiple viable solutions, seek consensus among stakeholders, and drive implementation of the selected solution.
Strong internal consulting skills and ability to manage difficult conversations and forms of resistance.

Required Licenses, Certifications, Registration, Etc.
CPLP (Optional).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

Human Resources Manager
Our SW Portland family-owned company is seeking an HR Manager to join the business and be the resource for our employees and contributing to the success of the overall business.

Human Resources Manager Responsibilities
Be the face of the business for employees and support them in their overall success from an HR perspective. 
Develop a recruiting program to hire the most promotable employees for openings.
Oversee payroll, benefits, and 401k administration.
Develop and maintain corporate education for employees and help create a career path with Branch Managers for employees.
Provide HR guidance to executives, managers, and supervisors spanning multiple sites.
Be the expert with ongoing job analysis, job descriptions, review program and compensation programs for all exempt and non-exempt positions.
Employee relations, outplacement counseling, and exit interviews.
Mitigate risk for the company through ongoing education and research maintaining all employee handbooks, policies and procedures.
Manage safety training and programs for OSHA compliance. Provide support and annual training as necessary.
Maintain HRIS system and all other necessary HR files.
Additional duties as necessary. 

Human Resources Manager Qualifications 
Bachelors Degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
PHR or SPHR certification preferred.
6 years of Human Resources experience including a minimum of 2 years Management experience. 
Ability to maintain confidential information.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and ADP.
Quick learner, contributor of ideas, and passion for problem-solving.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Hyperspectral Imagery Technician
Our client is seeking a Hyperspectral Imagery Technician to join their dynamic team in Portland, OR. In this role, the Technician will work with a variety of GIS data across multiple disciplines on a temporary contract for approximately 2 months. 

Hyperspectral Imagery Technician Responsibilities:
The Technician will support hyperspectral production staff in data processing raw data to atmospherically corrected reflectance.
Image classification, collecting, creating and maintaining libraries of training data, and running image classification routines. 

Hyperspectral Imagery Technician Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s Degree is required.
Familiarity with satellite imagery processing or analysis.
Tree identification experience, forestry, botany, or plant biology experience required
Experience or exposure to multispectral or hyperspectral images.
Experience classifying raster data.
Experience working with geospatial data.
ENVI experience is required
Ability to work as a part of a team; and self-motivated.

Desired Qualifications:  
Hyperspectral/multispectral data analysis techniques.
Statistical modeling, machine learning.
Experience with scripting geographic data.
Familiarity with Linux.
Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
Ability to troubleshoot software and solve problems without much oversight. 
Experience with identifying plant species.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

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Image Artist
Our client is hiring an Image Artist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.
The Digital Product Creation Apparel Production Studio community is the foundation and support of the apparel product image creation process. Image Artists will bring to life the seasonal category creative narrative through exceptional and innovative image creation. As an Image Artist, you have a hybrid skill set and passion for creative and technical work, in the Image Artist Production Studio you will be working to a high level of expertise and collaborating in a creative environment, supporting and challenging each other while creating amazing work. Image Artists will create and maintain product images and / or schematics to our client and DPC Apparel Production Studio standards working in partnership with our Digital Creation Lead (DCL) team. Both teams work hand and hand within our project management tool to complete and maintain all of our client's apparel imagery. You may be asked to attend category (business facing) and studio meetings if and when needed, maintain QC of your own files and help with studio peer QC.

You will be working in collaboration with:
DPC Apparel Production Studio Digital Creation Lead (DCL) peers.
DPC Apparel Production Studio Senior and Image Artist peers.
DPC Apparel Production Image Artist Studio Managers.
DPC Apparel Studio Licensing Approvals.
DPC Apparel Production Studio Content Team.
DPC Apparel Studio 3D Designers.

Image Artist Responsibilities
Design Software Knowledge.
Individual workload management in project management tool.
Maintenance to internal image standards – accuracy and availability of apparel product images.
Family file creation, graphic / schematic file creation and 3D PNG creation.
Uploading image files to.
Grid Pages / Assortments pages for QC of own work.
Peer communication within the Apparel Image Production Studio.

Image Artist Qualifications
Apparel Product Creation image process expert.
Quality Control of imagery in a high volume production environment.
Knowledge of Apparel construction (preferred).
Experience in print production (preferred).
Passion for the Brand (preferred).
Minimum 4 year degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Fine Art, or related.

Competencies:
Deliver Results.
Communicate Effectively.
Continuously Grow and Develop.
Contribute Special Expertise.
Take Action with Integrity.

Required Hard Skills:
Adobe CC - Illustrator.
Adobe CC - InDesign.
Microsoft Excel, Outlook – working knowledge of Microsoft Word.
Apple MAC OS.

Required Soft Skills:
Apply and perform Design Skills including drawing - sketching - typography - spacing - scale.
Detail Orientation.
Self-starter - proactive.
Multi-tasking.
Information Seeker.

Preferred Skills:
Cloud Based File Management.
Project management / workflow tool experience (Wrike, Airtable, Slack, etc.).
Design skills.
Adobe Photoshop.
3D Software Knowledge.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Incoming Quality Control Inspector
Do you consider yourself to be analytical, have logical linear thought processes and a meticulous attention to detail? This Incoming Quality Inspector might be the right job for you! Our client is committed to providing customers with top-quality products and are looking for a key member to join their team and help deliver the utmost quality.

Incoming Quality Control Inspector Responsibilities
Quality Control Test and Inspection of incoming materials.
Have primary responsibility for the quality levels maintained in component parts.
Define inspection criteria and sample plan for incoming materials.
Inspection and evaluation of first-articles.
Record and manage non-conforming materials.
Work with vendors to ensure quality standards are met.
Maintain records of vendor and part performance.
Work with Engineering and Purchasing departments to qualify new vendors.
Present quality status to Production and Quality teams.
Perform mechanical inspection for defects.
Testing of electrical and data cables.
Document and maintain first article archive.
Participate in the MRB Program.
Maintain a clean, safe work environment by following standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
Performance requires physical attendance.
Other duties as assigned.                              

Incoming Quality Control Inspector Qualifications
3+ years QC experience, required.
Demonstrated ability to meet and maintain high quality standards for incoming materials.
Experience with relevant ISO, Six Sigma and MIL standards for QC, required.
Experience with simple mechanical inspection, required.
Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, required.
Experience with measurement and inspection tools, required.
Skilled computer operator and proficiency with Microsoft Windows platforms, required.
Independent professional that can perform job assignment with limited supervision.
Ability to lift and carry 35 pounds at least 40 feet.
Ability to multi-task and manage various project related duties.
Strong work ethic.
Touch typist – minimum of 25 to 30 WPM.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Accuracy and attention to detail is a must.
Must be able to self-organize workloads and manage all deadlines.
Accomplish organization mission by completing related results as needed.
 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Industrial Controls Engineer
Our client has an exceptional opportunity for an Industrial Controls Engineer in Portland, OR. This high visibility and high impact position works collaboratively across the organization, supporting their efforts to offer increasingly efficient, high performance equipment that helps their customers get their job done right. 
As a subject matter expert and innovator, the Automation Controls Engineer develops and delivers elegant solutions to highly complex equipment design and manufacturing technology projects at their global locations. This position is expected to continue advancing their manufacturing capabilities, capacity, quality, reliability, and safety. As a mid to senior-level engineer, this position is expected to execute controls systems projects from concept through design and programming, manufacturing start-up, and lifecycle support. 

Responsibilities of the Industrial Controls Engineer
Contribute to the design and development of effective controls systems to support global manufacturing processes.
Collaborate throughout the company to develop and implement solutions that advance their manufacturing technology.
Investigate and propose applications of cutting edge technologies to new and existing manufacturing processes.
Develop elegant, robust solutions to complex systems using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), machine vision systems, sensors, motion control devices, robots etc.
Establish and maintain engineering standards, such as: coding practices, tag naming, network connectivity and device management, etc.
Participate in bi-directional peer design reviews.
Lead technical activities with suppliers, system integrators, and internal customers.
Contribute to quality systems using toolsets such as Lean, Design for Six Sigma, House of Quality, etc. to advance equipment designs and process improvements.
Identify opportunities for improvement in equipment and internal work processes.
Build business case to explain technical recommendations.
Lead collaborative efforts with diverse backgrounds and functional aras.
Define schedules based on projects and experience.
Coach and mentor others regarding customer service; manage communications and opportunities with customers and recommend actions.
Engage in and lead continuous improvement initiatives; act as a role model for safety, 5S, etc. 
Prepare presentations to outside suppliers, system integrators, and leadership team with support from senior team members.
Maintain open communication through conversation and both formal and informal documents.

Qualifications of the Industrial Controls Engineer
BS in Controls Systems, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering required, degrees in other engineering disciplines considered with relevant industry experience.
2-8 years minimum experience.
Equipment design for an industrial, high volume production environment.
Programming ladder logic PLC’s, safety PLCs and HMIs.
Selecting appropriate circuit protectors, wiring and cabling, sensors. Hardware (PLC, HMI, safety, remote I/O, etc.) motors and drives, motion controllers etc. 
Integrating vision systems, robots and other devices into a custom-designed manufacturing cell
Able to complete responsibilities in a timely, professional and quality manner.
Solve problems analytically, search out relevant information and gauge its importance when making decisions.
Effective written and oral communication skills; able to express oneself clearly and in technical and non-technical terms.
Creative thinker.
Proficiency documenting system schematics in CAD Software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks).
Deep understanding of closed loop controls, instrumentation, process controls systems (PLC, HMI, SCADA, networking), panel design, safety codes and regulations (OSHA, ANSI, NEC, etc.).
Collaborative and effective team player able to work with globally dispersed teams.
Demonstrate ability and willingness to learn; seek out development activities to improve skills and increase knowledge; learn from other team members and own mistakes.
Take imitative, seek and act on opportunities to improve organization performance.
Ability to translate specific goals into action and follow through to achieve goals.
Proficiency in MS Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and data management software (SAP preferred).
Available for domestic and international travel 1-2 weeks per year. .
 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”Senior 

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Infrastructure DevOps Developer 
Our client is seeking an Infrastructure DevOps Developer to join their dynamic team in Bend, OR. This role is responsible for helping to enable the agile framework through systems for various engineering projects and initiatives while looking for ways to become more efficient by implementing various DevOps practices.

Infrastructure DevOps Developer Responsibilities 
Build and extend our software delivery pipeline supporting continuous integration and delivery for multiple teams.
Work as a dedicated DevOps resource with multiple development teams becoming the liaison between development and infrastructure.
Design, implementation and management of build, deployment configuration, and automated test toolset.
Design and maintain a release management strategy supporting an always-on 24/7 SaaS platform with a focus on performance and scalability.
Responsible for developing, documenting, and socializing DevOps processes and tools across the organization.
Develop patterns to improve the velocity and self-sufficiency of the development team.
Shared team responsibility for the up-time of the SaaS products.
Work with architects and engineers to provide automated solutions driving improved efficiency throughout the SDLC.
Drive ongoing improvements and efficiencies in operational practices, tools, and processes.
Responsible for troubleshooting issues with SaaS products for the teams assigned.
 
Infrastructure DevOps Developer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related information technology field; or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
Understanding of Agile methodologies.
At least five (5) years’ experience with scripting technologies such as Python (the main language we use), Ruby (a plus), and Bash (a plus).
At least three (3) years’ experience with of DevOps practices.
At least three (3) years’ experience with Windows 2012, CentOS 7 and VMWare.
Demonstrated ability to learn, implement and evangelize new technologies.
At least two (2) years’ experience automating cloud (AWS preferred) and on-premise infrastructure.
At least five (5) years’ experience troubleshooting distributed applications.
Ability to deliver innovative solutions for problems where there are no available precedents.
At least five (5) years’ experience using configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).
At least five (5) years’ experience supporting Java applications.
Must demonstrate strength in the following areas daily; analytical problem solving, risk identification/mitigation, sense of urgency, sense of accountability, relationship building and excellent communication skills.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Instructional Designer
Our client is seeking an Instructional Designer to join their team in Portland, Oregon. The Instructional Designer will be responsible for the analysis, design, development and measurement for a multi-level training program that includes technical job specific, project management, and customer service content. Candidates must be able to demonstrate application of adult learning theory, creativity, adaptability and use of innovative technologies to enhance learning and engage learners through blended learning solutions. The candidate should be able to provide work samples that illustrate instructional design work that resulted in behavior-based changes tied to organizational need. A successful candidate will be an analytical problem-solver, flexible, able to multi-task, with a demonstrated passion for excellent customer service. 

Instructional Designer Responsibilities 
Assess, develop and implement innovative e-learning and instructor-led solutions direction tied to organizational business needs.
Work directly with development teams and stakeholders to produce instructor-led and eLearning solutions, self-study guides and other reference content.
Conduct technical and editorial reviews of existing training content.
Collaboratively design measurements (including behavior-based metrics) tied to outcomes.
Determine the proper blend of learning solutions that reinforce hands-on application of the tools, enhances the learning transfer, and engages learners.

Instructional Designer Qualifications
BA or BS degree in a relevant field such as instructional technology, educational technology, organizational development.
At least 3 years’ experience in an instructional design role.
Exceptional consulting skills that result in the development of clear behavior-based outcomes/measurement tied to organizational need.
Experience developing instructor-led and e-learning materials, performance support solutions, and measurement tools.
Experience designing innovative learning solutions like gamification, podcasts, and micro-learnings.
Experience with technologies such as Captivate, Articulate Storyline, YouTube, Premiere, Audition, etc.
Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
Demonstrated ability to anticipate and manage change in a highly dynamic environment.
Demonstrated ability to work with any level of stakeholder.
Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal communication abilities including skills in explaining technical topics to novices and collaborating with subject matter experts, and managers.
Acute attention to detail in a deadline-driven environment.
Proven experience designing and delivering customer-facing content under tight deadlines.
Can conceptualize technical/functional content into something creative and effective.
Adaptable - ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and thrive in a complex, ambiguous environment.
Demonstrated problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and focus on quality.
Ability to take initiative, be proactive without waiting for direction.
Project management skills including planning work, managing details, keeping multiple tasks/projects on track, using time well, and doing whatever it takes to deliver reliable results. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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Internal Communications Specialist
Our client is hiring an Internal Communications Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Internal Communications Specialist Responsibilities
Manage strategic planning process for internal communications function. 
Lead on executing executive communications (quarterly exec comms, retail content, me portal, global templates, global websites, video set). 
Manage the budget and resources (internal and external) associated with the execution of the communication strategy. 
Develop and participate in the business planning, budget and performance target setting process. 
Develop ongoing relationships with business partners across a range of internal functions including Product Creation, Retail, Sales and Commerce, HR and others to assist with delivery of strategic communications plans messaging and products. 
Coordinate project deliverables and act as a messaging and products. 
Coordinate project deliverables and act as a liaison to technical communications team and others. 
Develop communications strategies/plans that identify business goals to be achieved, measurable objectives, audiences, messaging, creative concepts, communications channels, communications cadence and metrics. 
Outline and continually update project plans; timelines and delivery calendars; and communications materials. 
Develop and execute messaging for internal communications. 
Write and edit content for intranet, digital radio, executive blogs, and internal announcements. 
Ensure that a thorough review, editing and updating process is followed for all communication.

Internal Communications Specialist Qualifications
Bachelors in Business, Journalism, or Communications. 
8+ years minimum relevant professional experience required. 
Multinational corporate experience preferred. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Inventory Specialist
Our client is hiring an Inventory Specialist for their team in Vancouver, Washington. This Inventory Specialist will support our client's Fleet Management group. This position involves receiving, storing, issuing, signing out, and checking in various tools, equipment, shop supplies, and repair parts. Such work requires knowledge of the kinds of tools, parts, and equipment in stock and how to locate them, and an ability to identify and issue specific items requested by end users.  This position will also serve as a parts runner picking up orders in the local area from various vendors and suppliers. They may be required to conduct annual or periodic inventory at various maintenance shops within the company service area.  

Organization & Culture
The Fleet Management Organization manages and maintains over 3000 mobile and stationary assets from cradle to grave. Fleet management consists of three internal organizations Fleet Procurement, Policy and Analysis, Loan Pool Equipment Service, and Vehicle Maintenance Management. The organization supports a very diverse fleet that ranges from new equipment to seasoned equipment approximately 50 years old. This ideal candidate will have the skills and ability to participate as an organizational representative and interact professionally with and collaboratively with both internal and external customers.  The ideal candidate will also have the ability to communicate and interact professionally, effectively and concisely over the phone, in person and through email.

Inventory Specialist Responsibilities
Support a variety of parts and material needs for small electric vehicles, construction equipment to line trucks and aerial devices.
Serve as a parts runner picking up merchandise from local warehouses, manufacturers and retail stores.
Perform the following: 
Monitor and track parts/material orders. 
Resolve order delays, issues, or client questions.
Provide recommendations for the improvement of organizational processes, procedures, and practices.  
Receive, verify, stage and keep stock of incoming shipments and materials.
Check and record the quantity of merchandise for conformity to purchase orders.
Track items in the stock room through proper organization and labeling.
Record and report shortages and discrepancies.
Issue required components and materials as requested.
Communicate over the phone, in person or through email to coordinate returns, rejections and credits.
Pickup/Deliver vehicles to/from internal customers or external vendors (i.e. dropping vehicle off at vendor for Upfit, etc).
Assist in maintaining a clean, organized, secure and safe parts area.
Perform data entry and parts and materials research.
May perform inventory support at internal shops within the company service area on an annual or sporadic basis.

Inventory Specialist Qualifications
Education & Corresponding Experience:
High school diploma or equivalent required.
Associates or Bachelor’s Degree in Inventory Management, Inventory Control, Purchasing, Computerized Logistics or related field is preferred.
3 years of supply chain and/or logistics experience commensurate to the level of expertise needed for the position.

Required Technical Skills & Experience:
3 years of experience in automotive warehouse operations, including shipping, receiving, deliveries, and inventory management is required.
Knowledge of shop safety regulations and emergency procedures.
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite Software (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook); (MS Office 2010 proficiency required).

Additional Requirements:
Valid U.S. Driver’s License is required.
First Aid/AED/CPR Certification required within 30 days of assignment start.  Worker/Employer is responsible for maintaining current certification.
Position requires frequent walking, bending and stooping.
Position requires overhead work.
Position requires the ability to lift and carry 50 pounds.
Position requires a minimum level of physical ability sufficient to lift, carry, move and stack equipment weighing up to 50 pounds.  Bending stooping, lifting, kneeling, reaching and walking for short distances (up to 500 yards) may be required.
Position requires the ability to lift items approximately 75 pounds in weight on and off vehicles and maneuver them, using wheeled carts, to designated locations.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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iOS Engineer
Our client is looking for a iOS Engineer to join their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

iOS Engineer Responsibilities
Develops, codes/configures, and tests programs and systems, typically within the parameters of two to three sprints. 
Shares knowledge effectively with the work team. 
Builds productive networks with technical colleagues, participating in technical forums and user groups. 
Demonstrates a strong working understanding of production systems, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve many problems on assigned systems with minimal support.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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iOS Engineer
Our client is looking for an iOS Engineer to join their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

iOS Engineer Responsibilities
Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains standards for software quality operating methods, processes, systems and procedures. 
Conducts software inspection, testing, verification, and validation. 
Implements software development and maintenance processes and methods. 
Ensures measures meet acceptable reliability standards. 
Develops overall operating criteria to ensure implementation of the software quality program according to project, process and contract requirements and objectives. 
Ensures that project and process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives, and/or contract. 
Reviews software design, change specifications, and plans against contractual and/or process requirements. 
Reviews include applicable specifications, materials, tools, techniques, and methodologies. 
Performs or directs verification of software requirement allocations, traceability, and testability.

iOS Engineer Qualifications
iOS, UIKit, Swift, Cocoapods, and Redux experience required.
Minimum 8 years of technical experience with 4 years in software quality.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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iOS Mobile Engineer
Our client is seeking an experienced iOS Mobile Engineer to help define, design and develop some of their key innovation initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for working on everything from early POCs to full blown consumer facing apps and SDKs. You’ll lead by example, evangelize our culture, and be an advocate of new technology and development techniques.

The successful candidate is both deeply experienced with mobile development and a team player that thrives in a collaborative agile environment. You have a proven knowledge of software engineering fundamentals and an appetite for continuous learning and teamwork. You are out in front of the latest technology trends and know how and when to apply them.

iOS Mobile Engineer Qualifications
Passion for technology and learning, a natural curiosity, with a love for delivering real-world results in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent verbal/written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
Extensive hands on experience developing iOS applications with a strong working understanding of Swift.
Experience designing mobile applications to consume server-based REST APIs.
Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests.
Commitment to and hands-on experience in performing technical code reviews.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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iOS Software Engineer
Our client will be hiring an iOS Software Engineer to join their growing Portland development team.

iOS Software Engineer Responsibilities
Expect to build the next generation of features for their iOS App.
Work effectively with a distributed, agile team, and within established standards and processes.
Your local team will include a Product Owner and Designer to provide specifications, engineers to develop REST APIs that serve the app, and QA to test the app; you will also have frequent communication and occasional travel to meet with a peer based in Sweden.
Communicate well. With offices in multiple time zones and multiple countries, this position requires strong written and verbal communication skills.
Build automated testing and performance/stability monitoring into the apps.

iOS Software Engineer Qualifications
5 years of experience developing data-driven iOS apps using Objective-C, with recent experience in Swift.
Bring experience maintaining and supporting iOS apps over multiple years and iterations of development.
Experience with source control and bug tracking software (we use Git and Jira).

Preferred:
Experience using Fastlane for continuous integration and deployment automation is a plus.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

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IT Project Manager
Our client will be hiring an IT Project Manager; responsible for planning, executing, and evaluating projects according to predetermine timelines and budgets. The objective measures of success are collaborative communications with the Project Sponsor, building and managing project teams, managing deliverables, and ensuring quality control throughout project lifecycles.

IT Project Manager Responsibilities
Managing Information Technology projects from initiation to closure.
Sharing the responsibility of project accountability with the business project sponsor.
Monitoring project progress continuously and developing detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.
Communicating proactively with all involved personnel to identify problems, create solutions, and/implement efficiency improvements.
Effectively managing project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are communicated, documented and approved by the project sponsor.
Managing external vendor resources as part of the overall project resource and plan.

IT Project Manager Qualifications
2+ years of experience in Information Technology project management.
Experience managing business projects including with external vendors.
Experience with Agile methodology and Azure DevOps (TFS), creating and managing sprints, features, epics and issues

Preferred:
PMI certification is a plus.
Excellent communication with both senior management and project team members.
Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ideal candidate will have experience in the footwear and/or apparel industry.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

About the Job
VanderHouwen is seeking a full time Technical Recruiter with a strong background in IT to add to our experienced, successful staff. VanderHouwen focuses on long-term employment for our recruiters so you must be a highly motivated, dedicated and driven individual. We operate in a fast-paced, competitive market where a goal-oriented, team approach is essential to everyone's success.

If you are an experienced Technical Recruiter, who has the determination to be part of a successful team and make $$$, please submit your resume. WE ARE SEEKING PROVEN PERFORMERS!! Base Salary and Commission (NO CAP on commissions)!!

IT Recruiter Qualifications
3+ years of IT recruiting. 
Skilled in sourcing and screening resumes to identify qualified candidates along with coordinating in-house and customer interviews and negotiating pay rates.  
Skilled in creative sourcing through networking organizations, internet searches, referrals, and direct recruiting.
Ability to successfully promote candidates and to support our customer base.
Experience with active involvement in candidate hiring process.
Ability to maintain a strong relationship with your placed consultants.
Strong analytical and organizational skills.
Must be goal-oriented and a team player with excellent written and oral communication skills.  
Must have high integrity and put your values and reputation above all else.

What We Offer You
A highly competitive base salary.
Excellent commission/bonus plan based on personal goals.
Excellent opportunity to build a candidate base in a highly reputable firm with a solid history in the Pacific Northwest.
State-of-the-art computer systems and social media tools.
Excellent benefits including paid time off, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance and 401(k) plan.
Friendly, fun, and professional team environment.
Local candidates only please.
 

About VanderHouwen
Located along the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, VanderHouwen has been a premier staffing provider in the Pacific Northwest since 1987. VanderHouwen is skilled in delivering Information Technology, Engineering, and Finance placement services. We are committed to providing clients and professional staff outstanding service in a straightforward, ethical, personal, and responsive manner. Our personal approach to business and our reputation with our clients and candidates separates us from our competition.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

IT Security Auditor
Our client is seeking an IT Security Auditor to join their team. The IT Security Auditor is responsible for assisting security compliance and building and maintaining a successful audit program for our client in Hillsboro, OR.

IT Security Auditor Responsibilities
Testing operating effectiveness of security controls.
Create documentation of each control being testing.
Planning, developing, and managing audit assessment efforts to identify, quantify, and prioritize risks against established criteria.
Checking for missed workflows during controls testing.
Regularly working in cross-functional teams including.
Recommending security improvements, tracking these and other recommendations to ensure they are implemented.
Create an executive summary report for management outlining the results of security controls testing.
 
Preferred Qualifications
CISA or CISSP certifications preferred.
Three or more years of work experience in the IT security auditing, compliance and audit management.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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Java Developer
Our client is hiring an experienced Java Developer for their team. The development group is focused on developing enterprise level solutions for our customers in project intensive industries. Our applications provide project and portfolio management, contract management, resource management, and risk management solutions used by customers worldwide. Our development practices include continuous build and integration, monthly reviews, and a heavy emphasis on testing early and often with unit tests and test automation.

Java Developer Responsibilities
Work cooperatively with a team of programmers and QA engineers to develop and improve Cloud solutions.
Develop, maintain and coordinate programming deliverables including builds, unit tests and code reviews.
Initiate and foster collaborative relationships with peers and other developers to achieve group and divisional objectives.
Facilitate continuous process improvements.
Ramp-up rapidly on multiple products from CEGBU.

Java Developer Qualifications
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Ability to quickly analyze and assess critical functional and performance related issues in a J2EE environment.
Thorough understanding of OO principles and design patterns.
Up-to-date knowledge of both Java/J2EE development trends and technologies as well as front end development using jQuery/JavaScript.
5+ years of experience with Web-tier technologies such as JSPs, Swing, JSTL, JavaScript, jQuery, DHTML, AJAX, Spring, and Struts.
Experience with J2EE Application Servers such as WebLogic.
Experience in Microsoft SQL Server database and other platforms.
Experience in Qunit, JUnit and Selenium.
Excellent Project management skills.
Experience with Java performance analysis tools.
Experience with docker, Kubernetes, chef, etc. is a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Java Engineer
Our client is seeking a Java Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. This is an incredible opportunity for a Senior Engineer who will work closely with software development and business teams building products and services.

Responsibilities of the Java Engineer
Deliver results. Collaborate with those around you to produce lean, pragmatic solutions in a predictable and transparent way.
Using modern tools and techniques with lightweight agile process, you will join a team of engineers writing, reviewing and shipping high-impact solutions for customers.
Be a Strong backend engineer, but also learn the industry and earn your Ph.D. in products, tools, and software stack.
Discover and define business and technical requirements for new features and products.
Embody the company values and work to positively impact those around you.

Qualification of the Java Engineer
8-10 years of experience in software engineering.
Deep expertise in at least one modern language (Java, C#, C++).
Ability to learn new things (languages, tools, frameworks) very quickly.
Expertise working with databases (SQL and/or noSQL).
Proficient using version control systems.
Proficient with software test and automation tools.
Readiness to travel occasionally.
Proficient in Java preferred.
Experience with noSQL databases preferred.
Proficient in Git and automated build/deploy environments preferred.
Experience with service-oriented architectures preferred.
Familiarity with functional programming preferred.
Financial services background preferred.
 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Java Engineer
Our client is searching for an Java Engineer to join their team in Beaverton, Oregon. In this role you will work as part of an engineering squad that builds back-end services that support various forms of consumer engagement in a retail space. You will need to be comfortable working in both traditional and AWS environments, have experience working with a DevOps mindset on an Agile team, including building containerized web services, CI/CD pipelines and automated tests.

Java Engineer Responsibilities
Deliver well-documented and well-tested code, and participate in peer code reviews
Ensure solutions are designed and developed using a scalable, highly resilient cloud native architecture on AWS.
Ensure product and technical features are delivered to spec and on-time.
Assist in the support and operation of the platforms you help develop.
Ability follow operational best practices for tools and automation development. Including: Style guides, versioning practices, source control, branching and merging patterns.
Collaborate with and consult other development teams.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Java Engineer
Our client is hiring a Java Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Java Engineer Responsibilities
Leverage your polyglot skills to design and build and maintain micro-services on the AWS platform for the retail department.
Build on your knowledge of NoSQL and SQL databases to ensure we have highly-available and highly-performant data access.
Review teammates’ technical designs, code and tests to maintain high code quality.
Harness your DevOps skills to automate operations tasks.
Profile and performance tune your work to ensure we deliver fast service experiences to all of our global customers.
Partner with architects and other teams to ensure the retail eco-system of services stay loosely coupled and independently scalable.
Automate the testing of all of your components to ensure we have excellent test coverage.
Contribute to technical development and provide technical direction for the implementation and delivery of the system.
Contribute to the development of technical processes (e.g., testing, coding practices, etc.).
Work with architects to ensure technical solutions and final deliverables are aligned with overall system architecture plans and roadmap.
Contribute to technical planning, estimation and design sessions.
Monitor the overall technical progress of the project and actively plan for future technical development activities.
Contribute to maintaining and improving effective team communications regarding technical/delivery plans, approaches and issues with all project team members.
Keep delivery team apprised of work progress and proactively communicate any concerns or opportunities to improve project delivery.
Contribute innovative technical approaches for meeting system requirements.

Java Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant fields, 5 years of experience as a software engineer accepted in lieu of degree.
Minimum of 3 years of experience designing building high volume, highly available web applications.
Experience writing automated tests using unit test tools.
Experience with contributing to development teams and providing effective solutions to technical and product problems.
Experience in presenting technical solutions to customers and software developers.
Experience building RESTful APIs.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts (terraform, CloudFormation, etc).

Preferred:
AWS Certified Developer Certificate.
Experience with Monitoring and Alerting.
Experience working with highly concurrent systems.
Experience building Retail software for inventory management.
Experience building Retail software leveraging RFID.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Java Engineer
Our client is hiring a Java Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As an engineering on our Edge team, your role on the team will include designing, developing and supporting the technology behind our website as well as core components of our AWS implementation.  We need someone with strong experience in AWS infrastructure, programming in Scala, Java and Python, and deep understanding of working in a DevOps model.

Java Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 2 years additional experience in lieu of a degree.
Deep understanding and experience with AWS infrastructure, especially CloudFormation, Lambdas, EC2 and AWS API Gateway.
5-10 years programming in Java and Scala, Python experience is a plus.
3-5 years working in a full DevOps model, using unit testing to drive code quality & supporting code after it has been deployed.
Proven ability to work as part of a team and recognized importance of being a strong team player.
Strong organizational skills (multi-tasking) and a self-motivator.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience with Infrastructure security is a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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JIRA Administrator
Our client is seeking a Jira Administrator to join their team in Beaverton, OR. 

Responsibilities
JIRA Core administration
JIRA service Desk administration
Projects Setup
Boards Setup
Sprint/Release setup
Epic and Story Creation
Story workflow setup and updates
Epic and Story status tracking
Creating/updating Confluence spaces and pages.
Research Atlassian cloud tools and JIRA plug-ins based on business needs.
Work on workflow projects using Atlassian cloud services to support users on the business side.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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Junior Full Stack Developer Java / JavaScript
Our client is a rapidly-growing technology company in Portland, Oregon with deep software development and digital marketing capabilities. They are currently looking to add a Full Stack Developer to their team.
This specific position on the Research & Development team focuses on building products on Foursite, their modular and scalable website CMS.

They are looking for a Full Stack Developer to help our product team advance to the next level.

The selected candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining applications using primarily Java in the backend to integrate APIs and advance various systems and components, as well as HTML and JavaScript on the frontend of our client websites.

Responsibilities also include collaborating with other developers and design and product teams, developing new product features, writing unit tests, performing code reviews, and improving development process efficiency.

Junior Full Stack Developer Java / JavaScript Responsibilities
If you join the team, you'll be:
Building cool stuff. Foursite is a feature-rich technology that is continuously growing and evolving to meet the needs of its users and optimize their digital marketing strategy.
Working with a collaborative, high-performing team of strong technical talent. The right candidate will wow them and be challenged by them.
Balancing a combination of innovation and new feature development with maintenance of existing technology.
Part of the solution. We want developers who have a perspective, and you’ll have a voice in the approach.

Junior Full Stack Developer Java / JavaScript Qualifications
You are an ideal candidate if:
You have a strong academic record. A CS degree is preferred but not required with relevant experience.
You are a problem solver. You can understand the full scope of a problem and build a solution that addresses the need from start to finish. And you love to do it.
You have at least 1-2 years of full stack experience. We’re looking for someone with knowledge of all of our technologies used: Java, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, JPA/Hibernate, Junit, AWS, Windows/Linux, automated testing, and version control. Experience with Spring Boot Java framework, Thymeleaf templating, and Vue.js are all a plus.
You get things done. You don't just solve problems. You find new ones and solve those too. You can identify code inefficiencies and how to refactor them, while taking full code ownership for your latest release.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Junior Software Engineer
Our client is looking for a Junior Software Engineer to join their team. This position entails the development and modification of extensions, or integrations into print platform, which supports high-volume, mission critical processing. The role will primarily focus will be hands-on support, enhancing and implementing client requests into the print workflow leveraging .NET and SQL technologies. Proven ability to organize workload and priorities and complete tasks on time & to work effectively in a team environment. Acts as a resource for other software engineers; and a liaison between department manager and other analysts, as well as the business team.

Junior Software Engineer Responsibilities
Use Agile Scrum SDLC methodologies in the full life cycle software development process including requirements analysis, software design, prototyping, programming, debugging and testing of system software production applications. 
Participate in technical design and implementation. 
Troubleshoot complex software and data issues. 
Collaborate with fellow developers in areas of expertise as well as members of business unit.
Demonstrate self-directed and proactive approach to solving problems. 
Develop, debug and deliver enterprise applications. 
Demonstrate self-directed and proactive approach to solving problems. 
Proactively mentor fellow developers in areas of expertise.

Junior Software Engineer Qualifications 
Demonstrable knowledge of the following technologies: C#, SQL.
Experience with Python and Post Script a plus.
Self-starter capable of working on small teams in a fast-paced environment.
Familiar with all aspects of the software development life cycle.
Outstanding troubleshooting skills.
Proven problem solving abilities and creative thinking.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
2 years of software development experience.
1 years of experience with C#.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

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Junior Technical Writer
Our client will be hiring a Junior level Technical Writer for a 3 month fill-in project.
This role will assist the team with importing and formatting topics in MadCap Flare. 
Approximately 6 hours per day expectation, this Contract could extend past 3 months.

Junior Technical Writer Responsibilities
Contributes to aspects of a project that is limited in complexity under close guidance.
Use MadCap Flare, XML, and CSS to format topics  according to documentation standards.
Track and  report the progress of projects.

Junior Technical Writer Qualifications
1 year of Technical Writing experience.
Experience using MadCap Flare.  

Preferred:
Ability to write clearly and concisely at a professional level, including mastering details and arranging information into a logical order.
Must have basic familiarity with word processing.
Ability and willingness to pivot as priorities change.
Thorough project and time management capabilities within a fast-paced, high-productivity environment, experienced with organizing, tracking and reporting on project timelines, resources and deliverables.
Able to work and communicate within a team structure as well as independently with minimal supervision.
Strong attention to detail.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

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Lead Big Data Engineer
Our client is seeking a Lead Big Data Engineer to join their expanding global sustainability team in Beaverton, OR.

Lead Big Data Engineer Responsibilities
Develops code, configures applications and defines job schedules for high-risk, highly complex requirements. 
Installs software and software updates for critical systems. 
Executes and is responsible for the deployment of code across environments. 
Approves and conducts design and code reviews. 
Creates critical-path, high-risk, advanced and/or cross-functional technical designs. 
Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design. 
Contributes to database design and ensures consistent technical approach within the department. 
Participates and contributes to overall architectural footprint, direction, and standards. 
Performs application support, problem-solving, and issue resolution with internal and external resources. 
Contributes to technical solutions by performing technical analysis and identifying options and solutions. Contributes to the RFP process. 
Identifies technical issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation. 
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects. 
Creates and applies architecture, governance, security, and global process standards to system changes and deployments. 
Establishes, maintains, and applies coding/configuration standards and best practices. 
May review and approve test plan, test execution, and validation of tests. 
Conducts performance monitoring and analyze performance against benchmarks. 
Analyze business requirements and create performance testing scenarios that ensure application performance meets customer needs. 
Review and approve performance test results, recommendations, and tuning results.

Lead Big Data Engineer Qualifications
7+ years’ Data Engineering experience.
5+ years’ experience with AWS, Python, and Spark.
Experience building APIs.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Lead Data Engineer
Our client, a software consulting and engineering firm in Beaverton, OR, is seeking a Data Engineering Tech Lead. In this highly visible role, you will serve as the technical expert responsible for design and implementation of BI, Analytics, & Big Data solutions providing high-value, timely analytics and data solutions to customers. You will be responsible for verifying requirements, defining architecture, developing an implementation plan, providing thought leadership for all data solutions, including designing data solutions that meet and exceed customer expectations.

You will also provide direction to developers overseeing the development, unit testing and documentation for the developed solution and develop strong customer relationships for ongoing business. For success in this role, you will be experienced with the Cloud-based Data Solution Architectures, Software Development Life Cycle (including both Agile & Waterfall), Data Engineering and ETL tools/platforms, and data modeling practices.

Essential Technologies/Skills:
7+ years Data Warehouse/Data Lake Architecture and Development.
5 + years Data Modeling & Architecture.
Experience on Cloud Solutions (both AWS & Azure).
ETL/ELT Pipelines.
Non-Relational Database experience (Document DB, Graph DB, etc.).
AI/ML experience (Jupiter&/Python).
API/Embedded experience.
Expertise in SQL, Python & Scala.
Data prep.

Essential Competencies:
Experience leading a technical team.
Moderate experience with client engagement & aligning others to your ideas/solutions.
Ability to clarify/translate customer requirements into Epics/Stories & remove ambiguity.
Ability to mentor other DE team members.
Ability to present to groups of mixed technical ability.
Participate in & facilitate interviews of future DE teammates.
Performs other duties as assigned.
1-3 years consulting or IS consulting experience.
Understanding of core business intelligence (BI)/data warehousing technology: RDBMS, Web, Client/ Server, and OLAP Skills.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

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Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
Our client is hiring a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. Their need is for an experienced lead full stack software engineer who can develop AWS cloud based services and also React/Redux based Web experiences.

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer Responsibilities
You will be responsible for creating, developing and deploying seamless, tailored and inherently social experiences for our startup businesses. 
You will be leading as well as contributing as one of the lead developers on a startup team.

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other Engineering disciplines and strong software programming skills.
At least 5-8 years of production quality software development experience.
At least 2-3 years’ experience as an Engineering lead on one or more teams.
Hands on experience in server technologies like Node.js.
Hands on Cloud Services development experience preferably on AWS or Azure with ability to model, specify and consumer REST APIs.
Data modelling experience with NoSQL data patterns.
Full stack development experience using JavaScript.
Experience using Web frameworks like React/Redux and Responsive Web designs with Fluid grid layouts using HTML5/CSS3.
Experience with Elastic Search and GraphQL a big plus.
Ability to understand technology deeply and ability to dive in and debug at any level in the software stack.
Familiarity with DevOps model of development and QA within a single team.
Experience with agile development methodologies namely Scrum and/or Kanban.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
We are looking for an experienced lead full stack software engineer who can develop AWS cloud based services with REST APIs and also React/Redux based Web experiences.

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer Responsibilities
You will be responsible for creating, developing and deploying seamless, tailored and inherently social experiences for our startup businesses. 
You will be leading as well as contributing as one of the lead developers on a startup team.

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other Engineering disciplines and strong software programming skills.
At least 5-8 years of production quality software development experience.
At least 2-3 years’ experience as an Engineering lead on one or more teams.
Hands on experience in server technologies like Node.js.
Hands on Cloud Services development experience preferably on AWS or Azure with ability to model, specify and consumer REST APIs.
Data modelling experience with NoSQL data patterns.
Full stack development experience using JavaScript.
Experience using Web frameworks like React/Redux and Responsive Web designs with Fluid grid layouts using HTML5/CSS3.
Experience working with API Gateways, Elastic Search and GraphQL a big plus.
Ability to understand technology deeply and ability to dive in and debug at any level in the software stack.
Familiarity with DevOps model of development and QA within a single team.
Experience with agile development methodologies namely SCRUM and/or Kan Ban.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Lead Salesforce Developer / Business Systems Architect
Our client is looking for a Lead Salesforce Developer / Business Systems Architect to join their team. In this role, you will oversee implementation and development of tools that support their Data Cloud’s Go to Market organization across the customer lifecycle including aspects of sales, forecasting, client support and compliance. You will work closely with business analysts, stakeholders and users to define business workflows and develop systems that support needs of the business strategy and vision.

Lead Salesforce Developer / Business Systems Architect Qualifications 
3-6+ years of experience.
Salesforce certified developer, deep expertise in custom configuration and with Apex coding. Experience developing custom APIs to integrate with Salesforce and homegrown tools preferred.
Experienced as an Administrator of enterprise business tools applications, such as Salesforce, Oracle Sales Cloud, JIRA, Conga, DocuSign, BI Tools.
Ability to determine best approach to solve complex problems and solutions with simplicity and scalability.
Experience with process improvement, workflow and evaluation of business processes required.
Excellent communication skills, analytical skills and attention to detail.
Data management experience with extracting, transforming and migrating large data sets.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

Lead Software Engineer
Our client is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. Providing technical leadership and inspiration, you'll be at the center of rapidly scaling services that will test your limits as a backend engineer.  Our client has come a long way in replacing first-generation services with a scalable, pipelined microservice architecture, but the journey is just beginning.  This means smarter, more scalable and recoverable messaging and faster, simpler operational databases.  Derived data streams feeding a machine learning platform that will let us outperform the competition in evaluating risk (and opportunity).  Realtime data consolidation using pub-sub techniques that obsolete legacy data stores and the complex, unmaintainable queries that go with them.  

Responsibilities of the Lead Software Engineer
Collaborate with those around you to produce lean, pragmatic solutions in a predictable and transparent way. 
Using modern tools and techniques with lightweight agile process, you will join a team of engineers writing, reviewing and shipping high-impact solutions for customers.
Become an expert. You'll be a strong backend engineer, but also learn the industry and earn your Ph.D. in products, tools, and software stack.
Discover and define business and technical requirements for new features and products.
Embody the company values and work to positively impact those around you.

Qualifications of the Lead Software Engineer
10+ years of experience in software engineering.
Experience mentoring and coaching other developers.
Deep expertise in at least one modern language (Java, C#, C++).
Ability to learn new things (languages, tools, frameworks) very quickly.
Expertise working with databases (SQL and/or noSQL).
Proficient using version control systems.
Proficient with software test and automation tools.
Readiness to travel occasionally.
You have extensive experience developing software products and services across a variety of tools, frameworks, and environments. You recognize your strengths and also know when to reach out for help
You have a genuine passion for solving interesting technology problems with creative and simple solutions.
You'd rather deliver a 40% solution in 2 weeks than an 80% solution in six.
You're excited to work with fellow engineers, but also know how to partner across departments to get things done.
You're looking to do amazing work. 
You're all about using technology to improve the customer experience and affect the company's bottom line, but also want to mentor and coach those within your team.
Proficient in Java preferred.
Experience with noSQL databases preferred.
Proficient in Git and automated build/deploy environments preferred.
Experience with service-oriented architectures preferred.
Familiarity with functional programming preferred.
Financial services background preferred.
 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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Lead Software Engineer
Our client is searching for a Lead Software Engineer to join their team in Bend, Oregon.

You may be a great fit for this position if:
You’re a senior software engineer with at least 5-7 years of professional experience in the Digital Advertising industry. 
You’re proficient in one or more programming language and are accustomed to working in a Open Source environment. 
You love and excel at leading and mentoring a team of engineers. 
You able to take ill-defined requirements and use your understanding of the system architecture and the business to expound and fill in gaps while asking the right questions of the business along the way. 
You take full responsibility to mentor the less experienced members of the engineering team and have top notch troubleshooting skills. 
You are always available for peer code reviews and often jump it to help resolve critical issues facing the platform. 
Your finished code is always self-tested and peer reviewed and is exemplary to more junior engineers of when a feature is ready to be handed off to QA for testing.

Lead Software Engineer Responsibilities
Develop the necessary best practices to work with and write a great code base.
Help evaluate and select the tools, languages and frameworks used by the team.
On board and mentor new members of the team ensuring their success.
Ownership position on code and systems developed by others.
Champion for engineering best practices including have reasonable code test coverage and an acceptable static code quality analysis score.
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
Technical and business expert on products.
Performance tuning and scaling.
After hours primary on-call for production systems.
Help create acceptance criteria for software features and bug fixes as needed.

Lead Software Engineer Qualifications
BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
5-7 years of professional software development experience working with teams.
Digital Advertising / Martech industry experience.
Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages.
Experience working with one or more of the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval or natural language processing.
Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Prefered Skills:
Experience with engineering best practices: TDD, CI and Scrum.
Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Ruby, Java, Go or JavaScript.
Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
Experience with MVC pattern in Ruby on Rails, Sinatra or Express (Node.js) to build REST Services in a micro-services architecture.
Proficiency with SQL to be used with Postgres and MySQL.
Previous use of NoSQL and in-memory databases.
Working knowledge of front-end frameworks and tooling: NPM, EmberJS, Angular, Webpack.
Understanding of XLSX Generation.
Experience administering Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, EC2, Heroku, RDS, S3, EMR, ELB, Docker, CodeShip.
Experience building and configuring inter-service messaging systems using common data transport standards such as JSON and SOAP.
Experience architecting and/or managing ETL services.
Marketing industry knowledge and use of Google Analytics API, Google Adwords API, Bing Ad API, Facebook Ad API.
Data Warehousing experience: Pentaho Data Integration, Star Schema pattern, Big Query, Big Table, Redshift, Map Reduce.
Experience building and/or managing application monitoring services as well as configuring them to ensure critical systems stay up.
Proficiency with source code management in git.
Experience leading Agile scrum teams a plus.
Ability to communicate at the C level and with clients.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Lead Software Engineer - Java
Our client is hiring a Lead Software Engineer - Java for their team in Portland, Oregon. As the Lead Software Engineer, your role on the team will involve providing technical leadership and direction to a team building high-performing web applications. Our team is a highly productive, Agile team focused on delivering value for our business partners.  We are looking for experienced candidates who thrive in this type of environment. 

Lead Software Engineer - Java Responsibilities
Leads the design and development of a technical solution that meets the needs of the business and aligns with architectural and quality standards, and effectively integrates solutions delivered with adjacent and tertiary solutions/technologies.
Independently identifies, defines, directs, and/or performs analysis to resolve complex, first time issues in his or her area(s) of expertise.
Reviews, analyzes, and modifies programming systems, including coding, testing, debugging, and installing for a small- to mid-scale systems.
Ensures the effective performance of assigned product(s) and their integration with adjacent solutions/technologies.
Develops working knowledge of tertiary domains.
Provides leadership to the product team, delivering a vision for work requirements for the quarter.
Designs the scope of sprints within the quarter.
Has the vision for the scope of sprints within the quarter.
Mentors and develops the capabilities of team members.
Conducts technical assessments of team members and provides feedback on performance as necessary.
Conducts technical interviews of candidates as needed.  
Ensures knowledge sharing within the team and across teams 
Conducts complete diagnoses of business problems, working with colleagues in the business to define the scope of the solution and desired outcomes.
Within the scope of a work assignment, collaborates with the product owner and assists with managing stakeholder expectations and ensuring prompt and complete customer service.
Functions independently with limited work direction.
Selects tools and methodologies for the product.
Commits to deliverables with customers and/or management.

Lead Software Engineer - Java Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant technology field and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience.
5+ years’ experience with Java development.
Experience providing leadership to a team of developers including providing daily guidance, setting coding standards, and reviewing code.
Experience designing solutions in collaboration with Architecture and the Development team.
Agile experience.
Experience with Devops practices, including CI/CD (Jenkins or Circle CI preferred).
Advanced working knowledge of JavaScript and JavaScript web development frameworks (React/Redux preferred).
Experience working with Cloud technologies, AWS preferred.
Expertise in writing REST APIs using NodeJS.
Deep experience with Performance testing and monitoring (Gatling, Benchmark, New Relic, Splunk, etc.).
Strong commitment to application and data security.
Experience building and maintaining eCommerce sites preferred.
Experience working with Analysts, Product Owners and Leadership to provide technical feedback during story intake and creation.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
High motivation and passion to work in a fast, agile environment with the ability to adapt to change.
Up to 5% of travel time

Infrastructure as code with any of:
Terraform.
Cloudformation.
Swagger Doc.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Lead Taxonomy and Tagging Engineer
Our client is hiring a Lead Taxonomy and Tagging Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. The Taxonomy and Tagging Lead Engineer will lead the engineering implementation and maintenance of an enterprise metamodel, supporting the definition that affords data scientists and modelers to catalogue, search and reuse data assets. You will lead the engineering of our client's next generation Taxonomy & Ontology strategy while partnering across functions such as Data Governance & Privacy, Architecture and Consumer Data Engineering.

Lead Taxonomy and Tagging Engineer Responsibilities
Develop and design engineering solutions to support our product and data taxonomy efforts including API development.
Deploy & handle the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the taxonomy & tagging data employed to support the business.
Support the Product Owner in development of taxonomy & ontology standards, processes, technologies & governance and provide council to establish and handle a baseline of a common understanding of data fields, schemas, processes and general standards.
Work with analysts and data scientists to explore web metrics and other innovative data opportunities to optimize our client's product Taxonomy.
Collaborate as a data quality expert with key partners and the business to understand requirements and find creative and flexible engineering solutions to resolve problems.

Lead Taxonomy and Tagging Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, Masters preferred.
5+ years of experience on Core Java.
Proficiency in Java and or Python.
Strong skills in data structures, algorithms and developing REST APIs.
Familiarity with microservices architecture and RPC frameworks such as GRPC.
Knowledge of SmartLogic Semaphore preferred.
Knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data protection.
Ability to translate business use cases into a good taxonomy design.
Knowledge of data related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues.
Knowledge of AWS, Lambda and API Gateway.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Manager of Cyber Security
Our client is looking for a Manager of Cyber Security responsible for managing and coordinating day-to-day cybersecurity plans and activities, including cyber defense, monitoring, and engineering. Leads overall direction and completion of cybersecurity activities, assigns tasks, and manages schedules. Manages, mentors, trains and guides the cybersecurity team. Analyzes cyber events to identify threats and leads defensive actions. Assists in developing the goals, strategy and methodologies of the cyber defense program in alignment with the overall Information Security program strategy. Prepares detailed briefings of past incidents and creates and delivers presentations on current cyber defense topics to caregivers and community members as needed.

Manager of Cyber Security Responsibilities 
Serves as the recognized principal-level expert resource in cybersecurity planning and activities.
Leads development and implementation of new information security systems and controls, delivering effective and pragmatic risk-prioritized solutions to pressing cybersecurity problems. Supports development, design, implementation, integration, and on-going maintenance of systems, applications, processes, security solutions and technologies, based on business and technical requirements.
Manages the scheduling and assignment of work and priorities. Provides leadership, technical assistance, monitors quality of work, and monitors team projects. Manages, trains and mentors team members. Recommends and provides appropriate staff and manager-level training for the maintenance and enhancement of cybersecurity.
Analyzes data from information technology and cyber defense tools to identify potential threats and defend against all forms of deception and attack. Actively monitors network activity to thwart potentially damaging activities.
Protects company information, information systems, networks and all related people by analyzing public and private information sources to develop effective defensive techniques. Assists and leads efforts to remediate vulnerabilities and works to predict types of attacks most likely to occur in the future.
Manages the design and implementation of security response automation, integrating various information and cyber defense tools using scripting languages such as PowerShell and Python to create fast, intelligent responses to common and/or critical cyber incidents.
Maintains and administers tools used to defend against cyberattack and data loss.
Participates in the development of plans and techniques to mitigate vulnerabilities and improve defenses. Actively participates in developing the goals, strategy and methodologies of the cyber defense program in alignment with the overall Information Security program strategy.
Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Manager of Cyber Security Qualifications 
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Healthcare Information Technology, Information Security, or relevant field: or equivalent knowledge and skills obtained through a combination of education, training and experience required.
Minimum of ten years information security experience required.
Minimum of two years leadership experience required.
Direct experience securing cloud-based Microsoft offerings highly preferred.
Technical experience in a multi-datacenter environment with critical, non-stop enterprise applications running in virtual server environments is highly preferred.
Health Information experience preferred.
Knowledge of endpoint protection, intrusion detection, security event monitors, secure proxies, firewalls and other security devices/tools.
Knowledge of incident response methodologies.
Knowledge of hardware and operating systems.
Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of adversarial tactics and techniques.
Knowledge of cybersecurity, ethics and privacy principles, along with related regulatory requirements.
Knowledge of IAM technologies (Directories, SSO, SCIM, etc.).
Ability to collect and analyze data to guide decision making.
Ability to interpret the information collected by network tools, such as Traceroute, Ping, packet captures, etc.
Ability to analyze and categorize vulnerabilities in information systems.
Ability to organize, standardize, and manage detailed information.
Ability to work collaboratively and effectively in and between teams.
Ability to prioritize, managing multiple competing work efforts.
Strong self-motivation.

License / Certifications:
GCIH preferred.
GCFA preferred.
CompTIA CASP preferred.
CISSP preferred.
GNFA preferred.
GPEN preferred.
CompTIA Security+ preferred.
GSEC – GIAC Security Essentials preferred.
CEH – Certified Ethical Hacker preferred.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Manager of Software Development
Our client is looking for a Manager of Software Development to join their team in Bend or Portland, OR.   

They are looking for a creative, motivated Software Development Manager with a strong technical background, customer obsession and solid people management skills to manage and develop a highly-talented and experienced engineering team. As we are a rapidly expanding engineering team, this person will also be required to have solid hiring and new hire development skills. Strong judgment and communication skills, long term technical vision, and continuous focus on engineering and operational excellence will be essential for the success in this role.

This position will be reporting directly to the CTO / VP of Engineering.

Manager of Software Development Responsibilities 
Build and manage a team of Software Engineers that may consist of on-site and remote members and provide day-to-day technical management, architecture, design and process guidance on development activities associated with one or more product lines.
Foster career growth and a strong team culture.
Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach technical staff.
Interface with our product, support and client success teams to understand requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress.
Partner with Technical Project Manager to manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver value to customers.
Own operational metrics and support for your team’s software.
Help develop long-term development and business technology strategies.
Own and architecture, design and code reviews of our core technology and software.
Ensure compliance with technology and security standards based on industry best practices.

Manager of Software Development Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field, such as computer science or engineering.
7+ years of relevant engineering experience.
2+ years people management experience.
Experience with Object oriented design patterns.
Extensive experience with Java and microservices architecture.
Ability to manage small and medium-sized technical projects with minimal supervision.
Track record of designing and building complex distributed systems.
 
Preferred: 
Experience and proficiency with AWS technologies (S3, Containers, lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS).
Familiarity with JavaScript, React and Node.js will be huge plus.
Experience building SaaS products.
Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Understanding of data structures and algorithms.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Market Insights Evaluation Analyst
Our client is seeking a Market Insights Evaluation Analyst to just their team in Portland, OR. The  successful evaluation analyst should be able to deliver great project management and perform analysis of findings, detailed below. 

Evaluation Project Management
Our client contracts out program evaluation to vendors for third party objectivity. Successful evaluation projects involve skilled vendor and project management, excellent client servicing skills and the ability to tell the customer story.

Responsibilities
Work with internal clients to ensure that diverse needs are identified and covered within the scope of each project.
Manage all aspects of each evaluation project through critical project phases, including, issuing RFPs, selecting and managing vendors.
Provide excellent client service, including collaborating with, and partnering across all levels and skill sets.
Distilling evaluation findings and presenting findings to a diverse audience in a manner that ensures evaluation insights are effectively received and acted on.

Analysis for Evaluation and Market Research Insights
As an evaluation analyst, you will identify key insights from evaluation findings to drive product development, product management and product marketing efforts linked to customer and market needs. You will identify potential unmet customer needs that form the basis for new or improved product/feature offerings. You will work with your colleagues in Market Insights to integrate customer and market data from multiple sources to generate and present customer-centric insights that provide actionable business recommendations to all levels of management.
You will bring strong statistical and data analysis skills to translate raw data to insights.

Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in evaluation, business, statistics, economics, social sciences or related field.
Five-plus years of program evaluation experience, including experience with evaluating to logic models
Thorough knowledge of evaluation methodologies.
Demonstrated ability in project management and managing vendors to scope, schedule and budget.
Demonstrated ability in strong statistical analysis, and in generating insights from large datasets.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including visual depiction of insights and ideas.
Ability to work individually, or with other market insights team members on projects.
Ability to create and present appropriately summarized, cross-functional findings and recommendations to multiple levels of internal audiences, including management.
Prior experience with Qualtrics, Survey Monkey and Tableau software desirable.
Skilled SAS and SPSS usage for data analysis is required.
Skilled in PowerPoint and Word applications.
Ability to write SQL is a plus.
Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills for analysis and data manipulation - pivot tables, conditional statements, VLOOKUP, statistical packages, macros, correlations/regressions
Experience in conducting market research is advantageous
Broad perspective on utility business is advantageous
Client-side experience is advantageous.
A Valid Driver’s license and a history of safe driving practices.
Ability to carry up to 25 pounds up and down stairs.

Additionally, the contractor may manage or assist in managing the evaluation of the following:
Flex 2.0
Smart Grid/Demand Response Test Beds.
Transportation Electrification Pilots Evaluation - this is the one that has 3 elements – TriMet, Education/Outreach, and new Electric Avenues
Residential EV’s Charging – new program being developed.
Residential Energy Storage – new program being developed.
Note: There is a possibility that this position will require driving of not more than 60 minutes outside of the Portland area.

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Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Master Scheduler
Our client is seeking a Master Scheduler to join their team in Troutdale, OR. This position develops the production work center schedules and determines the production commit dates for manufacture of customer orders.  Works closely with
Production, Customer Service, and Purchasing departments to meet customer requirements. Closely monitors WIP and FG’s inventory levels.

Master Scheduler Responsibilities
Develops the production schedules for the machine shop, purification, and SiC coating processes utilizing a computer-controlled scheduling software.  
Determines production commitments dates for product deliveries. 
Monitors the available load against the current available capacities and production lead times, and generates reports detailing this information.  
Monitors and maintains accurate Work in Process Inventories and insures accurate release of raw materials to meet production requirements.  
Monitors production activities of critical work centers and makes appropriate actions as required to insure production commitments are maintained. 
Determines if requested expedites can be obtained and the necessary required. 
Works with production departments to determine overtime requirements to meet production time lines.  
Maintains appropriate make to stock finished goods inventory levels based upon established requirements and customer pull history.
Works on other scheduling related projects as required to continuing improve scheduling function.  Generates scheduling related reports as required.  
Maintains accuracy of scheduling system through continuous monitoring of data.  
Other jobs as required.
Helps coordinate product flow through the entire manufacturing facility.
Schedule all incoming sales work orders, determines product commit dates
Monitors WIP and FG inventory levels to insure accurate and proper levels are maintained.
Works with various departments to problem solve production related concerns.
Generates scheduling area reports.
Close communication is required with other members of the production control group on a daily basis. In addition close communication is also required with sales/marketing, production, and quality departments to assist them in meeting customer expectations.

Master Scheduler Qualifications
This position requires a strong background in finite capacity scheduling preferably in a job shop type environment.  
Must be computer literate with a background in scheduling utilizing MRP type scheduling systems.  Working knowledge of MS Excel.  
Manual dexterity required. Ability to work closely with others in a team environment required.
Minimum of 5 years scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment.  APICS certification preferred. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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Mechanical Design Engineer
Our client is a world leader in the manufacturing of hot tubs and swim spas. They design, manufacture, market and distribute products through the US, Canada, Europe and several other international markets. Come join a great company that values your career growth and is 100% employee owned!
 
Mechanical Design Enginee Responsibilities
Materials research and sourcing.
Vendor sourcing and pre-qualification of parts and services.
Application testing, validation and root cause analysis on new and existing products.
Periodic usage of 2D and 3D design software.
New design/part/product development and prototyping.
Project cost estimating, scheduling and timeline maintenance.
Tooling, fixture and jig development.
Manufacturing implementation assistance and guidance to ensure smooth product transitions.
Engineering database development and maintenance.
Manufacturing process improvement utilizing methodology derived from the Toyota Production System.
Research of new technology in an effort to streamline and improve product development and manufacturing operations.

Mechanical Design Engineer Qualifications
1-3 years of Design Engineering experience with a focus on product design and development is preferred.
Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering is preferred but other engineering disciplines will be considered based on experience.
Preference given to candidates with LEAN Manufacturing experience and project management.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Mechanical Designer
Our client is seeking a Mechanical Designer to join their team in Hillsboro, OR. The Mechanical Designers are responsible for calculating duct and pipe size, determining duct and pipe routing paths, and producing AutoCAD drawings from design data provided by our tool suppliers.  They are much more than drafters picking up red marks - you will work closely with engineers and other designers as an integral member of a multiple-discipline design team that produces unique tool install designs in a high-paced environment.  

As part of this team, you will develop design concepts and coordinate designs to resolve both real and modeled conflicts.  You will be responsible for managing your own workload, making and keeping your own commitments, and taking full ownership of your product. 

Responsibilities of the Mechanical Designer
Create mechanical drawings to meet design and client needs
Perform all appropriate calculations (e.g. water, exhaust, and gas flow) required for the mechanical design packages.
Conduct field investigations of construction site and clean room environments to verify existing conditions and incorporate findings into design packages.
Manage and incorporate electronic redlines from the Mechanical Engineer using established company workflows.
Coordinate with other design disciplines (Electrical, Structural, and Architectural) for design package needs.
Ensure quality control by complying with team Design and CAD standards.
Attend design review meetings, note all design comments, and pick up the resulting redlines.
Assist colleagues with CAD support.
Provide quality reviews of models and documents prepared by others to assure design and project standards are met.
Coordinate with document control personnel for review and transmission of design packages.

Qualifications of the Mechanical Desginer
High School Graduate.
Degree in Mechanical a plus.
Mechanical EIT/PE a plus.
Be available to work a minimum of 40 hours weekly on site.
Living in, or be willing to self?re?locate to the Portland OR area on a permanent 
Basis. 
Have good verbal and writing communication skills. 
Be able to work within and contribute to a Team environment and provide support as a 
Design Team Member. 
Be able to clearly provide verbal support for Mechanical design and individual 
skill set(s).
Be willing to assist and support other discipline designs when needed.