HIRING: Applications Support Specialist - Contract

HIRING:

APPLICATIONS SUPPORT SPECIALIST 

Driscoll's Information Technology Team 

Job Description:
Driscoll’s is the World’s leading provider of fresh berries with operations in 19 countries on 5 continents. For four generations and over 100 years, the Driscoll’s brand has been trusted and recognized for its superior quality. In the last 20 years Driscoll's has experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years. Headquartered on the beautiful Central Coast in Watsonville, California Driscoll's has operations in 18 countries on 5 continents. To fulfill their mission to continually delight berry consumers, Driscoll’s naturally breeds proprietary plant varieties that produce Only the Finest Berries® all over the world. 
Job Responsibilities: As an Application Support Engineer you will be responsible to support Driscoll’s business applications in Production environment with primary focus on DAX. Work with Application Support team, Test Engineers and clients to validate readiness of Build code deployment to Production. You also will be providing functional support, advice and coaching for business users of both, custom developed and third-party applications. 

Essential Experience:

- Technical support &/or Dynamics AX functionality support (AX2009 and higher) 
- Experience with Microsoft Windows Server platform, IIS, and Microsoft SQL Server database 

Responsibilities related to MS AX Dynamics Administration: 
• Work closely with the Business users on request to generate Reports, User Access Review and Security group changes.
• Configuring and maintaining Dynamics AX administrative tasks such as (user management, configuration, deployment)
• Technical responsibilities including multi-tiered application support, basic AD administration and overall environment responsibility in multi-instance AX environment
• Maintain and enforce security policies and procedures aligned with best practices for segregation of duties and lead other process improvement initiatives.
• Perform Microsoft Dynamics AX Compliance Center configuration, administration, and maintenance.
• Manage security in the Application Integration Framework as needed

Interpersonal Skills:
• Customer focused
• Works with support partners to provide 24x7 support and Level 3 escalation
• Strong Technical knowledge 
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Ability to communicate with international customers (cultural awareness)

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or Business, or equivalent work experience
• Must be familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedure for supporting business application in a complex and dynamic operations environment.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX Products
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, SharePoint, web-based application, handheld RF devices and remote connectivity software a plus.
• Experience in ERP support experience, especially with substantial financial knowledge.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and problem solving skills
• Excellent learning skills with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies
• Excellent communication skills, collaboration skills, self-motivation and must have a strong team spirit.
• Ideally a candidate will also have an understanding of business concepts e.g. A candidate would understand what is meant by “ensure users that can post invoices are not allowed to pay vendors”
• 3-5 years of experience as a Support Professional in IT field or as an IT Technical Consultant.

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HIRING: Senior Nursery Operations Manager

HIRING:

Senior Nursery Operations Manager

For four generations and over 100 years, theDriscoll’s brand has been trusted and recognized for its superior quality. To fulfill their mission to continually delight berry consumers, Driscoll’s naturally breeds proprietary plant varieties that produce Only the Finest Berries®.  Every Driscoll's berry begins life at the Nursery.  

Driscoll's is looking for a Senior Nursery Operations Manager for our Corralitos Nursery, located on the beautiful central coast of California. This position leads all aspects of Corralitos Greenhouse Propagation, including the laboratory, greenhouses, growing areas, shipping, packing, inventory management, and facilities, to ensure annual plant orders are met within quality standards, on time, and in volume.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Position requires leadership, reliability, attention to detail, teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, excellent verbal and written communication skills, project management skills, ability to work cross-functionally, creativity, and a process improvement mindset.  Strong computer skills in MS Excel, Word, and Outlook are required.  A B.A/B.S. Degree in Business Administration, Agronomy, Horticulture or related field is required. A minimum of ten to twelve years of experience in a nursery operations/leadership role is required. Proven leadership track record required. This position requires an extended schedule to support operational requirements and domestic travel required. Bilingual communication skills (English/Spanish) are preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES:                 

Corralitos Nursery Facility Leadership: Provides day to day leadership for Tissue Culture production, greenhouse propagation, shipping, and inventory management ensuring that the yearly production plan is executed.   Responsible for development of a Production Plan that provides sufficient quality, quantity, and volume of plants for Commercial and Breeding Orders.  Develops best practices and standard operating procedures, guides and promotes accurate inventory reporting, recruits, trains and evaluates personnel and labor needs, prepares budgets, manages facilities and record keeping, ensures compliance with laws and regulations for safety and pesticide use, and maintains good relations with nursery neighbors.

Develops operational goals and objectives to align with the Nursery Functional Work Group Plan.  Establishes metrics to support key goals and operational effectiveness and efficiency.   Develops annual operating budget and maintains a 5 year capital expenditure plan.   Represents Corralitos in Nursery Production Planning meetings.   

Works directly with both internal and external customers to understand the needs of the foundation nurseries and Direct to Grower customer requirements.   Oversees best practices and standard operating procedures, integrates procedures used globally where applicable.

Propagation Development: crafts new propagation methodologies, directs Greenhouse and Micro-propagation process improvement trials, conceives and implements propagation trials, creates methodologies that improve the quality and speed of propagation within and outside the Corralitos facility.

Leads development of production standards and sets goals for process improvement and efficiency of all operational areas.

Directly supervises, leads and develops the Lab Manager, Greenhouse Manager, Shipping and Inventory Analyst, Facility Supervisor, and indirectly the local Human Resource Representative.

Mission and Values: Work both internally and externally with employees, growers, and vendors to support and promote the Company Mission and Values.

Conduct: Follow Company policies and practices while representing Driscoll’s in an ethical and business-like manner.

Other: Perform other duties as instructed by the Nursery Director: DOTA Propagation.[i]   

More info:

Driscoll's has operations in 18 countries on 5 continents to ensure year round delivery of fresh berries to market. In the last 20 years Driscoll's has experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years.

Driscoll's values of Passion, Humility and Trustworthiness are core to the character of the company and how employees work and interact with each other, their customers, business partners and berry consumers.  Driscoll's offers a broad range of competitive compensation and benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; healthcare benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs. 

Their Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012. Their unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as they continue to expand in others part of the world. 

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Christie Bower, Senior Recruiter

Driscoll’s Talent Acquisition

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[i] This job description is intended to describe the general nature of the general nature of the work performed by employees in this job.  It is not an exhaustive list of all the job’s responsibilities.  At Driscoll’s, all of our jobs include broad responsibilities for continually improving the processes we use to develop or products.

Are you passionate about plants and people?

ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT 

PEOPLE & PLANTS?

HIRING:  NURSERY SUPERVISOR

For four generations and over 100 years, the Driscoll’s brand has been trusted and recognized for its superior quality. To fulfill their mission to continually delight berry consumers, Driscoll’s naturally breeds proprietary plant varieties that produce Only the Finest Berries®.  

Did you know - 

Every Driscoll's berry begins life at the Nursery?

Are you passionate about plants and people?

The Nursery Supervisor is the liaison between the Nursery and Breeding department responsible for supervising and coordinating the Breeding and variety development functions in a Strawberry Nursery as well as supporting ranch managers in finding solutions for plant health. (Berry experience is NOT required)

• Are you looking for a long term career opportunity within a world class nursery operation-responsible for delivering clean plants, on-time and within grade across the globe?  
• Do you have supervisory experience having lead teams and/or coordinated crews? 
• Are you detail oriented, and computer savvy, do you know your way around Excel (pivot tables, Vlookups, formulas and graphs)?
• Do you have a degree in agriculture or equivalent work experience?
• If you share the Driscoll's value's of passion, humility and trustworthiness then we would like to talk to you!

The Red Bluff Nursery is centrally located on the Sacramento River in beautiful Northern California. Driscoll's has operations in 18 countries on 5 continents to ensure year round delivery of fresh berries to market. In the last 20 years Driscoll's has experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years.

Driscoll's values of Passion, Humility and Trustworthiness are core to the character of the company and how employees work and interact with each other, their customers, business partners and berry consumers.  Driscoll's offers benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; health care benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs.  Setting the bar high, Driscoll's provides on-site Field Worker Safety Training in the U.S. and around the World. 

Their Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012. Their unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as they continue to expand in others part of the world.  

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Sr. Recruiter, Talent Acquisition 

Driscoll's 

Driscoll's is seeking a Rewards Strategy Manager

HIRING: 

Driscoll's is seeking a 

Rewards Strategy Manager

For four generations and over 100 years, the Driscoll’s brand has been trusted and recognized for its superior quality.  In the last 20 years Driscoll's has experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years. Headquartered in Watsonville, California Driscoll's has operations in 18 countries on 5 continents. To fulfill their mission to continually delight berry consumers, Driscoll’s naturally breeds proprietary plant varieties that produce Only the Finest Berries®.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY:

REWARDS STRATEGY MANAGER 

To provide leadership and management for the 

compensation and rewards programs across Driscoll’s global business units.

Manages the rewards function. Plans, develops, implements, and communicates new and amended compensation and rewards programs, policies, programs, in order to be responsive to the company's goals, initiatives, and competitive positioning. Ensures through audits, reports, and personal contact that the rewards programs are consistently administered in compliance with company policies and government regulations. MORE INFORMATION

WHY WORK FOR DRISCOLL'S?

Driscoll's values of Passion, Humility and Trustworthiness are core to the character of the company and how employees work and interact with each other, their customers, business partners and berry consumers.  Driscoll's offers a broad range of competitive compensation and benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; healthcare benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs. Driscoll’s Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012. Their unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as they continue to expand in others part of the world.

Christie Bower, 

Senior Recruiter

Driscoll's 

HIRING: Strawberry Breeding Nursery Supervisor

Driscoll's is Hiring:

Strawberry Breeding Nursery Supervisor

For four generations and over 100 years, the Driscoll’s brand has been trusted and recognized for its superior quality. To fulfill their mission to continually delight berry consumers, Driscoll’s naturally breeds proprietary plant varieties that produce Only the Finest Berries®.  Every Driscoll's berry begins life at the Nursery.  

Driscoll's is looking for a Strawberry Breeding Nursery Supervisor for their Red Bluff Nursery, centrally located on the Sacramento River in beautiful Northern California. 

JOB SUMMARY: 

The Breeding Nursery Supervisor is responsible for supervising and coordinating the Breeding and variety development functions in strawberry nursery. This position is a liaison between the nursery and breeding department working with the Foundation and Breeding Nursery Manager to create an effective operating platform. Additionally they are responsible for monitoring and supporting ranch managers in finding solutions for plant health and disease issues in the breeding nursery fields. 

More Information

Driscoll's has operations in 18 countries on 5 continents to ensure year round delivery of fresh berries to market. In the last 20 years Driscoll's has experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years.

Why work for Driscoll's?
Driscoll's values of Passion, Humility and Trustworthiness are core to the character of the company and how employees work and interact with each other, their customers, business partners and berry consumers.  Driscoll's offers a broad range of competitive compensation and benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; healthcare benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs. 

Driscoll’s Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012. Their unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as they continue to expand in others part of the world.

 APPLY HERE

Contact:  

Christie Bower, Senior Recruiter, Driscoll's

Hiring: Nursery Screenhouse & Substrate Manager

Driscoll's is Hiring:

Nursery Screenhouse and Substrate Manager

For four generations and over 100 years, the Driscoll’s brand has been trusted and recognized for its superior quality. To fulfill their mission to continually delight berry consumers, Driscoll’s naturally breeds proprietary plant varieties that produce Only the Finest Berries®.  Every Driscoll's berry begins life at the Nursery.  

Driscoll's is looking for a Nursery Screenhouse  & Substrate Manager for their Red Bluff Nursery, centrally located on the Sacramento River in beautiful Northern California. 

JOB SUMMARY: 

The Nursery Screenhouse and Substrate Manager is responsible for coordinating and supervising the planning, growing and harvesting of the screenhouse and greenhouse operations at the Red Bluff nursery location. Focus is on improving greenhouse production practices and managing substrate nutrient applications while maintaining high sanitation protocols and supervising SH crew. This role may also provide support to other nursery substrate growing locations as well collaborate with ranch managers and ranch supervisors to problem solve on other plant nutrient problems as needed. 

More Information

Driscoll's has operations in 18 countries on 5 continents to ensure year round delivery of fresh berries to market. In the last 20 years Driscoll's has experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years.

Why work for Driscoll's?
Driscoll's values of Passion, Humility and Trustworthiness are core to the character of the company and how employees work and interact with each other, their customers, business partners and berry consumers.  Driscoll's offers a broad range of competitive compensation and benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; healthcare benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs. 

Driscoll’s Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012. Their unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as they continue to expand in others part of the world.

APPLY HERE 

Contact:  

Christie Bower, Senior Recruiter, Driscoll's

Driscoll's IT is hiring!

DRISCOLL'S 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

is HIRING!

The Team:
As a global shared service partner to all business units, the Information Technology organization provides the world’s largest supplier of fresh conventional and organic berries with leading edge technical solutions and support. Driscoll's IT's dynamic portfolio of integrated systems and infrastructure are crucial in ensuring the year round timely delivery of perishable berries to market.

The Company:

For four generations and over 100 years, the Driscoll’s brand has been trusted and recognized for its superior quality.  In the last 20 years Driscoll's has experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years. Headquartered in Watsonville, California Driscoll's has operations in 18 countries on 5 continents. To fulfill their mission to continually delight berry consumers, Driscoll’s naturally breeds proprietary plant varieties that produce Only the Finest Berries®.

Driscoll's values of Passion, Humility and Trustworthiness are core to the character of the company and how employees work and interact with each other, their customers, business partners and berry consumers.  Driscoll's offers a broad range of competitive compensation and benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; healthcare benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs. Driscoll’s Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012. Their unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as they continue to expand in others part of the world.

Job Opportunities at Driscoll's 

Support Technician II

Senior IT Project Manager

Application Support Tester

Business Intelligence Manager

Director Global Enterprise Applications & Support

IT Operations Manager

Driscoll's is also hiring in Supply Chain, R&D, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Human Resources and Production..  For more information and to APPLY: http://www.driscolls.com/about/careers
 

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Driscoll’s IT Organization

Watsonville - Hiring: Director of Global Enterprise Applications & Support

Driscoll's is hiring:

Director, Global Enterprise Applications & Support

The Director, Global Enterprise Applications and Support is an executive member of the Driscoll’s Information Technology Leadership Team reporting to the CIO. This position will lead and support a team of Director and Manager direct reports in the design, implementation and support of global enterprise business applications. He/She will ensure operations and deliverables of Custom In House Applications, Mobile Applications, Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and Cloud Solutions (SaaS) applications are delivered in alignment to the global business strategy. 

This key leadership position requires the ability to develop effective global teams, manage multiple initiatives, build/maintain strong relationships and facilitate positive and solution-oriented discussions with key cross functional business stakeholders, understand supporting systems, and organizational and compliance requirements across multiple geographies globally. 

A primary goal of this role is to drive the comprehensive build-out of a global application services delivery program that will be leveraged to the support of Driscoll’s long term growth objectives. This position will direct the efforts of a global enterprise development, implementation and support organization that is a combination of internal employees and multiple partnerships with global systems vendors. The support team is distributed across multiple geographic locations including North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia/Pacific, and South America.

As the Director, Global Enterprise Applications and Support, this position will be the cornerstone ensuring that our entire enterprise application computing environment runs smoothly, efficiently and economically across the globe


.ABOUT US:  To ensure year round delivery of fresh berries to market Driscoll’s has operations established in over 18 countries and 5 continents.  In the last 20 years we have experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years. 

Headquartered in Watsonville, California we offer a broad range of competitive compensation and benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; healthcare benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs.  Driscoll’s Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012.  Our unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as we continue to expand in others part of the world.

Recruiter:  

Christie Bower, Driscoll’s IT Organization

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IT Career Opportunities in Santa Cruz County

IT Career Opportunities at Driscoll's 

HIRING:

IT PROJECT MANAGER 

IT OPERATIONS MANAGER

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MANAGER

DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL APPLICATIONS & SUPPORT

PROJECT MANAGER - CONTRACT

APPLICATIONS SUPPORT TESTER 

ABOUT US:

As a global shared service partner to all business units, the Information Technology organization provides the world’s largest supplier of fresh conventional and organic berries with leading edge technical solutions and support. To ensure year round delivery of fresh berries to market Driscoll’s has operations established in over 18 countries and 5 continents. In the last 20 years we have experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years. 

Headquartered in Watsonville, California we offer a broad range of competitive compensation and benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; healthcare benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs. Driscoll’s Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012. Our unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as we continue to expand in others part of the world.

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Hiring: IT Operations Engineer

HIRING:  IT Operations Manager

Driscoll's

Job Description:
JOB SUMMARY: As the IT Operations Manager, your responsibility is to lead a highly qualified technical team managing all production applications. Your role is to ensure that our production applications like DAX, Email, Sharepoint, and custom webapps maintain the highest level of availability, quality, security, and compliance amidst an environment of rapid change and growth. This position will embrace best practices in leading teams comprised of Application Support Specialists, Systems Administrators, Network Administrators, Build Engineers, and Scripting and Quality Assurance Engineers. This position requires someone who can successfully deliver both technical and managerial initiatives. 

This leadership position requires the ability to manage multiple initiatives, facilitate positive and solution-oriented discussions with key stakeholders, understand supporting systems, and organizational and compliance requirements across multiple geographies. The development of strategy and enterprise-level impact programs is a key function.

The Team:
As a global shared service partner to all business units, the Information Technology organization provides the world’s largest supplier of fresh conventional and organic berries with leading edge technical solutions and support. With operations established in over 18 countries and 5 continents, our dynamic portfolio of integrated systems and infrastructure are crucial in ensuring the year round timely delivery of perishable berries to market


JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Proven understanding of Applications/Systems: DAX, Windows, SQLServer, .NET, web apps, email, sharepoint
Expereince managing production systems infrastructure either as a systems administrator or operations manager
Leadership
Understanding of the Languages: .NET (Visual Studios 2008/10Travel will be required (up to 30% domestic and international)

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Christie Bower, Senior Recruiter

Driscoll's 

HIRING: Business Intelligence Manager - Driscoll's

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MANAGER 

THE ROLE: As a global shared service provider the Business Intelligence Manager will have a clean slate to build, lead and develop the world’s leading supplier of fresh berries overall enterprise business intelligence. As BI Manager you will have both strong technical enterprise reporting skills and business acumen. You will partner with cross functional business units to define the data and systems requirements needed for data driven decision making. Your leadership, people and project management skills will drive your ability to lead a BI Development Team responsible for successfully designing, creating and delivering new technologies and development tools for reporting strategies, dashboards, roadmaps, data modeling, ETL design and development.

· Passionate about using data to create significant business impact

· Expertise in defining operational and executive metrics and dashboards

· Experience with BI tools; Business Objects, Microsoft BI Stack and Hyperion

· Expertise with SQL, ETL, dimensional modeling & multidimensional cubes

ABOUT US: To ensure year round delivery of fresh berries to market Driscoll’s has operations established in over 18 countries and 5 continents. In the last 20 years we have experienced significant operational and market growth doubling in size every five years.

Headquartered in Watsonville, California we offer a broad range of competitive compensation and benefits packages supportive of a positive work/life balance including; healthcare benefits, 401K plans with matching contributions, tuition reimbursements, leadership training and wellness programs. Driscoll’s Philanthropy matches employee donations and volunteer time to community projects and nonprofit organizations partnering with over 90 employee led community action projects in 2012. Our unique company culture fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration as we continue to expand in others part of the world.

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Recruiter:

Christie Bower, Driscoll’s IT Organization

http://www.driscolls.com/about/careers.php

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