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Jake’s Fireworks has an immediate opening in Frackville, Pennsylvania for a Wholesale Salesperson/Location Manager.  This position requires a strong self-motivated person with the ability to development new customers and increase sales within current customer base.  Candidates must have a professional manner with excellent communication and organizational skills along with and the ability travel.  Fireworks knowledge a benefit, but not required

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Present and sell company products and services to current and potential clients.
• Oversee and Manage warehouse location.
• Follow up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity.
• Identify sales prospects and contact these and other accounts as assigned.
• Develop and maintain sales materials and current product knowledge.
• Establish and maintain current client and potential client relationships.
• Identify and resolve client concerns.
• Communicate new product and service opportunities, special developments, information, or feedback gathered through field activity to appropriate company staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Skills

Successful candidates should be well organized, detail-oriented individual that possess good communication skills and is comfortable negotiating with customers.  A self-motivated person that possess a diligent work ethic and a high level of self confidence.

E-Mail, Fax or Mail Resume To: 

jim.ramsey@jakesfireworks.com  - Fax 620-231-2416

Jake's Fireworks

Attn: Jim Ramsey

1500 E. 27th Terrace

Pittsburg, KS 66762

Position Type: Full Time

Salary Range 60-75K - Year

Job Description:

The Process Technician is responsible for all aspects of the injection molding department processes

Duties to include:

• Responsible for all aspects of the injection molding process including, but not limited to, set-up and tear down, troubleshooting and work flow
• Responsible for documenting mold change and machine adjustments on mold runs for traceability and reproducibility including troubleshooting and equipment maintenance
• Makes effective technical decisions and communicates them to engineering, production, and management to support root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Work with - including training production personnel to ensure molded components meet requirements and make adjustments as needed
• Providing molded components in a timely manner to meet production schedules
• Managing raw mold material to ensure traceability, shelf life, and prevent contamination
• Work with quality and manufacturing departments to ensure the quality of production and products produced meet company standards
• Working with outside vendors to develop tooling and fixtures that result in the manufacturing of high quality products
• Following established procedures to maintain a clean and organized environment.
• Ensure safe working practices are followed
• Other duties as assigned by management

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in injection molding
• Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in manufacturing environment
• Must possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Candidate must have good organizational skills
• Positive attitude a must

To Apply, send resume to Jim Ramsey jim.ramsey@jakesfireworks.com

Perform accounting and clerical duties related to the efficient maintenance and processing of accounts payable transactions.

Main Responsibilities

• Assemble, review, and verify invoices and check requests
• Sort, code, and match invoices
• Enter Invoices into system
• Prepare and perform check runs
• Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues
• Maintain vendor files
• Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries
• Assist with month end and year end closing
• Maintain confidentiality of business information
• AP statements and balances
• Sort and deliver mail throughout company
• Misc. accounts payable duties

Education and Experience

• Knowledge of accounts payable
• Knowledge of general accounting procedures
• Knowledge of relevant accounting software like Sage
• Proficient in data entry and management
• 1-3 years accounts payable or general accounting experience preferred

Key Accounts Payable Skills

Organizing and prioritizing

Attention to detail and accuracy

Judgment/Communication skills

Vendor relationship skills

Problem analysis and problem-solving skills

Teamwork

Professional integrity

To Apply, please send resume to Katie Wilson at katie.wilson@jakesfireworks.com

Jake’s Fireworks is the largest importer and distributor of consumer class fireworks in the United States. We operate ten distribution centers and over 500 retail stores in all corners of the country. We are headquartered in Pittsburg, KS, USA.

We are seeking a motivated, experienced individual to help maintain and support the data storage systems relevant to our ERP, POS and other mission critical software deployments within the organization, as well as design models and extract data on request and develop and maintain the miscellaneous integrations that tie these systems together.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in the administration of our ERP software, Sage X3, and help to develop process workflows, queries, and reports needed by all aspects of the business (finance, sales, warehousing, etc).
• Develop visual KPI’s for use ERP landing pages.
• Become an expert and evangelist in our in-house developed POS application (Cloudsent POS) and become the absolute product owner for all data inquiries and interop integrations relevant to this proprietary system.
• Act as tier 2 support for Cloudsent POS when the support issue involves data retrieval.
• Coordinate with other business divisions for timely ingestion of mass change data (think pricing updates, emails lists for marketing blasts, etc.)
• Develop small automation tools and scripts to move data in-between various data platforms as the need arises, or assist the requirements planning and project management aspects for larger scale projects.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or document equivalent experience.
• Prior experience in a distributed ERP system.  Preference will be given to those candidates with documented experience in Sage X3.
• Prior experience in the full Elastic Stack (Elastic Search, Kibana, Log Stash)
• A functional understanding of Apache Cassandra or a similar column store, NoSQL DBMS.
• An expert level understanding of standard structured query language within traditional relational databases.  You should be able to write marginally complex sql statements on the fly (without the assistance of IDE’s) to answer management’s questions and relay filtered relevant results in table format to them, sometimes in a matter of minutes when requested.
• Experience in utilizing API libraries for scripting data movements in and out of column stores systems (Cassandra).  You should be comfortable in curl commands, JSON, and utilizing scripting languages to convert JSON strings into usable data arrays within your relevant scripts. 
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Pearl, PHP, etc.) and the ability code automated integrations and small, mostly command line style applications.  You don’t have to an expert software engineer, but you should functional understanding of primary software design concepts and be able to write code in your preferred platform when the need arises. 
• A functional understanding of Linux based operating systems and cron job management within Linux platforms is a plus. 
• Excellent communication skills (must be fluent in written and spoken English).
• Ability to work nights and weekends during heavy seasonal sales periods (primarily around the 4th of July and New Year’s Eve).

Additional Details:

• This is a full time position based out of our corporate headquarters in Pittsburg, KS.
• On Site Work is preferred, but partial remote work may be considered for qualified relevant candidates. 
• Full health insurance, dental, and vision insurance benefits.
• 401K retirement plan with company matching.
• Salary: DOE

Please supply at least two references form prior employment when applying. 

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Jake’s Fireworks is the largest importer and distributor of consumer class fireworks in the United States. We operate ten distribution centers and over 500 retail stores in all corners of the country. We are headquartered in Pittsburg, KS, USA.

We are seeking a motivated, experienced individual to help support and maintain our IT infrastructure in our offices, warehouses, and retail stores around the country. This position that will operate at the direction of the primary Network Administrator and in addition directly assist other principal business personnel in all matters related to hardware, software, and communication support relevant to the operations of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supports end users in office and in floor operations (warehouse and retail sales floor) with relevant technical assistance for hardware and software.
• Responsible for physical deployment of IT hardware in the field as needed (coordinating with 3^rd party ISP’s for installation, on site rack installations, router / WAP deployment, POE camera installation and deployment, Cat5e terminations, POS systems, VOIP hardware etc.)
• Maintains a proper inventory of IT related equipment and software in the asset tracking software.
• Assists the NA in administrating information security standards for end users requesting domain accounts, VPN network access, etc.
• Assists the NA in administrating an MDM platform for sim provisioning, data bandwidth, and access management for retail POS operations.
• Assembles, provisions, and delivers retail POS kits to the retail POS manager for use in seasonal retail stores and documents distribution and return path for these kits.
• Acts as on-site support contact for network administrator when establishing new communication links from corporate to remote sites.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2-5 years prior experience supporting a corporate or retail IT environment. 
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or documented equivalent experience.
• Excellent communication skills (must be fluent in written and spoken English).
• Ability to work nights and weekends during heavy seasonal sales periods (primarily around the 4th of July and New Year’s Eve).
• REQUIRED: The ability to travel as necessary for on-site hardware installation and do so with minimal notice in the event of an emergent situation.
• The ability to lift at least 50lbs unassisted.

Additional Details:

• This is a full time position based out of our corporate headquarters in Pittsburg, KS.
• Remote / Work From Home is not available for this position.
• Full health insurance, dental, and vision insurance benefits.
• 401K retirement plan with company matching.
• Salary: DOE
• Travel: 60%

Please supply at least two references form prior employment when applying.

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Driver needed - Home most nights and weekends. Requires 2 year safe driving experience.

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Valid Class A CDL
• Air Brakes
• Hazmat endorsement
• Must be able to pass company driving test, background check, and drug test.
• Maintain necessary records and inspections as required by DOT

Please apply by contacting Mike Ballard at 620-231-2264 x1151 or email mike.ballard at jakesfireworks.com

Jake’s Fireworks has an immediate opening for an Experienced Warehouse Manager in Denham Springs, LA.  This job requires a strong, self-motivated person with several years of Distribution Warehouse Management experience in receiving and shipping of goods.  Candidates must have the ability to manage and train warehouse personnel in receiving activities, inventory control, order processing, inventory picking, shipment preparation, truck loading and shipping in accordance with DOT regulations.  Must have a professional manner with excellent communication and organizational skills along with and the ability execute and assure compliance with defined procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:  Documented Warehouse Manager Experience.  The ability to lead, direct and train stock personnel in all daily activities of a distribution warehouse.  Along with the ability to pass required background check. 

Mail, Fax or E-Mail Resume to

Jake’s Fireworks

Attention Denny Ferraro

8161 Rushing Rd E

Denham Springs, LA70726

Fax 620-231-2416

dennis.ferraro@jakesfireworks.com