Archives 2007

GM- a famous company

Company introduction:
Our client is a young professional and flexible company mainly active in, but not limited to, the supply of wall and ceiling panels and furniture for the Marine and Offshore building industry. It is a member of a large multinational, operating for over 100 years in the Marine and Offshore building industry. The company offers its clients a team of very experienced sourcing officers, capable of scanning the local and international markets for the best possible solutions.
In both the company¡¯s subsidiaries people work with a young, enthusiastic team of people. Everyone is a professional in his/her own field. They have more than 20 years of experience in sourcing the Chinese/Far East markets and have specific knowledge in marine related products. The company believes that we have to invest in people in order to reach an excellent level of performance.

Report To: GM Global
Location: Shanghai

Responsibilities:
Excellent contacts with customers, colleagues, manufacturers and suppliers are of the utmost importance. You can expand these capabilities and lead this young company to a success. You are representing the company in every way you can.
Your responsibilities:
1.To manage the Shanghai office, in every aspect, coordinating, organising, checking work activities and coaching and managing your staff
2.Developing and implementing strategic management, general management and monitoring the results of the company
3.Being responsible for daily activities such as operational, logistics, sales and commercial activities and developments
4.Being the link between the European head office and China.

You are:
1.A stimulating leader and motivating coach (people¡¯s manager) with experience in personnel management
2.An entrepreneur who works ¡°hands on¡±
3.A strong, dynamic and flexible organizer
4.Commercial, customer focussed and you have excellent social and communication skills
5.Target focussed, problem solving thinking
6.Capable of handling stress
7.Having experience in the furniture industry
8.Prepared to travel
9.Not having a ¡°nine to five¡± mentality
10.Experienced in Microsoft Office software
11.Having an excellent knowledge of the English language, spoken and in writing, is a must.

* Please send us your complete resume (both in Chinese and in English) to:
‘topjob_eo112sh#dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)

Thousands of companies forced to pay back wages

LABOR officials in the city forced companies to pay 280 million yuan (US$36.98 million) in delayed wage, social insurance fees and illegal deposits from employees from January to June, the Shanghai Labor and Social Security Bureau said yesterday.

The bureau received more than 10,000 complaints about delayed wages or other fees during the period and inspected more than 20,000 companies around the city. They found 6,987 violations of the law involving about 370,000 workers in total.

The bureau wouldn’t provide comparison figures from previous years.

About 39 percent of complaints investigated involved social insurance fees, while delayed wages accounted for 26 percent and unpaid overtime was the focus of 19 percent of grievances.

About 150 million yuan in delayed payments were cleared up during the six-month period.

“The number of cases of deliberately delaying wages dropped during the first half of the year,” said bureau official Zhang Yuan, without providing detailed numbers.

“Most of the delayed payments were for extra work or overtime working, and the delays were only one or two months, rather than as long as a year,” Zhang said.

The bureau said most of the companies found violating the law were private firms based in the city’s suburbs. It wouldn’t say how many fines were handed out.

Maintenance Engineer for “Thin film coating and vacuum”

A European leading Semi-conductor and electronic company
Location: Shanghai
Report to: Reporting to the ¡°Equipment engineering manager¡±

Main tasks
1.Technical maintenance of thin film coating systems.
Spare part management. Record spare part consumption for coating equipment maintenance. Continuous improve to tune yearly budget.
2.Provide technical support to production and engineering
3.Support in testing systems and components.
Improve problems and finding in coating systems.
4.Keep technical documentation up to date and organised.
5.Emergency call response and trouble shooting for thin film coating equipment.
6.Support other operation departments during production expansion and production reorganisation.
7.Continues learning and training to developed knowledge and skills.
8.For new equipments in new technologies. Is flexible and able to understand changed requirements in equipment engineering.

Qualifications
1.Bachelor degree or above. Major in EE or related.
ME with good electrical experience am suitable as well.
2.Knowledge and experience in electrical engineering required
3.Additional knowledge in vacuum technology or thin film coating
would be an additional strength.
4.Candidates with Optical or Semiconductors background are preferred.
5.At least 3 years experience in technical support and maintenance
of equipment.
6.Good English skills
7.Work with personal computer and office application a must.
CAD/CAE skills makes it more valuable.
8.Self driven. Can work efficient. Still under bigger work load.

* Please send us your complete resume (both in Chinese and in English) to:
‘topjob_eng063sh#dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)

Entrepreneur helps Business People Work w Chinese

Entrepreneur helps Business People Work with Chinese
16 July 07

Doing business in China can be a tricky experience for those with little or no understanding of the language and culture. Languagebite.com, a new Kiwi website, has created a Chinese language course for busy executives that is fun, engaging and takes only three minutes a day.

In what could be a world first, Joanna Lee, the entrepreneur behind the venture, is combining the convenience of online video with a powerful language learning technique. The result is a simple yet highly effective way of learning key phrases and useful information in easily digestible ¡®bites¡¯. Because each lesson is only a few minutes long, retention of the information is very high ¨C even for people who are incredibly busy. Links to the video lessons arrive daily in your inbox and are expertly designed to teach one full phrase each day.

Helping westerners to build rapport with their Chinese business partners is one of the goals of the program. ¡°We teach useful, simple phrases which will show your Chinese clients and suppliers that you have made an effort to learn some language and a little about the culture¡±. The course covers common phrases for everyday interactions including greetings, introductions, eating out, traveling and talking about family. You will even learn how to ask your taxi driver to slow down, which those who have already been to China will know can be an extremely useful phrase!

The lessons are presented by Ming Jin, a lecturer from a Beijing university. Jin happened to be in New Zealand as a research fellow with Auckland University at the time Language Bite was recruiting for the right person to front the program. ¡°Ming is a gifted presenter ¨C she makes a difficult language easy to follow¡±.

Lee, a linguistics specialist, says that Language Bite¡¯s edge over established international competitors is that it is ¡°devastatingly simple¡± – a link to a new online video lesson is emailed directly to your inbox each day. ¡°Language Bite is designed for busy people. You can learn a new language in your own time, at your own place and it only takes a few minutes each day.¡± The video clips are supported by downloadable sound bites (to store on a computer or MP3 player for practicing anytime and anywhere) and written PDF lesson summaries can be downloaded and stored for future reference.

Language Bite have launched with Mandarin Chinese however Lee has plans to introduce other languages in the near future. ¡°Feedback about the concept has been overwhelmingly positive ¨C people love the simplicity and accessibility of the method¡±. The inspiration for Language Bite came from marrying Lee¡¯s passion for languages and teaching with husband Steve¡¯s interest in e-commerce. ¡°We have developed an extremely powerful way to learn a new language. And we look forward to teaching languages in a fun, user-friendly way to New Zealanders ¨C and the world!¡±

President & CEO of Russell Reynolds Associates

Multinational companies in China face a special challenge in terms of finding their own way to adapt to the local environment. And finding the right staff to achieve this could prove critical to the survival of any start-up company. In today’s interview, we speak with the President & CEO of Russell Reynolds Associates… about key issues in effective recruitment.

Bureau: Labor rifts at private firms fall

THE proportion of labor disputes involving private enterprises has dropped for the first time since 2003, according to the Shanghai Labor and Social Security Bureau.

Though a majority of labor disputes still involved private firms, accounting for 40 percent of the total number in the first half, it fell by 11.7 percent compared to the same period last year, the bureau said in its report for the first half of the year released yesterday.

“The number of cases involving privately-owned companies has seen a 20 percent increase in recent years, since many private enterprises were just starting up,” Sui Wei, director of the bureau’s arbitration division, suggested.

“But the decreased percentage this time implies that employers now have a better awareness of the labor law and pay more attention to protecting employees’ rights,” Sui said.

The arbitration division received 15,712 disputes in the first half of the year, of which 13,424 were cleared, a 16 percent increase from last year.

The number of disputes involving foreign-invested companies and those from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan rose by three percent, accounting for 23 percent of total disputes.

Meanwhile, stockholding companies saw their case number rise about four percent, making up 15 percent of the total.

According to the division, most of the disputes revolved around wages, social insurance and contract termination.

Among the 4,085 cases arbitrated in the first half, 34 percent were won by employees.

The report also estimated that social insurance disputes could rise next year, because a new labor law will go into effect on January 1, 2008.

The new law stipulates that employees can end their contract if companies fail to hand in standard social security fees.

“In such cases, firms violating the law should pay compensation to employees,” said Sui.

Chemistry Engineer – A European leading Semi-conductor company

A European leading Semi-conductor company
Location: Shanghai
Reporting to the Engineering Manager

Description:
1. Planning and sourcing of equipment related to chemistry and cleaning including the process on these equipment in co-work with the maintenance engineering group
2. Lead development projects in the area of cleaning, gluing and chemistry
3. Assist production in case of cleaning problems
4. Assist and coach engineering projects in the area of cleaning, gluing and chemistry, and getter dispense for TypeX Program
5. Responsible person for all chemistry issues in Optics Shanghai
6. Development of new cleaning process
7. Consulting of internal and external customer
8. Training and introduction of employees in the area of cleaning, gluing and chemistry

Qualification:
1.Bachelor degree or above, major in chemistry discipline
2.Or equivalent along with 3-5 years experience in a Hi-tech manufacturing environment like glue development, US cleaning¡­
3.High level of written and spoken English for Work Instructions , Standard Operating Procedure and Quality Plans development
4.Ability to interface with internal and external customers
5.Ability to interface and train production personnel
6.Must portrait an act of leadership and direction in a manufacturing environment
7.Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems in responsible production line

* Please send us your complete resume (both in Chinese and in English) to:
‘topjob_eng062sh#dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)

Financial Director

Company introduction: Our client is an international education service company provides courses and support for students from all over the world who wish to study for an overseas degree. They guarantee to place successful students on an appropriate university course in the UK, Ireland or Australia.
After students have passed their course, they work with the student to provide advice and support in settling in to their chosen university, and are available if the student has any problems during their degree course.

Job Description:
Report To: VP Finance China and CFO Asia
Location:Shanghai
1.Provide strategic support as a business partner to the CEO
2.Provide value-added advice to senior management and be a key member of the decision making process
3.Lead a sizable team and manage the full finance and accounting activities for all China related operations
4.Ensure integrity and maintain governance
5.Coordinate and gather financials to produce timely consolidated accounts and management reports
6.Completion of periodic reporting packages to head office
7.Monitor month end closing processes, to ensure accurate financial reconciliation
8.Analyze financial operating results and write commentaries
9.Coordinate and gather management information for preparation of budget and rolling forecast, follow up with budgetary control implementation
10.Ensure all internal controls are in place and the policies are compliant with local regulations, taxes, audit and statutory reporting requirements
11.Operational system review and enhancement
12.Liaise and coordinate with third parties, including bank, all government departments, commercial bureau and external auditor
13.Evaluate potential investment opportunities, assist in M & A projects
14.Implement financial operations strategy to drive efficiency, achieve maximum performance and profitability for the operations

Job Requirements:
1.A qualified accountant with recognized 2.Familiar with PRC GAAP, US GAAP, IFRS reporting.
3.Strong awareness and understanding of regulatory and requirements
4.8 years in depth finance experience with MNC, of which 2 years at supervisory / managerial level plus service industry experience is highly preferred
5.High proficiency in system computing and knowledgeable in monitoring complex sales and financial information
6.Fluent in Mandarin and English and good communication skills
7.Strong sense of responsibility, details oriented, good team player and able to meet tight schedule and work under pressure
8.Strong data analysis and problem solving skills coupled with business acumen and commercial senses

* Please send us your complete resume (both in Chinese and in English) to:
‘topjob_fi158sh#dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)

IPR engineers

THE city’s first group of 270 patent management engineers gained their certificates yesterday after they passed training courses.

They will improve protection of intellectual property in local companies, said Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration officials, which plans to train 3,000 patent management engineers by 2010. Shanghai Intellectual Property Service Center, Shanghai University and Shanghai Institute of Politics and Law are the city’s three training bases.

Optomechanical Glass Processing Engineer

Location: Shanghai
Report to: Engineering Manager

Main tasks
1.Support all production and engineering with glass processing and glass shaping. Develop and procure production equipment required to shape or machine glass into required geometries.
2.Develop and / or maintain manufacturing method systems and processes
3.Determine operations requirements and improve production process
4.Evaluate process repeatability and process validation
5.Assist with cost analysis , address product related issues

Qualifications
1.Bachelor degree or above, major in an engineering discipline
2.2-5 years experience in a Hi-tech manufacturing environment
3.Demonstrated knowledge of materials and processes as related to glass processing and machining
4.High level of written and spoken English; Good PC skills
5.Ability to interface with internal and external customers and suppliers
6.Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems in production line
7.Knowledge of CAD, AutoCAD is helpful
8.Experience with Optics manufacturing is preferred
9.Knowledge and use of SPC methods required

* Please send us your complete resume (both in Chinese and in English) to:
‘topjob_eng060sh#dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)