Archives October 2009

Manufactory/Production Director (eo235nj)

Job Title: Manufactory/Production Director

Job Description:

Company introduction:

The client is an Italy company, which has become the world leader in automotive and machine tool markets during past 50 years, by offering its customers a combination of advanced products, market knowledge, and commitment to long term global partnerships. Building on these foundations, it has created an international organization able to deliver application, design, and service support virtually anywhere in the world. Its growth has been characterized by a strong commitment to research and development and close cooperation with customers in the automotive, machine tool, appliance, compressor, bearing, electric motors, aerospace, computer, and other industries. For the quick development in China, they are now looking for the talents to join them.

Report To: GM in Nan Jing

Location: ___Nan Jing_____________________

Responsibilities:

1. To monitor the overall situation of the production factory.

2. To make planning, co-ordination and control production processes, including planning, logistic, warehouse control, assembly, testing, quality and on-site installation area.
3. Participating in constructing and optimizing organization of the Production group;

4. Monitoring the production processes and adjusting schedules as needed.

5. Supervising and motivating a team of works.

6. To ensure machine and services are produced efficiently and on time.

7. To improve the workshop ability and performance.

8. To ensure each operation is completed according to proper procedure and discipline.

9. To develop or improve operation procedures and maximize the utilization of manpower.

10. Follow up concrete projects according to production procedure of the Company.

11. Be responsible for the production quality and on-time delivery. Responsible for leading the plant and sub-department.

12. To communicate with people of other departments and/or customers and/or suppliers.

Qualifications:

1. Degree/background?College Degree in Mechanical, Electronic, or Automation Engineering or relevant

2. Experience?At least 10-12 years’ experience in production management

3. Good understanding of the Manufacturing and Assembly Processes for complex automatic applications.

4. Background of Precision Gauges ,automobile industry, engine, and /or automatic manufacturing industry.

5. Language ?Good English in reading, writing and speaking
6. Other requirements?Good computer skills;

7. Good understanding of electrical drawings and mechanical manufacturing and assembly drawings;

8. Excellent communication and coordination skills;

9. Responsible, open-mind and willing to learn;

10. Flexible, Excellent Team-working.

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_eo235nj@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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HW Board Specialist (Design/Integration Test) (it157hz)

Job Title: HW Board Specialist (Design/Integration Test)

Industry: Telecommunication (3G/WCDMA/GSM)

Responsibilities:

1. Development and Testing of digital technology for base station products.

2. Prototyping, design & implementation of digital hardware according to the Requirement Specification.

3. Integration, verification and test reporting of the product on the module/unit level.

4. Responsible for quality of all the deliverables within schedule & cost budget.

Qualifications:

1. MSc (BSc) University degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics

2. Several years experience in digital HW, HW related SW (RF HW is an advantage).

3. Technology knowledge about processor architectures, memories (DDR2,..), high speed bus systems (PCI, PCI-E, sRIO, GbE), clock generation and distribution

4. Experience with design- and simulation tools (e.g. Mentor Boardstation, Design Architect)

5. Knowledge in 3GPP standards and in integration of digital HW, RF-HW and SW.

6. Knowledge of actual interfaces in the communication technology (CPRI, OBSAI and/or ITU -T standard interfaces).

7. Knowledge of instrument driver (e.g. AHTI, SCPI, LabView, HPVEE) and script/programming languages like C, Perl, Tcl/Tk.

8. Experience in applying of logic analyzers, high speed
oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and microprocessor debugger.

9. Manual capability in handling of electronic boards (modifications in the LAB) and preparation of LAB – implementations

10. Fluent written and spoken English

11. Good understanding of HW development process

12. Good communication and problem solving skills

13. You are a team player

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_it157hz@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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Linux Software Specialist (it158hz)

Job Title: Linux Software Specialist

Industry: Telecommunication (3G/WCDMA/GSM)

Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for SW specification, design, implementation in certain technical domain, develop technical features on Embedded OS system.

2. Mainly working for ngRNC platform product.

Qualifications:

1. M.Sc.or B.Sc.degree in Computer Science, Telecommunication Engineering or equivalent.

2. Excellent embedded SW programming skill with C

3. 3+ years SW programing experience on Linux OS

4. Rich experience on at least one of technical area: IP / Linux OS / Call management.

5. Fluent in written and spoken English and Mandarin.

6. Knowledge of WCDMA and wireless communication system is better

7. Strong team player and quick learner.

Personal Attributes:

1. Good influence and leadership on technical

2. Proven to be quick learner and good team player, take
responsibilities and initiatives;

3. Self-motivated, target driven and innovative thinking

4. Open minded and willing to accept challenges

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_it158hz@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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China manufacturing steady in September: index

SHANGHAI — China’s manufacturing activity continued to expand at a steady rate in September, as domestic and overseas demand continued to improve, an independent survey published Wednesday indicated.

The HSBC China Manufacturing PMI, or purchasing managers index, fell slightly to 55.0 in September, from 55.1 in August.

A reading above 50 nevertheless means the sector is expanding, while a reading below 50 indicates an overall decline.

“Although the headline PMI remained broadly unchanged from the previous month, there was a marked expansion of manufacturing employment in September,” the bank’s chief China economist Hongbin Qu said.

Manufacturers were hiring in September at the fastest rate in 25 months to keep up with rising sales volumes, HSBC said in a research note.

Foreign order levels rose for a fourth straight month, but the increase in total new orders outpaced export sales, suggesting domestic demand was driving the overall improvement, the bank said.

China’s economy expanded by 7.9 percent in the second quarter of the year, up from 6.1 percent in the first quarter, mainly as a result of massive government spending amid the global downturn.

Beijing announced a four-trillion-yuan (585-billion-dollar) stimulus package last year in a bid to prop up growth in the country by boosting investment in infrastructure and other government-backed projects.

The PMI sank to a record low of 38.8 in November as the global financial crisis took hold, but improved continuously in the following months, moving above 50 in March.

Manufacturing accounted for more than 40 percent of China’s economic output last year, which has been hit hard by evaporating demand for its products in key export markets such as the United States and Europe.

Sales Manager Plastics -China (mkt382nj)

Job Title: Sales Manager Plastics -China

Report To: Head of Sales

Location: Nanjing

Company Introduction:

Our customer is a leading global producer of industrial minerals, founded in Switzerland and has more than 100 locations in many countries. It mainly fillers and pigments derived from calcium carbonate and dolomite, and a worldwide distributor of chemical products and the major markets are the paper, plastics, paint/coatings/adhesives industries as well as construction, environment and so on.

Job Description:

The job holder will lead and coordinate all plastics sales activities in Greater China in order to meet Group objectives, as well as Regional and local business targets.

Responsibilities:

1. Be responsible for gathering market information, maintaining and developing business through new applications and technical sales activities;

2. Attend to customers’ feedback and sales projects, implement sales and marketing strategies to meet sales targets;

3. Visit customers frequently, keep clients and expand the relationship, analyze maintenance strategies of clients and improve / stabilize sales volume;

4. Analyze the customer’s new development trend/ business needs and competitor’s activities;

5. Good knowledge about all products, current and potential applications to support customer needs;

6. Provide customer training and education when necessary to support customer use of products and/or development of new products;

7. Take participate in new product promotions activities;

8. Handle all clients’ complaint and share information with all operation departments in time;

9. Provides accurate sales forecasts and participates in annual budget preparation.

10. Control the receivables;

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor degree or above in science, polymer science, chemistry or related fields.

2. 7+ experience in Plastics Industry sales and/or Technical Service;

3. Excellent organizational and planning skill – Proactive problem solver;

4. Excellent command of written and oral English language;

5. Excellent technical knowledge and customer relationship skills;

6. High level communication skills;

7. Self motivator;

8. Team player, excellent interpersonal skills and understanding of different cultures / work environments;

9. Readiness to travel within China and occasionally beyond; own a car is prefer.

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_mkt382nj@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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City job market recovering from financial crisis

THE city’s job market is recovering from the global economic downturn with the number of jobs created at the same level as before the crisis, the Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau said yesterday.

The number of jobs available in the city’s human resources market exceeded 120,000 in August, almost the same as last October when the financial crisis began to affect the job market in Shanghai.

Of these, the number of new jobs reached 40,000. Though still 20.43 percent fewer new jobs were created compared with last year, the figure was much lower than February’s 72.9 percent rate of decline over the previous year.

“Since the economy is getting better in the city and the government has launched a series of jobs-boosting measures, the job market is stepping out of the downturn and getting better,” said Li Ying, of the department of promoting employment in the Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.

However, the bureau didn’t release figures for the unemployment rate.

Shanghai reported a registered unemployment rate of 4.3 percent last year. Local authorities pledged to create 500,000 job positions this year, with an unemployment rate controlled at about 4.5 percent.

From January to August, the city created 466,800 new jobs, helped 11,370 business startups, and provided vocational training to 105,300 people after a series of job stimulus efforts was launched at the beginning of this year.

The stimulus packages featured preferential policies for business startups, vocational training and internship plans for fresh graduates.

Flextronics to hire 7,000

HONG KONG – ELECTRONICS manufacturing giant Flextronics International said on Tuesday it will hire more than 6,000 migrant workers in mainland China this month because of a rise in demand ahead of Christmas.

The company will also take on an additional 1,000 workers in the next two months, Valerie Kurniawan, senior communications director for Flextronics Asia, told AFP.

‘The demand is coming from all over the group, it’s all segments and industries,’ Ms Kurniawan said.

Flextronics makes parts and equipment for the automotive and mobile phone industries among others and its clients include Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Microsoft Corp. The company’s latest hiring spree has focused on its Zhuhai Industrial Park in the Pearl River Delta in the south of the country.

Chinese factories have been rushing to hire migrant workers laid off during the global crisis as they ramp up production but analysts have warned that the labour shortage stems from a short-term rise in demand from Christmas orders rather than a recovery in China’s key export sector.

Nearly 20 million migrant workers lost their jobs at the start of the year as factories closed or slashed production in response to plummeting export orders from key markets in Europe and the United States.

Job seekers switch to online business

Wang Dengfeng works as an interior decorator, but he is never splattered with paint at the end of the day and he has not once hurt his back moving furniture.

Instead of decorating stores and homes in the three-dimensional world, the 31-year-old designs and beautifies shops in the virtual world, making them appealing to online shoppers.

The career earns him between 5,000 yuan ($735) and 10,000 yuan each month, an income considered handsome, even for white-collar workers in big cities.

Wang is among an increasing number of Chinese young people earning their living online.

According to a recent popular online post, there are at least 36 kinds of online jobs, including online hourly workers and online shop assistants.

It is not known how many people make their living in the online world. Many work online part-time.

One of the most successful online workers is Kuang Baoqiang, from Yangjiang, Guangdong province, who earned more than 100,000 yuan last year as a professional blogger.

Kuang started to write blogs about basketball on sina.com.cn in 2006.

He has posted some 1,200 blogs, and attracted more than 38 million visits so far.

His popularity earned him a contract last year from a domestic firm that makes sports products that wanted to advertise on his blog.

Vivian Lin, from Jiangsu province, failed to secure a satisfying job after she graduated from college in 2005. Last month, after being unemployed for six months, she opened an online shop “Lin club” in the hopes of following in the footsteps of such online success stories as Kuang and Wang.

“A satisfying job is not easy to find nowadays,” she said. “But shopping and web surfing happen to be my two hobbies, so I decided to give it a shot.”

The shop has not got off the ground yet, but she has high hopes.

“I have much more to learn before I can make real money through this job,” she said.

Experts believe online employment will become increasingly important for unemployed young people.

Chen Xinming, a professor with South China Normal University, said young people should be encouraged to explore the option. But Chen said more study of the growing sector is needed to make sure young online workers are not exploited.

Specification Sales Engineer (eng196gz)

Job Title: Specification Sales Engineer
Report to: Specification Sales Manager
Location: Guangzhou
Company introduction:
Our client has over 70 years experience of supplying specialist chemicals to the construction industry.
With the development in Asia, they are welcome more talent to join in.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop product specifications for Company and develop good relationships within Design Institutes, Architects, Clients and Consulting Engineers in order to create product specifications.

2. Provide product technical or site support to the sales team resolving problems of offer solutions to customers and Assist the sales team with technical support in proposing constructive solutions for customer problems, proposing company alternatives to specified competitor products.

3. Provide tendering assistance to the sales teams when company is pursuing tenders.

4. Preparation and maintenance of marketing collaterals including datasheets, method statements, brochures, job references etc in English and Chinese.

5. Do Market research and analysis to estimate the demand for new products or revised specifications for existing products.
6. Increase market awareness of Product Brand in China.

7. Participate in sales & marketing initiatives, as defined by management. Co-ordination with the corporate central marketing for the launch of any new products in line with corporate objectives and develop and implement a comprehensive launch plan if necessary.

8. Coordinate the local input to the Company website ensuring that the information is kept up to date and that is relevant to the needs of the users.

9. Collect market intelligence, competitor intelligence and provide analysis. Collect new product ideas/opportunities from the market and the sales team and make recommendations to the Management.

10. Organize internal staff (sales & specification) to attend regular relevant technical events organized by external parties within the industry for training or networking.

11. Deliver product trainings to sales staff as and when required.

12. Prepare a monthly activities report.

Requirements:

1. At least 5 years relevant work experience and a basic understanding of construction materials & practice.

2. Excellent skills of selling, leading and communication.

3. A sound knowledge of Chinese market of chemical construction materials.

4. A high standard of personal and business conduct and ethics.
5. Good time management and work prioritisation skills.

6. Commitment to excellent customer service, internally and externally.

7. Integrity, hard work, result oriented and good team player.

8. Excellent negotiate and communication skill, worked independent and analytic spirit.

9. Basic command of spoken Cantonese and English

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_eng196gz@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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Guest Comment: the state of recruitment in Hong Kong

During the first six months of 2009, Hong Kong was inundated with retrenchments, salary cuts and hiring freezes, but the third quarter saw optimistic signs of a recovering hiring market.

The number of bank positions available swelled by about 20 per cent in Q3, with most of these jobs in the front-office.

Mainland Chinese banks in Hong Kong, for example, are already aggressively seeking to increase headcount in their global markets divisions. They report a high demand for relationship managers, sales professionals and retail brand managers to meet their growing needs.

Such developments are largely due to China’s advocacy of a “two financial centres” model. Hong Kong’s free market economy, together with Shanghai’s broad integration of mainland business and legal traditions, create an environment which is both competitive and complementary and which will assist the future growth of a financial infrastructure in Greater China.

However, despite the general recruitment surge, many banks are only cautiously optimistic. Although the number of bank job opportunities has increased, employers have imposed stricter hiring requirements during the selection process. Most notably, the number of interview rounds each candidate now goes through has increased to at least four or five, up from two or three in 2008.

Meanwhile, candidates have more or less tempered their salary expectations. Many unemployed job seekers see the value in being more flexible in terms of their total compensation and benefits packages, and some are even willing to accept a lower salary than their previous position.

By contrast, those who are already employed still expect increments of 10 to 15 per cent before they will consider jumping ship. But the problem here is that employers – even those which have increased their hiring – may not necessarily be able to offer such salaries. And to make things even more difficult for hiring banks to woo exceptional professionals, many rival firms are equally determined to retain their talents.