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Job: Full-time Mechanic Position – RecumbentPDX
Job Title
Full-time Mechanic Position
Company / Organization
RecumbentPDX
Job Description
RecumbentPDX is looking for a full-time mechanic who loves high-end builds and serving interesting customers. We are a recumbent specialty shop with a mission to get our customers out on the road in laid-back style.
Experience with 2- or 3-wheel recumbents, pedal-electric conversions and wheel building are plusses, but wrenching skills are transferable and training is provided. Enthusiasm is required as well as patience to solve complex fittings and builds. Competitive wages, weekend hours required.
How to Apply
Please send an email to info@recumbentpdx.com and include your work experience, availability and salary expectations. Lastly, please let us know what's the coolest thing you noticed on our website www.recumbentpdx.com, Facebook (www.facebook.com/recumbentpdx) or You Tube (www.youtube.com/recumbentpdx). Thanks!
Job: E-Commerce Category Manager – Velotech
Job Title
e-COMMERCE CATEGORY MANAGER
Company / Organization
Velotech
Job Description
JOB OVERVIEW: Ultimately responsible for assigned categories inventory levels and turns, revenue and profitability. Manage product assortment lifecycles from first receipt to closeout status.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
• Drive seasonal strategy for categories of responsibility and create best in class channel relevant assortments specific to our consumer and on trend that drive top line sales and profitability to achieve targets. Build assortments that showcase the breadth of the Velotech brand portfolio, ensuring a balance between commercial and brand objectives.
• Build and maintain relationships with cross-functional teams (i.e. marketing, web sales/customer service, retail store, operations) to obtain information necessary to create and execute merchandising strategies.
• Identify, develop and execute sales, marketing and promotional opportunities at the category, collection and product level to maximize sales for both pre-season and in season for all entities
• Analyze seasonal assortment of products, use the data to create strategy for future seasons, and recommend/execute courses of action.
• Interface with retail store to optimize on-floor presentations and inventory turn.
• React to changing consumer trends via weekly, monthly, quarterly and seasonal product decisions including being first to market, keeping product in stock at optimal levels, temporary and permanent markdown decisions and driving advertising decisions all while keeping within gross margin targets.
• Manage your assigned categories within inventory, revenue and profit plans always keeping in mind the differing needs of the brick and mortar stores within the e-Commerce world.
MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• 3+ years Purchasing, Procurement, Buying experience.
• Proficient in MS Word and data entry.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• BA/BS degree preferred.
• Domestic travel for work events
How to Apply
Please click on the link below to apply:
https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=31945&clientkey=F102FCECFB43ED66CAD0C8276CB962A9
Job: Mountain Bike Mechanic – Otto’s Ski and Mountain Bike
Job Title
Mountain Bike Mechanic
Company / Organization
Otto's Ski and Mountain Bike
Job Description
Mechanic to maintain our Trek full suspension and Hard Tail mountain bike rental fleet. In addition to doing bike tuneups, repairs and maintenance, employee duties will include bike rentals and returns as well as sales and rentals of Nordic ski and snowshoe equipment. Two to three days a week available. Optimum would include at least one weekend day.
Pay based on previous bike mechanic employment.
How to Apply
Email ottosskishop@gmail.com or call 503-668-5947, Thursday through Sunday.
PBOT will install a bus/bike only lane on SW Madison this weekend
The Portland Bureau of Transportation announced the construction of its first Central City in Motion (CCIM) project today: SW Madison – one of the busiest bikeways in Portland — will get a dedicated bus operation and bicycling lane that will be separated from other traffic. The project aims to speed up bus trips, make it safer to ride a bike, and lower the the stress of drivers by giving them clear separation from other road users.
New shop in southeast caters to fixed gear fans
Portland has a new bike shop whose owners hope to be a part of the local fixed-gear and track riding scene.
Retrogression (2315 SE 11th Ave, just north of Division) is owned and operated by Dave Gattinella and Angie Beaulieu. Fixed-gear riders themselves, Gattinella and Beaulieu couldn’t find track-related parts and gear at local bike shops, so they started sourcing their own.
Retrogression started as an online-only shop in 2009 and opened a brick-and-mortar location in Massachusetts shortly thereafter (they are both from New England). They moved the business to San Diego a few years later; but quickly outgrew their space and went on the hunt to find a new location that would offer them a combination of warehouse (for the online business) and retail shop.
Jobs of the Week: eBike Store, Forum Law Group, Showers Pass, Castelli, Joe Bike, Universal Cycles
Portland’s spring hiring boom continued this past week with several great new listings.
Learn more about each one via the links below…
–> Full Time Mechanic – The eBike Store, Inc
–> Legal Assistant – Forum Law Group LLC
–> Customer Care Specialist – Showers Pass
–> Warehouse Worker – Castelli US
–> Seasonal Mechanic – Joe Bike
Weekend Event Guide: Gravel, East County forum, Sunday Parkways, bike security workshop, and more
(Photo: J. Maus/BikePortland)
Welcome to our weekly selection of the best things to do on a bike, with a bike, or with bike people.
Oh, and happy National Bike to Work Day!
Job: Mechanic/Wheel Builder/Bike Builder – Universal Cycles
Job Title
Mechanic/Wheel Builder/Bike Builder
Company / Organization
Universal Cycles
Job Description
Universal Cycles is looking for a new employee to join our team! Our ideal candidate is one who does not mind wearing many different hats as they will be working in the repair shop doing maintenance work, building wheels, building bikes and giving excellent customer service. We are hoping to find a candidate that has a 3+ years of service experience already under their belt, as we run at a fast pace and need somebody who can start off the first day running full gas. A basic knowledge of disc brakes, suspension and dropper posts would be ideal. Knowing how to build wheels is a must as we build up several sets per day. We are open seven days a week and this position would require having a flexible schedule.
-We offer high wages for qualified candidates
-Medical benefits
-Paid time off
-Paid closed days for our business are New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
-We are a locally owned business that takes pride in providing a great job for great employees!
How to Apply
Email your resume and references to: mary@universalcycles.com
PLEASE DO NOT SEND AS A .DOC ATTACHMENT
Climate concerns dominate Metro ‘T2020’ task force meeting
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
Concerns about climate change were made loud and clear to Metro’s Transportation Funding Task Force at their meeting last night. Metro is leading an effort to raise what some say could be as much as $20 billion for transportation infrastructure around the regional via a bond measure that could go to voters in November.
As lines are drawn on maps, lines are being drawn in the sand by electeds and advocates looking to stake out positions for debates to come.
Portland set to adopt Tryon Creek Cove Trail Master Plan
(Image: Tryon Creek Cove Trail Master Plan, Metro)
An ordinance in front of Portland City Council this week will hasten implementation of a plan that will improve the biking and walking connection between Tryon Creek State Park and Foothills Park in Lake Oswego and build a new bridge over Tryon Creek adjacent to the Willamette River.
