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Job: Purchasing Agent – Bike Friday
Job Title *
Purchasing Agent
Company/Organization *
Bike Friday
Job Description *
Green Gear Cycling (Bike Friday) is an internationally recognized manufacturer of high performance folding bicycles for traveling and utilitarian/commuting use. Most of our designs are the market segment benchmark product. We employ lean manufacturing techniques (Toyota Production System) to hand fabricate the bicycles here in Eugene OR. We practice open book management.
We are looking for that special someone to join our team. This purchasing agent will spend the majority of the company’s money. Bike Friday is a mass customizer that relies on purchasing the right part at the right price (just in time inventory), at the right time to meet the customer’s needs. This person will be the buyer for Bike Friday’s raw materials and bicycle components, helping us build great bikes for people to ride all over the world. The more you know already about bicycle components, the easier the position will be.
This position will start out at an hourly rate between $11-$14 depending on your level of experience. We expect/ hope that the candidate will quickly show initiative and take on additional responsibilities, we would like to pay you more than the above range. Stated another way, we would much prefer this person to grow this position and its scope and we would pay accordingly. The Operations Manager will train, support, and oversee this position.
Lastly, while it is not required, it is helpful for this candidate to have some bicycle wrenching experience. This would allow us to shift the person around a bit within the company. If purchasing is a bit slow one week, they could help boost the Service Department as needed.
Requisite Skills:
Track record for purchasing the right product, at the right time, and the right cost.
Strong critical thinking skills
Organized
Established negotiation skills
Successful relationship manager
Previous inventory experience
Attention to detail.
Comfortable with spreadsheets, computers and business systems.
Employ lean manufacturing just in time inventory management techniques
Accounting experience beneficial
Bicycle component knowledge needed
What we offer is a challenging environment with supportive co-workers who will be interested in your success. If the position becomes permanent, benefits include profit sharing, 401K , health insurance, dental, vision, covered bike parking, shower facilities, discount on bike parts, paid holidays, shop privileges and family friendly. And, you get to build yourself a personal bike on the company’s dime.
How to Apply *
If you are interested in this position, please download and application from: http://tinyurl.com/jy8x9fp and then submit the completed application to jobs@bikefriday.com.
Job: Mechanic, Sales, Etc – Holy Spokes!
Job Title *
Mechanic / Sales / Etc
Company/Organization *
Holy Spokes!
Job Description *
We’re looking for a motivated, enthusiastic person to round out our team at Holy Spokes!
In addition to the shop and retail location, we also provide mobile repair, staff corporate events, and manage a large corporate bike share program. Flexibility and problem-solving are important, as is love for all things bike. Experience is great, but enthusiasm and willingness to learn is more important. You can teach someone to fix bikes, but you can’t make someone awesome.
We’re seeking a seasonal part-time employee, with opportunities for full-time likely.
Duties include:
Shop sales, mechanic/repair work, on-site bike share redistribution, mobile event work and lots more. It’s never boring around here!
How to Apply *
Email resume and cover letter to: info@holyspokespdx.com
Or drop off in person at:
3070 SE Division St.
Say hello to our new event calendar!
Nothing happens unless people show up.
That goes for everything from bike parades to committee meetings. And for over 10 years, promoting local events has been a key part of our work here at BikePortland. We do that by posting stories about events, promoting them, hosting them ourselves, and so on. But the ultimate tool to strengthen our event coverage is a robust calendar that we can integrate right here onto the blog. Sounds simple right? Just embed a Google calendar! Ummm, no. We’ve tried several calendar tools in the past but nothing met our high standards. Until now.
I think we’ve found the solution and we’re excited to share it with you.
If you follow us on Twitter (and you should) you’ll notice we’ve been posting links to events for several weeks now. That’s because we quietly launched our calendar about a month ago. We’ve been working with our web developer (Bozz Media) to get it ready for prime-time. And with one final tweak made last night, it’s finally ready. Check it out at BikePortland.org/events.
Linn County DA won’t prosecute driver who admitted checking his phone before deadly hit-and-run crash
“The evidence shows that (the driver) diverted his attention away from the road in the moments immediately preceding the crash… he noticed something on his phone, which was on the seat next to him. He then looked down, and it was in this moment that the crash occurred.”
— Alex Olenick, Linn County Deputy DA
A case from Corvallis should send a shiver down the spine of anyone who uses our roads.
As reported today by the Gazette Times, the Linn County District Attorney’s Office has decided to not file charges against the driver who hit and killed 34-year-old Shiloh Sundstrom while he was walking on the side of a road east of Corvallis on the night of November 22nd. The auto user admitted to drinking and looking down at his phone prior to the crash. Despite these facts, the Deputy DA Alex Olenick said the evidence wasn’t enough to prove the driver acted with criminal negligence.
We’ve covered this legal situation numerous times and are aware of the existing limitations in Oregon law around traffic crashes. The threshold to prove intentional and reckless behavior by the driver of a car in situations like this is very high and often — even when it’s clear that a person’s behavior was dangerous and led to the crash — DA’s feel they must decline to prosecute.
What makes this case stand out however, is the statement Olenick made in his report. Here’s the relevant excerpt from Olenick’s memo (taken from Gazette Times with my emphasis):
As cities scramble for cash, $196 million drops into state’s lap from nowhere
Where did all our money go?
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland
A revealing bit of information came across our desks this week.
What I learned at the City’s first open house for our new bike share system
PBOT brought a few of the bikes to the meeting.
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
The biggest thing to keep an eye one when it comes to Portland’s bike share system isn’t where the stations might go, it’s where they might not go. That’s one of the things I learned at the first open house for Biketown, the Nike-sponsored bike share system the Portland Bureau of Transportation is set to roll out about four months from now.
Last night’s event was one of five open houses that will take place between now and April 7th. PBOT will use them to solicit feedback for where to locate the system’s docking stations. As we reported earlier this month, the city has come up with 300 candidate station locations and they need to whittle that number down to 100.
The 300 proposed sites were chosen by a planning consultant hired by PBOT who worked with a technical advisory committee. They used a combination of factors to make their decisions including things like: access to transit, bike traffic demand, proximity to affordable housing and major destinations, and so on. The stations themselves will have 20 racks, be about 50 feet long and six feet wide.
With that as a backdrop, here’s what I took away from the open house last night…
BikePortland Podcast: The bike media
Screenshot from Jonathan’s other blog, circa 2005.
Once upon a time, a bike-industry media consultant named Jonathan Maus observed that “blogs are changing the way people communicate on the web.”
That was 11 years ago, to be precise. And Jonathan’s feeling at the time — blogs are amazing, why doesn’t everyone and everything have one? — has basically come true; these days we just call most of them “Facebook pages.”
The media revolution between 2005 and today has changed a lot of other things, and one of them is biking. In the first episode of the rebooted BikePortland podcast, Jonathan, producer Lillian Karabaic and I talk about the modern bike media.
Finally! ODOT acknowledges need for a road diet on SW Barbur Blvd
ODOT’s proposal for improving bike access on SW Barbur at Capitol Highway.
Yesterday the Oregon Department of Transportation did something unprecedented: they officially proposed re-allocating lane space on on Southwest Barbur Boulevard to make less room for driving and more room for cycling. Here are their exact words: “Reduce one southbound lane on SW Barbur Blvd over Newbury and Vermont Bridges to provide bike lanes.”
Wednesday Video Roundup: a safe-walking superhero, pursuing ostrich, and more
Welcome to this week’s roundup! Our first video (above) shows a cool way to make walking safer: by being a Lucha Libre style superhero. It’s sad it takes this level of absurdity to make a crossing safe, but it still feels like progress. (h/t m.a.)
Northeast Portlanders call enthusiastically for traffic diverters, greenway on 7th Avenue
NE 7th Avenue is technically a local street, but it’s become
heavily used by cars as an alternative to MLK.
(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
heavily used by cars as an alternative to MLK.
(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
A roomful of inner Northeast Portland residents gave an “overwhelming” thumbs-up Monday night to a plan to eventually turn Northeast 7th Avenue into a low-traffic neighborhood greenway between Alberta and Broadway.
That’d vastly improve the bike network just west of Alameda Ridge, but require traffic diverters that would send thousands of vehicles a day to other nearby streets, probably Martin Luther King Boulevard and 15th Avenue.
Project highlights stories of people who feel like outsiders in bike scene
“What was a moment when somebody said or did something that made you feel like an outsider in a bike space? Did it trigger unpleasant memories?”
That’s the prompt given by a new project that wants to share stories in order to raise awareness and help make the cycling world a bit more inclusive.
The Shifting Bike Culture blog is collecting and publishing anonymous essays from anyone who has something to share. We heard about it via a tweet from Adonia Lugo, a noted cultural anthropologist, bike culture researcher, and former equity iniative manager for the League of American Bicyclists. Dr. Lugo blogs at Urban Adonia and she’s also a former resident of Portland.
Here’s the explanation of the project taken from the Tumblr page: