Archive for December, 2011

Occupational Safety & Environmental Assoc., Inc. is a full service health and safety firm that specializes in on-site safety representation for construction projects. Our Resident Safety Professionals (RSPs) provide information with our eSafety Management System, a cloud-based management information system of all project safety related activities. We also offer OSHA 10 & 30 hour authorized training, assistance with USACE EM-384-1-1 compliance and full industrial hygiene support. Our staff of CSPs, CIHs and PEs provide an environment of professional safety support for your project.

For more information, contact Greg Santo at gregsanto@osea.com

Website:  http://www.osea.com

If you would like your company to be featured in the business spotlight section, please email your content to Courtney Smedick at smedickc@ncmbc.us.

*The NC Military Business Center, the NC Community College System, and the State of North Carolina do not officially validate, warrant or endorse events, companies or activities listed on this website. These items are posted strictly for the information and convenience of NCMBC customers.

In a Notice to the Trade (NTT) released 3 December 2011, DeCA announced the Category Review schedule for the 2012 calendar year. Review templates will be released with a 60 day lead time (with the exception of the January and February 2012 categories, which are being released shortly) and will consist of: Process, Review-Plan, Category/Segment Overview, Total Brands, Brands by Segment, UPC Rank, and Post Review. The January 2012 review items will be: Ketchup and Mustard, Baby Food, and Frozen Prepared Meal/Entrees. The February 2012 review items will be Multi Serve Juice Blends, RTE Cereals, and Healthy Salty Snacks/Misc. Snacks.
Industry is “strongly encouraged to complete and present spreadsheets under the category-segment overview, the total brands, the brands by segment, and the UPC rank to the buyer in preparation for the actual review”, according to Christopher Burns, Director of Sales.  All questions are to be directed to Ms. Joyce Chandler at 804-734-8000 ext 4-8238.

Defense Commissary Agency Category Review

To download the entire list, click on NTT 12-11 at http://www.commissaries.com/business/recent_trade_notices.cfm

Fayetteville Technical Community College

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Position Vacancy:  Part-time Military Business Center Coordinator, Job #11-65

Date Available:  Immediately

Duties:  Works with the NC Military Business Center (NCMBC) and the Small Business Center (SBC).  Identifies military business opportunities, principally at Fort Bragg, and sources opportunities to businesses statewide.  Identifies and recruits area businesses to participate in military business. Provides or refers area businesses to one-on-one business assistance services.  Recruits and assists area businesses to register on MatchForce.org.  With the SBC Director, helps SBC clients find military business opportunities.  Develops, schedules, markets and provides training to local businesses.

Qualifications: Minimum requirements:  Combination of education or experience equivalent to three years in business administration and/or military procurement.  Working knowledge of military procurement systems and procedures.  Excellent writing skills and proficiency with word processing, spreadsheet, database and internet research systems.  Extensive experience directly related to the position duties, well documented in the application packet, may be considered in lieu of the degree requirement.

Preferred:  A Bachelor’s Degree or higher in business administration or related field.  Work experience and practitioner certification in military procurement.  Excellent word processing, spreadsheet, data base management and internet research skills.

Salary:  Based on College part-time salary scale.

Closing date:   December 19, 2011 A completed FTCC application, with college transcripts (if applicable), must be received in the Human Resources Office by 4 p.m. on this date to be considered.  A resume will not be accepted in lieu of an FTCC application.

RETURN COMPLETED APPLICATION TO:

HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE

FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

PO BOX 35236, FAYETTEVILLE, NC 28303

Phone: (910) 678-8378   Fax: (910) 678-0029

Internet: http://www.faytechcc.edu

FTCC is a Career Readiness Certificate Preferred Employer

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Hourigan Construction is pleased to announce a subcontracting speed networking event in Raleigh, North Carolina.  We are seeking subcontractors in all divisions of work with specialty and HUB/DBE/MBE/WBE/SBE contractors also being encouraged to attend.

Purpose:  Hourigan Construction has spent the last three decades separating ourselves from the competition through the use of a truly collaborative construction management process in which all project constituents (clients, subcontractors, designers, consultants, vendors, etc.) are treated with extraordinary levels of fairness and respect.  This business model has produced exceptional results with clients across the spectrum of product types including office buildings, retail centers, call centers, schools, hospitals, healthcare facilities, industrial facilities and military work just to name a few.

Due to the relationships and successes created with both private developer and government clients, Hourigan is pursuing multiple opportunities throughout North Carolina over the next twelve to eighteen months.  Each of these opportunities represents significant capital investment (> $30 million/each in most cases) in both military related and healthcare specific projects.  Having held both Virginia and North Carolina contractor’s licenses for nearly three decades, we are innately familiar with the construction landscape.  We wish to ensure that the economic benefit of these programs remains in the state through the use of North Carolina based contractors and vendors.

Please visit our website at www.houriganconstruction.com for additional information in the interim.

Who should attend.  Hourigan Construction is seeking subcontractors within ALL divisions of work including specialty and HUB/DBE/VBE/MBE/WBE/SBE contractors.

Registration:  Although the event is free, pre-registration is requested.  To pre-register for the event, click here.

POC:  Please contact Sue Kranes (kraness@ncmbc.us) for further information or call on 336-601-0446.

For more information visit: http://www.ncmbc.us/HOURIGAN/HouriganConstruction.php

Montie Design provides concept-to-marketplace product commercialization and product development services.  Working as partners to our clients, we integrate mechanical engineering and industrial design to bring about products that balance performance, aesthetics, and cost.  We can also make your prototype in our machine shop.

The firm is based in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, the Southeast’s innovation hub.  We are also the manufacturer of the Montie Gear line of outdoor, RFID and shooting products (www.montiegear.com).

Call today at 1-800-722-7987 and let us bring out the innovator in you!

Contact:

Montie Roland

Montie Design

100 Dominion Dr., Suite 101

Morrisville, NC 27560

800-722-7987

www.montie.com

montie@montie.com

Capabilities Brief

Quad Chart

If you would like your company to be featured in the business spotlight section, please email your content to Courtney Smedick at smedickc@ncmbc.us.

*The NC Military Business Center, the NC Community College System, and the State of North Carolina do not officially validate, warrant or endorse events, companies or activities listed on this website. These items are posted strictly for the information and convenience of NCMBC customers.

The Manufacturing Makes it Real Network at NC State University will conduct its next “tour stop” at DRS Technologies in Elizabeth City on December 13, 2011.  DRS is a a remanufacturing, maintenance, and repair facility for the US Coast Guard’s fleet of C-130 Hercules Aircraft.. Festivities will begin at 1:30 PM.  Although the RSVP date has passed, contact Gene Fornaro, MMIR Network Manager (gene_fornaro@ncsu.edu) if you would like to attend this event.

 In an announcement made on its blog on 11 November, 2011 in honor of Veteran’s day, Google has launched a variety of platforms aimed at Veterans, both currently serving and prior military. The tools can be accessed here:

Sited directly from Google’s blog, these include:

•  VetConnect: This tool helps servicemembers connect, communicate and share their experiences with others who have served using the Google+ platform (http://vetconnect.googleforveterans.com/)

• Google Veterans Channel: A YouTube channel for discussion about military service for veterans, their families and the public. Veterans can share their experiences with each other as well as with civilians to help shed light on the importance and complexity of service. If you have not served, this is a great place to offer your thanks by uploading a tribute video (http://www.youtube.com/veterans)

• Resume Builder powered by Google Docs: We found that Docs can be a particularly helpful tool to transitioning servicemembers seeking employment. Resume Builder generates an auto-formatted resume that can be easily edited, saved and downloaded to share with potential employers (http://www.googleforveterans.com/veterans/life_after_service/build_your_resume.html)

• Tour Builder powered by Google Earth (COMING SOON; : A new way to tell your military story. Today, you can view some sample “tours”— 3D maps of veterans’ service histories, complete with photos and videos (http://tourbuilder.googleforveterans.com/)

EXPLORE YOUR LIFE AFTER SERVICE

In the section titled “Explore your life after service”,  veterans transitioning into the workforce can find useful resources such as preparation tools like resume building as well as an online job search (https://www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov/home/veterans_job_bank) focusing on military-friendly employers. It includes job exploration, assistance with finances or a start-up business, as well as stories from other prior service members about their experiences transitioning into the civilian workforce.  Visit the website to discover all the resources available.

Please Join the Associated Builders and Contractors for

OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety & Health Course

• January 19 and 20
• Samet Corporation-Greensboro, NC
• Presented by SafeDay Occupational Safety Consultants
• $165 ABC Members / $250 Non Members
• Class time is 8:00 am—5:00 pm
  **Cancellation policy: 24 hours prior to class **

Have questions? Call Sondra Bryan, Workforce Development at (704) 332-7280 or visit our website at www.abccarolinas.org.

The Smithfield Packing Company, Inc., which employs 12,500 people in North Carolina, is seeking transitioning military personnel for positions at all five of its facilities in NC (Clinton, Kinston, Wilson, Clayton and Tarheel).  These opportunities include supervisory positions, which require a bachelor’s degree (but no industry experience), as well as hourly production positions.  Smithfield is expanding its Kinston facility and adding up to 300 new positions.  Individuals interested in these positions should register on and watch www.MatchForce.org for position vacancy notices.  Call the NCMBC with any questions (toll free, 877-245-5520).

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 8, 2011) – Fran Perez-Wilhite, MBA, Business Development Specialist with the North Carolina Military Business Center, is a 2011 Business Leader Women Extraordinaire award winner for her outstanding accomplishments, serving as a leader and mentor to businesses in the Charlotte community. She was honored with other business and civic leaders at an annual awards luncheon on Monday, December 5.

“The NCMBC is very fortunate to have Fran Perez-Wilhite on our team,” said Scott Dorney, executive director of the NC Military Business Center. “Fran provides outstanding federal business development support to business clients in the Charlotte metro area – and they are winning contracts and growing jobs in our state.”

Each year, Business Leader magazine honors the top women business leaders in the South through its Women Extraordinaire Awards.  The award goes to women who are influential leaders within their company or business, with an extraordinary impact on its economic success and forward-thinking strategies.

“There are many outstanding women leaders in the Charlotte community,” says Perez-Wilhite. “I am honored to be selected among those who have been named Business Leader’s Women Extraordinaire this year.”

Perez-Wilhite travels the state connecting N.C. businesses with federal contracting opportunities as a Business Development Liaison with the North Carolina Military Business Center. Since 2006, she has assisted numerous minority owned and disabled veteran owned businesses in winning multi-million dollar government contracts. Well respected for her relationships with businesses and elected officials on both local and state levels, Perez-Wilhite shares her knowledge as she coaches and mentors N.C. businesses people to improve their competitive advantage.

Perez-Wilhite is profiled in an upcoming issue of Business Leader magazine as well as the Business Leader website.