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Job Opportunity: Mechanical Integrity Inspection III (1st Shift) | Pfizer

Why Patients Need You

Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is vital to making sure customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. Working with our innovative engineering team, you’ll help bring medicines to the world even faster by imagining what’s possible and taking action.

 

What You Will Achieve

Working with Pfizer’s dynamic engineering team, you will play a critical part in managing the maintenance and reliability engineering activities involving the redesign, maintenance, and repair of utilities systems, buildings, and production/non-production equipment.

You are recognized as a subject matter expert with specialized knowledge and skills in procedures, techniques, tools, materials and equipment. You will be entrusted with adapting standard methods and procedures by applying your knowledge, prior work experience and requirements. Your business awareness of cross-organizational impact on project delivery will elevate the quality of project deliverables. You will arrive at decisions on which methods and procedures are the best fit for different work situations.

You will train others and reinforce behaviors that will help us achieve our goal of providing the best healthcare to our patients.

 

How You Will Achieve It

Perform maintenance, changeovers, adjustments and repair of production and process equipment, the general facility, and utility equipment.Participate in multicraft work activities as required.Responsible for priority assessment and decision making as it relates to troubleshooting, diagnostics, and a proactive maintenance of systems and mechanical equipment in a cost-effective manner.Participate in safety training programs and utilize tools, equipment etc. in a safe manner as per plant safety procedures.Read and follow equipment schematics, logic diagrams and engineering drawings.Use electrical testing equipment, including multimeters, clamp-on current meters, meggers etc. in a safe manner.Make recommendations regarding improved machine performance.Follow all SOP and (Current) Good Manufacturing Practices (part of GxP) requirements.Provide customer training in the implementation of those systems in compliance with company standards and procedures, and government regulations (SOPs, GMPs, GLPs, PSM, etc.).Responsible for providing input to performance assessment on team members.Manage own time, professional development and accountable for own results.Prioritize own workflow and may lead and allocate work of others and assist in establishing their priorities.

Qualifications

Must-Have

High School Diploma or GEDAPI510 and or 57010+ years of experienceCertification in assigned area, if applicableDemonstrated aptitude in basic mechanical, electrical and instrumentation skills and problem-solving techniquesKnowledge of industry practices and standardsKnowledge of basic mathematicsKnowledge of the general trades, that is, construction, electrical, machine shopWell-developed time management and problem-solving skillsBasic computer skills will be necessary (Microsoft office applications).Excellent communication skills and strong work ethicStrong computer skills

Nice-to-Have

Working knowledge of Pharma Utility systems and operationsSome knowledge of FDA, PSM, GMP policies and procedures is desired.Familiarity with tablets/iPad

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Will be expected to certify (pass) Pfizer in-house exams for NDT (non-destructive testing) and mechanical inspection, and maintain all certification and licenses applicable to roleWill be required to work in elevated areas, catwalks, ladders, and platforms as well as work in confined spaces.Be able to lift and move heavy equipment (50 pounds), stand for long periods, walk long distances, and climb when required.Should be able to work in areas that can exceed 90F and under 32F.Workers may be frequently required to enter production or laboratory areas. Area safety precautions and requirements must be adhered to. They may be exposed to airborne particles and must work near moving mechanical parts.  The noise level in the work environment is loud at times and use of hearing and eye protection is requiredThe shift (start, stop times) will need to be flexible for shutdown work and minimal emergency call-ins

  NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

The position will be responsible for inspection of mechanical system and services, processing findings into a report, and initiating corrective action. Providing technical mechanical integrity support for Pfizer Kalamazoo will be expected.

Candidate will perform inspections on vessels/tanks, inspection of piping, and structural supports. This is an on-site, 40 hours a week at the Pfizer Kalamazoo site.  This role will support the Pfizer Reliability Engineering team and contribute to the completion of other routine tasks.  Failure to achieve results could have significant impact on departmental objectives.

Candidate will develop solutions to routine problems following established Pfizer policies and procedures.

Some travel will be required (less than 1%) for short-term trips.

Other Job Details:

Eligible for Relocation Assistance: NO

Email cover letter, resume and salary requirements to christine.aurigemma@pfizer.com

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Becoming an Entrepreneur and Innovator: Kartik Sawhney Part II

By Dave Allen

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Kartik Sawhney is Our Ability’s Senior Manager, Technology and Product. Despite being blind since birth, he is a leading advocate for accessible technology, education and employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and is the team leader behind Our Ability’s AI-driven virtual job portal, Jobs Ability. A self-described “entrepreneur, innovator and activist,” Sawhney left his home country of India in 2013 so that he could pursue his dream of studying computer science in America at Stanford University. In Part II of our two-part series on Sawhney, we take a closer look at the beginnings of his entrepreneurism and the award-winning proprietary technology he created to enhance access to quality education and employment opportunities for people with disabilities.]

The distance between Delhi, India, and Palo Alto, California, home to Stanford University, is more than 7,500 miles. That’s three coast-to-coast trips across the United States. In the classroom, the differences in attitude toward Kartik Sawhney and other people with disabilities was just as enormous.

“When my aunt met with the Office of Accessible Education at Stanford, they were incredulous, like, ‘Why wouldn’t we let a blind person study if they want to?’ “ Sawhney says. “Some of the perks and privileges I had as a Stanford student, I may never see that again. It was amazing. I was very fortunate to go to Stanford.”

From day one at Stanford, Sawhney did not want for the tools and assistive technologies that he fought so hard for in India. Instead of transcribing textbooks for three to four hours every night as his mother read them aloud, all of his textbooks were accessible. He also didn’t have to create his own software application for reading graphs and curves. All the content he needed to perform his studies was converted into an accessible format that he could understand.

With all this support, Sawhney found he had more time to devote toward his entrepreneurial pursuits, making sure that blind students and other people with disabilities in India have access to the same educational and employment opportunities that he had in America. Before his freshman year at Stanford had concluded, he founded Project STEMAccess, now I-Stem, which focuses on advocacy and research to enhance STEM accessibility for blind math and science students in India. The program empowers these students who are interested in technology with a wide range of assistive technologies and resources, from hackathons—a special coding event for computer programmers—and virtual training sessions, to fellowship programs and other additional supportive services. Through i-Stem, more than 150,000 pages of textbooks have been converted into accessible formats.

Several years later, Sawhney and a few friends started another social initiative, NextBillion.org, a membership program for students with disabilities interested in technology. In a little more than two years, more than 80 students in the program completed mentorships with industry leaders across 10 different countries.

Sawhney’s advocacy work for people with disabilities did not go unnoticed at home, or by the Queen of England. In 2016, he was selected as one of 60 winners (across 53 commonwealth countries) of the prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award for his work highlighting universal access to education. Sawhney received the award in person from the late Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’S longest-serving monarch. He also received the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities—India’s highest honor for contributions to the disability sector—and spoke at UN Headquarters in New York as India’s representative for the Youth Council of UNICEF’s Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities.

Sawhney served several internships at Stanford, including two as a software engineering intern for Microsoft in Bellevue, Washington. It was after his second internship in the fall of 2016 that he was offered a full-time job with the company upon graduation. In 2018, Sawhney graduated from Stanford with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science—focusing on artificial intelligence and human computer interaction—and a 3.9 GPA. He then moved to Bellevue and joined the Accessibility Innovation team at Microsoft as Product Manager, a title he still holds today. In his role, Sawhney works with Microsoft’s research and product teams to identify strategic opportunities using AI, prototype them, and then launch them as Microsoft products.

“My role is at the intersection of innovating and product,” Sawhney says.

Sawhney also helps manage Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility program, a $25 million dollar program to further accessibility and AI innovation for people with disabilities. That is how he met Our Ability President and CEO John Robinson. Our Ability was an AI for Accessibility grantee, and part of Sawhney’s job was to advise and assist them with this developing technology. In 2021, Our Ability launched its own AI-driven job placement platform, Jobs Ability, designed to help people with disabilities create an employment profile and match them to potential jobs with the company’s corporate partners. Sawhney was exploring possible part-time opportunities outside of Microsoft, with their full blessing, and he believed that his skillset and mission to help people with disabilities find equitable employment opportunities meshed perfectly with Our Ability.

“One thing that interested me about Our Ability is the use of technology,” says Sawhney, who joined Our Ability in August 2022 and has a small ownership stake in the company. “That was big for me. There are a lot of fantastic disability organizations doing amazing work, but that’s not necessarily where I can contribute the most, leverage my skills. One of the things I told John was that I hoped I could have some autonomy in designing the technology architecture and tech story for Our Ability. The other thing is I love non-profits, but I’m an entrepreneur, first and foremost. I want to own things that are going to make a big impact, and also have a large financial scale. I believe in investing in disabilities and disability innovation, but if you don’t have money, you can have the best ideas in the world and you can’t bring them to life.”

As Senior Manager of Technology and Product, Sawhney is responsible for the technology and AI development at Our Ability, similar to what he does at Microsoft. Sawhney works with a team of engineers to leverage the latest AI to improve the job-matching process at Jobs Ability, making the job portal easier and more efficient to use for people with disabilities, while providing them with job recommendations that make sense.

“It wasn’t until our second or third meeting on Microsoft’s Teams app that he told me he was blind, and that he needed the system that we were building growing up,” Robinson says. “I kind of got goosebumps when he said that to me. That told me we were on the right path. I’m very, very happy he’s here. He’s got life experience with being disabled, both as an employee and as an entrepreneur, and that is so important.”

“The work we’re doing at Our Ability is critical,” Sawhney says, “otherwise we’re going to continue to have what we always had, which is high unemployment rates for people with disabilities. The only way to get people with disabilities meaningfully employed and contributing to the economy is developing technology like this.”

For the foreseeable future, Sawhney sees himself continuing to be an advocate for people with disabilities, working with non-profits, the UN, UNICEF and other government agencies on a global and national level to create equal educational and employment opportunities for all, through the use of technology. Thanks to Sawhney’s efforts, blind students in India are now allowed to use computers in entrance exams and attend IITs. Sawhney took the IITs to court and today more than 15 students have graduated from these prestigious tech institutions.

Sawhney also sees himself continuing his role as an innovator through his academic background in AI. But where he sees himself making the biggest impact in 10 to 20 years is as an entrepreneur.

“Everything I’m doing at Our Ability and with Microsoft, and everything I’ve done in the past, all of it is essentially entrepreneurial pursuits and I will continue to do that,” Sawhney says. “I’m not a 9 to 5 person. I love innovating. But I do want to build scalable businesses that have impact and create a more level playing field for people with disabilities. That’s where I think I can make the biggest difference.”

Job Opportunity: Contract Administration Specialist | New York State Industries for the Disabled, Inc.

Summary:  This position involves facilitating the contract administration process through the handling of detailed and complex contract reviews. Duties include coordinating the contracting process from inception to execution, maintaining a database of members, customers and contracts, establishing and maintaining assigned contract files, monitoring and preparing assigned contracts for execution in accordance with contract specifications, terms and conditions.   The Contract Administration Specialist acts as a liaison between NYSID and its Members, Corporate Partners, customers and oversight agencies in order to ensure precise execution of the contracting process.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Review new contract application packages for completeness (i.e. inclusion of cost analysis, equipment details, supply lists, wage breakdowns, paid leave breakdown, subcontracting, overhead breakdown, etc.)Insure Member Agency or Corporate Partner is made aware of all contract specifications.Initiate renewal process of all assigned contracts in accordance with departmental procedures including customer notification, price negotiation between customers and members, solicitation of customer price concurrence and compiling application package.Complete NYS procurement forms (i.e. Lobby Law 139, MWBE waivers, etc.)Review cost analysis on services contracts for accuracy of wage, supplements, and labor hours paid time, fringe, insurance, equipment, supplies and overhead.Enter contract information into database.Ensure that proper documentation and justification for contract price changes are compiled and prepared for state approval; support price negotiation before application is submitted.Prepare and submit packages to OGS with necessary documentation (i.e. prior OGS approval (if applicable), OGS Forms 1-4 with all pertinent back-up, prevailing market justification information, overhead breakdown form, ACCES-VR approval (if partnership.)Monitor contracting process to ensure timely execution including document review, notarization and registration of assigned contracts.Monitor prevailing wages and CPI for all existing service contracts.Review and compare FTE’s.Monitor receipt of documents from Members and Corporate Partners requested by oversight agencies (i.e. OSC VRQ, ACCES-VR partnering letter)Confirm with NYSID Insurance Specialist that all insurance coverages are in place.Interact regularly with customers and member agencies to resolve contractual and service issues.Work with accounting to resolve billing issues or non-payment issues including notification of frozen fees.Forward to Member and Corporate Partner agencies copies of all awarded contracts so as to assure Member and Corporate Partner compliance with contract requirements.Other duties as assigned.Travel as required.

Qualifications:

The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position.

Associates or Bachelor’s degree preferred. Three to five years’ experience in a contract administration or financial administration function.Notary Public designation preferred.Should be a self-starter and be self-motivated; have the skills necessary to give attention to details; and demonstrate strong communication and organizational skills.Ability to project a friendly, business-like presence both on the phone and in person.Proven problem solving and mathematical ability.Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast paced, high volume work environment.Proficiency with various computer software applications including computerized accounting systems, databases, spreadsheets and word processing (preferably Microsoft Office Suite).

Physical Requirements:

The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Nature of job requires considerable computer, keyboard, and mouse usage, walking around facilities and sitting for long periods of time.  Must have visual acuity and hearing ability for communicating with others, and gathering and accessing written and computerized information.  Ability to access any locations where company business is conducted.

  About NYSID:

NYSID is the Non-Profit organization designated by the NYS Education Department under the New York State Finance law to serve New York’s Preferred Source program, which works to provide gainful employment for New Yorkers with disabilities. Rehabilitative agencies throughout New York State which provide support services to individuals with disabilities, choose to become members of NYSID. On behalf of these members, and sometimes in conjunction with private sector partners, NYSID enters into contracts with state and local government agencies for goods and services which disabled New Yorkers create or perform.

Come join our team! We were named a Top Work Place, most recently in 2023 by the Albany Times Union. Email cover letter, resume and salary requirements to administrator@nysid.org We are an equal opportunity employer.

 

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $23.00 – $25.00 per hour

Schedule:

37.5 hour work weekMonday to Friday

Work Location: Albany, New York. In-person to start with the possibility of hybrid in the future.

Benefits:

401(k)401(k) matchingDental insuranceEmployee assistance programFlexible scheduleFlexible spending accountHealth insuranceHealth reimbursement accountLife insurancePaid time offTuition reimbursementVision insurance

Email cover letter, resume and salary requirements to administrator@nysid.org We are an equal opportunity employer.

Planting the Seeds of Activism: Kartik Sawhney Part I

By Dave Allen

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Kartik Sawhney is Our Ability’s Senior Manager, Technology and Product. Despite being blind since birth, he is a leading advocate for accessible technology, education and employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and is the team leader behind Our Ability’s AI-driven virtual job portal, Jobs Ability. A self-described “entrepreneur, innovator and activist,” Sawhney became the first blind student to pursue science education beyond the 11th grade in his home country of India. In Part I of our two-part series on Sawhney, we take a closer look at the beginnings of his activism, and the personal struggles he faced growing up in an educational system that wasn’t yet ready to open its doors for visually impaired people.]

Shortly after being born, Kartik Sawhney was diagnosed with an eye disease known as Retinopathy of Prematurity, or ROP, a disease that generates abnormal blood vessels in the retina of some premature babies. As it was explained to Sawhney, excess oxygen given to him during incubation is what led to the permanent damage of his retina.

“For all practical purposes, I was born blind,” Sawhney says.

Sawhney’s twin sister, born 11 minutes earlier, did not develop any visual impairment. Kartik was the first member of his extended family to suffer from blindness. For Kartik, it wasn’t a new normal, it was his normal. But for his parents, especially his father, a car accessories store owner in the South East Delhi district of Lajpat Nagar, it was a very worrisome time. There were many questions. How would his new son fit into their large, joint-family household? How would he attend school, make friends and be like other children?

Fortunately for the Sawhneys, Kartik’s dad soon came to meet a successful blind musician and also an administrator for a special school for the blind in Delhi. They quickly convinced the Sawhneys that Kartik could not only have a normal childhood, but that he’d have the same opportunities to earn a living and raise a family that they had.

“That really changed things for my parents who, until then, were very pessimistic,” Sawhney says. “It was a pivotal moment for them.”

Sawhney didn’t receive any special treatment around the house. He was expected to wash the dishes and do his chores just like everyone else, and like most siblings, he and his older brother and twin sister played games and had their fair share of tussles, too.

“I didn’t get a pass because I was blind,” Sawhney says. “It was very ‘normal’ that way.”

Sawhney’s early education experience wasn’t so normal, however. Up until the second grade, he had to read and write all of his assignments in braille, with a twist. Because his teachers didn’t understand braille, his mother would have to sit at the dining room table every night and transcribe all of his schoolwork to print. India’s public schools didn’t have a TVI, or teacher of students with visual impairments, unless one was arranged for by the family.

By lucky chance, Sawhney befriended a blind student in the second grade whose father was a computer engineer. The father made sure that his son had access to a screen reader, a software program that reads what’s on the computer screen and turns it into speech. That was another pivotal introduction for Kartik and his parents, who soon hired an instructor from a local school for the blind in Delhi to come and teach young Kartik how to use a screen reader.

The third and perhaps most influential meeting occurred when Sawhney attended Delhi Public School R.K. Puram in sixth grade. Known for poaching some of the top students from around the country, the day and private boarding school had just begun admitting students with visual impairments in the 1990s, and produced several academic national champions. Sawhney befriended several of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) students, and quickly took a liking to computer programming.

For Sawhney, writing code was something he could do as well as any of his clear-sighted friends. Given an equal playing field, it was something he could excel at as well. It was his dream to study computer science at one of India’s 20-plus Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—the country’s version of MIT and Caltech—and then one day develop and productize his own software programs and applications.

The trouble was, neither India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) or the IITs had any interest in providing secondary and higher educational opportunities in STEM for its visually-impaired students. After the 10th grade in India, students are to select from one of three educational streams of study: 1) science, which included both a medical and non-medical track (physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science); 2) humanities (sociology, psychology, etc.); or 3) commerce (accounting, finance, etc.). But in 2010, blind students weren’t even given the option to study science in the 11th and 12th grade. And if you wanted to study computer science at the university level, as Sawhney did, you had to take the non-medical science track.

Whatever the CBSE’s reasons were for excluding him and other blind students from pursuing a career in computer technology—a lack of knowledge (“How could a blind person even use a computer?”), low expectations, a preconceived attitude toward people with disabilities, etc.— Sawhney was suddenly feeling the full weight of his disability, and it didn’t seem fair.

“That was probably the first time where I thought to myself, ‘why me?’ ” Sawhney says.

It was at this point in time when Sawhney, the activist, was born. It befuddled and infuriated him. “Why shouldn’t he be given the same opportunity as his peers?” So Sawhney fired off letter after letter to the CBSE—about 40 over the course of nine months—and even had several in-person meetings/demonstrations with the chairman of the CBSE. A non-governmental organization also campaigned on his behalf. Eventually, he figures, he “wore down” the CBSE and was granted the opportunity to pursue the non-medical track, becoming the first blind Indian student to do so in grades 11 and 12.

“I think they just grew tired of me,” Sawhney says. “They figured they’d let me in just so that I could fail.”

Being the first blind student in India to study science was like trying to fly an airplane for the first time with no written procedures and the controls upside down. There were no mentors or roadmaps to help Sawhney succeed. The assistive technology he needed to interpret curves, graphs, organic structures, diagrams, images, etc., also wasn’t available to him. These Western software programs cost a small fortune, so Sawhney leaned on his own programming skills to develop a software program that would help him and future blind students better study and learn the advanced curriculum in the non-medical track. He created an Audio Graphic Describer that converted graphs into sound, so that someone who is blind could understand it through variations in sound frequency. If the graphs sloped upwards, you’d hear an increase in frequency; and if they sloped downwards, you’d hear a decrease in frequency.

“It wasn’t so much that I needed to prove them wrong,” Sawhney says. “I just wanted to get into the top tech schools in India. But yeah, somewhere deep in my heart I wanted to prove to those people that had low expectations for me that I could do it, and do it better.”

Of course, pursuing an education at one of the top tech schools in India provided yet another challenge. In order to take and pass the IITs’ entrance exam, Sawhney would need to take the exam on a computer with a screen reader and other additional assistive technologies capable of interpreting and converting scientific notations, diagrams and graphs into text. The IIT, an autonomous entity, would not provide Sawhney with any of these accommodations, not even a computer. They would allow for a human reader and writer who would read the questions aloud to Sawhney and also do his scratchwork, but only someone who had no experience with STEM. In essence, that meant that the reader/writer might not even be able to read out the questions with complex scientific notation, and Sawhney had to somehow work with them.

 

Sawhney had known about the entrance exam policy for blind students for some time, and began talking to the IITs about it as early as the 10th grade. For almost two-and-a-half years, he advocated for the right to be accommodated for the entrance exams. Finally, enough was enough, and he entertained the idea of studying abroad.

 

“I eventually came to the realization that even if I make it, they’re not going to provide me with the technology I need to study well,” Kartik says. “And I’d be wasting time continuing to explain how blind people can indeed become a computer software developer or engineer. I didn’t want to do that anymore. I wanted to grow.”

 

That led to a phone call to an aunt in California, who just happened to have attended Stanford University. Shortly thereafter, one closed opportunity suddenly became the opportunity of a lifetime, and a chance to undo all of the injustices thrust on him, while also advocating for equitable education and opportunities for all.

 

[Link to Part II here when it’s published]

Part II: Becoming an Entrepren

Jobs Ability May 2023 Statistics

WE MATCH SKILLS TO JOBS

May 2023 Statistics

10,020
JOBSABILITY.COM VISITORS

3,200+
JOBS ABILITY COMPLETED PROFILES

68+
EMPLOYERS

74,109
JOB POSTINGS

8,398
OURABILITY.JOBS VISITORS

59
OURABILITY.JOBS APPLY CLICKS

Voluntary Product Accessibility

We understand more than most how important accessibility is in building new products, services, websites, and applications. We are people with disabilities, using products and services every day. At Our Ability, we can provide VPATs -Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (https://www.ourability.com/accessibil...) for any of your products or sites.

Our Ability helps you comply with national and international legislations including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as well as with accessibility standards and requirements including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Section 508, and EN 301 549. Our digital lead, Kartik Sawhney, is IAAP CPACC certifed in digital accessibility. Kartik has conducted audits and worked on several VPATs over the years in addition to consulting several startups, nonprofits, and corporations.

Jobs Ability is an international Premier Artificial Intelligence-driven system that matches people with disabilities’ skills to job.

Job Opportunity: Social Media Influencer | Our Ability

Position Title: Social Media Influencer
Department: Web Exempt: No
Supervisor: Our Ability Hourly: TBD or Internship

Summary

Our Ability, New York’s leader in Building the Business Case for Employment of People with Disabilities, is seeking to add a Social Media Influencer to our team to build and coordinate our social media posts. If you are a self-starter with the ability to work with a high degree of independence AND you are committed to our goal of expanding employment opportunities for people with disabilities, this may be the opportunity for you. Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Main Function: Identify, coordinate and our work to recruit PwD to ourability.com, ourability.jobs, jobsability.com and any adjacent web properties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Our Ability:

Build social media posts (TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, LinkedIn)Coordinate with Our Ability messaging teamSave and build a database of messages

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in experienceDemonstrated success (1-3 years)Disability knowledge preferred

EOE

Interested candidates please send resume to John Robinson at john.robinson@ourability.com

Job Opportunity: Multiple Positions | Toyota

Toyota is  hiring approximately 10 people for each role.  If you are interested apply directly per the links below:

July 17 Start: Customer Assistance Specialist (Collections)
https://toyota.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/TMNA_Professional/job/Plano-Texas/Customer-Assistance-Specialist_10233280-2

 

July 31 Start: Mazda Financial Services Customer Care Advocate (Customer Service)
https://toyota.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/TMNA_Professional/job/Plano-Texas/Mazda-Financial-Services-Customer-Care-Advocate_10233114-2

Jobs Ability April 2023 Statistics

WE MATCH SKILLS TO JOBS

April 2023 Statistics

7,464
JOBSABILITY.COM VISITORS

2,800+
JOBS ABILITY COMPLETED PROFILES

95+
EMPLOYERS

81,066
JOB POSTINGS

6,086
OURABILITY.JOBS VISITORS

45
OURABILITY.JOBS APPLY CLICKS

Introducing Abli What’s Abli.AI

Our Ability uses a combination of the latest technology, a dedicated team with expertise in accessibility and usability, and a group of designers and engineers to provide feedback on the accessibility of your digital collateral. We understand the importance of building job descriptions and an accessible pathway to Word, PDF and other documents.

Abli.AI offers:

A sandbox to upload documents and download suggestions on ableist language changesThe ability to upload PDF documents and download suggested changes for disability complianceFull AI and human document remediation Jobs Ability is an international Premier Artificial Intelligence-driven system that matches people with disabilities’ skills to job.

Job Opportunity: Summer Technology Intern: S & P Global

The Role: Summer Technology Intern

The Team: You will be supporting the client facing platforms team which is responsible for the technology behind our Platts Dimension Pro platform.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with tech leads and understand the business processImprove efficiency and refactor current code.Review current code vulnerabilities and help with our security positioningAdd more unit test coverage.

What We’re Looking For:

Basic understanding of computer scienceExperience with operating systems such as Windows and LinuxExperience with scripting languages, C# .Net or Java and databases such as PostegresQL

S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you’ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape.

S&P Global Commodity Insights enables organizations to create long-term, sustainable value with data and insights for a complete view on the global energy and commodities markets.

For information email info@ourability.com.

 

Jobs Ability March 2023 Statistics

WE MATCH SKILLS TO JOBS

Feb 2023 Statistics

7,507
JOBSABILITY.COM VISITORS

2,800+
JOBS ABILITY COMPLETED PROFILES

95+
EMPLOYERS

81,066
JOB POSTINGS

5,822
OURABILITY.JOBS VISITORS

63
OURABILITY.JOBS APPLY CLICKS

Welcome New Partners

In March, Our Ability added national corporate subscribers Toyota, National Grid, and Alaant. Our New York subscribers added include NYSID, Jawonio, Center for Disability Services, and AHRC.  Welcome!

Our Ability is excited to work with regional, national, and international subscribers interested in reaching future employees.

Our partner organizations (Disability:IN North Carolina, Disability:IN Minnesota, Center for Disability Inclusion, Work Without Limits, Virginia Ability and Jobs Ability Canada) continue to add regional companies.

Additionally, Our Ability continues to develop our ableist language filter (Abli.AI) to assist companies in writing more appropriate job descriptions. Traditionally, job descriptions have been a hindrance to our community with some of the language. Our Ability is building a technical solution with Abli.

After the Zero Project 23 conference in Vienna in February, Our Ability continues to discuss inclusion with our disability advocate partners internationally. The spirit of disability inclusion is alive and well, worldwide.

Jobs Ability is an international Premier Artificial Intelligence-driven system that matches people with disabilities’ skills to job.