Operation Manager Trainee (Palmdale)

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Your future with Pacific Dental Services?

JOB: Operations Manager ("Dental Office Manager")

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Are you an established leader, both empathetic and service-minded? Are you an optimistic, problem-solver hungering for more in your career? At Pacific Dental Services, our Operations Manager positions provide the ideal venue for team-focused, detail oriented, self-disciplined, energetic professionals seeking to hone their tactical, communication, and decision-making talents.

Once hired, Operations Managers participate in a unique training program to sharpen the myriad of skills required to independently run a PDS-supported dental office. Shadowing top managers in our company, OMs gain comprehensive knowledge of:

? Marketing techniques designed to drive revenue & grow profit

? Staffing strategies for hiring, training and counseling employees

? Problem-solving skills designed to help PDS office staff, medical staff, and patients communicate and interact most effectively

? Financial tools for targeted objectives such as assisting the Owner Dentists achieve their monthly budgets

? Methods for imparting PDS culture, values, and mission to assist the clinicians in delivering the perfect patient experience

? Ways to devise & implement the best operational practices--how to run a great office from "A to Z"

WHAT WE OFFER

In addition to the limitless career roadmap that awaits the highly-competent, self-motivated Operations Managers, PDS offers a competitive compensation package including:

? Healthcare Benefits

? 401K

? Company paid Holidays

? Paid Personal Time/Vacation time

? Tuition Reimbursement

At Pacific Dental Services, our quest for excellence inspires everything we do--starting with our desire to acquire and appreciate the best talent in the industry. We encourage team members to develop their distinctive talents and strengths--and embrace an entrepreneurial spirit that rewards individual achievement.

We provide equal opportunities for all.

At Pacific Dental Services, we don't just accept differences -- we celebrate, support, and thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, patients, and communities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.

Ready to make a leap forward in your professional life?
. . .to make a difference in the industry?

Apply RIGHT NOW and ignite your future. . .your future with Pacific Dental Services?

Apply online at: www.pacificdentalservices.com

WHAT WE SEEK

Due to the vital nature of this role, PDS seeks candidates with:

? P& L management experience:

? 3+ years of operations leadership in a customer/patient focused environment.

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Better watch out: NORAD trademarks Santa operation

Font ResizeBy DAN ELLIOTT Associated PressAssociated PressPosted: 12/22/2012 09:56:06 AM MSTDecember 22, 2012 6:3 PM GMTUpdated: 12/22/2012 11:03:55 AM MST
DENVER—The U.S. military has clamped a trademark on its wildly popular NORAD Tracks Santa operation and licensed a private company to sell T-shirts and other goods—not to make money, officials insist, but to keep profiteers from cashing in.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, which stages the Santa-tracking event from its headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., obtained the trademark this year.

The Defense Department's Branding and Trademark Licensing Office—yes, Virginia, there is a Pentagon trademark office—advised the military to sell NORAD Tracks Santa merchandise to cement its ownership of the name, said Navy Cmdr. Jeff Davis, a NORAD spokesman.

"We had a vulnerability by not having a NORAD Tracks Santa trademark," Davis said. "The vulnerability was that anyone could come along and sell merchandise or somehow use it to make a profit."

NORAD signed the licensing agreement in November with U.S. Allegiance of Bend, Ore., which specializes in licensed souvenirs and has worked other deals with the military.

The company launched http://www.itrackedsanta.com on Dec. 1. The biggest seller so far is a customized letter from Santa, said Steve Crawford, president of U.S. Allegiance. Another favorite is a red T-shirt that says "I tracked Santa 2012."

To Crawford's surprise, many orders are coming in from overseas. He said he plans to expand the line of goods next year to include languages other than English.

"The globalized popularity of NORAD Tracks Santa is really amazing," he said.

Davis said the move to trademark the operation was unrelated to Google's decision to launch its own Santa tracker this year. NORAD and Google parted ways by mutual agreement after working together from 2007 to 2011, he said.

NORAD is a joint U.S.-Canada command responsible for defending the skies over both countries and monitoring potential threats from the sea.

The story of how it began tracking Santa has become part of Christmas lore: A Colorado Springs newspaper ad in 1955 invited kids to call Santa, but a typo in the phone number had them calling the Continental Air Defense Command or CONAD, NORAD's predecessor, also in Colorado Springs.

CONAD commanders played along, and over the years the operation grew into today's viral hit.

The program generates the kind of global buzz that conjures visions of sugar plums dancing in a marketer's head. Last year its volunteers answered 102,000 phone calls in 23 hours and its website attracted 18.9 million unique visitors from 220 countries and territories in December alone. It also was getting requests from the public for merchandise, Davis said.

NORAD will get about 6 percent of the sales revenue from the merchandise, Davis said. NORAD hasn't projected how much money that will be but it won't be substantial, he said. Through the first three weeks of December, sales netted less than $200, he said.

The money will be used for the program, which Davis said operates solely with volunteers and corporate sponsors and gets zero tax dollars.

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NORAD Tracks Santa: http://ww.noradsanta.org

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John Deere Expands Valley City Operation

Posted on 11/28/2012

Gov. Jack Dalrymple today joined Deere & Company officials, employees and community leaders in breaking ground on the expansion of the company's manufacturing plant in Valley City. Deere & Company is investing more than $20 million in the expansion of John Deere Valley City to meet the growing worldwide customer demand for John Deere products. The 100,000-square-foot expansion will increase the facility's size to more than 325,000 square feet and could bring an additional 50-100 new jobs to the region.

"This expansion means more production capacity for John Deere Seeding Group and more jobs and economic opportunities for Valley City and the region," Dalrymple said. "The growth of this manufacturing plant is a testament to the community, our quality workforce and North Dakota's strong business climate."

Dalrymple met with Deere & Company officials and encouraged them to support the company's growing production demand by expanding in North Dakota. In August, Dalrymple and state Commerce Commissioner Al Anderson met with the Valley City plant's manager, David Bradford, other John Deere employees and toured the Valley City plant.

John Deere Valley City employs more than 350 people and builds tillage and air seeding equipment that is exported to 23 countries. The new addition is expected to be operational in early 2014.

Deere & Company is among several manufacturers expanding in North Dakota. Other manufacturing expansions include: Steffes Corp. in Grand Forks, ComDel Innovation in Wahpeton, Harris Machine in Oakes, Bobcat in Bismarck and Summers Manufacturing in Devils Lake.





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