Fort Worth Weekly Classifieds // February 28 - March 5, 2024

The Dock Bookshop

Since 2008, the owners of this Eastside oasis have weathered economic adversity, a pandemic, book bans, and racism.

BY LAURIE JAMES

One of the largest Black-owned bookstores in the entire Southwest, The Dock Bookshop has been celebrating Black History Month every business day for 16 years. Since opening in an unassuming space in a Meadowbrook strip mall on the East Side in 2008, sisters Donna and Donya Craddock have created a hub for Black culture, life, and literature throughout North Texas. Although the last decade and a half haven’t been without challenges, the siblings have succeeded. Their latest victory?

Prime Time himself, NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, has chosen The Dock as the location of one of his few North Texas stops during his current book tour.

Older sibling Donna says The Dock is a labor of love. “It’s not something you get into for a lucrative business. We fill a particular niche. We lift up African-American voices, and so a lot of literature is in that lane, but we embrace all voices.”

On the day I caught up with the Craddocks, they were beginning to wind down programming for Black History Month while getting ready for Women’s History Month or, as they call it, Women’s Herstory Month. As part of the bookstore’s

mission, it’s a great space for events other than book signings, including community meetings and performance art. Every Tuesday, Dock Open Mic Nights showcase poetry, spoken word, music, and comedy, allowing “local artists to share their gifts,” Donna said.

Many national figures have visited, most recently Actor/politician Hill Harper, who was at the bookstore to promote his book The Conversation, about how men and women can build loving, trusting relationships. The Dock’s March lineup features Beto O’Rourke and his tome We’ve Got to Try on March 10, and March 16 is when Prime Time stops by, reading from, signing copies of, and selling his title Elevate and Dominate.

Sanders is “a dynamic personality and a great motivator,” Donya said.

When asked how a small retailer in a quiet suburban neighborhood pulled a heavy hitter like Neon Deion, who could easily command a staggering appearance fee, Donya said that many small bookstores across the country are the beneficiaries of celebrities pushing local. “People are becoming intentional about supporting local businesses.”

To RSVP with a purchase of Elevate and Dominate, visit TheDockBookshop.com.

Along with the open-mic and evening with Sanders, other upcoming engaging nights at The Dock will start with what Donna calls “HerStories: A Celebration of Women’s Herstory Month and International Women’s Day.” The Craddocks are also planning a Sister Sunday event –– more information will be available soon on the bookstore’s website.

Only about 20% of all businesses nationwide are owned by women, and of the approximately 300 independently owned bookstores across the country, less than 5% are owned by Black people. While The Dock has earned national accolades, nothing has been easy for this two-woman operation. Being unique has helped. The tragic murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Aubery around the time of the pandemic galvanized the general population, many of whom probably did not know there was a Black-owned bookstore in their midst.

“The murder of George Floyd on TV — the public was just traumatized,” Donna said. “It caused some people to want to learn more and engage more and stop the violence against Black people.”

She added that white people came in to show support, to help, and to better understand what was happening and how they could effect positive change.

Another push came from celebrities recommending shopping local, like Martha Stewart.

The famous homemaker’s team, Donna said, “came out and said if you really want to understand and want to connect, start with locally owned Black bookstores in your community.”

The Dock appeared on one of Stewart’s lists of “good things” in 2020.

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Since opening The Dock Bookshop in 2008, sisters Donya Craddock (left) and Donna Craddock have seen lots of cultural shifts up close.

Laurie James

During the pandemic, people of all colors and creeds visited The Dock for critical information.

Laurie James

The Craddocks made news when they opened The Dock Bookshop nearly 16 years ago.

The Dock Bookshop via Facebook

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The post-COVID, post-Donald Trump years have been marked by a rise in censorship that feels unprecedented, and The Dock has both seen and felt the weight of this over the last two years. Donna said that while the American Booksellers Association celebrates Banned Books Month in October, she and her sister have become aware of a larger issue that isn’t confined to a single month.

“People don’t want to deal with the history,” she said. “We have customers coming in asking about banned books, and we point to the whole store and say, ‘Pretty much all of them.’ ”

The creep of nationalistic, conservative-led anti-anti-racism into public schools has actually changed some textbooks. Donya calls this a “manipulation of language,” adding that “it’s a mass rewording of culture and watering down of history.”

Donna adds that a robust collection of reading material of all kinds is “more about representation for everyone — it’s not about you necessarily, whether you like what the book says or not.”

“That’s why we need the independent booksellers,” Donya added.

When I asked the women to pick their favorite titles right now, they both laughed. The Dock is a dream for any bookworm, with rows and rows of well-organized, seemingly endless selections for almost every reading taste. How could anyone choose? Donya said she’s more interested in Black dystopian

fiction, while Donna favors historical fiction and their extensive children’s section.

Another reason this woman-owned bookstore is crucial (not just during Women’s History Month) is that historically, women writers’ voices have not been heard, whether they’re Black, white, brown,

red, yellow, alive, or dead. Even in the notso-distant past, female authors used their initials or male-sounding pseudonyms to publish under, but from Donna Craddock’s perspective, that hasn’t been the case for a while.

“Women authors are on a roll,” she said. “I’m excited about where we’ve come from.”

During March, The Dock has added an appearance by Michelle Stimpson, whose latest book, Sister Greens, is about more than cooking.

“It’s a new day and a new age for Black authors,” Donna said, “even if they’re on the banned books list.”

After a busy February and March, the Craddocks are looking forward to celebrating the bookstore’s 16th birthday in May. They’re also recruiting sponsors to launch the third annual Trinity River Book Festival in September. The event kicks off with a Run to Read in Trinity Park.

Donya, newly returned from a conference for Reading the West, a program of The Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association, is also relishing the opportunity to feature local and regional authors. She said The Dock “caters to the local rodeo scene with Western literature,” which has its own section near the front of the store.

“It’s about putting Texas on the forefront,” she said. “It takes us being in this space to tell the East Coast and West Coast not to leave us out. It’s about carving out our place in the literary world.” l

The Craddocks are leading the literacy parade with the Trinity River Book Festival.

The Dock Bookshop via Facebook

Located in an Eastside strip mall, The Dock Bookshop is a hub for Black culture and life.

The Dock Bookshop via Facebook

Dock co-owner Donna Craddock loves that kids of all colors, shapes, and abilities can find a book about someone like them at her store.

As Dock co-owner Donya Craddock’s favorite genre, Black dystopian fiction has a place at her bookstore.

Next month, it’s Prime Time at The Dock Bookshop.

Laurie James

Laurie James

The Dock Bookshop via Facebook

Suds on Strike

The larger labor movement is brewing at Molson Coors in South Fort Worth.

ERIN RATIGAN

As a mechanic at Molson Coors, John knows his job is dangerous. For the past nine years, the 38-year-old Kentucky native has worked in utilities for the brewing giant in South Fort Worth, supplying steam, ammonia, and glycol for beer production and collecting and distributing CO2 for brewing and canning. In his department, workers are hazmat trained, and they undergo physicals, testing, and retraining every year. The hazards of his job are on his mind every day.

METROPOLIS

“If I screw up when I’m turning a valve, if it breaks off, I could die, and a whole bunch of other people could die,” he said.

When he first joined the company, John, who is requesting anonymity, said people were in awe when he told them where he worked. He said Molson Coors was considered a great employer in those days but that things have changed since then. Now, he said, his department is understaffed, leaving him on shift longer to compensate.

“I’ve worked every Saturday for the last six months because there’s just not enough people,” he said.

Every day, he would wake up at 5 a.m., arrive at the Molson Coors plant by 6, and take some time to chat with the midnight-shift workers before clocking in. That routine changed February 17, when his branch of the National Brotherhood of Teamsters union –– Local 997 –– picked up signs and took to the streets in a strike. Now, on behalf of all 420 union members at Molson Coors, John and his fellow strikers are demanding better wages and benefits and an end to alleged unfair labor practices (ULP).

The strike comes in tandem with 5,000 Teamsters at Anheuser-Busch facilities

across the United States approaching their own deadline.

There have been dozens of similar strikes across the country. Flight attendants,

transit engineers in New Jersey, home-care nurses in Oregon, and transportation Teamsters in Illinois are also fighting for better conditions and pay. The Cornell Labor Action Tracker, which logs labor strikes and protests, says that since last February 459 strikes have taken place in the United States. Eighteen of them have been in Texas.

Local 997 Teamsters make, package, and warehouse beverages and beers, including Coors Light, Miller High Life, Yuengling, Pabst, and Topo Chico.

Energy the first week of the march was high, with strikers carrying signs reading, “It’s our time” (a play on the Miller company slogan) and “Honk for beer.”

That same week, the Teamsters issued a statement accusing Molson Coors of allegedly unfair bargaining. They also announced that they had filed multiple ULP charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the brewing giant.

“Molson Coors presented insulting and regressive contract proposals, including offering less than a $1 per hour wage increase for the majority of Teamsters members,” the

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Teamsters 997 strikers outside the Molson Coors facility in South Fort Worth are sorry about the traffic but not about their rights.

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union said. “Local 997 is seeking pay raises that reflect the impact of inflation over the term of the expired contract and the elimination of two-tiered health care and retirement benefits.”

For John, the first day of the strike felt really good but also odd.

“It’s just a little strange to be on the outside looking in,” he said. “So many years, you’re on the inside of the gate looking out.”

Also among the picketers was Rick Miedema, Local 997’s secretary-treasurer.

“We had roughly 200 people out on the picket [on Day 1] … and [they were] very amped up,” he said.

Miedema said Molson Coors employees endure immense challenges, with some workers clocking in for 12- to 16-hour workdays –– sometimes seven days a week. “A lot of employees, they’re out there more than they’re with their family.”

Miedema said that since the factory is not air-conditioned, they also have to contend with intense heat in summer. “This last summer was probably the most brutal summer that we’ve had.”

Line mechanic Jeff Pruitt, who has worked at Molson Coors for almost eight years, feels the heat is incredibly intense.

“In the summertime, it gets really rough in there,” he said. “It’s extremely hot, and it wouldn’t be so bad if the air wasn’t so stagnant. There’s no ventilation in there.”

He said heatstroke is not unheard of at the facility.

“We got quite a few people that go down from it being overheated and have to go to the hospital,” he said.

In October, data from the National Labor Relations Board showed ULP charge filings increased by 10% from the previous year –– the highest number of cases filed since 2016, the board said.

Miedema has noticed the strike trend and said he understands why unions are so active. “The fire is in the labor movement right now. … People are tired of working for less and less benefits. People want their fair share of the profits that the organizations make.”

In a public statement earlier this month, Molson Coors announced that in 2023, they achieved their highest reported top- and bottom-line figures in company history. The yearly salary of Molson Coors President and CEO Gavin Hattersley is just over $1 million, based on data by the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations). In 2022, he earned over $9 million in total compensation (which includes stock values and other compensation on top of the annual salary). Molson Coors disclosed that Hattersley’s pay was 115 times the median employee’s pay for that year, the labor policy group said.

Molson Coors did not respond to a request for comment.

Before the strike, John said he could feel the tension when he would walk into work. Contract negotiations between the union and Molson Coors weren’t going well,

and he felt like people were “walking on eggshells” and being short with one another. The energy was also different from previous contract negotiations –– this time, he said, he could tell it wouldn’t just be talk but action. A strike was on the horizon.

“This is my third contract, and, I don’t know, this one felt different,” he said. “It felt like, ‘We’re gonna do it.’ ”

Pruitt, a member of Local 997’s contract negotiations committee, said talks started poorly, with Molson Coors’ HR director allegedly presenting an ultimatum: Either the workers finish negotiating by the time the old contract expired, or Molson Coors would no longer pay committee members for their time.

“It’s been very difficult,” Pruitt said. “As soon as we got into the economics, they came after our health insurance.”

He said Molson Coors wanted to move union members onto a catastrophic health plan — “catastrophic” is a type of Affordable Care Act plan with low monthly premiums but high deductibles. He said it took weeks for the union to fight off that change. Then federal mediation got involved. Still, Pruitt said, nothing improved.

Molson Coors did not “even want to work with mediation in place,” he said. “They just presented us with their best and final offer, and that was the best that they could do.”

When the union voted to strike, John said it was like the pressure was finally released. The idea was both scary and exciting –– but mostly scary.

“You’ve got car payments and mortgage payments, and you don’t know how long this is gonna go, and you don’t know if you’re gonna be replaced,” John said.

With bills to pay and a family to support, he said his financial obligations were the first thing he thought about when he woke up and the last thing he thought about when he went to bed. Then, on February 8, the National Brotherhood of Teamsters announced they would increase strike benefits for Local 997 members to $1,000 a week. John said that coverage has made a meaningful difference for him and his fellow strikers.

“If it wasn’t for that … probably most people wouldn’t be able to make it,” he said.

Pruitt said he’s proud of his co-workers for striking. To him, this isn’t just about brewery workers but all workers. “We are not out there for just ourselves. … We’re also out there for everybody to take a stand, if you’re having problems in your workplace, to stand together and take action.”

Miedema said Local 997 members will “hold the line as long as they need to” to reach a contract agreement.

John’s message to Molson Coors is simple –– take care of the workers who take care of the business.

For everyone else, he has a different sentiment.

“Sorry about the traffic on 35,” he said. “We really don’t want to screw anybody’s day up. … We’re trying to give ourselves a better life for our families and better lives for young kids who are starting out working. That’s what we’re fighting for.” l

CrossTown Sounds

Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend. At least, that’s how the song goes. With how the calendar falls this month, we get five of them. Below are some top choices for maximizing your “me time” musically in March.

First Weekend

Charles Milton Gaby plays Grease Monkey Burger Shop (200 N Mesquite St, Ste 103, Arlington, 817-665-5454) 8pm11pm Fri. There is no cover charge, which gives you extra spending money for beer and tasty burgers.

Squeezebox Bandits are hosting a singlerelease party for the new track “City Lights” at Tulips FTW (112 St. Louis Av, Fort Worth, 817-367-9798) Fri. Doors are at 8pm. Guest opener ALG Band plays at 8:30pm. Squeezebox is doing two sets, at 9:15pm and 10:30pm. Tickets start at $12 at TulipsFTW. com.

The Matthew Show has a full band set with Little Jack Melody & His Young Turks and Tipps & Obermiller at The Cicada (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth, @The_Cicada_FTW) 9pm Sat. Admission is $10.

Second Weekend

Hazard County will play College Night at Billy Bob’s Texas (2520 Rodeo Plaza, Fort Worth, 817-624-7117) 7pm Thu, Mar 7. Entry is free with a physical college ID.

Black Tie Dynasty has a show with Phantomelo and Secrecies at Rubber Gloves (411 E Sycamore St, Denton, 940-594-2207) 7pm Fri, Mar 8. Admission is $15.

Start your March with Charles Milton Gaby at Grease Monkey Friday.

Canadian folk/blues singer-songwriter Matt Anderson is touring in support of his latest album, The Big Bottle of Joy. Along with folk artist Old Man Luedecke, Anderson plays the Rose Chapel at Southside Preservation Hall (1519 Lipscomb St, Fort Worth, 817-926-2800) 8pm Fri, Mar 8. Tickets are $25 at TixR.com.

In celebration of what would have been Townes Van Zandt’s 80th birthday this month, Southside Preservation Hall (1519 Lipscomb St, Fort Worth, 817-926-2800) is the host venue for the annual Home Townes Festival, featuring two days of events. Townes’ former manager and music documentarian will speak as part of An Evening with John Lomax III at 8pm Sat, Mar 9, and local singer-songwriters will perform their favorite Townes songs 2pm-6pm Sun, Mar 10. Tickets are $25 on Prekindle.com.

The Cidada (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth, @The_Cicada_FTW) is celebrating its first anniversary with an all-day party 2pm2am Sat, Mar 9, with drink specials, food vendors, pop-up tattoos, and live music by Arenda Light, J/O/E, and The Me-Thinks. There is no cost to attend.

Suzy and Woodrow from Suzy & The Sissies are playing as an acoustic duo at Second Rodeo in Mule Alley in the Stockyards (122 E Exchange Av, Ste 340, Fort Worth, 877517-7548) noon-3pm Sun, Mar 10. No cover.

Third Weekend

The Toadies are playing with FIT at Lava Cantina (5805 Grandscape Blvd, The Colony, 214-618-6893) 8pm Fri, Mar 15. Tickets start at $20 on Eventbrite.com. Coincidentally, this is the weekend they reunited back in 2006. Our friends at the Dallas Observer had a hand in that by inviting the band to play the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade. There. Now that’s a thing you know.

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Poo Live Crew will be at Rahr & Sons Brewing (701 Galveston Av, Fort Worth, 817-810-9266) 5pm-10pm Sat, Mar 16, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day and the 20th anniversary of both the band and the brewery. There will be live music and a DJ all evening, with The Poo taking the stage at 8pm. Admission is $25 at the door and includes three beers and a souvenir pint glass.

The Go-Go Rillas will play on the main seminar stage at the Texas Pinball Festival at Embassy Suites by Hilton (7600 John Q Hammons Dr, Frisco, 972-712-7200) 11pmmidnight Sat, Mar 16. The performance is free to those attending the festival (ThuSun, Mar 15-17). Weekend passes are $90 at TexasPinball.com.

The third annual Southside Spillover festival hits Tulips FTW (112 St. Louis Av, Fort Worth, 817-367-9798) the third weekend of March. The Plum Boys, Generational Wealth, Phantomelo, Smut, Bendigo Fletcher, Olive Vox, Oh He Dead?, Kassa Overall, Bathe Alone, Gruff Rhys, Eliza McLamb, TAGABOW, Winona Fighter, and Trauma Ray will play noon1am Sat, Mar 16. Then from noon to 10pm on Sun, Mar 17, Honey Saxon, The Nancys, Bermuda Search Party, Wishy, High, Said the People, Subsonic Eye, Dale Hollow, Moon Walker, Jack Van Cleaf, Ethan Tasch, Coach Party, Provoker, Glixen, and Glare will play. Single-day passes are $19, and two-day passes are $35 at SeeTickets.us.

The Dick Beldings are playing a free show at The Rusty Nickel Icehouse (2836 Stanley Av, Fort Worth, 817-528-1682) 5pm-9pm Sun, Mar 17. (With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Sunday this year, look for plenty more lucky events to appear in our calendar columns in the coming weeks!)

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FRI 3/1 JUD FRISBY, DAVENPORT, CAMERON BROSIUS & MORE!

THUR 3/7 THE DARLING SUNS W/ HUNTER COX & WRONGBIRD

Courtesy Charles Milton Gaby

The Home Townes Festival honoring the late Townes Van Zandt is Sat-Sun, Mar 9-10, at Southside Preservation Hall.

Courtesy Fat Possum Records

Suzy & Woodrow play Second Rodeo Sun, Mar 10.

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Fourth Weekend

The Matthew Show will perform as a trio at Bankhead Brewpub (611 University Dr, Fort Worth, 817-439-9223) 7pm Fri, Mar 22. There is no cost to attend.

Neutral Ground Brewing (2929 Race St, Fort Worth, 682-499-6033) is celebrating its third anniversary with a Cheers to Three Years Party featuring some new beer releases, a shrimp boil by The Wild Cajun, and live music by J/O/E noon-10pm Sat, Mar 23. There is no cost to attend.

Fifth Weekend

The Dick Beldings are playing a free party on the CBD Backyard Stage at Texas Live! (1650 E Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, 817852-6688) for Rangers opening day (Thu,

Mar 28). Then, the band heads to Magnolia Motor Lounge (3803 Southwest Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-332-3344) 9pm-midnight Sat, Mar 30. Admission is $10.

The Michele Taylor Band plays Dirty Water Saloon (9716 Palo Pinto Rd, Fort Worth, 682-702-2044) Sat, Mar 30. No cover.

Art House (3529 W Fuller Av, Fort Worth) offers a big show with comedy and visual art to go along with the music 5pm-11pm Sat, Mar 30. Denver Williams & The Gas Money will headline, preceded by Big Heaven at 9pm and the Sean Russell Band at 8pm. Openers include singer-songwriters

Jakob Robertson, Claire Hinkle, and Kinsley August and comedians Brian Breckinridge, Tim Davies, Danny McGough, and Marc Plata. There is no cover, but tips at the door for the performers will be appreciated.

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J/O/E will perform at both The Cicada’s and Neutral Ground Brewing’s anniversary parties this month.

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EMPLOYMENT

American Airlines, Inc. has openings in Ft. Worth, TX for: Manager, Commercial & Revenue Management Planning (Ref. 1791): Apply knwl of market insights to perform quantitative & qualitative analysis of a competitive situation, dvlp recs, & prepare written & oral presentations to sr. mgmt; Technical Lead, IT Applications (Ref. 2067): Participate in all phases of the s/w dvlpmnt lifecycle & is resp for the app design, dvlpmnt & maintenance of a strategic biz layer supporting AA.com, Mobile, AA Kiosks & other key & crit systems; Sr. Engineer, IT Quality Assurance (Ref. 1955): Design, write, & maintain auto test scripts for multi crew planning apps using deep knwl of the biz needs; Principal Data Architect, IT (Ref. 18): Resp for leveraging cutting edge tech to solve biz probs at AA; Manager, Revenue Management (Ref. 467): Resp for driving rev performance across the AA network by analyzing the competitive landscape, identifying new rev opportunities, & utilizing Rev Mgmt tools & tactics; Manager, Corporate Development (Ref. 1577): Manage internal relations w/ various commercial, ops, accounting & legal divisions to proactively provide consistent financial perspective & decision support, often working as an internal consultant; Sr. Engineer, IT Access Management (Ref. 2282): Resp for identifying, eval’g, & implementing biz needs for Directory Services requests by performing PingDirectory & OUD integrations, admin, maintenance, & auto as well as providing ongoing support to enterprise customers; Team Lead, IT Applications (Ref. 2357): Resp for partnering closely w/ the Customer Exp Service Recovery & IRROPs – Org & dvlpmnt team to provide leadership, technical, & functional reqs & solutions to support biz op. To learn more or to apply send inquiries &/or resume to Gene Womack via email: Gene.Womack@aa.com. Please include Ref # in subject line.

EMPLOYMENT

American Airlines, Inc. has openings in Ft. Worth, TX for: Sr. Analyst, Digital Product Owner (Ref. 2271): Resp for collaborat’g w/ internal partners from CEID, IT, UX & Analytics to understand cx behavior & create great cx exps. Revenue Management Performance Analyst (Ref. 1543): Resp for act’g as the internal biz consultant focused on synthesiz’g large data sets to understand market level trends & strategies, diagnose, & resolve performance issues, & deliver insights to translate into mean’gful market-level actions. Sr. Developer, IT Applications (Ref. 1957): Resp for develop’g & modify’g complex, deadline-intensive &/or mission-critical apps us’g advanced programm’g tools. Analyst/Sr. Analyst, RM Pricing and Yield Management (Ref. 2207): Resp for maximiz’g passenger revenue across American Airlines’ robust commercial airline network. Technical Lead, IT Applications (Ref. 655): Resp for participat’g in all phases of the sw dev lifecycle & for the app design. Developer, IT Applications (Ref. 2276): Resp for build’g Restful web services that use Json to support American Airlines IOS, mobile & Service Recovery apps. Sr. Analyst, Operations Analysis & Reporting (Ref. 2023): Resp for proactively analyz’g all aspects of operational performance, cover’g a wide variety of both strategic & operational analyses. To learn more or to apply send inquiries &/or resume to Gene Womack via email: Gene.Womack@aa.com. Please include Ref # in subject line.

NOW HIRING IN CORSICANA, TX

MACHINE OPERATOR 2ND SHIFT

Position Summary: The Machine Operator will fabricate and assemble polyethylene pipe (HDPE) to create a variety of customized structures such as; fittings, valves, T’s, Y’s, elbows, aqua-shields, geothermal vaults, manholes, dual containment units, pumps, gas aeration lines and similar structures that meet customer specifications by performing the following duties:

Read and interpret blueprints, product drawings and pic ticket orders to determine the materials, tools and equipment needed to complete work

Follow quality control procedures when fabricating and assembling products per customer specifications

Maintain accurate records of materials used on “ticket”; locate and pull required materials from inventory

Sustain clean work area and equipment; follow safety procedures concerning use of equipment and materials for safe working conditions

Operate ISCO’s fusion and fast fusion equipment, cranes, and forklifts

Utilize a variety of hand tools, saws and cutting equipment

Perform other related duties as assigned

FABRICATOR

Position Summary: Fabricators are responsible for fabricating and assembling polyethylene pipe to create a variety of customized structures such as: fittings, valves, T's, Y's, elbows, aqua shields, geothermal vaults, manholes, dual containment units, pumps, gas aeration lines and similar structures that meet customer specifications by performing the following duties:

Read and interpret blueprints, product drawings and pic ticket orders to determine materials, tools and equipment needed to complete work

Follows quality control procedures to ensure that the assembled, fabricated product meets customer specifications

Upholds accurate records of materials used on "ticket"; locates and pulls required materials from inventory

Maintains clean work area and equipment;

following safety procedures concerning use of equipment and materials to maintain safe working conditions

Operates ISCO's fusion and fast fusion equipment, cranes and forklifts

Utilizes a variety of hand tools, saws and cutting equipment and performs other related duties as assigned

Basic computer skills

Must be able to lift up to 40lbs on a regular basis and stand for long periods of time

NOW HIRING IN MANSFIELD TX MECHANIC

Position Summary: The Mechanic will be responsible for repairing and refurbishing fusion equipment in a distribution plant or field environment by performing the following duties:

Ability to troubleshoot and repair; small diesel/gas engines, centrifugal pumps, generators, electrical circuits and hydraulic/pneumatic systems

Maintain all rental fusion equipment to keep it in working order; troubleshoot and repair damaged equipment; perform scheduled maintenance

Maintain records of service, repairs and scheduled maintenance

Complete 24-hour check-ins and machine checklists

Enter and maintain records of rental equipment in computer system

Prepare equipment for shipping; repair quotes for customers; write repair orders

Locate required parts utilizing local vendor and/or vendor websites

May be expected to repair Fabrication shop equipment as needed and provide field support for trouble shooting equipment repairs

Previous experience with computers for order entry, parts ordering, and email is a plus

Perform other related duties as assigned.

Applicant may also be asked to work in the Shipping & Receiving area as needed. Responsibilities may include packing and loading customer orders of piping, valves, and fusion equipment, completing daily cycle counts, and receiving of product or equipment from vendors.

At ISCO, we put high value on appreciation and respect, and provide you with an opportunity to really make a difference. ISCO is a family owned and operated company born and raised in Louisville, KY that is focused on our team members’ growth. In addition to a standard benefits package of medical/ dental/vision, ISCO offers a 6% match on retirement! ISCO Industries is an end-to-end piping solutions provider that specializes in HDPE, working with leading edge technology that makes us a market leader.

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Johnson Brothers Corporation, a Southland Company, in Grapevine, Texas, seeks Project Engineer – Facilities to be responsible for preconstruction engring & prjct mgmt. Must be willing & able to travel up to 25%. Apply online at southlandholdings.com.

EMPLOYMENT

Mouser Electronics, Inc seeks BI Developer II in Mansfield, TX. Engage with end-users to identify opportunities where data can enable them to make data-driven decisions. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week. Applicants apply at https://www. jobpostingtoday.com/ Ref # 41506.

EMPLOYMENT

Oscar Renda Contracting, Inc., a Southland Company, headquartered in Grapevine, TX, seeks Project Manager to work on projects at unanticipated locations throughout U.S., leading & overseeing all aspects of construction prjcts from initiation to completion. Relocation required. Apply online at southlandholdings.com.

EMPLOYMENT- General

Ingram Micro Texas L.P. seeks Professionals, Engineering in Fort Worth, TX (and various and unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.). Responsible for developing & maintaining supply chain and logistics processes for a variety of warehousing & distribution center operations. Conduct special projects to achieve improved methods, optimize process flow to facilitate efficient put-away, order fulfillment, shipping, & space utilization. Plan, coordinate & assist with execution of redesign & redevelopment of optimal distribution center practices. Telecommuting/work from home is permissible. Position requires up to 10% of domestic travel. $70,512/yr. CONTACT: Search by title and apply online at https://www.ingrammicro.com/ en-us/careers/work-for-us

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