The Time is Now! Start Your Career with the Houston Fire Department.
Per Chapter 143.023 of the Texas Local Government Code: A person may not take an entrance examination for a beginning position in the fire department unless the person is at least 18 years of age but not 36 years of age or older. A person may not be certified as eligible for a beginning position in the fire department if the person is 36 years of age or older.
Minimum requirements:
Fifteen (15) accredited college credit hours OR Two (2) years of full-time active military service with an honorable discharge as stipulated on a DD214 Member 4  Certified Applicants: Must meet one of the above requirements and have active Fire and EMT Certifications
Applicant must meet the above requirements by the Civil Service Exam date. Participates in classroom lectures, seminars, and practical training sessions as directed by the Houston Fire Department. Receives and participates in various types of training in fire suppression and emergency medical services up to and including paramedic certification. Participates in drills, demonstrations, and instruction in hydraulics, pump operation, maintenance, fire suppression, rescue, and emergency medical services. ONLY “on-line” applications will be accepted. On-line applications will be accepted until all testing slots are filled. 
Exam Information: Dates: 5/3/24, 6/7/24, and 7/12/24 Time: 7:30 AM and/or 12:30 PM Location: Val Jahnke Training Facility, 8030 Braniff St, Houston, TX 77061. Bring your driver’s license or other photo ID. Due to the high volume of applications received, you will be contacted directly via email, should you qualify to take the exam. You will receive an email with the date to report to the testing site for the exam.
Benefits: $5,000 Incentive Pay for ALL new hires Medical Dental Vision Wellness Life insurance Long-term disability Retirement pension 457 deferred compensation plan Employee Assistance Program 10 days of vacation each year 11 city holidays, plus one floating holiday Flexible schedules Professional development opportunities Transportation/parking plan Section 125 pretax deductions Dependent Care Reimbursement Plan Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
Qualifications: Immunizations/shot records will be required prior to starting the training academy. The minimum passing score is 70 percent on the written examination before the extra five (5) points for qualified veterans are added. Per Chapter 143.025of the Tex. Loc. Gov’t Code, an additional five points shall be added to the examination grade of an applicant who served in the United States armed forces, received an honorable discharge, and made a passing grade on the examination. Applicants who are eligible for extra military points must scan and attach a copy of their DD214 (Member-4) to their electronic application or send a copy to hfdhiringprocess@houstontx.gov. The last day to submit a DD214 is the date of the Civil Service Exam. No DD214s will be accepted at the test site. Texas Commission of Fire Protection State Fire Fighters Certification and Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) Emergency Medical Technician Certification(s) will be subject to verification by the Human Resources Department. Texas Department of State Health Services Emergency Medical Technicians Certification as a Paramedic will be subject to verification by the Human Resources Department. An applicant may not take the examination for an eligibility list more than once. The eligibility list created as a result of this examination will be effective for a period of not less than 6 months or more than 12 months as determined by the Civil Service Commission. Passing applicants will be referred to the Human Resources Department Classified Careers & Services Division to continue processing. Any falsification in the application process will result in disqualification. Applicants must pass and complete all phases of the hiring process (civil service exam, physical ability test, interview, polygraph, background, immunizations, drug screen, medical examination).  HFD reserves the right to discontinue consideration in the hiring process based on an applicant conduct or verification of certain disqualifying factors.  Must not have ever been convicted of a Felony. Any Misdemeanor charge or divert/deferred adjudication or similar program may require an active TDSHS EMT certification prior to job offer. Applicants’ eligibility for hiring will be determined in rank order from the eligibility list.

Providing strategic leadership across procurement, supply chain management, product development, and production strategies, encompassing meat blocks, ingredients, packaging supplies, process flow, and equipment. Spearheading sales and customer business development efforts. Overseeing corporate profitability objectives, focusing on yield and margin optimization while adhering to overhead and indirect labor goals. As a member of the C-suite executive team, driving corporate culture and value initiatives, fostering company growth, and creating value for shareholders and stakeholders.
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and serving as a key member of the executive leadership team, this role involves close collaboration with internal sales and manufacturing leadership teams. Regular interactions with external suppliers and customers are essential to ensure seamless operations and strategic alignment, fostering strong relationships and driving the company's goals forward.
Oversee the development and implementation of organizational procurement strategies, including short, mid, and long-term plans to achieve business profitability goals. Analyze the sales mix and profitability of each item for customers, ensuring effective oversight within the supply chain. Develop comprehensive procurement strategies for meat blocks, exploring industry options, vetting and testing possibilities, understanding raw material costs, and analyzing raw material characteristics. Lead procurement contract negotiations, focusing on exposure capacities, price structures, leverage points, and incorporating BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) into the buying strategy. Ensure specification compliance and enforce supplier accountability with clear consequences. Develop, implement, and evaluate strategies for supply chain improvement. Identify process challenges and implement solutions to streamline inefficiencies, achieving maximum productivity. Serve as the company’s subject matter expert for production and sales, particularly regarding finished product initiatives. Focus on specification development, process flow optimization, yield expectations, customer satisfaction, and company profit goals. Strategically interface with sales teams and customers. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce costs and enhance profitability. Develop and evaluate strategies to improve the supply chain, addressing process inefficiencies to boost productivity. Enhance profitability by developing robust raw material strategies that result in high-yielding, high-performing products for both customers and production. Understand the full scope of the production process and product mix to achieve optimal margin performance.
Benefits: Competitive Health & Welfare Benefits Company-Matched 401(k) Savings Plan Award Program Potential Paid Vacation Paid Holidays Product Discount
Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or Economics Proactive and strategic thinking for developing long-term strategies for supply chain improvement. Proven and visible leadership capability, with the ability to use a variety of leadership approaches in order to achieve results. Clear, logical thinker, able to present a compelling business case supported by data and analysis. Experience implementing asset management systems. Diplomatic with excellent negotiating skills. Proven project/program management experience. Able to constructively challenge the status quo.

The primary purpose of your job position is to plan, organize, develop, and direct the overall operation of our facility’s Social Services Department in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines and regulations, our established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the Administrator, to assure that the medically related emotional and social needs of the resident are met/maintained on an individual basis.
Welcomes all new residents and families to the facility. Identify medically-related social and emotional needs of the resident. Interview residents, or family members, as necessary, to obtain social history in a private setting. Participate in discharge planning, development and implementation of social care plans and resident assessments. Develop a written plan of care for each resident that identifies social problems/needs of the resident and the goals to be accomplished for each problem/need identified. Encourage the resident/family to participate in the development and review of his/her plan of care. Perform administrative requirements, such as completing necessary forms, reports, etc., and submitting such to the Administrator as required. Assure that social service progress notes are informative and descriptive of the services provided and of the resident’s response to the service. Refer resident/families to appropriate social service agencies when the facility does not provide the services or needs of the resident. Review and develop a plan of correction for social service deficiencies noted during survey inspections and provide a written copy of such to the Administrator. Meet with administration, medical and nursing staff, as well as other related departments in planning social service programs and activities. Other duties as deemed necessary and appropriate, or as may be directed by the Administrator.
Benefits: PTO Paid Holidays Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Company-Paid Life insurance Flexible Spending for Medical and Dependent Care 401(k) Matching contributions up to 4% $5,000 Sign On Bonus
Requirements: Must possess, as a minimum, a Bachelor's Degree from an approved school of Social Work. Must be a licensed social worker in the state of hire. Must have, as a minimum, one (1) year social work experience in long-term care working directly with individuals.
Regent Care Centers is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, disability, age or national origin or any other protected status.

$3,000 SIGN ON BONUS FOR FULL-TIME APPLICANTS.
Shifts: 12-Hour Shifts Night Shift Available Description The primary purpose of your job position is to provide direct nursing care to the residents, and to supervise the day-to-day nursing activities performed by nursing assistants. Such supervision must be in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern our facility, and as may be required by the Director of Nursing Services to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times. Make written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your shift as required. Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary. Complete and file required recordkeeping forms/charts upon the resident’s admission, transfer, and/or discharge. Perform routine charting duties as required and in accordance with established charting and documentation policies and procedures. Make daily rounds of your unit/shift to ensure that nursing service personnel are performing their work assignments in accordance with acceptable nursing standards. Report problem areas to the Director of Nursing. Administer professional services such as; catheterization, tube feedings, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, and drainage bags, taking blood, giving massages and range of motion exercises, care for the dead/dying, etc., as required. Any other duties as assigned by Director of Nursing and/or Administrator. Regent Care Centers® offers a competitive compensation and benefit package for Full Time employees that includes: PTO Paid Holidays Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Company-Paid Life insurance Flexible Spending for Medical and Dependent Care 401(k) Matching contributions up to 4% Part Time employees are offered limited PTO, limited Paid Holidays, and 401k benefits. PRN employees are offered 401k benefits. Regent Care Centers is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, disability, age or national origin or any other protected status. Requirements Nursing Degree from an accredited college or university Current, unencumbered, active license to practice as a LVN in the state of hire Long-term care experience preferred

$5,000 Sign-On Bonus
The primary purpose of your job position is to provide direct nursing care to the residents, and to supervise the day-to-day nursing activities performed by nursing assistants. Such supervision must be in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern our facility, and as may be required by the Director of Nursing Services to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times.
Make written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your shift as required. Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary. Complete and file required recordkeeping forms/charts upon the resident’s admission, transfer, and/or discharge. Perform routine charting duties as required and in accordance with established charting and documentation policies and procedures. Make daily rounds of your unit/shift to ensure that nursing service personnel are performing their work assignments in accordance with acceptable nursing standards. Report problem areas to the Director of Nursing. Administer professional services such as; catheterization, tube feedings, suction, applying and changing dressings/bandages, packs, colostomy, and drainage bags, taking blood, giving massages and range of motion exercises, care for the dead/dying, etc., as required. Any other duties as assigned by Director of Nursing and/or Administrator. Regent Care Centers® offers a competitive compensation and benefit package for Full Time employees that includes: PTO Paid Holidays Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Company-Paid Life insurance Flexible Spending for Medical and Dependent Care 401(K) Matching contributions up to 4%
Requirements Nursing Degree from an accredited college or university Current, unencumbered, active license to practice as a RN in the state of hire Long-term care experience preferred


Regent Care Centers® is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, disability, age or national origin or any other protected status.

We are hiring general laborers to support various projects in the greater Houston Area. Candidates will be responsible for cleaning and preparing construction sites. Unloading and loading of materials, and other labor related tasks such as assisting carpenters, operating engineers, and other construction site workers.
Pay rate: $15 - $20/hr based on experience
Benefits: Health Dental 401K Life Insurance *Waiting period may apply
Qualifications: Must pass a physical and drug/alcohol test Minimum 2 years work experience as a concrete laborer Ability to stand for long periods Ability to lift heavy materials and work long hours Ability to kneel for long periods Knowledge of hand-held and power tools including power vibrators, polishers, cutting saws, and edging tools Able to work shifts, at night and on public holidays as required
Forde Construction is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are looking to hire experienced concrete finishers who can expertly pour, level, and smooth concrete on a variety of surfaces including roads, sidewalks, curbs, and floors. You may also be required to set forms, patch existing surfaces, cut expansion joints, and monitor the curing of the concrete to ensure a high-quality finish.
Setting forms that hold the concrete in place Cleaning and inspecting surfaces for pouring issues Directing the casting of the concrete with the truck driver Pouring, smoothing, and leveling concrete using a rake, trowel, float, and screed Monitoring the effects of the weather on the curing process Applying sealing and hardening components Safely operating power vibrator to ensure the concrete is compacted Molding and constructing expansion joints using joiners and edging tools Polishing surface using a power surfacing machine
Benefits: Health Dental 401K Life Insurance *Waiting period may apply
Qualifications: Must pass a physical and drug/alcohol test Minimum 2 years work experience as a concrete laborer or mason Ability to stand for long periods Ability to lift heavy materials and work long hours Ability to kneel for long periods Knowledge of hand-held and power tools including power vibrators, polishers, cutting saws, and edging tools Able to work shifts, at night and on public holidays as required
Forde Construction is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are seeking a Class A CDL Driver with experience hauling and operating heavy highway equipment for a Heavy Highway Road & Bridge Company working in Houston and surrounding counties.
Performs pre-trip and post-trip inspection of trucks, trailers, and equipment Transports equipment to job sites Safely load/unload excavators, cranes, backhoes, loaders, motor graders, dozers Must be able to safely operate dump truck and water truck Works with hydraulic tools, hand tools, and electrical tools Performs manual labor as needed to accomplish work and meet job accomplishment expectations Responsible for keeping the work-site, vehicles, equipment and tools are safe, clean and ready for use Must be flexible/work-ready to perform tasks for other departments/locations as may be required to meet needs Follow all required safety policies and procedures Other duties as assigned
Pay rate: $20 - $30/hr based on experience
Benefits: Health Dental 401K Life Insurance *Waiting period may apply
Qualifications: CDL - Class A (Required) 2 years experience as a CDL Driver with ability to load and haul heavy equipment Minimum 2 years experience within the road construction industry Must have a clean driving record Must pass a physical and drug/alcohol test Must be able to pass a background check We participate in E-VERIFY
Work Environment / Physical Requirements: Regularly exposed to outside weather conditions; moving equipment and machinery parts; moving traffic, and fumes and airborne particles Noise level of the work environment is usually moderate/loud Regularly required to stand/walk; reach with hands and arms; for up to 14 hours a day Occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds
Forde Construction is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Utility Trailer Sales Southeast Texas, Inc. has been a trusted provider of quality new and used trailers, parts, and service in the South/Southeastern Texas, Southern Louisiana, and Mexico region since 1970.
Job Duties: Responsible for ensuring that trailers and related equipment are thoroughly cleaned and maintained Attention to detail, physical stamina, and a commitment to maintaining high cleanliness standards Perform thorough cleaning of the interior and exterior of trailers using high-pressure washers, cleaning agents, and other equipment Inspect trailers for cleanliness and report any damages or maintenance needs to the supervisor Maintain a clean and organized work area, ensuring all cleaning supplies and equipment are properly stored and maintained Follow all safety protocols and guidelines to ensure a safe working environment Assist with other tasks as needed, including minor maintenance and repairs on trailers Document cleaning activities and maintain records as required Work efficiently to meet scheduled deadlines and maintain productivity standards Primarily outdoor work with exposure to varying weather conditions
Benefits: Paid time off Paid holidays 401 Medical, Dental, Vision Life Insurance Long and Short Term Disability
Qualifications: Valid Driver's License Ability to operate cleaning equipment such as high-pressure washers and steam cleaners Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality Physical ability to perform tasks that require standing, bending, lifting, and working in various weather conditions Basic mechanical skills are advantageous Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team Reliable and punctual with a strong work ethic

Utility Trailer Sales Southeast Texas, Inc. has been a trusted provider of quality new and used trailers, parts, and service in the South/Southeastern Texas, Southern Louisiana, and Mexico region since 1970.
Job Duties: Unload inbound shipments safely and move material to storage locations. Load outbound shipments efficiently and safely, following loading procedures. Efficiently stack and store the merchandise in the appropriate areas. Ensure inbound and outbound shipments are accurate and free of damage. Report quality variances. Pull and prepare material for shipment, ensuring that the exact number and product type is loaded and shipped. Perform picking duties in an efficient manner that meets customer service standards. Efficiently move product from staging and/or storage areas into rail cars or trailers. Load, unload, move, stack, and stage materials using a forklift or other power equipment. Maintain the facility’s equipment and materials neat, clean, and orderly. Inspect and perform minor maintenance on the forklift or other equipment. Operate all equipment safely and efficiently following prescribed work methods. Keep appropriate records and reports to maintain tight inventory control and security. Assist in physical inventories. Ensure proper stock rotation. Maintain a clean, neat, and orderly work area. Assist in maintaining the security of the warehouse. Conduct operations in a manner that promotes safety. Perform or assist in building, grounds, and equipment maintenance as required.
Benefits: Paid time off Paid holidays 401 Medical, Dental, Vision Life Insurance Long and Short Term Disability
Qualifications: Current Class A CDL. High School diploma or equivalent (GED). A valid driver’s license and a good driving record Knowledge, skill and ability to safely operate a forklift Knowledge, skill and ability to safely operate a yard dog Safely operate a heavy or tractor-trailer truck. Properly track and document activity log. Report any issues or incidents to dispatch. Inspect the truck before and after the trip. Deliver product/material promptly throughout the route. Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions and paperwork. Solid problem-solving skills. Ability to contribute and work in a team environment. Ability to demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness to ensure first quality of work. Ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with people during work. Willingness to work additional hours to meet tight deadlines.