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Application Developer | Marshfield
Description
Application Developer                                                                                                                           
 
  • Location: Marshfield, WI
  • Type of Employment: Full-time
  • Industry: Transportation
  • Function: Application Development
  • Experience: Advanced
 
Company Description                                                                                                                              

Roehl Transport needs a creative and entrepreneurial Application Developer to join our industry leading Team!
Roehl Transport was founded by Everett Roehl in 1962 when he began providing motor carrier service with a single truck. Over fifty years later, Roehl Transport, still family owned, has grown to one of the largest, most progressive, and safest transportation and logistics companies in the nation.  With over 2,500 employees Roehl is headquartered in Marshfield, Wisconsin and has offices in Appleton, WI; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Phoenix, AZ; and Dallas, TX.  Roehl provides truckload service throughout the United States and Canada.  We service over 8,800 customers and some of the most recognized brand names in the nation. 
 
Roehl has earned hundreds of distinctions including two of the industry's highest safety honors:  the American Trucking Associations' President's Trophy three times and the Truckload Carrier Associations' Annual National Fleet Safety Grand Prize two consecutive years.  We have led the industry in the adoption of advanced operation technologies and are a leader in environmental initiatives.  Our management practices have earned us recognition as one of the best managed trucking companies in America.  Roehl is built on values - a commitment to efficiency, to timely service and promises kept; to quality, courtesy, reliability and a respected public image with a cornerstone value of safety.
 
At Roehl we recognize that our people ultimately power all we do.  We provide a professional work environment coupled with award winning human resource practices which include training and opportunities that encourage you to be your best.  Whether you are interested in information technology, business management or customer service, at Roehl you'll find a variety of career options that will suit your interests, skills, and the advancement of your professional goals. If you like to work on team and get a rush out of making a difference then read on my friend, we like you already!

Job Description                                                                                                                                      

The Job:
As an Application Developer at Roehl Transport you will have the opportunity to perform analysis, programming, testing, and other system development tasks to meet business and IT requests. We are looking for a team player that can communicate well, thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, and consistently deliver value added business and technical solutions.

Here is what you will be doing:
  • Complete full lifecycle application development taking projects from inception to roll out; including requirement gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, and performance tuning of enterprise level applications
  • Support existing applications by doing code analysis, debugging, and exceptions handling
  • Responsible for creating multiple solutions to business challenges and taking the appropriate course of action based on thorough understanding of business requirements
  • Maintain and enhance functionality of complex distributed systems
  • Ability to do review code and provide guidance in areas of OO programming and SOA architecture to meet the highest standards in software development
  • Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
  • Interact with other members of the team to deliver requirements according to schedule
  • Ensure that development projects are well planned and organized, including business case development, impact assessment, charter, communication plans, and integrated project schedules
You will be joining a growing team of Application Developers as together we build and grow Roehl Transport!

Qualifications                                                                                                                                          

Roehl Transport is progressive work place that thrives on teamwork and collaboration. Ideally you will the possess the following qualities:
  • Ability to solve complex problems
  • An entrepreneurial mindset
  • Ability to understand context, set priorities, and manage tasks across projects
  • Strong communication skills, ability to translate end user needs into business and technical solutions
  • Train, mentor and as necessary lead others in development techniques
  • Ability to develop options and solutions based on resource and/or technology constraints
  • Ability to communicate complex technical issues in writing and verbally to a diverse audience
  • Solid project management skills; ability to multi-task and keep all projects on schedule
  • Bachelor degree in business or technical discipline
  • Requires 3+ years of development experience, with 1-3 years web application development experience in object oriented design
  • Background in mid-size business, preferably a manufacturing or transportation environment
The Experience:
Here is what we are looking for:
  • Source control solutions such as Microsoft Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework, 3.5 or later preferred  (C#, ASP.NET)
  • Solid unit testing and advanced debugging techniques
  • Strong knowledge of SQL 2005/2008 including Transact-SQL, stored procedures, packages, transaction management and index tuning.
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jquery
  • Web Services, WCF, XML
  • Windows services and scheduled tasks
  • Basic Windows server management for 2003 and 2008
  • IIS
  • LINQ
  • Knowledge of how O/RM (eg. MS Entity Framework) products relate to OO code.
  • Web applications, networks, protocols and email (SMTP, POP3)
  • Solid understanding of the Microsoft technical stack
  • Strong Object Oriented Design and Agile software development experience is preferred
  • Strong Knowledge of SOA
  • Knowledgeable of Inversion of Control, dependency injection, and the benefits of persistence ignorance
The Salary:
You will receive a competitive salary, variable compensation bonus, medical, dental, 401k, profit sharing, PTO, and 100% tuition reimbursement!

The Start Date:
We are ready for you to start as soon as you can!
This opening is closed and is no longer accepting applications