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February 28, 2005 Purdue Research Park Job Fair offers professional opportunitiesWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A variety of employment opportunities, including positions for chief financial officer and director of business development, will be highlighted by the 13 companies participating in the Purdue Research Park Job Fair on Wednesday (March 2). The job fair, sponsored by the Purdue Research Foundation, aims to connect the park's nearly 130 companies with quality job applicants. More than 300 job seekers attended last year's fair. This year's event will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the research park's Purdue Technology Center, 3000 Kent Ave. Most of the full-time positions require a bachelor's, master's or doctorate degree in the specified field. Job seekers are encouraged to bring their resumes. "This year's job fair features a wider variety of available positions, indicating continued growth in the park's high-tech firms," said Joseph Hornett, senior vice president and treasurer of the Purdue Research Foundation, the organization that administers the research park. The Purdue Research Park companies participating in this year's job fair are Alliance Group Technologies, Arxan Technologies Inc., Bioanalytical Systems Inc. (BASi), Butler International Inc., Endocyte Inc., Executive Automation LLC, Griffin Analytical Technologies Inc., Imaginestics LLC, Life Plus LLC, MED Institute, Purdue Gateways Program, Simulex Inc. and SSCI Inc. Alliance Group Technologies, a firm that provides human resources and staffing services for West Lafayette-based Delphi Electronics and Safety as well as other clients, is hiring 10 university students for part-time software engineering programming positions and four full-time employees with degrees in electrical and systems engineering. Butler International's newest engineering design center, where helicopter design work is performed for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., is seeking a stress analyst, design engineer, candidates with experience in Catia or Cadra tool design, and manufacturing and manufacturing engineering planners. An electrical designer also may be required in the weeks ahead. Bioanalytical Systems plans to hire up to three full-time, entry-level laboratory technicians and laboratory analysts with chemistry backgrounds. Positions available at Endocyte Inc. include chief financial officer, director of business development, administrative assistant and accountant - all full-time positions. Imaginestics is looking for a software development engineer. MED Institute is seeking an experienced mechanical engineer as well as a mechanical engineering technology graduate. Simulex is seeking two computer scientists with undergraduate or graduate degrees, one research scientist with a master's degree in physics, mathematics or computer science, and three social scientists with master's degrees in international relations, macroeconomics or psychology. Although SSCI does not have immediate openings, the company will be accepting resumes from chemists. Internships also will be available, including positions in the fields of software security (Arxan Technologies); software development engineering and sales (Imaginestics); business (Purdue Gateways Program); mechanical engineering and chemistry (Griffin Analytical Technologies); Microsoft Windows consulting, computer networking and accounting software (Executive Automation); and computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and computer graphics technology (Simulex). For more information about the job fair, contact Teresa Thurston, the foundation's marketing/client services manager, at (765) 496-6464 and tlthurston@purdueresearchfoundation.org or visit the job fair Web site. Purdue Research foundation is the developer of the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette and the owner/manager of that park's flagship incubator. Purdue Research Park, which the Association of University Research Parks named top research park in the country for 2004, is the state's first Certified Technology Park and home to nearly 130 companies, of which approximately 80 are high-tech - the largest concentration of these ventures in the state. In the park's incubation complex, emerging technologies - many of them discovered at Purdue University - are transformed into viable companies, mainly in the life sciences, information technology and advanced manufacturing fields. Contact: Sources: Jonathon Bradley, HR manager, Alliance Group Technologies, (765) 464-1111, jonbradley@iquest.net Dana Kirkwood, HR services, Butler International Inc., (765) 464-5504, dkirkwood@butler.com Joseph Key, HR generalist, Bioanalytical Systems Inc., (765) 497-8347, jkey@bioanalytical.com
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