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Company and Positon Overview:
The City of Louisville, Colorado is a vibrant community conveniently located between Denver and
Boulder. The Louisville Fire District is currently searching for a Human Resources Director to provide
strategic thinking and leadership in continuing building on new Human Resources systems and processes.
The Human Resources Director will:
• Assess the strategic direction, mission and values of the Louisville Fire District leadership team
and develop a Human Resources strategy that will most effectively serve the District.
• Evaluate our current Human Resources processes and procedures and help develop new systems
and processes to best serve all team members.
• Make sure that Human Resources functions work well with other Fire District systems and
processes (Payroll & Record Management Systems).
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide administrative and technical support to the Fire Chief and other members of the
District.
• Manage some risk management programs like worker compensation.
• Manage benefits programs and serve as communication coordinator for these programs.
• Maintain Department administrative and personnel records, and databases.
• Recruitment, hiring process, and onboarding
Required competencies and capabilities:
• The ability to assess District needs, do research if needed and develop high quality human
resources systems and processes.
• Knowledge and experience running multiple areas of Human Resources including:
o Candidate screening and employment verifications
o New employee onboarding
o Employee engagement
o Employee relations
o Employee benefits
o Workman’s compensation claims and Management
o Recruiting
o Talent management/ performance reviews
o Exit interviews
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Great customer service skills in interactions with Fire District leaders, team members and
community members.
• Public relations skills when interacting with community members.
• Ability and desire to listen to employee and leader issues, develop solutions and make
recommendations to District leaders.
• Comfort with technology and interest in learning new software and adopting new solutions to
improve efficiencies.
• Schedule flexibility to respond to needs of team members on multiple shifts.
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely orally and in writing.
Preferred competencies and experience:
• Experience and understanding of Human Resources requirements and needs in a union
environment.
• Experience working in a public sector organization preferably Fire or Police Departments.
Experience:
• Progressive Human Resources: 2 years (Required)
• Human Resources Management: 2 years (Required)
• Public Sector Department : 1 year (Preferred)
• Candidate screening and employment verification: 1 year (Preferred)
• Employee benefits: 1 year (Preferred)
• Facilitating meetings: 1 year (Preferred)
• Workman's Comp: 1 year (Preferred)
• Supervisory: 1 year (Required)
• Payroll: 1 year (Preferred)
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in related field (Required)
• Master’s degree in related field (Preferred)
Louisville Fire Protection District. To meet this objective, we work closely with our customers, citizens
and stakeholders to provide services and programs that meet and exceed their expectations. The District
provides a full range of fire and emergency services as well as non-traditional community services which
are critical to our fire and EMS programs. We provide these services under the Colorado Revised
Statutes and by utilizing an integrated management concept of operation. Our success in meeting these
emergency service and fire protection objectives is anchored through our vision and culture of quality,
continuous improvement, integrity, employee involvement and leadership.
