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Scope of Responsibility: The HR Generalist is responsible for providing professional HR guidance and support to internal client groups. Assist the HR Manager in supporting HR functions to include recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, and projects while upholding confidentiality.
Essential Duties:
Position Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
Scope of Responsibility: The HR Generalist is responsible for providing professional HR guidance and support to internal client groups. Assist the HR Manager in supporting HR functions to include recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, and projects while upholding confidentiality.
Essential Duties:
- Be the HR point of contact for employees in the manufacturing plant to assist with questions regarding benefits and pay, Skill Based Pay administration, attendance tracking, and general policy questions.
- Provide prompt, courteous, and accurate customer service to employees, applicants and vendors/consultants
- Manage FMLA, ADA, LOA requests ensuring employees receive timely information and ensuring policies are administered consistently.
- Work closely with HR manager to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention.
- Work closely with HR Manager and recruiter to ensure open positions are filled timely with quality candidates.
- Assist HR Manager in setting up employee activities and/or recognition events and maintaining employee information boards around the plant.
- Assist with employee relations issues including effective, thorough, and objective investigations.
- Understand and anticipate employee needs and concerns.
- Conduct new employee onboarding to ensure employees gain an understanding of company policies and procedures.
- Provides expert advice and coaching to employees when appropriate.
- Ensures compliance with all HR-related state and federal laws and regulations, company policies and procedures
- Attends and participates in employee disciplinary meetings
- Provides administrative support for the Affirmative Action Plan utilizing Excel, HR database and ATS
- Support HR Team through cross-training and the ability to back up any team member as needed
- Additional duties as assigned
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree and (3) years of Human Resources experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment
- Bi-lingual English and Spanish preferred but not required
- 1-2 years recruiting experience, including maintaining the applicant flow process
- Current knowledge and experience in HR trends, employment laws and HR management in a manufacturing environment
- Knowledge of employment laws, FMLA, Worker's Compensation and ADA
- Excellent working knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Outlook
- Regular and timely attendance is required
- Ability to uphold confidentiality to the upmost extent possible
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
- Demonstrates general knowledge of human resources issues and employment laws
- Excellent comprehension and information retention
- Ability to identify, define and resolve problems
- Ability to effectively manage and prioritize competing priorities
- Ability to resolve issues and deal with constraints
- Possesses strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work well with people in a number of positions, from production to executive level
- Ability to plan, organize and multi-task in a fast-paced work environment
Physical Requirements:
- Demonstrated ability to work with frequent interruptions in workflow and constantly changing priorities.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time with the ability to move throughout the office or outside manufacturing plant as needed.
- Must be able to perform physical activities that require use of fingers, hands and arms, such as sitting, typing, using office equipment and reaching. Some additional physical activities may require walking, stooping, bending, twisting and handling of materials.
- Position requires manual dexterity, arm-hand steadiness and a safety-minded individual.
- Must have the ability to concentrate on tasks for long periods of time and be able to observe and receive information from all relevant sources.
- Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing as well as answer telephones and greet customers
