Description

The HR Generalist will perform a variety of HR duties with an emphasis on personnel management, benefits administration, payroll support, and talent acquisition. The HR Generalist is a critical part of our team and works to ensure employee engagement and productivity are enhanced due to the level of excellence and consistency in personnel support. The HR Generalist will work closely with site leadership and the HR Manager to meet human resource needs. This role will assist with new hire onboarding, labor reporting, maintenance of employee records, and additional HR-specific projects. This position reports directly to the Human Resources Manager.

Core Responsibilities: 

General

• Drive positive employee relations to provide a positive employee experience and work environment.
• Assist company policy/procedure development contributing to a positive and effective culture.
• Maintain corporate employee records to ensure accuracy; maintain HRIS information to ensure accurate and current data.
• Contribute to HR dashboard and metric achievement.
• Respond to outside requests such as subpoenas, VOE’s, garnishments, unemployment claims, etc.
• Conduct new-hire orientations and onboarding activities for employees.
• Working knowledge of current federal/state/local employment labor law and relevant regulations to ensure compliance at all times.
• Collaborate with site supervisors and managers to identify and manage recruiting needs.
• Manage the talent acquisition efforts, including job descriptions, job postings, prescreening interviews, offer letters, and new-hire onboarding.

• Administer employee benefits programs, including medical, dental, vision, COBRA, life insurance disability, 401K, PTO, company perk, and wellness programs.
• Manage leaves of absence (FMLA, Military, STD, LTD, PLOA, etc.) including requests, approvals, tracking, coordinating, and benefit billing.
• Ensure adherence to COBRA, ERISA, ACA, FMLA, CFRA, PFL, and ADA regulations.
• Troubleshoot issues and resolve problems related to the plans, eligibility, enrollment, systems, etc.; work with internal departments to resolve issues (Payroll, HR, IT, etc.)
• Assist in the coordination of annual open enrollment and educational meetings.
• Administer benefit changes, including enrollments, life events, terminations, COBRA, beneficiaries, disability, accident, and death claims.
• Manage HRIS with all relevant employee updates, including new hires, terminations, and status changes.

• In collaboration with the site leadership, review and ensure approval of bi-weekly time sheets and payroll for both exempt and non-exempt, full-time, and part-time employees ensuring the accuracy of data entry and ensuring multi-state compliance.

• Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
• Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records; pull requested HRIS/payroll reports, as needed.
• Process correct garnishment calculations and compliance.
• Ownership of the HRIS and data entry/reporting accuracy.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of progressive HR experience in a manufacturing industry with a thorough understanding of local/state/federal employment law and practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong employee relations skills with a commitment to employee engagement and continuous improvement
• DOT experience
• Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to drive results.
• Proficiency in administration of HRIS systems; knowledge of Paycom HRIS a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel and PowerPoint
• Bilingual in Spanish, reading and writing required

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

Frequently required to stand; walk; use of hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or crawl; and to talk; or hear. Ability to lift, push, pull and/ or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color and depth vision. Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock or vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud. Exposure to allergens such as Soy, Wheat, Tree Nuts, Milk/Dairy, eggs etc.

Instructions:

To be considered for the above position, please submit your resume to honeyville.com/careers

At Honeyville, Inc., career development is a shared responsibility in which all employees are encouraged to develop, improve, and enhance their skills and professional growth to support our business objectives.