About Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS)

Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) is committed to building a talented, skilled, and diverse workforce; enhancing the employee experience; and ensuring excellence customer service for County residents, businesses, and licensees. ABS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and values diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and cultures. ABS encourages BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), immigrants, women, LGBTQIA , individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply.

What You’ll Be Doing

This position within the Human Resources section, Administrative Services Division of ABS will be responsible for performing a full range of professional administrative support, both complex and diverse work assignments which have significant departmental impact. This position will work directly under the supervision of the Chief, Human Capital Management. Responsibilities include performance management/planning, telework coordinator, MCTime/payroll & Timecard processing, Leave Without Pay (LWOP), Occupational Medical Services (OMS) reporting and guidance, (Family Medical Leave (FMLA), light duty, medical clearances, reasonable accommodations, ergonomic evaluations, sick leave bank, sick leave donations, sick leave restrictions), worker’s compensation, non-work-related medical conditions, labor distribution, work schedules, reorganization, and Oracle transactions/records management.

As the Human Resources Administrator I, you will:

• Facilitates FMLA program, sends FMLA notifications and information to employees and OMS, processes FMLA designations, reviews and analyzes employee leave to ensure compliance with FMLA rules.
• Facilitates and administers light duty, reviews health status reports from OMS, ensures Managers/supervisors adhere to the health status report and employee restrictions, works with OMS for clarification on light duty and all restrictions. Provides work assignments as needed when traditional placement can’t be located.
• Facilitates confidential reasonable accommodations, ADA placement requests, and ergonomic evaluations. Works with OMS to review recommendations and coordinate employee placement or accommodation.
• Facilitates fitness for duty requests, analyzes information, and makes recommendations to Director about fitness for duty processes and procedures, processes fitness for duty requests, coordinates, and monitors employee’s progress.
• Facilitates worker’s compensation program. Works with Risk Management, OMS and CorVel to coordinate work related injuries for employees out of work, on light duty, and returning to work. Meets with Risk Management and CorVel, as needed, to review compensation claims, statuses, and to determine recommendations for action.
• Coordinates worker’s compensation claim status with OMS and CorVel to ensure optimal recovery of employee.
• Coordinates the Sick Leave Donation Program for Unrepresented Employees in coordination with the Department of Finance and OMS.
• Analyzes and prepares essential employee reports, ensures newly hired employees are appropriately designated as essential personnel.
• Serves as the department's liaison for bi-weekly payroll.
• Performs all Oracle employee assignment and position management transactions to include HR Org changes, new hires, reclassifications, new position creations, competitive and non-competitive promotions, retirements, terminations, transfers, supervisor change, location change, LWOP, temporary promotions and other data changes.
• Coordinate performance management processes, compliance, and timelines, providing technical advice and guidance to employees and managers.

To be a successful Human Resources Administrator I, you must have:

• Knowledge of Federal, State, Local legislation applicable to the field of assignment to include Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO).
• Thorough knowledge of, or the ability to rapidly acquire knowledge of, the Montgomery County Government and local laws, procedures, and regulations, particularly those governing the administration of personnel, including the MCGEO Collective Bargaining Agreement, Montgomery County Administrative Procedures, Montgomery County Personnel Regulations, Montgomery County Code, Collective Bargaining Law, Ethics Law, and Worker’s Compensation Law and Procedures.
• Ability to use automated systems such as Oracle and MCTime as well as technology and software as tools for analyzing data information, preparing comprehensive records and reports.
• Ability and willingness to courteously and effectively work with personal contacts.
• Have excellent interpersonal, customer service and communication skills.
• Have effective oral and written communication skills.
• Have advanced skills working in Microsoft Office, experience in Oracle and other relational databases computer programs.
• Be resourceful and flexible in managing multiple, competing priorities in a complex and comprehensive business environment within a government structure.

Additional Information:

• This position MAY require work during non-traditional hours to include early mornings, evenings/nights, weekends, and holidays; may require work that involves physical demands, occasionally working in warehouse and/or retail store environments; and the ability to attend meetings or perform work at locations outside of the assigned facility.
• To ensure a positive workplace and to comply with federal, state, and County laws, the incumbent is responsible for completing mandatory trainings within the first three to six months or within the specified timeframe.

OHR reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position/IRC.

Montgomery County Government is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Human Resources via email to OHR@montgomerycountymd.gov. Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.

Montgomery County Government also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, please refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference.

All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for interview.

If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.

Montgomery County Ethics Law: Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code. Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.

Experience: One (1) year of professional administrative experience related to Human Resources Administration.

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s Degree.

Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.

There are no Preferred Criteria for this advertisement. All applicants will be reviewed by OHR for minimum qualifications. Those applicants who meet minimum qualifications will be rated "Qualified," placed on the Eligible List, and may be considered for interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are same grade or higher will be placed on Eligible List as a "Transfer" candidate and may be considered for interview.

Preference for interviews will be given to applicants with experience in the following:

• Experience with Federal, State, Local legislation applicable to the field of assignment to include Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO).
• Thorough knowledge of computer applications and systems required to administer and manage human resources (Microsoft Office Suite, Oracle eBusiness Suite, Enterprise Business Intelligence and Reporting, MCtime, Award Tracking System, OMB eBudget, Timecard Correction system, etc.)
• Thorough knowledge of, or the ability to rapidly acquire knowledge of, the Montgomery County Government and local laws, procedures, and regulations, particularly those governing the administration of personnel, including the MCGEO Collective Bargaining Agreement, Montgomery County Administrative Procedures, Montgomery County Personnel Regulations, Montgomery County Code, Collective Bargaining Law, Ethics Law, and Worker’s Compensation Law and Procedures.