Human Resources Generalist 2nd Shift

Maximize your potential. Minimize your footprint.

Nortek Data Center Cooling is a Madison Industries company. Madison Industries is one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world and has a robust portfolio of indoor air quality solutions. Madison builds entrepreneurially driven, branded market leaders that are committed to making the world safer, healthier and more productive by creating innovative solutions that deliver outstanding customer value.

At Nortek Data Center Cooling, we’re shaping the future by Creating a Better Tomorrow Every Day! We are a premier HVAC company offering energy efficient and sustainable products and solutions that exceed customer expectations through our employees’ commitment to quality, customer experience and operational excellence.

Nortek Data Center Cooling. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Nortek Air Management and its divisions offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Our benefits package includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life, STD, LTD, FSA, HAS and 401(k) Plan with company contributions. To apply, please visit our career site at www.nortekair.com/careers.

Other Benefits

• Making NexGen Products - Cooling the World’s Ever Expanding Data Centers
• Airconditioned work environment
• Benefits start day one
• 401K match
• First year, 4 weeks’ vacation (accrued)
  
  

Maximize your potential. Minimize your footprint.

Nortek Data Center Cooling builds the systems that keep modern data centers running — from liquid cooling to large‑scale air solutions. Our work supports some of the world’s most demanding AI and hyperscale environments, and we solve those challenges with engineering depth and practical execution.

We keep things simple here. We communicate early, stay close to the details, and follow through. When issues come up, we address them directly, not with layers of process. Customers count on us because we do what we say and we keep projects moving.

Our culture is hands‑on and collaborative. People take ownership, move quickly, and help each other. If you like working with teammates who are straightforward and accountable, you’ll feel at home.

With the backing of Madison Air, we have the scale, stability, and manufacturing footprint to support complex, high‑growth programs.

Job Summary

This role provides HR support with a focus on managing the talent acquisition pre-employment process, maintaining the plant skills database, and ensuring accurate training documentation. It serves as the primary point of contact for hourly production employees while supporting policy implementation, training initiatives, and employee engagement. The position drives a positive new hire experience from pre-employment through orientation and may assist with projects across the Data Center Cooling division. The ideal candidate is highly organized, self-motivated, and able to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role will occasionally require flexible schedule to help provide coverage for our 2nd shift

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate employee onboarding activities and new hire procedures, including I-9 verification.
• Owns Talent Acquisition coordination process by assisting recruiters with scheduling interviews when necessary, processing pre-employment background checks, processing, tracking and retaining employee referral bonus payment details, and scheduling new hire orientations.
• Administers multiple HR processes, including employee length of service awards, audit support, routine data reporting, and assists in managing employee attendance as per policy.
• Interacts with employees as the first point of contact to answer or properly route questions and escalate as appropriate
• Organize, coordinate, and maintain both HR and skills training and development initiatives.
• Help to drive employee engagement and retention.
• Participate in the planning and coordination of company engagement activities that create a positive employee experience.
• Other ad hoc duties as assigned by manager.
• Willingness to flex schedule to provide coverage for 2nd shift as necessary
  
  

Key Attributes of Position

• Ability to personally live safe and hold themselves and other team members accountable by having their back in support of our Safety core value.
• Has the ability to bring order and process to meeting and event planning.
• Has integrity, works transparently and is recognized for treating others with respect.
• Takes accountability to create and execute solutions that deliver desired results and can “own it” in a Performance Driven Culture.
• Ability to work collaboratively and lead teams in a Teamwork culture.
• Ability to ignite and lead change as a catalyst for improvement.
• Can thrive in a “legacy now” culture in which we strive to do the right thing for the company today, even if it is the hard thing, and leave behind a stronger company for the next generation of employees.
• A “builder” who is comfortable in a continuous improvement culture.
  
  

Requirements

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field.
• 2-4 years of Human Resources experience, to include talent acquisition and generalist scope
• Strong organizational, detail-oriented, and time management skills.
• Effective communication skills. (written and verbal)
• Knowledge of federal and state law and general Human Resources concepts.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
  
  

Preferred

• 2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience with Workday. (HRIS)
  
  

Nortek Data Center Cooling. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Nortek Air Management and its divisions offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Our benefits package includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life, STD, LTD, FSA, HAS and 401(k) Plan with company contributions. To apply, please visit our career site at www.nortekair.com/careers.