Human Resources Generalist

Job Summary

Provide day-to-day administrative assistance and support to the Human Resources Manager, for a variety of human resources related matters, including recruitment, benefits, and payroll. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

·         Responsible for full cycle recruiting for all positions; including but not limited to dispositioning candidates, scheduling and conducting interviews, coordinating pre-hire checks, arranging employment ads, coordinating job fair attendance, etc.

·         Establish connections with local trade schools, colleges/universities and other community-based organizations.

·         Coordinate new employee onboarding and conduct new hire orientation.

• Executes weekly payroll by collecting and verifying time keeping information, including paid time off, timely payments of payroll liabilities-- payroll taxes, child support, garnishments, workers compensation, 401k contributions, and benefit premiums.

• Document and process changes including new hires, separations, salary actions, supervisor changes, location changes etc. accurately and timely to meet payroll deadlines and maintain data integrity of HRIS system.

·         Assist with the coordination and execution of new and on-going training and development programs.

·         Collaborate with HR Manager to develop, improve and administer employee policies and procedures.

• Respond to inquiries regarding policies, procedures and programs, including properly escalating issues to HR Manager.

·         Administer attendance program and issue related discipline.

·         Compile and maintain employee files.

·         Assess and resolve employee questions regarding benefits, payroll and attendance.

·         Assist in the administration and communication of the annual employee benefits, incentives and gift programs.

·         Respond to employment verifications and unemployment claims.

·         Maintain employee communication boards, employee engagement activities, etc.

·         Build and manage the hourly candidate pipeline end to end (post → screen → schedule → offer → start).

• Run weekly onsite hiring activities (walk-in days / job fairs) and local outreach with community partners.

• Maintain ATS data and produce a weekly hiring snapshot (opens, interviews, offers, starts, show rate).

·         Other duties as assigned.

Food Safety Responsibilities

• Monitor and verify activities to ensure that all maintenance work in the facility meet food safety standards in addition to quality standards.

• Comply with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures and document data correctly at all times.

• Ensure all work product contact surfaces are restored to sanitary condition after any job completion.

• Report any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured product to

  Quality and/or Line/Maintenance Supervision.

Qualifications

·         Excellent customer service mindset and orientation.

·         Strong organizational and communication skills.

·         Ability to accurately assess employee needs and make appropriate recommendations.

·         Outstanding character and personal values that are aligned with the company’s values and culture.

• Ability to consistently follow up on the implementation of company policies and government mandates.

Minimum Requirements

·         Minimum of 3 years of broad knowledge of Human Resources concepts experience.

·         Experience with recruitment and payroll.

Education Requirements/Work Experience

·         A college degree in the social sciences or equivalent experience with formal training.

·         Industrial manufacturing HR experience preferred.

Computer Skills

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should be proficient with Microsoft Office -- MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Integrity: Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner. Speaks openly and truthfully with team members and accepts responsibility for actions.  Understands the importance of maintaining confidentiality and fosters an environment where integrity, honesty and accountability flourish.  Promotes transparent and accountable actions and acts decisively against dishonest conduct.  Demonstrates the ability to gain confidence of their employees and customers by respecting the confidentiality and privacy of their concerns and needs and encourages collaboration, trust, foresight and listening between team members. Considerate of others' points of view and treats others with courtesy and professionalism. 
• Teamwork: Capable of being approached and easy to work with. Contributes to the success of the team, communicates clearly individually and in group settings while treating others with respect.  Listens to others and works well within diverse groups.  Consistently places team needs over individual needs and seeks input from people with different experiences and perspectives and recognizes the differences of opportunities to learn and gain by working together.  Values and encourages unique skills and talents.
• Accountability: Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results with little to minimal supervision. Consistently meets all deadlines and follows through on completing tasks while holding self and other accountable for actions and/or appointed responsibilities and manages one's own performance to proactively ensure team accountability. 
• Problem Resolution: Demonstrates the ability to effectively problem solve and set priorities while delivering results in a timely manner and effectively obtains results through planning and delegation. Analyzes problems skillfully and uses data to reach solutions while demonstrating the ability to appropriately take calculated risks or escalates decisions to consult with others when appropriate.
• Communication: Creates an environment of open communication amongst team members while providing regular, consistent, and meaningful information.  Actively listens carefully to others and ensures messages are understood.  Demonstrates the ability to communicate information clearly, concisely, and thoroughly in a timely manner.  Has the ability to tailor communication styles to the subject matter and to the needs of the recipient.  Is credible and confident through communication and presentations and persuasively presents thoughts and ideas to the audience.
• Job Knowledge: Demonstrates relevant job knowledge and essential skills, such as work practices, policies, procedures, quality assurance, and technical abilities.  Demonstrates self-improvement efforts to enhance skills and knowledge with changes impacting the job while adhering to workplace rules as well as to traditional or socially expected methods of doing business following processes and procedures.
• Continuous Improvement: Consistently finds ways to improve methods, processes and/or procedures to improve quality of work and to maximize efficiency. Quickly identifies process inefficiencies and takes independent action to make improvements.  Willing supports new ideas while energizing others within the workforce to embrace changes that enhance efficiency.  Understands and applies formal methods to analyze and eliminate non-value-added work and support process environments.  Willingly seeks opportunities and shares different approaches to address problems while generating practical ideas and workable solutions to solve problems or address issues.  Identifies and accepts failures as learning opportunities.
• Initiative: Ability to assess and initiate things independently with limited supervision required.  Has the ability to manage resources to achieve results, while possessing the ability to manage multiple activities to accomplish goals.  Actively seeks and does more than required or requested in the job and plans ahead for upcoming problems or opportunities and takes appropriate action when required. 
• Planning & Organizing: Manages resources to ensure work is completed timely and accurately. Proactively anticipates potential problems and develops contingency plans to overcome obstacles.  Anticipates deviations and plan and actively reorganizes work as necessary.  Demonstrates the ability to manage time expertly to complete work ahead of schedule while utilizing available resources to complete work efficiently.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

The employee must frequently lift and carry up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk on concrete. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, bend or twist.  The employee is occasionally required to push, pull, and/or move materials.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The work environment is typical of most manufacturing environments.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high level with ear protection required.