Position Summary:

We’re more than just the bright yellow trucks you see on highways and backroads all over the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. We’re a winning team of more than 38,000 associates who help move lives and businesses forward globally. We’re committed to delivering the best customer experience through personalized and excellent service, and the latest innovations. We have an exciting position, Human Resources Specialist, within our growing Human Resources Function. This role is an integral part of our newly reimagined Shared Service department, whose mission it is to support our associates, their families, and our leaders throughout the employee career cycle. Making it easy for our teams to be the best at what they do, while our Shared Services team takes care of the rest.

This role will have a primary focus of collaborating with HR to centralize enterprise-wide processes, identify improvement opportunities, and deliver a superior customer experience for the HR Teams and our associates. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to work among many functions.

The Human Resources Specialist position will be a foundational member of our centralized Human Resources team, whose responsibilities will be to perform work in a variety of concentrations, including unemployment claims, relocation of associates, background checks, and special projects assigned based on business needs. This position will work closely with Leadership in a proactive, collaborative approach to ensure the processes are consistent, compliant, and accurate to support sustained business success and impact associate engagement in a positive way.

This is a remote position.

Salary: $58,600 – $79,000

Benefits: Our excellent benefits plan keeps associates and their families happy, healthy and secure.

To learn more visit https://penske.jobs/benefits

Major Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with HR Team (Field and Corporate) and third-party vendors on creating, managing, and administering centralized HR processes for the organization.

• Coordinate with team members on process documentation for reference and training material.

• Manage the decision-making process for unemployment claims by providing information to our third-party vendor, communicating with field operations, and coordinating with HR Partners.

• Facilitate additional unemployment claims activity as it relates to appeals and hearings, fraudulent and wrongful claims, and reporting to confirm accuracy of claim activity.

• Coordinate with hiring managers and the recruiting team on the background checks of candidates and manage decision-making based on facts provided with assistance from other departments as needed.

• Collaborate with operations, HR Partners and our vendor to understand the needs of the associate and the company as it relates to relocation of our associates and their families.

• Manage the compliance with i9 filings for new hires by collaborating with hiring managers and our third-party vendor to ensure proper completion of required documentation.

• Special Assignments and tasks as assigned by the Director of Shared Services, Director of Corporate HR, and Manager of Centralized HR such as serving on process improvement teams, coordination of small scope short term projects, collaboration with cross functional teams to identify solutions for long term initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field is required.

• A minimum of 2 years of Human Resources experience preferred.

• Ability to interpret and effectively communicate Human Resources policies, procedures and laws.

• Detail oriented with strong organizational and documentation skills.

• Strong Customer Service skills

• Skilled in operation of variety of computer software programs, including Microsoft Suite. An understanding of enterprise wide HRIS systems a plus.

• Ability to collect, compile, and analyze information and data.

• Ability to be a team player to work across many functions of the business.

• High-level organizational skills and experience working with outside vendors.

• Project management experience preferred.

• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment and education) are required.

Physical Requirements:

• The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate 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 associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.

• While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Family: Human Resources

Address: 32600 Dequindre Road

Primary Location: US-MI-Warren

Employer: Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.

Req ID: 2329729