We are looking for an HR Specialist to join our team and monitor all Human Resources functions.HR Specialist responsibilities include recruitment and onboarding, communicating company policies and protocol, employee engagement, training and maintaining updated employee records. To be successful in this role, you should have a good understanding of key human resources components.  Ultimately, you will foster a healthy workplace by ensuring our HR procedures run smoothly at all times

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Consistent plant floor presence to engage with employees while building business acumen. Partner with the business to understand challenges and opportunities.

• Recruitment and onboarding of employees: creating job requisitions, coordinating offer, pre-employment activities, onboarding and applicable OFCCP reporting.

• Coordinate all HR related documents for job/employee status changes for employees. Partner with COEs to process job changes, compensation changes, and other HR transactional items. 
• Plan, coordinate and facilitate various training programs in compliance with Human Resources and OSHA regulations and standards.
• Maintain proper documentation and assist with employee relations issues and vendor/supplier communication.

• Provide guidance and oversight of absentee control program. Monitor state and federal leave utilization and ensure compliance.

• Conduct new hire orientation and ensure rules, regulations, and CBA/policy information is reviewed and understood.
• Assist with employee recognition programs and community activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Technical knowledge/skills:

• Intermediate proficiency in Google Suite
• Familiar with standard HR concepts, practices, and procedures
• Familiar with and proficient in navigation of HRIS and other related systems (Workday, ATS, ADP, eTime, PeopleSoft, ArcPlan, Aspen, or related)
• Familiar with standard Manufacturing concepts, practices, and procedures
• Intermediate knowledge of employment law
• Exposure to OSHA reporting, regulations and compliance

General knowledge/skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management & prioritization skills
• Demonstrated problem-solving abilities
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills that can be utilized in day to day interactions with all levels of the workforce

Physical Requirements:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• Required to sit, stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls
• Required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Must continuously have the ability to differentiate colors precisely
• Must be able to climb a ladder and/or stairs
• Occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing
• Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery
• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone
• Occasionally operate business machines
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• Ability to read and concentrate via computer data entry typing and proofreading

Education/Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field preferred
• 2+ years of demonstrated HR experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment
• MUST have a minimum of 2 years experience in Manufacturing HR