Manager Human Resources

Responsibilities

Compensation & Benefits

• Prepare, process and manage new hire benefits enrollment.
• Prepare new hire materials and assembly of packets.
• Consult and advise employees on benefit plans.
• Conduct analysis and reporting (plan reviews, compliance, contribution modeling etc.).
• Provide general employee assistance.
• Prepare and participate in new hire orientations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Recruiting

• Design, develop and implement company recruiting and retention strategies and practices.
• Gather and maintain all applicant flow data.
• Post job positions internally and externally according to company standards and policy.
• Perform job searches.
• Screen and interview job candidates and schedule interviews
• Prepare and provide candidates with company informational packets.
• Perform required drug testing and background checks.
• Manage the hiring process to ensure compliance with all applicable law and company policy.
• Maintain recruitment/staffing process and communications with business units.
• Maintain company standard job position descriptions.
• Work with hiring managers on resume sourcing, screening, and interviews.
• Manage and support new hire orientation.
• Prepare and participate in panel interviews.
• Coordinate relocation assistance.
• Communicate new hires, exits and other employee changes to appropriate internal departments (e.g., IT, Payroll, Facilities etc.)
• Other duties as assigned.

Employee Relations

• Understand various collective bargaining and union labor agreements to ensure compliance related to benefits plans.
• Produce employee communications (e.g., handbooks, policies and procedures, changes to benefits, phonebooks, organizations charts etc.).
• Ensure compliance with state/federal laws.
• Ensure the consistent and fair application of all policies/procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.

HRIS (Information Systems)

• Maintain technical and functional competency related to the company’s E-1 PeopleSoft HRIS system.
• Participate and take a HR leadership role in E-1 system development, modifications and testing.
• Maintain training and education related to E-1 functional and technical knowledge.
• Provide functional and technical E-1 support for the HR business unit.
• Take ownership of E-1 problem resolution on behalf of the HR business unit.
• Maintain strong working relationship with IT group.
• Entry, maintenance, backup and extractions of all employee information and data.
• Process employee data changes (adds, modifications, deletes).
• Generate E-1 reports on all aspects of HR (employee, plans, carriers etc.).
• Process terminations.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Human Resources or related field and minimum of one (1) year of HR related experience, or five (5) years of HR related experience
• Must have experience administering compensation & benefits programs
• Railroad industry experience a plus
• Diplomacy, maturity and ability to keep confidences
• Excellent communication skills; both oral and written
• Excellent multi-tasking and time management skills
• Bi-lingual English/Spanish (Fluent in both oral and written)
• Experience working in a union environment preferred