What are the responsibilities and job description for the Human Resources Specialist position at Franke?
Date: Feb 28, 2025
Location: Smyrna, TN (Tennessee), US
Company: franke
About Franke
We, the Franke company with its three divisions, are a world's leading supplier of products and services for domestic kitchens, the professional foodservice systems and the convenience store sector as well as for professional coffee making. With around 60 companies, we are at home on five continents. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.
About the job
SUMMARY
As part of the Human Resources Center of Excellence (CoE), the Human Resources Specialist will provide a variety of administrative services in support of the Human Resources department, the Human Resources Business Partners (HRBP), and the business. The HR Specialist will provide support in areas including staffing, onboarding, compensation, benefits, employee relations, training, health and safety programs, and payroll.
Your tasks
- Provides specialized HR process expertise and support to employees and HRBPs in the areas of payroll, time and attendance, benefits, health and safety, leave requests, immigration process, and company policies and programs, as well as HR administration activities including data entry and maintenance of personnel/medical files.
- Serves as a point of contact for HR related questions, as well as acts as a liaison between various functional areas, including Payroll, HRIS, HR Business Partners, Finance, and IT.
- Manages and processes HR transactions including onboarding, new hires, terminations, job and personal data changes, organizational changes, employee verifications, life event changes, leave requests, timekeeping, and other routine functional HR work.
- Works with HRIS Specialist on data maintenance issues, testing, researching, and acts as the SME on HR business processes.
- Coordinates and communicates various employee related events throughout the year such as open enrollment, benefits fair, health fair, compliance training, etc.
- Helps to develop, refine, and improve existing processes to effect continuous improvement, and assists in development and implementation of company standard HR operating procedures (SOPs) to include providing support with interpretation and application.
- Undertakes and manages projects and new initiatives as directed by the HR Manager to support the achievement of the CoE and HR strategy.
- Reliable attendance is a must.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Personnel and Human Resources - Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations, and personnel information systems.
- Intermediate Language Skills - Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Basic Math Skills - Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all unites of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- High Reasoning Ability - Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Computer Skills - Excel, Ultipro HRIS Systems
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Associate’s Degree in related field
- Minimum of two years’ experience in Human Resources
- or equivalent combination of education and experience
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- N/A
What we offer you
- Comprehensive benefits package (Health, Vision, Dental, and More) starting day 1
- Free life insurance
- 401k match up to 4%
- Paid time off and 11 holidays.
Contact details
For more information see: www.franke.com
Important information for all executive search companies, headhunters and HR consultants
The Franke Group does not accept unsolicited support from headhunters and personnel consultants for our career opportunities. Any CV/resume vitae submitted to Franke or its employees by external recruitment agencies without a valid written recruitment agreement related to the position in question shall be deemed the sole property of our company. In the event that a candidate presented by an agency is hired in our company and there is no prior agreement, no fee will be paid.
