What are the responsibilities and job description for the Human Resources Manager position at RAD Engineered Wood Products?
Summary
The Human Resources Manager is responsible for partnering with leadership and support teams to align business strategies, objectives, and engagement with management and employees. The position develops partnerships across all levels of the business to deliver an effective level of business literacy and build sustainable infrastructure for a positive and equitable work culture. Managing the design and components of staffing through aligning company values with competencies through recruitment, talent development, and performance management tactics and strategies. The HR manager is a critical asset to business success promoting corporate values and establishing commonality company-wide that leads to amplifying ideal behaviors and motives. The role will understand the impact of company objectives and initiatives on personnel throughout all levels of the business and support equitable outcomes from planning through execution by providing guidance, coaching, and effective communication. To thrive, a flexible skill set is needed, including the ability to see the bigger picture while connecting the finer details, collaborating across many teams, levels, and circumstances.
Major Duties And Responsibilities
HR Manager
- Partner with management to understand and execute organizational human resources and talent strategies and their downstream impacts on personnel throughout the business.
- Provide talent and performance management guidance and coaching to leadership to develop and preserve the talent lifecycle, efficiency and productivity through upholding accountability, equitability, and engagement of their teams.
- Mitigate potential personnel risk by implementing and maintaining tactical human management capital and safety practices through staffing and hiring strategies, thorough employee relations investigations, staying current with various ongoing compliance regulations, and championing safety initiatives.
- Partner with management to remove barriers that impede adoption of change throughout the organization and model positive change management and continuous improvement behaviors.
- Develop and maintain employee sentiment data by identifying trends and using feedback mechanisms to make informed decisions and address opportunities that negatively impact company culture.
- Using discretion and diligence to maintain employee information and records as well as benefits administration and payroll cycles.
- Conduct prompt and highly sensitive and complex employee relations investigations on a broad range of employment matters including harassment, discrimination, retaliation, performance management, management practices, and interpersonal conflicts. Consulting with counsel, if needed, to ensure legal and regulatory compliance and a consistent approach.
- Manage and respond to inquiries from outside agencies including, but not limited to, employment verifications, worker’s compensation, unemployment claims, and various outsourced HR-related services.
- Develop, administer, and communicate company policies and procedures to effectively promote transparency and accountability.
- Identify ongoing opportunities for continuous improvement within the workforce and leading HR projects and initiatives throughout the organization.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Demonstrate a high-level of integrity and confidentiality
- Possess leadership skills with the ability to influence, motivate, and guide others
- Thorough understanding of organizational development and ability to diagnose inequities
- Working knowledge of Federal and State employment practices and regulations
- Ability to identify process failures when they happen and coach the team through problem solving
- Ability to interpret and execute data as well as various technical procedures in verbal, written, mathematical or diagrammatical form
- Ability to adapt to changes and continuous improvement initiatives
- Basic mathematical skills
- Ability to teach others what s/he knows.
- Possesses good time management skills and understands how to prioritize tasks
- Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Possesses excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Demonstrates project management skills
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 8 years’ experience resolving complex employee relations issues
- Working knowledge of multiple HR disciplines, including organizational diagnosis, benefits and compensation, talent management, employee relations, performance management, project management, and federal/state employment laws
Physical Demands & Working Conditions
- Visual acuity, with or without corrective lenses, to discern product defects at an arm’s length
- Ability to hear speech and/or alarms through noise on the production floor
- Standing, reaching with hands and arms, and using hands and fingers to manipulate instrument or equipment controls, computer keyboard, office equipment, objects and tools
- Movement from one work location to another
- Sitting often for extended periods of time
- Temperature within manufacturing plant may vary between 60- 90 degrees, and can occasionally exceed 90 degrees
- Exposure to intermittent or constant sounds generated by equipment
- Exposure to fumes, noxious odors and dust
- Proximity to moving parts
As with all jobs at RAD Mfg, LLC., a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous and professional attitude is essential to successful performance. Other statements included in this job description represent typical elements and criteria required; they are not intended to be all-inclusive and are subject to modification by RAD Mfg LLC and its designees.