Human Resources Manager

Human Resources Manager

Job Summary:  Provide HR functional leadership and direction for the North American entity (US & Canada). Support and drive key business objectives, HR operations, and cultural change. Contribute to the overall success of the Company by developing, implementing, and administering effective Company (including International) Human Resource policies and programs relating to payroll, time-off, compensation, benefits, employee relations, labor relations, selection and recruitment, employee training and development, safety, security and compliance with local, state and Federal employment laws and regulations. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

HR Policy

• Develop, revise, and maintain HR policies, including updates to the employee handbook.

• Direct and support the HR Generalist in managing policy acknowledgment forms and securing regular employee signatures.

Operational Support

• Promote change initiatives to support a dynamic and competitive business environment.

• Promote and maintain company-employee relations to remain a union-free environment.

• Focus on employee and organizational training and development. 

• Assure equitable and effective development, communication and administration of organizational policies and procedures.

• Plan, delegate and administer HR services, such as employment practices, transfers, promotions, offboarding, performance appraisals & counseling, supervisory selection & employee record creation and maintenance.

• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate government, industry, professional societies and other authoritative sources of Human Resources information.

• Assure conformance to all applicable legal and governmental regulations and requirements.

• Participate in corporate and business unit HR leadership councils and/or committees to support the human resource function.

• Understand how to assess needed KSAs and how to address gaps.

Payroll and Benefits

• Support the HR Generalist who is in charge of payroll & Benefits program and serve as a backup to payroll functions, including but not limited to, preparation, processing, documenting, validating, and auditing payrolls for local U.S. Semi-Monthly and U.S. Assignment Expat Monthly payrolls.

• Ensure time and attendance policies are adhered to and administered according to policy and time off accruals are maintained accurately.

• Oversee the accurate and timely funding for all payroll and benefits-related items (payroll net deposits, tax remittances, HSA, and 401k deposits, etc.).

• Manage vendor relationships and employ strong negotiation skills.

• Implement and maintain strong compliance and internal controls.

• Support documentation for the Accounting, Finance, and Treasury teams.

Talent Selection, Assessment, Development and Retention

• Direct Company efforts at recruitment and selection of employees.

• Demonstrate excellent talent assessment and development capabilities.

• Lead employee retention activities.

• Guide employees and managers on training for MBO & system acclimation.  Assist managers with succession planning and development discussions in conjunction with HR Director and other executive leadership.

• Employee training opportunities and continuing education.

• Company-wide committee facilitation.

• Employee Advocate - expert on how to create a work environment in which people will choose to be motivated, contributing, engaged and happy workforce.

• Ensure support for managing employee-management relations.

People Management

• Recruit, select, develop, coordinate and supervise Company's Human Resources people.

Performance Management & Improvement Systems

• Support and advise business leaders on performance management, metrics, measurements, and improvement discussions. 

Compensation Management

• Lead compensation processes such as annual merit increase and salary adjustments.

• Knowledge of and experience with managing full-cycle compensation, including pay-for-performance and short-term-incentive programs.

• Applied knowledge of position budgets, ranges, analytics, and compliance with FLSA position exemption status

• Deep understanding of market compensation surveys and their application to position evaluations

• Review internal and market equity – experienced with Compa-ratio analysis

• Manage Bonus programs

Organizational Departmental Planning

• Support the business leaders in organizational structure and planning to achieve overall AOP goals.

• Support change efforts and communication.

Job Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or related field required.  Master’s Degree preferred.

• HR and/or Payroll Certification (S/PHR, S/CP, CPP, etc.) preferred.

• 7– 10 years of tactical and strategic HR work experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Strong change management skills. 

• Demonstrated ability to support the development of a high-performance manufacturing organization.

• Strong organizational development and critical-thinking skills.

• Proven team leadership, coaching, and proactive communication skills.

• Must be able to prioritize and manage multiple projects and responsibilities.

• Knowledge of federal, state, and local. laws governing employee relations practices.

• Broad HR Generalist skills, including compensation and benefits, organizational development, safety and health, labor relations and employment law, etc.

• PC skills competency – MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint), SuccessFactors/SAP, ADP.

• Travel < 10%.