Title: Senior HR Generalist – Contract
Length of Assignment: 6 Months
Location: Portland, OR and Salem, OR
ID: 1560248
Role Overview: Lucas Group is partnered with an organization on their search for a Senior HR Generalist for their plant facility in the Portland, Oregon and Salem, Oregon areas.
This strategic thinking individual will serve as a true business partner to the leadership team while driving employee engagement initiatives and strategies. This individual will implement human resources policies, programs and services, including recruitment, selection, retention, legal compliance, negotiations with Unions, employee relations, employee benefits, employment practices and procedures, and employee communications.
Serve as an internal consultant to facility management team, supervisors and employees on personnel issues that affect performance and business relationships while fostering a workplace environment consistent with the values and mission outlined by leadership of the organization.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Lead and promote HR initiatives and programs that align with corporate goals and values
- Function as a change agent, driving and implementing HR initiatives that focus on enhancing the business
- Create and lead strategies to support and enable a positive work environment
- Oversee performance management and succession planning programs
- Works with Operations Manager and other members of the management in recommending new approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency of various departments and services performed.
- Ensures uniform compliance with personnel policies by managing and reviewing all discipline, investigations, and workers compensation claims while reporting findings to Operations Manager and involving Human Resources Management when necessary.
- Responsible for managing overall performance, management and people planning, and employee engagement efforts.
- Conducts recruitment effort for all exempt and nonexempt personnel to fill various job openings. Reviews job applications and interviews applicants to match experience with specific job related requirements.
- Responsible for compliance with Federal and State legislation pertaining to all personnel and payroll matters and communicating those changes to appropriate staff.
- Develops and administers various human resources plans and procedures for facility; monitoring to ensure proper implementation and interpretation.
- Oversees personnel record keeping related to new hire, employee review, promotions, transfers, employee benefits, separations and exit interviews.
- Maintains working relationship with Union officials and adheres to terms of labor contract by ensuring day-to-day implementation of policies concerning wages, hours, and working conditions.
- Maintains working relationship with Union officials and adheres to terms of labor contract by ensuring day-to-day implementation of policies concerning wages, hours, and working conditions.
- Represents management in investigating, answering, and settling grievances, by arranging and scheduling grievance hearings between union personnel, supervisor and the Management team.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 3-5 years of experience in the Human Resources field
- PHR or SPHR certification preferred
- Experience in negotiations with Union representatives and Union contracts
- Experience in administering employee benefits & knowledge of payroll procedures required
- Experience in labor relations
- Experience in coordinating and administering employee training, talent assessment & succession planning required
- Experience in Leave Management is a must-have
- Experience in Investigations, Employee Relations is a must-have
- Experience in Recruiting is also a must-have for this role
Knowledge and Skill Level:
- Ability to objectively coach employees and management through complex, difficult, and emotional issues.
- Considerable knowledge of principles and practices of personnel administration, payroll, employee benefits and safety.
- Effective oral and written communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to observe confidentiality.
- Ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues by using judgment that is in consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures and regulation or government law.
- Knowledge of employment law and other government compliance regulations.
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