Serves as a strategic HR advisor to leaders and employees across a multi-state workforce. Handles employee relations, employment-law compliance, workforce and succession planning, organizational design, performance management, recruiting, DEI, training, payroll coordination, and talent development. Uses HR metrics, analytics, HR technology, and AI-enabled tools to improve decision-making and service delivery while protecting employee privacy.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders, managers, and employees, providing day-to-day HR guidance aligned with business needs and employment law.
- Use HR metrics and people analytics to identify trends, assess risk, and inform business decisions.
- Resolve complex employee relations matters with fairness, consistency, and sound judgment.
- Partner with leaders on performance management, culture, engagement, and retention.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws — including wage and hour, leave, accommodation, PFML, and workplace safety — across a multi-state workforce.
- Lead workforce planning, succession planning, organizational design, change management, and skills-gap analysis.
- Identify and deliver training, reskilling, and upskilling programs across in-person, virtual, and technology-enabled formats, with emphasis on leadership, compliance, and safety.
- Partner with Payroll and managers on time and attendance, pay practices, and timekeeping, ensuring accurate compensation and compliant recordkeeping across all locations.
- Design and manage skills-based, inclusive recruiting and selection in partnership with hiring managers.
- Champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility across HR and talent practices, and support onboarding that accelerates new-hire productivity and cultural alignment.
- Leverage HR technology and AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve service delivery while protecting employee privacy, and partner cross-functionally with Operations, Safety, Finance, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, and Learning.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Industrial Relations, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive HR experience across employee relations, talent acquisition, talent development, compensation, compliance, and workforce planning.
- Working knowledge of HRIS, payroll, timekeeping, and learning platforms such as Kronos, Workforce Dimensions, or UKG Pro.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams) and the ability to use HR data and dashboards to support recommendations.
- Experience using AI-enabled tools or automation to improve HR processes, with sound judgment on confidentiality and data privacy.
- Experience supporting a multi-state workforce; industrial, manufacturing, distribution, or metals environment preferred.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial organization with changing priorities.
- HR certification (SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR) preferred.
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