Human Resources Manager - ZFS Freight

Job Description

Job Description

Traveling to various subsidiaries required.

Job Summary:

Responsible for leading, directing, and providing overall support of the organization’s Human Resources initiatives. This position will provide HR Management support for Zeeland Freight Services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides support and guidance to employees and management in the resolution of employee relations issues.
• Manages the talent acquisition process, which includes employee recruitment, interviewing, and hiring of qualified CDL drivers, Mechanics, and other freight personnel.
• Ensures planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee performance appraisal program by training managers on employee assessment and development methods and ensure reviews are completed timely.
• Maintains knowledge of benefit programs to inform and answer employee questions as needed.
• Analyzes local trends in compensation and pay practices to ensure the organization attracts and retains top talent. Conducts periodic compensation study; monitoring and scheduling individual pay actions; and recommending, planning, and implementing pay structure revisions.
• Creates learning and development programs and initiatives that provide internal and external training opportunities for all employees.
• Enforce Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and OSHA rules, including drug testing, background checks, and hours-of-service compliance
• Maintains compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance.
• Retains accurate current and historical human resource records according to company, local, and federal policy.
• Conforms with and abides by all regulations, policies, work procedures, instruction, and all safety requirements.
• Provides a “Customer Service” attitude when interacting with internal and external customers while accomplishing work, production, and achieving quality standards.
• Maintains a clean, orderly, and safe workstation/environment at all times.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and Experience:

• Education: Bachelor’s in human resources, or a 4-year degree in related discipline, preferred.
• Experience : 1-3 years in progressively responsible human resource roles, preferred.
• Deep understanding of employment laws (FMLA, ADA, EEO) and transport-specific labor regulations.
• Transportation and DOT industry experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of employment law, regulations, transportation specific labor regulations, DOT regulations and HR best practices
• Knowledge of HR systems and databases such as ADP

• Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong problem resolution skills, along with customer service and team orientation skills.

• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.

• Ability to build positive relationships with employees at all levels.
• Ability to advise and influence business leaders on how human resource actions can impact business performance.
• Ability to work through complex business issues and identify required HR interventions.

• Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion.
• Abide by all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description.
• Abide by the company’s safety, quality, environmental, and HR policies at all times.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Ability to stand, bend, kneel.

• Ability to use stairs and ladders.

• Ability to carry out tasks in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple tasks at once.
• Frequently required to walk, stand, sit.  
• Occasionally lift and/or move 20 pounds or more.  

• Operate in an office and production environment. Production environment could include frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme heat or cold; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the production environment is usually very loud.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is usually in an office environment. The noise level in the office environment is usually quiet.