Human Resources Manager (Milwaukee)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

· Serve as primary full cycle recruiter for all hourly positions, which includes attending offsite job fairs, scheduling interviews, organizing and maintaining applicant-tracking logs, conducting reference and background checks, and extending offer letters for hourly candidates.

· Conduct all new employee on boarding orientation.

· Develop and implement safety programs, ensuring compliance with regulations, and managing risks within the organization

· Create and maintain OSHA compliant employee training programs and logs to ensure timely completion of all required training.

· Investigate, along with supervisors, all workplace injuries and create corrective actions.

· Maintain OSHA Log and report weekly as to the nature, cause, and action taken with any work-related injury or illness.

· Organize and maintain worker’s compensation cases.

· Work with the Safety Team that will identify and eliminate hazards through safety inspections, job safety analysis techniques, and investigations.

· Maintain knowledge of legal requirements and government reporting regulations affecting human resources functions and ensure policies, procedures, and reporting are incompliance.

· Maintain records of benefits plans participation such as insurance and pension plan, personnel transactions such as hires, promotions, transfers, performance reviews, and terminations, and employee statistics for government reporting.

· Train management in interviewing, hiring, terminations, promotions, performance review, safety, and sexual harassment.

· Respond to inquiries regarding policies, procedures, and programs.

· Administer performance review program to ensure effectiveness, compliance, and equity within organization.

· Resolve employee relations issues to include conflict resolution, harassment investigations, wage complaints, employee disputes, and attendance issues.

· Attend unemployment hearings as necessary, oversee the process of seasonal lay-offs and addresses issues that arise regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act.

· Investigate accidents and prepare reports for insurance carriers.

· Conduct wage surveys within labor market to determine competitive wage rate.

· Prepares employee separation notices and related documentation, and conducts exit interviews to determine reasons behind separations.

· Champion and cultivate a positive, inclusive workplace culture that aligns with the company’s mission, values, and strategic goals to enhance employee engagement, collaboration, and overall organizational success

· Other duties may be assigned.

Education and/or Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree in Business/HR, or its equivalent, plus 3-5 years of HR background desired; or any equivalent combination of experience and training that demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position.

· Computer proficiency and technical aptitude with the ability to utilize the Microsoft Suite and prior experience with an HRIS database

· Must have high level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations. Position continually requires demonstrated poise, tact and diplomacy.

· Capability for effective planning and priority setting.

· Ability to manage several projects simultaneously with good organizational skills.

· Excellent verbal and written communication. Bi-lingual, English & Spanish preferred.

· Attention to detail in composing, typing and proofing materials, establishing priorities.

· Ability to follow through, meet deadlines.