Kaiser Aluminium Hiring for Human Resources Manager Job at Richmond, VA Full Time

The Human Resources Manager provides strategic leadership to ensure alignment of HR initiatives with plant and corporate objectives, building and maintaining effective relationships with the workforce, and engaging the employees and plant management in organization design activities that foster and sustain a high performance work culture. Manages and resolves complex personnel and employment issues and works with other Human Resources team members to develop and implement HR-based solutions to business problems.

The Human Resources Manager’s essential functions include:

• Serve as a strategic business partner to plant leadership in all Human Resource related issues.
• Manage the day-to-day Human Resource department activities in a manufacturing facility (200 employees).
• Execute Company Human Resource policies, procedures and communications at facility level.
• Oversee all location labor relations functions including grievance administration and disposition, including preparing for arbitration hearings; manage, interpret and administer the facility’s labor contract(s) and work rules; lead efforts to develop and maintain positive and progressive labor relations climate in partnership with the VP, Labor Relations; establish and maintain effective working relationships with union representatives; coordinate facility collective bargaining needs, including strike plans, with management. Works with legal/labor relations on contract negotiations and escalated grievance processes.

• Ensure legal compliance on Human Resource related issues including ADA, EEO/AA FMLA, Sarbanes-Oxley, FLSA, COBRA and harassment. .
• Oversee processing of facility hourly and salary payroll, vacation and attendance tracking.
• Understanding, managing and communicating all benefit platforms and be able to address employee questions and issues including (but not limited to) those regarding Human Resource policies and procedures, FMLA, attendance and health and welfare benefit plans.
• Oversee hourly and salary recruitment, hiring and onboarding processes – both internal and external hiring. Coordinate hourly and salaried staffing requirements with facility mangers and gains necessary approvals prior to execution.
• Oversee salary planning processes and ensure delivery and integrity of performance feedback.
• Support and deliver Company-wide initiatives, such as Policy Deployment, required compliance training, benefits administration, etc.
• Oversee administration and accuracy of required HRIS transaction (terms, hires, transfers, etc.).
• Review and approve responses to Unemployment Claims and testify on behalf of the facility at UC hearings.
• Detect employee relations issues, working with site and corporate leadership to establish a positive employer-employee relationship and promote a high level of employee morale. Counsel managers, supervisors and employees on employment issues.
• Ensure the execution of key plant HR initiatives and processes to drive continuous improvement in the areas of organization effectiveness, staffing, employee relations, training and development, benefits, employment practices, and compliance.
• Support facility environmental, health and safety (EHS) initiatives.

EDUCATION A Bachelor’s Degree Human Resource Management, Business, or Public Administration with an emphasis in HR, Industrial Psychology, Organizational Leadership or a related field is required. Master’s Degree preferred.

PHR or SLPHR certification preferred.

EXPERIENCE This individual will possess:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience managing Human Resources in a unionized manufacturing environment.
• Working with organized labor and labor contract administration preferred.
• Collective bargaining experience preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of Labor Relations and NLRB regulations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of federal and state employment laws and other government compliance programs.
• Strong PC skills, including Windows, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proven ability to work in teams, both as a team leader and a team member.
• Strong business acumen, including the drivers of plant-level working capital, return on assets and operating profit.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Broad knowledge of safety, training and development, employee relations, performance management and organizational planning.
• Excellent problem solving and organizational skills.
• Working knowledge of benefits and compensation programs.
• Demonstrated ability to influence laterally, downward and upward without any direct line authority.

PERSONAL

ATTRIBUTESThis individual will:

· Be an energetic, highly motivated individual with the intellectual horsepower and strength of character to drive positive change and continuously push to identify and implement “best practices”.

· Have the ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, gather and analyze information while maintaining required levels of confidentially.

· Be someone with an exceptional capacity to understand the complexity and nuances of Kaiser Aluminum’s organization, the market in which it competes, and the value drivers and key performance metrics in the business.

· Be detailed oriented with superior analytical skills and the ability to think “outside the box”.

· Have unquestionable business integrity and ethical standards.

· Possess the ability to lead and develop a strong human resources and management team within the plant while collaborating with the corporate leadership.

· Have well developed interpersonal and business partnering skills, with the ability to quickly adapt to, be accepted by, and interrelate with the organization at all levels. Be able to interface with senior management,vendors, and with people from outside the company.

· Be well organized and goal oriented with highly developed multi-tasking and project management capabilities.

· Be willing to work flexible hours.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $120,000.00 – $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Relocation assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay
• Signing bonus

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• Leadership: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location:

• One location

Work Remotely:

• No

Work Location: One location