Director, Human Resources

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Directs the HR department, including Payroll and Front Desk staff, to advance company HR objectives.
• Enacts strategic approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency of department and services performed.
• Manages and resolves complex employee relations issues.
• Oversees employee disciplinary meetings, terminations, and investigations.
• PARTNERS WITH ORGANIZATION’S LEADERSHIP TO UNDERSTAND AND EXECUTE THE ORGANIZATION’S HR AND TALENT STRATEGY.
• ADVISES AND ASSISTS LEADERS ON INTERPRETING AND ADMINISTERING POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND BEST PRACTICES.
• PLANS, LEADS, DEVELOPS, COORDINATES, AND IMPLEMENTS POLICIES, PROCESSES, TRAINING, INITIATIVES, AND SURVEYS TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION’S HR COMPLIANCE AND STRATEGY NEEDS.
• LEADS HR STRATEGY AND ACTIVITIES RELATING TO EMPLOYEE LIFECYCLES, INCLUDING RECRUITING, ONBOARDING, CAREER PATH PLANNING, AND EXIT ACTIVITIES FOR TERMINATED STAFF.
• CONSULTS WITH BUSINESS LEADERS AND PROVIDES HR GUIDANCE.
• WORKS CLOSER WITH MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES TO IMPROVE WORK RELATIONSHIPS, BUILD MORALE AND ENGAGEMENT, AND INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY AND RETENTION (E.G., COACHING, COUNSELING, CAREER DEVELOPMENT, DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS).
• Maintains an effective level of business literacy about each assigned business unit's financial position, strategy, midrange plans, culture, and competition.
• WORKS WITH THE LEADERSHIP TEAM TO BUILD AND LEVERAGE STRATEGIC, COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS.
• MANAGES THE BUDGET FOR THE HR DEPARTMENT.
• SUPERVISES RESPONSIBILITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S POLICIES AND APPLICABLE LAWS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field required, master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive HR experience required.
• Professional HR certification required, SHRM SCP or SPHR preferred.
• Working knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines, including compensation and benefit practices, organizational diagnosis, employee relations, diversity, performance management, and federal and state employment laws.

Reasoning Abilities

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.