HR SPECIALIST

Responsibilities

• Supports local recruiting and outreach efforts in coordination with the centralized recruiting team to meet or exceed monthly and annual recruiting targets in the most efficient and effective manner possible.
• Ensures a positive candidate and hiring manager experience.
• May assist in the administration and/or tracking of employee development training.
• Engages employees and resolves issues expediently, with professionalism and tact.
• Escalates concerns as appropriate.
• Acts as a conduit to provide facility management, Regional HR and Corporate HR insight into employee concerns.
• Performs employee onboarding to include data entry into the HR Information system and new employee orientation.
• Ensures data entered is complete and accurate and employees have a thorough understanding of Company policies and procedures, to include the information included in the employee handbook.
• Resolves employee personnel inquiries and submits necessary inputs, changes, additions and deletions into the HR Information System.
• Reports unusual or unresolved problems to HR Manager for further action.
• Maintains records of insurance coverage, retirement plans, and personnel transactions such as hires, promotions, transfers, performance reviews, terminations, and other related personnel and payroll issues.
• Processes performance reviews, wage/salary transactions and disciplinary actions in the Company’s HR information system in a timely manner and within approval authorization.
• Processes leaves of actions in the Company’s time keeping system and ensures compliance with FMLA, ADA and applicable federal, state and local laws.
• Provides guidance to employees on company HR policies and procedures (e.g. Time Off with Pay, Tuition Reimbursement, etc.).
• May attend hearings as the HR representative.
• May compile information to file workers’ compensation claims for employees and for the insurance carrier.
• Prepares routine and special reports by conducting necessary analysis of trends and identifying problem areas where the margin for error is small and level of importance is high.
• Provides necessary referral support for the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of three (3) years of related work experience in HR, or higher education degree and one (1) year of related work experience in Human Resources.
• Good working knowledge and familiarity with HR concepts, practices, procedures and basic employment laws required.
• Experience working with an HR Information System preferred.
• Must exhibit a high degree of professionalism to gain the respect of all employees.
• Excellent organization, communication (both written and verbal), and interpersonal skills required.
• Must be able to maintain confidentiality at all times due to the handling of sensitive and confidential information.
• Must have proven history of ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Must have proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Windows, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and other computer programs and software normally used by Human Resources.
• Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age.
• Bilingual, English/Spanish fluent.