NEO HR Operations Intern

About the role

The HR Operations Intern provides administrative, reporting, and program coordination support to the HR Business Partner.

Responsibilities

• HR Metrics, Reporting & Records Support: Run, review, and summarize weekly attendance reports, including exceptions, missing punches, trends, and department-level follow-up needs.
• Track staffing levels, headcount, and hiring status; prepare monthly staffing summaries for leadership.
• Support training documentation by maintaining completion records, 30/60/90-day onboarding checklists, and training compliance logs.
• Prepare data pulls and reports from Paylocity as directed, including attendance, turnover, headcount, and benefits enrollment.
• Onboarding Administration: Prepare and maintain new hire packets, orientation materials, onboarding paperwork, and checklists.
• Coordinate new hire orientation logistics and monitor completion of required onboarding steps.
• Track benefits eligibility dates, enrollment documentation, and missing required forms; flag items to the HR Business Partner.
• Maintain I-9 compliance tracking and audit files for completeness.
• Employee Recognition & Communications: Support the Employee of the Month program by collecting nominations, tallying results, coordinating photos, and preparing town hall slides.
• Maintain recognition tracking logs for milestones, anniversaries, service awards, and core value recognition.
• Create and maintain employee communications, including newsletter content, recognition spotlights, communication board updates, event promotions, and photos.
• Maintain the employee event calendar and assist with planning logistics for appreciation events, town halls, and luncheons.
• Survey & Feedback Coordination: Build, maintain, and standardize surveys and templates across all AECO companies.
• Schedule and send reminders for stay interviews, engagement surveys, exit surveys, and new hire feedback.
• Track survey participation rates and compile raw data into summary reports for HR Business Partner review.
• Performance Review Tracking: Monitor review completion status through Paylocity and tracking tools, including annual, quarterly, 360-degree, self-review, and wage progression reviews.
• Send reminders to supervisors and employees for overdue evaluations and escalate outstanding items to the HR Business Partner.
• Generate completion reports for HR and leadership.

Requirements

• Preferred Experience: Junior or senior standing, or graduate student status in an HR or Organizational Development program.
• Interest in manufacturing HR and comfort working regularly on a shop floor rather than solely in a corporate office.
• Prior internship or work experience in an office, HR, or administrative capacity.
• Work Environment: Manufacturing setting with regular shop floor presence; closed-toe shoes are required; PPE is provided when needed.
• Primarily on-site at Alloy Engineering in Berea, Ohio, with occasional visits to Mach3 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
• Fast-paced, employee-owned company culture.
• Must be able to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening, including marijuana, as a condition of employment.