Job Description
** General Position Description**
The Human Resources Manager leads, organizes, and directs the Spring Grove Human Resources department to deliver human resources programs, services, and activities of the Spring Grove operating mill, including Labor Relations, organizational development and staffing.
** Role and Responsibilities**
- Coordinates, develops, and ensures a sound labor relations program, serving as a lead representative with union officials pertaining to management's decisions regarding disciplinary actions, promotions, demotions, transfers, separations, layoffs, grievances, contract administration, and other related matters. Develops strategic initiatives to improve labor relations by partnering with mill leadership (both management and union).
- Serve as resource to leaders and employees to address performance issues, benefit and compensation issues, policy interpretation, organizational structure changes, and other human resource matters.
- Advises leadership on human resources issues such as discipline, grievances, training, staffing, promotions, transfers and other similar matters.
- Serves on the Spring Grove Mill negotiating team and as administrator of the labor agreement and work rules at all steps of the grievance procedure, including arbitration of labor disputes. Coordinates labor relations activities with legal counsel. Trains all levels of management and supervision on the application and interpretation of labor agreement.
- Oversees the talent review and succession planning process for the Spring Grove operations. Communicates regularly with leaders to ensure implementation of established gap closure and related talent recommendations. Develops and utilizes effective outside training resources that supplement or otherwise enhance in-house developed programs.
- Oversees the administration of the hourly job evaluation program and salaried performance management program. Ensures accurate, fair, and consistent employee evaluations. Assesses performance evaluation results, identify trends/gaps, and develop/implement communications and training programs to continuously improve.
- Active participant and partner in the development and implementation of Mill Improvement initiatives. Serves on the mill’s improvement steering committee.