Human Resources Specialist
Sylvamo – Eastover Mill’s HR Specialist supports approximately 650+ employees in a mill with High Performance Work Systems. This “hands-on” position requires significant interaction and visibility to all levels of the organization, departments, and all shifts in a manufacturing environment. Responsibilities include administering people processes for Eastover team members, from selection through retirement and ensuring compliance with company and regulatory requirements while ensuring a positive team member experience.
This is an exciting career opportunity for a Human Resources Professional who desires to influence results for the customers they support. The HR Specialist reports to the HR Manager.
Required Minimum Qualifications Include:
- Demonstrated experience in positions that required:
- integrity and administration of highly confidential information
- accuracy in work while under time pressure
- project management skills
- planning skills that incorporate potential problem avoidance
- ability to apply good judgement to situations that fall outside policy and procedure guidance
- excellent organizational, time management and prioritizing skills
- courage to challenge all levels of leadership to maintain integrity in mill and company people processes
- impartial administration of people processes across areas and team members
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills:
- ability to communicate with and build relationships with a broad array of people
- easily keeps lots of people highly informed and up to the minute
- positively interact with leadership at all levels
- demonstrated ability to facilitate team member concerns to resolution
- Demonstrated use of computer tools for trending, analysis and reporting:
- strong computer experience using Microsoft Office; Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook
- track, organize, analyze and report data for leaders to make key people decisions
- Demonstrated conscientious work ethic:
- continuously monitoring people processes to avoid delays for team members
- take laptop home with VPN access; carry company phone to respond to people issues outside regular work hours when needed
- availability to move people processes forward evenings and weekends when needed; work overtime when needed
- High School diploma/GED
Preferred Qualifications Include:
5+ years HR experience:
- experience with Ceridian Dayforce or a similar HRIS system
- administration of employee leave processes through a third party administrator (i.e., FMLA, sick leave/salary continuation, etc.)
- administration of recruiting and selection processes, promotion processes, performance management systems, people policy administration, and workforce planning
- experience tracking people processes and sharing information with management
- maintenance of human resources record retention requirements based on Records Retention Compliance
- proactively audit personnel administrative steps, policy and procedure application and reporting to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and IP core values. Keeps abreast of employment related regulatory provisions.
- interpret and answer inquires related to HR policies and procedures, and counsel and educate team members while ensuring consistency and reinforcing adherence as appropriate
- balance daily administration of people processes with intense preparation, support and administration of infrequently occurring people processes, both planned and unplanned (ex: regulatory audits, affirmative action, business people projects and requests for information, people reviews, forecasting/budgeting, etc.)
- work with and through third party administrators of benefits and people processes; support HR Reps and team members and escalate cases as needed
- experience working in a union free 24/7 manufacturing environment
- experience working at a site with high performance work systems
- develop, propose and implement people related work system improvements
- Responsibility for HR projects as assigned
- Relevant post high school education; degree, certification or training (ex: Office Administration, HR, SHRM, CEBs, Employee Relations, Ceridian Dayforce, ADA, FMLA, time and attendance system, etc.)
Core competencies to succeed in the HR Specialist position include:
Ethic and Values, Action Oriented, Timely Decision Making, Decision Quality, Organizing, Perseverance, Priority Setting, Problem Solving, Drive for Results, Time Management, Customer Focus, Integrity & Trust, Interpersonal Savvy, Listening, Peer Relationships, Dealing with Ambiguity, Functional/Technical Skills, Learning on the Fly, Self-Development, Technical Learning, Planning.
To Apply:
Online applications must be submitted by January 9, 2022.
Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/D/V