Senior HR Generalist - Bilingual

Job Description

The Senior HR Generalist performs duties associated with some or all of the different functional HR areas, including employee relations, training, hiring, employment, and benefits. This role serves as part of the front-line team to support the sites, the regional HR teams and the HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) communities.

Key Competencies

• Capacity to understand people issues impacting the business and how the business can create profit and value
• Demonstrates integrity in all business interactions and honors personal commitments
• Ability to provide both verbal and written information clearly, succinctly, and persuasively, as well as ability to influence others
• Skill in project management, resource management, and strategic planning
• Ability to reach agreements and consensus despite differing goals and priorities
• Capacity to understand problems and issues in the context of the bigger picture and understand relationships among subcomponents
• Ability to use research methods effectively, including data collection, diagnostic, and analytical skills

Key Responsibilities

• Hands on recruiting, interviewing, and selecting qualified manufacturing personnel for multiple shifts across multiple sites
• Coach, counsel, and guide managers across multiple sites before the execution of employee disciplinary actions
• Understand problems and issues in the context of the bigger picture and understand relationships between processes
• Ability manage and process a large volume of voicemail, telephone, email, and face-to-face communication daily
• Develop and promote feedback mechanisms for employees to influence the continuous improvement of HR services and processes
• Drive people processes to ensure that employees’ capabilities meet current and future standards
• Maintain close contact with the HR team to ensure alignment with corporate and business unit HR and the HR generalist team
• Manage specific projects as determined in the HR planning process and participate in functional and cross-functional initiatives
• Distribute, monitor, and ensure that employee performance evaluations are completed in a timely manner
• Complete and handle paperwork associated with employee’s life cycle
• Support line management in forecasting and planning talent pipeline requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Must be bi-lingual in English and Spanish
• Experience in the administration of benefits and compensation programs as well as other HR programs
• General knowledge of employment laws and practices
• Experience with Microsoft Office; skill in database management and record keeping
• Experience in presenting orientation or trainings 
• PHR/SPHR or SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP certification helpful