HR Generalist

**Primary location**: Mississauga, Ontario
**Relocation offered**: No
**Employment status**: Part-Time or Temporary Part-Time
**Travel**: No
**Non-compete**:No

**Hourly Contract Rate**: $38.46/hr to $39,90/hr (based on skills and years of relevant experience)

**What does it mean to work at Armstrong?**

It means being immersed in a supportive culture that recognizes you as a key player in Armstrong's future. We are a large company with a local feel, where you will get to know and collaborate with leadership and your colleagues across the company.

The Human Resource Generalist is responsible for providing onsite support to employees at the Plasterform manufacturing facility in Mississauga. This is a part-time, temporary contract position working up to 20-24 hrs per week. The contract term will be for an initial 12 months with possibility of extension to 18 months.

The position plays a key role in strategic and operational management of human resources in the areas of policy administration, recruitment and agency staffing, employee onboarding and training, benefits and leave administration, employee relations and discipline administration, performance management, and regulatory/audit compliance. This is an onsite position responsible for providing HR support to 50+ employees in a manufacturing facility.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

HR Service Delivery
- Engages in proactive positive employee relations activities through frequent interaction with employees on the floor, ensuring direct and open lines of communications and responding promptly to concerns and issues.
- Manages the recruitment process and assumes ownership for onboarding/new hire orientation. Manages temp agency partnerships/relationships.
- Communicate and assist with employee benefits program enrollment.
- Manages hourly wage program, conducts wage surveys to ensure market competitiveness. Collaborates with head office on compensation for office/administrative staff.
- Manages paid time off policies and leave of absence requests.
- Responsible for creation, management and retention of personnel employment records ensuring local and regulatory compliance.
- Processes employee actions (hires, promotions, transfers, terminations).

Coach & Develop Front Line Supervisors
- Provides leadership and supervisory training to supervisors and team leaders and provides feedback and counseling as appropriate to ensure development.
- Supports managers to ensure effective performance coaching and counseling to employees.
- Provide guidance to management on conflict resolution and discipline administration. Conduct investigations as required.

Worker's Compensation & Safety
- Partners with the EHS Specialist on plant's worker's compensation process ensuring resolution of outstanding open cases.
- Assists with investigating incidents and accidents and responds to events to support employee(s) and represent the company.

Policies & Procedures/Communication
- Responsible for developing and updating site employment manual policies and procedures.
- Ensures implementation of all site and company policies; and promotes compliance through ongoing awareness and annual training.
- Maintains bulletin boards.
- Maintains compliance with all provincial and federal posting requirements.

Rewards and Recognition
- Assists with event planning, employee meals/cookouts, charitable contributions etc.
- Provides recognition system administrative support.
- Manages charitable/community service projects.

**Supervisory Responsibilities**:**None

**Travel**:**Minimal; 5% or less

**Qualifications**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
- Knowledge of labor laws in Ontario.
- Bilingual (Vietnamese) and English a plus

**Physical and Mental Demands**

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit for prolonged periods; repetitive motion of hands/wrists/fingers; concentrate and repeat the same physical or mental activities over and over; think analytically and be exact or highly accurate; make decisions such as to identify complex problems, develop options and implement solutions; work in a team; ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADAAA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standar