Human Resources Generalist

**SUMMARY**:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Backup to and “right hand person” to the Senior Director of HR, North America, effectively partnering with HR team members, supervisors, and leadership team;
- Supporting and working closely with and in collaboration with the Senior HR Director with leading, facilitating and overseeing various HR programs, projects and strategic priorities;
- Effectively partnering with the Senior Payroll Specialist with mandatory communications and administration of payroll and benefits management;
- Taking immediate actions with compliance activities with general HR, Disability Management, Joint Health and Safety Committee, and other employee-focused mandatory government legal compliance requirements.

**Responsibilities**:
**HR Generalist Support**
- Responsible for supporting, leading and providing generalist administrative support in all areas of the Human Resources function across sites under the guidance and direction of the Senior Director of HR.
- Functional areas of HR include however are not limited to:

- HR Policies, Procedures and Programs;
- Talent Acquisition, Development, and Management;
- Full-cycle of Recruitment & Selection;
- Employment Agreement Contracts;
- Onboarding and New Hire HR orientations;
- Leadership and Supervisory Training;
- Performance Management;
- Health and Safety including the Co-Chair for the Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC);
- Support Sr Payroll Specialist with pay changes, benefits administration and communications;
- Administrative Support for Bonus Program;
- Disability Management;
- Leaves of Absence Management;
- HRIS maintenance and updates (update all staffing movements on Employee Tracker);
- Ad-hoc reporting from HRIS (Workforce Now WFN ADP);
- Employee Engagement;
- Town Hall Support;
- Recognition and Rewards Programs coordination and facilitation;
- Social Committee Lead;
- Employee Relations and Investigations/Incidents;
- Compensation Management including compliance requirements (ex. ACA, Pay Equity, etc.)
- Exit Interview Completion and Coordination,
- HR Metrics, etc.

**Disability Management and JHSC**
- Manage and coordinate Disability Management full cycle of activities within contractual and legislative requirements for both work and non-work incidents;
- Compliance actions of all related health and safety legislation as required per site including personal illness, injury or accidents;
- Company Co-Chair of the JHSC (Joint Health and Safety Committee), responsible for ensuring mandatory legislated actions are completed (i.e. Monthly audits, JHSC Meetings, Compliance Trainings, Communications to Management/GM on JHSC written requests, Main Investigator/company contact for all health and safety incidents, near misses or workplace incidents)
- Main Company Rep for management of workplace disability claims.

**Performance Management**
- Ensure that supervisors/leaders complete and comply with the annual Performance Management requirements including completion of performance reviews
- Administering full PM activities including communications, reminders, issuing PM workbooks, providing support, guidance and training to leadership team, partnering with Senior Payroll Specialist to ensure all increases are processed correctly, recording and filing all required paperwork within records retention schedule.

**HR Metrics**
- Update the Employee Tracker and the internal ADP HRIS system (Workforce Now) with all staffing and manpower changes to support and update HR metrics accurately.
- Provide critical HR metrics to support management strategic decisions
- HR Metrics include but is not limited to:

- Recruitment stats (ex. Fill rate of positions)
- Turnover rate
- New Hires and Terminations / Headcount Reporting
- Employee Engagement
- Retention rate
- Exit Interview Analysis
- Compensation Benchmarks - Compliance Requirements (ACA, Pay Equity)
- Disability Leaves
- Layoffs
- Incident Rates - Near Misses, Disability Claims, Injuries/Illnesses
- Lost Time Incidents
- Training Percentages Completed

**Training and Development**
- In partnership with the HR Coordinator (Training) and HR team members, administers and maintains all training records.
- Conducts all new hire training, including conducting and overseeing site tours and arranging presentations related to HR policies & procedures and Health & Safety as required.
- Ability to effectively navigate and extract ad-hoc reports or critical data on Company training program, both the in-house database system (CourseForce) and the Global Learning Management System.

**Education, Experience and Skills Requirements**:

- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in a Human Resources Generalist, HR Coordinator, HR Specialist role or similar function, ideally within a manufacturing environment, or similar work setting
- CHRP designation (Ontario) required or in progress.
- Demonstrated proficiency in all HR functional areas
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource