Human Resources Generalist I

U. S. Steel•Fairfield, AL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The HR Generalist provides on-site human resources support to employees and leaders at the Fairfield, Alabama plant. The role serves as a day-to-day HR generalist, supporting employee and labor relations, recruiting, investigations, performance management, HR processes, and workforce initiatives. It is intended for an early-career HR professional who is comfortable working directly with employees and leaders in a manufacturing environment and offers the opportunity to develop broad HR capabilities, including employee relations, recruiting, labor relations, and HR business partnership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, industrial/organizational psychology, or a closely related field.
Willingness to learn and develop HR skills in a unionized manufacturing setting.
Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills to handle sensitive issues tactfully and with absolute confidentiality.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills to work effectively with employees at all levels of the organization.
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Excellent analytical skills, particularly using Excel, to analyze data, identify trends, and draw reasonable conclusions.

Nice To Haves

1–3 years of HR experience.
Experience in a unionized setting.

Responsibilities

Partner with operations leaders and employees to provide day-to-day HR support and guidance on employee relations, policies, workplace practices, performance management, and other HR matters.
Participate in employee and labor relations investigations by gathering information, conducting interviews, documenting findings, and assisting HR leadership with follow-up actions.
Build productive relationships with employees, union representatives, supervisors, and operations leadership to support communication and issue resolution.
Support recruiting for hourly and salaried positions, including sourcing, interviewing, candidate coordination, selection, onboarding, and other hiring activities.
Partner with management to understand workforce needs and support recruiting and staffing strategies.
Support performance management, compensation planning, talent development, succession planning, employee engagement, recognition, and organizational development.
Assist leaders with consistent interpretation and application of company policies, procedures, collective bargaining agreements, and employment practices.
Support onboarding, orientation, employee transactions, transfers, promotions, and other employment lifecycle activities.
Identify opportunities to improve HR processes, tools, documentation, and workflows for a more efficient and consistent employee and leader experience.
Maintain accurate employee documentation and HR records and protect the confidentiality of sensitive information.
Coordinate local employee engagement activities.
Serve as a trusted advisor to the plant and resolve business problems using current HR and Labor Relations knowledge, including contract negotiation, grievance handling, progressive discipline, arbitration preparation, local issue settlements, employment law, organizational behavior, change management, best practices, and company policy and practice.
Support labor relations in a union-represented environment and help build effective working relationships with union leadership and represented employees.
Support the grievance process by researching issues, gathering documentation, participating in grievance hearings, tracking open grievances, and assisting with timely resolution.
Assist HR and Labor Relations leadership with arbitration preparation, including organizing documentation, researching case history, developing timelines, and coordinating supporting information.