Human Resources Representative

Saddle Creek • Joliet, IL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Saddle Creek Logistics Services promotes a diverse, friendly, and respectful teamwork environment, offering associates opportunities to enhance skills, build careers, and achieve a sense of accomplishment. The company is family-oriented, values-driven, and provides competitive pay and benefits. This role is for a Human Resources Representative in the Human Resources/Warehouse Operations Department in Joliet, IL. The position involves ensuring completion of employment-related investigations, fostering positive associate relations by regularly engaging with associates on the warehouse floor, maintaining communication boards and personnel files, supporting hourly recruiting, assisting with benefit enrollment, administering hourly compensation and time and attendance, orienting and training new associates on policies and procedures, serving as an information resource for associates and management, assisting in implementing company objectives, identifying continuous improvement opportunities, creating reports and presentations, and managing associate recognition programs.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of HR experience.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint are required.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, communications and relationship management skills with both hourly and salaried associates is required.
• Ability to work independently to meet business objectives.
• Understanding of federal and applicable state and local employment law.
• Ability to travel when needed – up to 10%.
• Does require some support outside of regular business hours.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in HR Management or a Business-related discipline is preferred
• Preference given to those who have supported a significant hourly population
• Union avoidance experience preferred.
• Any experience with Workday and Kronos preferred

Responsibilities

• Ensures completion of employment-related investigations and provides recommendations to management and senior HR on resolution.
• Actively builds and maintains relationships at all levels by regularly walking the warehouse floor and meets with associates to foster positive associate relations.
• Maintains associate communications boards and hourly associate personnel files.
• Supports hourly recruiting efforts by partnering with dedicated site recruiter on an as needed basis.
• Supports associates in the benefit enrollment process; serves as local resource.
• Appropriately administers facility compensation guidelines for hourly associates, ensuring consistency with application of guidelines and that hourly pay changes are processed in a timely manner.
• Ensures weekly time and attendance processes are completed.
• Ensures new associates are appropriately oriented to the facility and company; train associates on policies and procedures.
• Ensures associates have completed all appropriate onboarding training.
• Serves as information resources for both hourly and management associates.
• Assists in the implementation and execution of facility and company objectives through planning, organizing and implementing human resource processes and initiatives.
• Identifies and recommends continuous improvement opportunities in processes, procedures and policies.
• Creates and completes reports and presentations using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint such as productivity measurement, workforce planning and monitoring KPI results.
• Manages associate recognition programs and recommends cost-appropriate recognition programs/events to management.

Benefits

• Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, HSA, and medical reimbursement
• Annual bonus eligibility
• 401(k) match
• Vacation and holiday pay
• Employee assistance and identity theft protection
• Career development and opportunity for internal promotions
• Tuition reimbursement for further education
• Company paid life insurance and short term disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees