Generalist HR

Job Location: Stuarts Draft, VA

Summary

The Hershey Company Stuarts Draft plant is a Non-Union plant producing products such as Reese's Pieces, Reese Cups, Reese Shapes, Reese Bars, Mr. Goodbar, Mounds, Almond Joy, NutRageous, Oh Henry, FastBreak, Whatchamacallit, Baking Chips, etc. in a high-speed complex environment.

The HR Generalist position at the Stuarts Draft facility is a key HR partner role, responsible for human resources organizational capability for the site. This role will focus on employee relations and implementing HR initiatives to increase employee engagement and satisfaction throughout the site. The career progression for this position includes Site Human Resources Manager.

Responsibilities

Talent First

• Participates in career development efforts, people planning, salaried talent acquisition, leadership development, and performance management.
• Consults with management team to analyze and assess people needs of the organization and develops and implements strategies to meet those needs.
• Identifies key training needs and develops plans and timelines for design and delivery.
• Supports leading and developing HR staff.
• Manages relationship with temporary staffing agencies to ensure the quantity and quality of temporary staffing to meet production schedules.

Employee Engagement/ Culture

• Drives the engagement survey process, action planning and implementation of recommendations.
• Ensures positive employee relations by proactive employee communication, prompt issue resolution and fair and equitable policy administration. This includes support of local and national programs to promote employee good will and positive morale.
• Participates in wage surveys, insures market competitive wage recommendations.
• Identifies opportunities and recommends changes to increase performance, reduce cost, and positively impact metrics through analytical approaches, including the tracking of key data and analyzing trends.
• Focuses on the entire Employee Value Proposition

HR Excellence

• Drives business performance by utilizing knowledge of the business and interrelationships to influence strategy and decision-making, partnership with the site leadership team to achieve plant goals.
• Contributes to business performance by utilizing knowledge of financial concepts and being able to identify the key factors affecting the business units' financial performance.
• Anticipates and overcomes barriers to delivering quality HR services, recommending, and driving business process efficiencies and consistencies.
• Leverages and educates others on available technology, shared services, HR services and procedures to meet customer needs.
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local government regulations.
• Uses knowledge of business trends to create and implement clear, relevant, and actionable plans. Defines and communicates clear expectations. Tracks and develops plans to remove obstacles to success.

Scope

• Supports up to 1500 hourly employees within the site
• Reports to the Site Human Resource Manager
• Provides support to the Business Unit Leaders and secondary support to the Plant Leadership team in the absence of the HR Leader

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities

• Ability to initiate, implement and lead team projects to completion
• Strong communication skills and ability to work and communicate effectively with others across levels and functions while working on multiple tasks in a matrixed organization
• Ability to make decisions based on all relevant information and develops recommendations/solves problems, based on data
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional support external to the immediate facility
• Ability to maintain focus on work assignments and activities when faced with changes, problems, competing priorities or stressful situations
• Ability to systematically gather & analyze information from a variety of sources, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable alternative solutions to problems and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative
• Proven ability to take ownership of work with a sense of urgency, enthusiasm, commitment, and persistence in the face of obstacles or adversity with strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to establish and maintain constructive, positive working relationships
• Ability to solicit and embrace diverse perspectives to identify mutually beneficial solutions

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resource Management, or a related discipline required
• An advanced degree is a plus
• PHR, SHRM-PC preferred
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Human Resources required, manufacturing environment preferred
• Must have experience and knowledge of state and federal regulations, driving compliance in workers compensation, affirmative action planning, FMLA administration, ADA, FLSA, EEO Charge responses etc.