Manager II Human Resources

Where you will work

Augusta houses Clearwater Paper’s largest paperboard facility and is home to more than 600 team members. Augusta is known worldwide for hosting The Masters golf tournament, but the city offers so much more. Located on the Savannah River on Georgia’s eastern border, families benefit from strong public schools and nearby universities, including Augusta University—home to Georgia’s only dental school and a nationally recognized medical college—plus technical colleges offering career-focused programs.

The HR Manager II will act as a liaison between departments, performing a variety of human resources responsibilities to foster positive employee relations, labor relations, organization, career, and personal development. This role is responsible for supporting hourly staffing, payroll, benefits, and employee relations. This position is both strategic and action-oriented, influencing the direction of a critical unionized manufacturing site with a commitment to continuous improvement.

The HR Manager II reports directly to the Senior HR Manager and supervises one direct report.

• Collaborative business partner to managers and supervisors at the site, providing subject matter advice and coaching as appropriate across all aspects of human resources processes.
• Coordinate and monitor all compensation, benefit, talent systems and practices to ensure consistent application within corporate guidelines in a firm, fair and consistent manner.
• Provide proactive guidance and counsel to the business on employee relations matters, coordinating legal activity with Corporate Legal and outside counsel.
• Champion employee engagement action plans, proactively develop and monitor employee engagement action plans and key indicators of employee engagement (e.g., turnover, internal movement).
• Coach and support functional leaders in addressing performance issues and employee relations issues promptly.
• Serve as change management partner with emphasis on business process improvement, collaborating on change management to support development and implementation.

• Actively engage with Talent Acquisition Partners, department managers, and hiring managers to ensure TA and onboarding processes for site and KPIs are meeting expectations of the organization; collaborate with Talent Acquisition Partners on strategy to develop diverse (hourly and salaried) talent pipelines to meet both short- and medium-term needs across the organization.
• Collaborate with leadership team to optimize organization design to achieve business objectives inclusive of but not limited to operations key performance, productivity, customer service, and quality objectives.
• Collaborate with leadership team in identifying opportunities in employee engagement, work collectively to preserve positive employee relationships.
• Collaborate, support, and deliver organization transformation and training initiatives ranging from front line to leadership development programs.

• Coach and support leaders in the execution of the company led Talent Management Life Cycle inclusive of Performance Management, Merit Planning, Succession Planning, etc.
• Collaborate with Sr. HR Manager providing voice of functions to assist with identification, prioritization and development for human resource programs, policies and learning and development activities aligned with business strategies.
• Coach assigned client groups on execution of company annual compliance requirements; support the execution of national training; identify and develop location needs; collaborate with Sr. HR Manager for support.

• Support site labor relations activities as needed.
• Actively engage leaders in client groups to investigate and respond to labor relations issues. Work closely with site Sr. HR Manager and Sr. Labor Relations manager to coordinate responses and actions.

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Labor Relations, Business Administration, or related field required; master’s degree preferred.
• 7+ years of increasing experience and accountabilities within a manufacturing…