Human Resources Senior Specialist

The senior HR specialist will play a key role in supporting the HR team with our day‑to‑day activities, including recruitment, employee relations, benefit administration, training, and compliance. This role will be a key partner for our shift leaders and managers.

• Handles employee relations counseling, outplacement counseling, and exit interviews.
• Partner with Area Leaders and Section Managers in talent development and coaching.
• Assists in the development and implementation of personnel policies and procedures.
• Prepares and maintains the employee handbook and policies and procedures manual.
• Serve as a point of contact for employee inquiries regarding HR policies and procedures.
• Support conflict resolution, investigations, and employee disciplinary actions.
• Foster a positive workplace culture through employee engagement initiatives.
• Assist employees with benefit enrollment and questions.
• Coordinate with vendors to ensure benefits administration is accurate and timely.
• Performs benefits administration to include claims resolution, change reporting, and approving invoices for payment.
• Maintain accurate and confidential employee records.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws.
• Participate in HR‑related projects, such as performance review cycles and policy updates.
• Prepare regular reports on HR metrics (e.g., turnover, headcount, absenteeism).
• Assist in new team member orientation, including presentation of materials.
• Maintains Human Resource Information System records and compiles reports from the database.
• Participates in developing department goals, objectives, and systems.
• Prepares management reports as requested, i.e., discipline, overtime, employee count, county of residence, etc.
• Represents the organization at personnel‑related hearings and investigations.
• Other duties may be assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a four‑year college or technical school, 7‑9 years’ experience as an HR business partner, generalist, etc.

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Fluent in English. Japanese as a second language is helpful.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk or hear, occasionally required to stand, use hands, walk, bend, lift, or twist, frequently required to reach with hands and arms, occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.

The team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The team member must be able to lift a container of fasteners weighing up to 25 pounds on a regular basis. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth…