HR Coordinator

Join Ford's HR team as an HR Coordinator, where you'll support the complete employee experience across recruitment, onboarding, compensation, leaves, transfers, and separations in a dynamic unionized manufacturing environment with [number of employees] employees at [site name].

You will serve as a key operational partner ensuring accurate administration and seamless processes across all stages of the employee journey. Your work will touch every HR function—recruiting, compensation, benefits, employee relations, and workforce planning—building the comprehensive operational knowledge and cross‑functional expertise that are essential foundations for HR Business Partner and HR management positions.

This position is ideal for versatile professionals who thrive on variety, systems thinking, and being the operational backbone that keeps HR running smoothly while building strong collaborative relationships.

• Support hourly recruiting and new employee onboarding
• Administer a wide range of personnel actions such as promotions, internal transfers/movements
• Provide comprehensive support for various employee leaves of absence, including medical, FMLA, and other extended leaves, coordinating with employees and external benefit administrators.
• Manage employee reinstatements following leaves or other absences, ensuring all necessary records and system access are updated.
• Manage employee departures, including retirements and other separations, and administer processes related to staffing level adjustments such as layoffs
• Utilize HR data to conduct audits, process unemployment documentation, and resolve related inquiries.
• Coordinate internal employee movements and job postings. Administer position management changes.
• Facilitate external employee transfers from plant to plant, ensuring accurate transfer of personnel records, including disciplinary and attendance histories, and processing relocation assistance.
• Coordinate vacation shutdown activities, working in partnership with operations for workforce planning requirements and vacation pay administration.
• Administer wage changes, including processing apprentice wage adjustments and conducting regular wage and position management audits.
• Pay discrepancy in accordance with contractual agreements.
• Process payments for short-term leaves (e.g., bereavement, jury duty, military leave) and manage grievance-related payouts.
• Support the administration of profit‑sharing and other bonus programs, including eligibility verification.
• Administer holiday pay and holiday conversion processes.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant labor laws, company policies and collective bargaining agreements.
• Maintain accurate and confidential employee records.
• Conduct various compliance with internal controls
• Identify and resolve data discrepancies across HR systems to ensure accurate employee reporting.
• Manage HR record retention processes in compliance with company policy.
• Collaborate with HR and Operations leadership to execute workforce planning strategies that meet production demands.
• Assist with system access and security audits.
• Actively participate in HR projects and initiatives aimed at process improvement and enhancing the overall employee experience.

• Administer wage changes, including processing apprentice wage adjustments and conducting regular wage and position management audits.
• Pay discrepancy in accordance with contractual agreements.
• Process payments for short-term leaves (e.g., bereavement, jury duty, military leave) and manage grievance-related payouts.
• Support the administration of profit‑sharing and other bonus programs, including eligibility verification.
• Administer holiday pay and holiday…