Senior HR Business Partner

Senior HR Business Partner

Consider joining the Pennex family as the Senior HR Business Partner at our Leetonia location. This role is responsible for delivering key result areas as a strategic and trusted business partner in the Pennex organization. The Senior HR Business Partner designs, implements, and manages innovative people and business programs and policies to foster an engaged workforce while also modeling the way for our leaders as an example of our core values.

This role is critical in ensuring department deliverables align with the business needs to better serve its customers. This position partners with the business leaders, provides strategic direction on all aspects of HR, including training and development, compensation, benefits, employee relations and performance management. This role focuses on people by creating open communication between employees and leadership. This position directs the organizational design aspects, leveraging employee strengths and development growing leaders from within the organization.

The Senior HR Business Partner will lead key projects with the HR Working Group as well as internal and external customers, while actively fostering a workplace culture that motivates employees, ensuring they are trained and developed to enjoy success in their role.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Employee Relations:

• Manages employee relations providing an open-door environment to have issues/concerns addressed. Spends time in production facilities engaging employees and providing opportunity to express concerns/issues, ask questions and provide general assistance.
• Functions as a coach to supervisors and managers regarding employee issues/concerns. Assists managers/supervisors developing employee corrective actions and performance management counseling.
• Provides feedback to Director of HR and Business Partnerships and Site Leaders on potential issues and challenges within organization needing resolution at the executive management level.
• Supports supervisors and managers with outlining employee goals/objectives and creation and development plans.
• Provides support for the Wellness initiatives to ensure there is participation and employee engagement. Assists employees in establishing an employee driven team on Wellness and participates in the committee meetings.
• Performs duties relating to preferred employer initiatives by assisting in the coordination and follow-up on employee round tables, scheduling and organizing company activities and events such as picnics and other family events.

Strategic Direction:
Planning and Processes:

• Creates organizational strategies to support growth and change, working with key leadership to manage change and facilitate growth opportunities.
• Identifies high potential performers to engage for the alignment of business succession plans.
• Partner with the Director of HR and Business Partnerships to develop policies and create a culture of consistency and fairness, providing guidance to management and employees, and assisting in the revisions and development of new policies.
• Ensures policies are administered accurately and fairly, providing guidance to supervisors/managers and employees, and assisting in the revisions and development of new policies.
• Manages site talent acquisition activities, including participating in field marketing events, identifying openings, interviewing/selecting candidates, processing employment applications, background checks, and scheduling post offer physicals and drug testing.
• Manages the onboarding process, schedules safety orientations, introduces the Pennex culture, reviews employment documentation and policies.
• Performs 15, 45, and 90 day stay interviews to ensure new employee onboarding processes are being managed in the effective manner and providing oversight to retention.
• Collaborates with Talent Acquisition and Operations on all temporary staffing needs by ordering and terminating temporary employees. Tracks changes and monitors temporary workers performance, attendance, and length of service for hiring purposes.
• Coordinates and oversees all aspects of project execution; ensuring timelines and…