Summary

The Human Resources Generalist has a wide range of responsibilities in the areas of recruiting and onboarding, benefits, educating and upholding HR policies, providing support to leadership, and foremost ensuring legal compliance.   Associate plays a pivotal role in the HR Team by providing timely day-to-day support to Associates at all levels of our organization.  The HR Generalist is a team player committed to the success of the HR Team and Perdue Transportation, Fleet Maintenance, Logistics, Distribution, and Customer Service that champions growth, development and implementation of new processes and technology.

Position is onsite in Salisbury, MD - other locations may be considered.  

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Participates in the resolution of conflict in the workplace, address Associate concerns promptly, conduct investigations, and foster a harmonious team-oriented environment.
• Provides coaching and counseling to supervisory personnel to improve the supervisors’ ability to effectively direct their workforce.
• Ensures consistent policy application in the resolution of issues addressed, provides training to supervisory personnel on policies and procedures.
• Assists with or manages the orientation of new hires including employee data entry and maintenance.  Schedules, conducts, facilitates, audits, and identifies new methods to improve new hire orientation.  Manages onboarding for leaders in your assigned departments including culture, training, and company information.
• Assist with recruitment and pre-employment.   Achieves measurable results that demonstrate improvement in hiring ratio (applicants vs. hires).  Develop a talent pipeline within the region as the employer of choice and develop the necessary contacts/community relationships (Vo-Tech Schools, State Agencies, DOL, etc.).  Creates new, innovative methods to improve the recruitment process to continually improve the experience and skill set of applicants. Makes recommendations to management for approval, implements, measures, audits and reports results to management.      
• Provides support in the areas of: Benefits, Compensation, Evaluations & Goal Setting, Training & Development, Recruiting, and Turnover & Retention through the Associate life cycle.
• Identify training needs, coordinate workshops, design or partner to, facilitate and/ or support development opportunities.  Provides mentorship and feedback to Associates and Leaders that leads to skill development in their current or future role.
• Manage Peer, Management, and IRB Review processes for assigned departments. 
• Identifies, designs, trains, implements, and audits new methods to reduce turnover.
• Identifies, develops, implements, evaluates, measures, and improves the recruiting process for non-exempt and exempt positions. Responsible for the recruiting process required to maintain the required associate staffing as directed by Operations (i.e. Drivers, Fleet Technicians, Maintenance Mechanics, Leaders, etc.).  

Education and Experience

Required: Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent related work experience in Human Resources, Business Administration.  3-5 years of Human Resources experience.  Proven knowledge of laws surrounding recruiting/ pre-employment, ADA, EEOC, DOL, and OFCCP.  Proven track record of innovative methods to recruit the targeted workforce and creative methods to recruit that resulted in turnover reduction.  Ability to think ahead and plan over a 1-to-3-year time span.  Must be able to multi-task and organize multiple protocols and projects and completed on schedule.  Requires strong analytical skills: analyze and resolve problems at both a strategic and functional level.  Must have knowledge of and ability to provide strong customer service along with the ability to communicate to all levels of the organization and a commitment to excellent interpersonal and communication skills.  Requires knowledge of and a commitment to team performance, effective coaching and demonstrated skills or a strong team player.  Requires regular travel to other facilities and plants for meetings and/or Company business. 

Preferred: HR experience in transportation, warehousing, or logistics.     

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $63,000.00 - $79,000.00 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance).

In addition to the base salary, Perdue offers a competitive benefits package, including medical/Rx, 401(k) with employer match after 1 year, critical illness, accident insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, optional group life insurance, short-term and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts and paid time off.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings. May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another. May need to access files, supplies and equipment. When in a plant environment: Exposure primarily consists of wet and moist floors which include metal and plastic grating surfaces. May be exposed to temperatures of 28 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with both ambient and 100% humidity. May handle product 25 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. May be exposed to noise ranges of 50 db. to 110 db. May be exposed to all chemicals used in poultry, food, processing facility. Must wear and use protective and safety equipment required for the job as directed by the Company. May need to climb ladders.