We currently have an opening for an HR Manager at a food manufacturing company, located in Chicago, IL.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Leadership and Interpersonal Skills
•Able to work with employees at all levels to promote achievement of goals and objectives and overall common interests
•Able to develop and promote cooperation in and between work groups
•Able to resolve conflict and differences between employees and work groups
•Persistent in pursuing goals despite resistance from internal and external sources
•Takes charge, initiates action, and directs others while being relationship and achievement oriented
•Able to establish an environment where employees want to excel and work up to their potential
Communication Skills
•Delivers and receives information clearly, accurately, timely, thoroughly
•Ability to write memos, letters and reports in a clear and concise manner
•Good one-on-one and group-speaking skills – interviewing, presentations, meetings
•Ability to be persuasive, influencing, convincing, credible
Personal Characteristics
•Confident and self-assured of abilities and ideas
•Tough, winner’s attitude - overcomes obstacles and adversity
•Almost impossible to discourage or dishearten
•Projects positive, authoritative and professional image
• Resourceful learner and information agent
•Receptive, flexible and adaptable to change
•Balances independence and interdependence
•Emotionally mature - constructively handles frustration and needs satisfaction
•Able to handle demands of the job without outward emotional reaction
•Sets priorities and meets urgent situations head-on
•Personal and professional pride in the company - products, goals, and employees
•Desire and drive to learn and implement new technical, managerial, administrative ideas
•Places company goals and group efforts above personal and individual wants
•Learns new material quickly, and understands and applies abstract concepts
•Resourceful problem preventer, problem identifier, problem solver, decision maker
Technical Knowledge
Knowledgeable and experienced in the following key-result areas:
•General, overall Personnel and Labor Relations practices and legal requirements
•Recruiting, interviewing, screening, testing and employee selection techniques and resourcefulness regarding utilization of recruiting resources
• Concept of establishing and complying with approved company policies, practices and related legal requirements
•Employee Compensation Plans, Payroll Administration and Employee Benefits Administration (Group Insurance, Pension/401k Plans, Short-term Disability)
Employee performance appraisal and evaluation systems, up to and including evaluation and administration of employee performance, attendance, and conduct matters
• Employee orientation and on-the-job skills training and employee development
•Labor Relations, especially from the standpoint of prevention of unionization
•Employee safety and accident prevention programs and related OSHA regulations and requirements
Required Job-Related Skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills: Write to the reader in a clear, concise and correct manner that does not require someone else to correct mistakes in content or context, including grammar, spelling, punctuation. Speak to an audience (one-on-one or groups) with generally accepted good oral-presentation skills.
Computer Skills: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint. AS400 experience helpful, but not required
Organized and orderly, good attention to detail, credible in only two areas: everything said and everything done.
Must be bilingual in English and Spanish.
Bachelors Degree & 10+ years of experience required.
- Location: Northwest side of Chicago
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