Our client offers groundbreaking solutions for the daily challenges surrounding Over the road, drayage-intermodal, and warehousing operations. Featured in FreightWaves, they are a 24-hour asset-based supply chain company that offers transportation solutions advanced tracking and freight matching capabilities.
Job Type: Full-time
Director of HR
Our client is seeking an HR leader to take their HR and recruiting department to the next level. Our client will provide the marketing support with the extensive and high-density network needed to get the reach you need to stay ahead of the competition with transport solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Report directly to CEO, COO, and Operations.
- Completely own and run the payroll every week. • Own, track, and report PTO, time off, vacations, and holidays on a monthly and yearly basis to senior leadership.
- Own benefits services and implementations for staff.
- Own and set company culture.
- Hold senior leadership accountable for their team's attendance.
- Guide, mentor, and develop your team in the areas of need.
- Establish and maintain a positive and productive relationship with senior leadership within assigned business units to establish HR strategic direction and drive business recruiting efforts, and effectiveness.
- Gain and maintain an understanding of the logistics industry, the business, and its strategy.
- Provide HR leadership to meet business unit goals & objectives by providing. business insight and perspective to the CEO / COO's and shared vision by collaborating with them to develop and deliver HR solutions.
- Provide coaching and counseling to managers and employees on a wide range of HR matters to solve problems and deliver appropriate solutions.
- Analyze trends and metrics as they apply to assigned business groups, use data and analysis to provide insight for decision making and provide appropriate interventions to achieve business goals and increase employee engagement, commitment, and retention.
- Proactively engage in business planning where there is HR impact to align HR strategy with business objectives.
- Provide day to day to advice, counsel, and guidance to non-union location management on all manner of disciplinary and operational issues to ensure fair, consistent, and legally defensible treatment of employees.
- As directed, conduct investigations and recommend and/or develop resolutions to employee complaints or claims of unfair treatment, harassment, and/or discrimination based on sex, age, race, or disability. Participate in the preparation of a legal defense and as necessary in governmental hearings or investigations.
- Act as “gatekeeper” to executive management review and advice on employee terminations, suspensions, demotions, disciplinary actions, and reductions in force to ensure compliance with federal and state laws, and consistent application of internal policies, procedures, and acceptable management practices.
- Help develop policies and provide guidance to ensure compliance concerning all applicable federal, state, and local labor laws with similar regulatory requirements in logistics.
- Provide day-to-day guidance on labor contract interpretation for unionized locations to ensure consistent application and compliance, and help formulate strategies to achieve operational objectives.
- Assist during collective bargaining of labor agreements within respective business units. Potentially serve as management representative in any related bargaining or interpretive meetings with union or outside agencies.
- Participate in any miscellaneous projects or needs that may arise, e.g., recruiting for a large new account, presenting a new benefits program to all employees, conducting training initiatives, e.g., on sexual harassment, union avoidance, substance abuse, etc.
- Serve as back-up to one or more fellow Area Managers if needed, HR Operations when necessary.
Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience in a strategic HR business partner role.
- Previous experience supporting business clients in a matrix environment
- Strong interpersonal, presentation, written, and verbal communication skills required to communicate and present across all levels within the organization.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in employee relations, with an emphasis on employee and/or labor relations and human resources.
- Ability to meet deadlines while working on multiple projects.
- Experience with multiple locations &/or business units, dealing with a broad range of HR-related areas at senior levels of the organization
- PHR, SPHR, GPHR certification preferred
- Available to travel domestically if needed.
This position offers a competitive base salary.
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