Manager, Human Resources - 8134

Benchmark Electronics - Huntsville, AL

Full-time - Manager

Onsite - Huntsville, AL

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

At Benchmark, we are driven by our purpose: to innovate for a healthier, safer, and better-connected world to create a brighter future. When you join us, you become part of a team passionate about making a meaningful impact across various sectors, including commercial aerospace, defense, advanced computing, next-generation communications, complex industrials, medical, and semiconductor capital equipment. We prioritize career growth, fostering a culture that ensures you reach your full potential. At Benchmark, your work is purpose-driven, enabling you to create a positive impact on the world and make your career truly meaningful. You'll be part of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive team that values your ideas and contributions. As the Manager of Human Resources, you will lead the employee relations and recruiting duties, ensuring that Benchmark maintains compliance with company policies and procedures as well as federal and state regulations regarding employment. You will administer various human resources plans and procedures for division co-workers, assist in the development and implementation of personnel policies and procedures, and prepare and maintain the co-worker handbook. Your role will involve supervising and leading recruiting and employee relations efforts, ensuring compliance, fairness, and consistency throughout the process. In this position, you will manage HR Administrators and Generalists, develop department goals, objectives, systems, and process improvements, and act as a resource to leaders and managers regarding co-worker issues. You will handle employee counseling and provide suggestions and recommendations for resolving co-worker conflicts. Additionally, you will assist in training and monitoring training for co-workers, including interviewing, handbook review, and harassment training. Your responsibilities will also include performing routine plant tours and conducting various audits, developing responses to unemployment or other legal issues, and presenting HR information at co-worker meetings or other gatherings. You will be involved in interviewing, recruiting, and offering positions to applicants, as well as recommending and selecting new hires and performing disciplinary actions when necessary. This role is crucial in ensuring that the HR functions align with the company's goals and contribute to a positive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Administers various human resources plans and procedures for division co-workers; assist in the development and implementation of personnel policies and procedures, prepare and maintain co-worker handbook.
• Supervises and leads recruiting and employee relations efforts. Ensure compliance, fairness and consistency.
• Manages HR Administrators and Generalists.
• Develops department goals, objectives, systems and process improvements.
• Acts as a resource to leaders and managers regarding co-worker issues.
• Acts as a resource to all co-workers.
• Handles employee counseling and provide suggestions and recommendations for handling co-worker conflict.
• Assists in the training and monitoring of the training for co-workers, including interviewing, handbook review and harassment.
• Performs routine plant tours and conduct various audits, including computer use, attendance and HR records.
• Develops responses to unemployment or other legal issues, attend hearings, etc., Work with in-house counsel on legal matters.
• Presents HR information at all co-worker meetings or other meetings.
• Interview, recruit, offer positions to applicants and set up new co-workers; May use an outside recruiter, ads, or the internet to assist in recruiting.
• Recommends and selects new hires, as well as recommend and perform disciplinary action, up to and including terminations.
• Assists with other HR functions as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of HR experience required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Effective multitasking skills and the ability to take on additional responsibilities as required.
• Effective organization and prioritization skills.
• Demonstrate high attention to detail.
• Ability to work with diverse groups.
• Demonstrates discretion, confidentiality, independent judgment and professionalism.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and guidance, exercising discretion and independent judgment.
• Understanding of and ability to use continuous improvement tools.
• Strong customer service and client focus.
• Working knowledge of productivity tools, including Microsoft Office products and Teams conferencing software.
• Demonstrated leadership and people management skills including ability to effectively coach and mentor employees at all levels.
• Enthusiastic and motivational communicator with multi-cultural experience.
• Demonstrates effective customer interface skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact and influence individuals, internally and externally, across all levels, functions and geographies.
• Collaborate and influence cross functional peer leaders in order to obtain support for process improvements.
• Solid financial understanding, risk analysis ability, relationship building and project management.
• Use of discretion with the ability to gain trust of business leaders and others to discuss and respond to sensitive and business critical issues.
• Effective negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Effective analytical, planning and organizational skills.
• Extensive training, on-the-job or by classroom, in recruiting and employee relations.
• Advanced knowledge of word processing and spreadsheets.

Nice-to-haves

• Background in Manufacturing is a plus.