The HR Generalist is a highly visible, hands-on, customer-focused partner who provides support to our Fuji team across various levels of the business on key business and employee issues. The HR Generalist will undertake a wide range of HR tasks, including day-to-day front line HR Management, Recruitment, Onboarding, Benefits, Employee Relations, Performance and Policy Management, Employee Engagement and Retention. Located on site at Savannah facility.

Key Job Elements

• Facilitate a positive work environment, provide partnership, and direct support to our team, driving high employee engagement through programs, activities, recognition efforts and committees.
• Builds strong business relationships with leaders, providing consultative business and HR guidance and decision support.
• Be a trusted advisor to our teams, providing consistent interpretation and application of policies and practices in alignment with handbook. Assist HR Manager in ensuring HR practices are compliant with local, state, and federal employment laws and regulations.
• Partners with leadership and internal support functions to facilitate a smooth and effective new hire on-boarding experience. Facilitate the onboarding process for new hires, including orientation, benefits enrollment, and ensuring proper documentation is completed.
• Acts as the first level of support for employee relations issues and concerns, handling basic attendance and performance issues through consultation with leaders on established corrective action and performance improvement procedures. Assist with conflict resolution, employee coaching, and performance improvement plans. Completes investigations as needed.
• Handles teammate departure coordination, including logistical coordination with leader and internal support functions, exit interview meetings and the dissemination of exit interview summaries.
• Ensures that teammate information, such as personal data, compensation, performance evaluations, corrective action, and termination records are appropriately recorded and maintained, i.e., electronic filing. Act as backup to entries in the HRIS system.
• Assist with targeted leadership and other training in response to key areas of focus for leadership and their teams, i.e., creating and facilitating training initiatives.
• Administer benefit plans including enrollments, terminations, Open Enrollment, FMLA, and Worker’s Compensation. Investigate and maintain records of workplace accidents, incidents, and near-misses.
• Coordinate company-wide HR communications, intranet, benefits & policy communications.
• Maintain confidentiality and proficient knowledge of legal requirements and programs including EEOC, OFCCP, ADA, FMLA, HIPPA and other requirements pertaining to employment.
• Assists with the annual performance and compensation review cycle.
• Maintain executive payroll once monthly. Be the primary backup for payroll processing, including biweekly and semimonthly updates to employee files, bonus/incentive pay, vacation/sick pay, expense reimbursements, hourly-employee validations, and benefits changes.
• Performs other related duties and special projects as assigned.

Our perfect fit

• Teamwork, Relationship Builder - Create and preserve trusting relationships throughout the business.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work productively and effectively with a wide variety of people, internally and externally, and at multiple levels within the organization.
• Collaborative team player with hands on work style, a strong customer service orientation, and the ability to build strong and supportive business partnerships.
• Ability to remain poised with a calm demeanor in high pressure situations and to deal with confidential and sensitive information with tact and diplomacy.
• Strong organizational skills, with proven ability to manage a wide variety of responsibilities under tight deadlines, maintaining timelines, problem solving, ensuring follow-up, and producing high quality results in an ever changing fast-paced environment.
• All in - Possesses initiative and a “whatever it takes” mentality. No task is too big or too small.
• Technical - Above average proficiency in Microsoft Office (Work, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). Proficiency in HR Databases.
• HR Experience - 5+ years.
• Working knowledge and experience in key HR functional areas of staffing, talent management, employee relations, compensation, and development.
• Knowledge of employment law, best practices for all segments of talent management, especially recruitment.
• Hands-on experience with COBRA, 401K, Large group / self-insured medical plans administration preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to type on a computer keyboard; and talk or hear on a telephone. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision correctable to read a computer screen

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions