Summary: This position directs all local Human Resources services pertaining to benefits; employment; labor relations; training and development; health, safety and environmental; wage and salary programs; organizational development and communications. Core Responsibilities: · Serves as a strategic business partner for executive staff members, offering guidance and leadership in achieving overall business goals · Develops human resources strategies and initiatives, while leading all aspects of the company’s human resources programs to create a high performance culture based on employee engagement while meeting management needs · Responsible for human resources activities that support the group’s business needs and objectives · Oversees the human resources business planning process consistent with and supportive of business requirements · Facilitates interaction with other locations within Volvo · Participates in discussions with the international and local union leadership from a strategic perspective · Ensures open communications at all levels and with all stakeholders · Attracts, develops and retains high quality talent that is appropriate to current and future business needs · Manages and oversees corporate initiative Human Resources Transformation (HRT) processes. Ensures HRT processes and goals are effectively achieved · Oversees all site specific aspects of employee compensation and benefits · Advises management on appropriate resolution of employee relations issues · Integrates plans, proactively, across various business HR initiatives and unites to ensure synergy and coordination · Represents management in labor relations by implementing and administering hourly and salary collective bargaining agreements · Manages the recruitment, interviewing, and exiting of employees · Proactively addresses and manages factory safety · Manages budget for local human resources operations and personnel forecast to project employment needs · Develops and implements downturn management processes, when necessary · Represents organization at personnel related hearings and investigations · Assures compliance with all policies, procedures and work instructions affecting Human Resources within the quality management system (ISO 9000) and the environmental management system (ISO 14000) · Oversees the analysis, maintenance and communication records required by law or local governing bodies, or other departments in the organization · Consults Corporate Human Resources and/or legal counsel to ensure that policies, interpretations and implementation comply with management intent and federal and state law · Studies legislation, arbitration decisions, and collective bargaining contracts to assess industry trends Competencies: · Facilitation Skills: Design and direct group processes that enable group members to deal openly with each other, helping to remove obstacles to resolving conflicts, and influencing groups to accomplish assigned tasks and meet members’ needs · Change Facilitation: Function as a catalyst for change and find ways to overcome organizational obstacles and personal resistance to needed changes · Customer Focus: Understand and meet the needs of customers and other organization stakeholders · Forward Thinking: Identify major priorities critical to the organization’s success, weigh the likely consequences of actions and events, and formulate strategies to meet organizational goals · Manage Diversity: Value the ideas and perspectives contributed by a diverse workforce, adapt individual style to tap the motivations of diverse individuals, and take action to capitalize on workforce diversity · Organization and Leadership Development: Analyze organizational performance leadership issues and develop appropriate plans and processes to improve results Minimum Education and Experience: · Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related discipline with relevant knowledge of all human resources processes · Minimum of 15 years’ experience, of which five years are in a managerial or departmental leadership position Skills: · Essential Leadership Skills: Leader of Leaders Volvo Group North America is an Equal Opportunity Employer E.O.E./M/F/D/V
Volvo Group - 12 months ago
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