Human Resources Manager

Company Overview Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

The HR Manager is a liaison between Human Resources and Manufacturing to assist with employee related issues requiring expertise in contract administration and company policy matters. The position is responsible for administering human resource practices and objectives for the Converting Operations, which will create business value through strategic management of the workforce while aligning Human Resources and the Business strategy. This includes facilitating an employee oriented, high performance culture emphasizing empowerment, job certification, quality, productivity / standards, goal attainment and the recruitment / development of a superior workforce.

• Support high performance improvement through work systems by providing adequate support for training on both technical and non-technical skills, coaching team members on development, and facilitating teams in the areas of process improvement, cost reduction and customer focus.
• Develop, communicate, and oversee related processes to ensure a successful labor relations environment.
• Proactively develop processes for identifying and managing labor relations issues, while working closely with the Facility Leadership Team to support initiatives and contract compliance.
• Answers questions from hourly and salary employees concerning Collective Bargaining Agreement and company policies.
• Assists in the administration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and manages functions related to inventory and tracking of all labor records. Maintains and updates grievance database and insures timelines are followed.
• Investigate grievances and recommend remedies to Front Line Leaders and Managers.
• Assists with the development and administration of programs, procedures and guidelines to help align the workforce with the strategic goals of the company.
• Ensure compliance with employment and labor laws.
• Development of an employee-oriented company culture that emphasizes safety, quality, throughput, continuous improvement and high performance.
• Conduct disciplinary/complaint investigations.
• Attract, select, retain, assess and train potential and current employees.
• Organize and conduct new hire orientations.
• Process and administer personnel actions within Human Resource and Payroll Information Systems. Maintain accurate data by following specific system processes.
• Develop and administer performance management and improvement systems.
• Support plant safety by engaging in specific initiatives, investigations and training.
• Drives strategic and tactical planning in organizational development, culture, and capability development and performance management.
• Develop, improve and administer comprehensive training programs to accomplish facility objectives.
• Act as Facility EEO Administrator responsible for facilitating the Affiantative Action Plan, conducting biannual reviews of the EEO policy with all team members, investigating and responding to all suspected violations of the EEO policy, and supporting the company's diversity initiative.
• Investigate unemployment claims and represent the company at unemployment hearings.
• Support attendance and leave management programs.

• 4-year undergraduate degree from an accredited university in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field
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