St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
• 12+ years of Human Resources, Employee & Labor/Union Relations experience. • Master’s Degree in Human Resources & Labor Relations from Michigan State University. • Experienced as a Labor/Union Relations Manager, Chief Labor Negotiator, HR Generalist, Employee Relations Consultant and Diversity & Inclusion POC at fortune 100 companies. • Extensive knowledge of current employment law, labor practices and compliance regulations at both state and federal employment levels. • Experienced working in all types of HR settings, including engineering technical environments, senior leadership teams and all functions across highly matrixed global organizations. • Strength in leading ER/HR teams that are responsible for multifaceted investigations, performance management, training and managing projects to build better solutions to increase employee and manager capabilities. • Expertise in mentoring and influencing leaders without direct authority through a strong business acumen. • Influential relationship builder and collaborative culture creator at all levels. • Graduate of Human Resources Leadership Development Rotational Program (HRLDP). • Earned Professional of Human Resources Certification PHR and SHRM-CP.
· Dual role responsibilities, managing job duties for both HR and ER. Including handling reorganizations redesigns, RIFs, talent management, policy development and HR data scorecards to ER investigations, trainings and data analytics. · Effectively worked inside a complex organization that was constantly acquiring, devesting and reorganizing business areas while still finding resolutions for all employee relations issues. · Subject matter expert (SME) throughout multiple mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations related to employee relations and talent management.
· Mentored, coached and trained new HR associates across the department. · Collaborated with business leaders across multiple functions to implement HR solutions aligned with business strategies. · Developed and effectively communicated newly implemented business strategies pertaining to employee relations, RIF’s, training, leadership development, process improvement initiatives, and diversity & inclusion.
· Conducted highly confidential complex employee relations investigations including cases of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, workplace violence and ethical violations. · Subject matter expert and legal liaison on workplace violence cases and threat/crisis management teams. · Influenced leadership decisions by building trust, using risk assessments, providing thoughtful detailed training and outlining all potential options. · Coached and mentored all levels of leadership on best employment practices.
• Conduct complex employee relations investigations including cases of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, workplace violence and ethical violations. • Routinely identify opportunities for leadership to improve on employee advocacy, culture enhancement and employee engagement. • Active authority on workplace violence issues and threat management committees. • Designer and lead of enterprise wide disciplinary consistency committee. • Comprehend, analyze, and develop employment policies / metrics across business. • Influence leadership decisions by building trust, providing risk assessments and outlining potential options. • Coach and mentor leadership on best employment practices. • Track metric data to analyze employee investigation trends across different functions. • Maintain day to day compliance with CBA and current employment laws. • HR Lead responsibilities for multiple matrixed functions. Key Successes • Reduced all agency charges, arbitrations, and mediation numbers to zero since 2016. • Curtailed union grievance filings by 50% year over year through positive relationship management and culture enhancement with Union leadership. • Successfully led contract negotiations on time and under budget. • Built strongest Company/Union relationship in history of the site based on metrics/filings. • Developed leadership training to increase employee engagement, compliance accountability, and autonomy.
• Delivered HR consulting to all levels of leadership on performance management, talent development, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness. • Led market equity assessments and promotion process for 2,500+ employees. • Ensured talent needs were met by aligning fair and competitive compensation rates. • Assisted on reduction in force (RIFs) to maintain proper labor levels across organization. • Operated both strategically and tactically to develop effective relationships with business leaders to ensure all customer needs were met in a highly matrixed organization. • Solid understanding of HRIS systems including Peoplesoft, Cognos, BrassRing, iCIMS, and MS Office.
• Day-to-day administration of the collective bargaining agreement in a unionize environment of over 650 employees. • Responsible for investigations of all grievances and pre-arbitration negotiations. • Accountable for investigating and issuing all discipline in a fair and consistent method across the facility. • Various duties in HR compliance requiring knowledge of FLSA, FMLA, ADA, EEO, OFCCP, OSHA regulations and standards.
The Human Resources Leadership Development Program (HRLDP) purpose is to develop high potential human resource professionals for future key leadership positions. Workforce Strategy Analytics and Acquisitions – 1st Rotation • Delivered solutions to support effective workforce planning, including recruitment, company resources, promotions and transfer processes that support strategic priorities of each business area. • Studied and bench-marked large complex HR organizations to determine scope, definition. and maturity of their HR metric programs and presented results to HR executive leadership. • Completed numerous labor market analyses to determine business viability by location. Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Programs – 2nd Rotation • Support a culture of inclusion and accountability, leveraging partnerships and innovation to contribute to mission success. • Manage and oversee all Employee Resource Group operations including budgets, application process and event planning in which over 1000 employees participate annually. • Plan, organize and present a monthly community call for 250 HR employees. • Coordinate the external awards process which promotes all aspects of diversity, inclusion and engagement.
• Collected and analyzed comprehensive metric data on turnover from multiple departments allowing senior leadership to make informed decisions on internal employee issues. • Accountable for company’s recruiting of open positions -- conducting more than 1,500 resume reviews, 250 phone screens and more than 50 in person interviews. • Administered and maintained company wide online HIPAA training program. • Constructed a new on-boarding process which included offer letters, new hire paperwork, 1st week transitions and employee goal setting programs. • Created better practices and training materials to use in training full time employees. • Contributing member of a new Corporate Culture Team, who created strategies and procedures to bring together different company cultures after merges or acquisitions. • Built a strong working knowledge of HR policies, compensation strategies and daily employee dispute resolutions.