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Mueller Water Products · 2 days ago

Sr. HR Generalist

Albertville, AL

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

3+ years exp

Mueller Water Products, Inc. has been building the future of water infrastructure for over 165 years. The Sr. HR Generalist will manage labor agreements, assist in grievance procedures, and support employee training initiatives, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and enhancing HR processes.

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Hiring Manager

Carol Anne Housley

Responsibilities

Manage the administration of the plant’s labor agreement. Assist the HR Manager with pre-negotiation labor strategy to include wage and benefit surveys, grievance history, contract costing, and bargaining strategy for the various unions

Represent the Company in the initial steps of the grievance procedures as well as preparation for arbitrations

Interview, screen, and assist in the employment of hourly employees. Ensure adherence to recruiting targets by maintaining and updating candidate tracking system

Maintain Company absentee program. Administer all employee leave programs

Provide guidance for administration of company disciplinary policy. Counsel supervisors’ interpretation and give guidance to supervision on contract provisions, disciplinary action and discharge

Maintain Company Affirmative Action Program

Facilitate employee orientation and training programs

Serve as plant representative for internal and external requests. Represent location on local, business unit, and company-wide HR projects. Serve as exemplary company representative in community associations and functions

Identify and redesign work processes to eliminate non-value-added aspects or limitations to the HR function

Comply with federal, state, and local legal requirements through the understanding of existing and new legislation and enforcing adherence to those requirements

Update job knowledge by participating in conferences and educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations

Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests, exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments

Support Operations Excellence in all aspects of the business operations and participate in the transformation of HR strategies and processes as part of continuous improvement procedures

Support Employee training initiatives by scheduling, coordinating and assisting with the training itself. Track training and skills of hourly employees by maintaining an up-to-date training matrix

Qualification

Union manufacturing experienceContract negotiationsArbitration hearingsBachelor’s degree in HRMicrosoft Office skillsHRIS skillsPerformance objectives executionEmployee training coordination