Human Resources Generalist

Job Title: Human Resources Generalist.

Reports to: Corporate HR Director.

Hours: Mon - Fri 7:00 am - 4:00 pm.

Job Purpose: Enhances and sustains the organization's human resources role by strategizing and executing beneficial practices, promoting employee relations, ensuring compliance with company policies, and supporting effective employee programs.

Human Resources Generalist Job Duties:

• Maintains the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions.
• Maintains organization staff by establishing a recruiting, testing, and interviewing program; counseling managers on candidate selection; conducting and analyzing exit interviews; recommending changes.
• Prepares employees for assignments by establishing and conducting orientation and training programs.
• Maintains a pay plan by conducting periodic pay surveys; scheduling and conducting job evaluations; preparing pay budgets; monitoring and scheduling individual pay actions; recommending, planning, and implementing pay structure revisions.
• Ensures planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees; hearing and resolving employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors.
• Maintains employee benefits programs and informs employees of benefits by studying and assessing benefit needs and trends; recommending benefit programs to management; directing the processing of benefit claims; obtaining and evaluating benefit contract bids; awarding benefit contracts; designing and conducting educational programs on benefit programs.
• Ensures legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable human resource federal and state requirements; conducting investigations; maintaining records; representing the organization at hearings.
• Maintains management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures.
• Maintains historical human resource records by designing a filing and retrieval system; keeping past and current records.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Completes human resources operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
• Maintains human resources staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Maintains human resources staff job results by counseling and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
  Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:

Hiring, Human Resources Management, Benefits Administration, Performance Management, Communication Processes, Compensation and Wage Structure, Supports Diversity, Classifying Employees, Employment Law, Laws Against Sexual Harassment, Organization

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in HR, business, or a related field, or equivalent related experience.
• HR training, certification or experience is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, ethics, and cultural awareness.
• Resourceful, problem-solving aptitude and thorough knowledge of HR procedures and policies.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office, and comfortable learning new systems as needed.

BENEFITS:

• Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account (Out of pocket).
• 401(k), employer matches 2.5% and / or annual $2,500 max match.
• Aflac Services (Out of pocket).
• Life insurance.
• Paid vacation.
• Paid sick time.

Metalico is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual's race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Metalico:

Metalico is a leading full-service, broadly diversified scrap metal recycler, principally operating in the Northeastern United States. Our scrap operations source, buy, process, and sell four distinct groups of commodity metals for use in the manufacture of new products:We recycle scrap steel and iron, which is sold primarily to domestic mills and foundries.We recycle non-ferrous metals, principally aluminum, copper, lead, and nickel-based steel and high temperature alloys.These products are sold to domestic manufacturers and, to a lesser extent, to the export markets. Metalico today employs 600 people in 27 operating locations across 6 states. Metalico is headquartered in Cranford, New Jersey.