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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Collaborate with manufacturing leadership to be a valued business parter, advance our Principle Based Management culture, motivate, develop and retain a diverse group of employees.Proactively coach leaders to drive results through disciplined Principle Based Management culture.Provide strategic guidance to leaders in areas of: talent acquisition, performance development, career progression and succession planning.Help drive compensation philosophy leveraging pay-related discussions in alignment with employee total contribution.Develop and facilitate training workshops that build supervisor capability.Partner with site leadership to quickly address employee relations matters.

Omaha, Ne

• Implemented and organized team development workshops leveraging Hogan Assessment products. Workshop identified team roles, derailers, motivators, along with creating development action plans with measurable milestones.• Provided customized, individual feedback sessions (1000+) utilizing the Hogan Assessment suite of products.• Standardized talent management strategy in over 40 facilities that normalized talent identification, created development activities for internal employees and managed succession sustainability. Results set recruitment strategy efforts for site leadership.• Facilitated baseline and ad-hoc leadership workshops that increased employee engagement, decreased turnover and supported organizational objectives. Classroom sizes ranged from 20-30 employees at any given time.• Executive coach for high potential operations leadership team members using a standard or customized approach.• Leveraged analytics when reviewing key metrics using Power BI and Alteryx platforms which increased visibility to challenges and accelerated corrective measures.• Developed analytic tool that incorporated transactional and transformational data to support employee performance and capability.• Translated qualitative and quantitative data into measurable, action driven goal planning related to team and individual development.

Omaha, Ne

• Standardized key development resources within global center of excellence: Behavioral Assessments, Simulations and 360's.• Interpreted and provide customized feedback leveraging development tools increasing individual development priorities and increasing succession capabilities.• Re-tooled performance management by eliminating outdated reviews and implementing a check-in process to quickly align organizational priorities versus using a wait and see approach.• Collaborated with key stakeholders to retool performance competencies with specific key actions aligning with organizational values. Cascaded approach allowed competency approach to be used for all levels of organization.• Standardized talent management strategy related to: high-potential identification, individual performance development, and succession pools/plans. • Partnered with learning center of excellence to develop strategic and transactional online training utilizing the Cornerstone LMS.• Strategic team member that delivered first engagement survey in over 10 years. Used results and analytical approach to narrow specific activities to support organizational challenges.• Redesigned finance organizational structure while leveraging specific change management in collaboration with finance leadership.• Selected as a breakout session speaker for annual Workday Rising conference sharing talent management strategies to global audience.• Subject matter expert that payed a role as a team member to deploy and test Workday Human Capital application across global organization.

Valley, Ne

• Responsible for managing strategic safety activities for approximately 400 employees across a 300-acre campus.• Organizational change agent using behavior based safety approach that led to decreased incident occurrences and workers' compensation dollars spent.• Identified and implemented digital safety management application to streamline reporting, data collection and trend identification. • Served as key member of site leadership team and provided guidance and support to entire team to achieve and exceed site metrics.• Collaborated to design and implement organizational safety playbook to standardize policies, procedures and activities.

Omaha, Ne

• Responsible for managing strategic safety and environmental activities across 3 facilities in Omaha area (1.5 million sq feet).• Key member of 3 different unique leadership teams across Omaha facilities.• Managed EHS budgets for all locations and ensured that spending was appropriate and planned.• Strategic partner with OSHA and 3rd party vendors which reduced incident and insurance rates.• Implemented intense ergonomic program to reduce sprains and strains. This program lowered workers' compensation costs by 50%.• Supervised day-to-day activities of Omaha Safety Coordinator along with Safety Intern.

Omaha, Ne

• Member of the site leadership team for Omaha West Plant with a focus on safety transformation within location.• Ensured regulatory compliance, providing guidance and support related to safety improvements and key metrics.• Facilitated monthly safety topics and oversaw site committee to ensure effective communication and collaboration was executed to all levels of site leadership.• Led incident management protocol for site while conducting root cause analysis followed up with appropriate corrective actions.

Omaha, Ne

• Led and organized weekly new hire training program for all incoming employees using a standard curriculum and work hardening approach.• Conducted all powered industrial equipment training and ensured program was compliant with current regulatory standards for three locations in Omaha area.• Built and facilitated OSHA 30-hour course to all leaders across 4 geographical locations (Nebraska, Missouri, Alabama and Pennsylvania).• Continued to recruit talent for operational leadership positions in parallel with Industrial Trainer role.

Omaha

• Supervised 40 union employees on two high-speed powder coat paint lines.• Exceeded daily production goals by executing schedule and increasing employee engagement.• Conducted annual employee performance reviews with focused dialogue around safety, quality, delivery and customer service.

Omaha, Ne

• Strategically partnered with site leadership to perform high volume recruiter responsibilities while ensuring effective staffing tactics to manage cyclical operations.• Implemented strategy to assess employee staffing gaps within Engineering function and built pipeline recruitment plans that reduced openings and increased depth of talent within organization. • Created an intern program in partnership with regional educational entities that increased talent pool within operations function.

Master'S Degree, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration And Management, General