Jodie Mize Email and Phone Number

Support senior staff, recruitment, and hiring process of all new employees by serving as the hiring manager, reviews and approves timesheets with accuracy for monthly and biweekly employees, coordinates travel arrangements for employees, completes registration applications and handle hotel/fleet car reservations, completes employee reimbursement vouchers in Concur, responsible for all purchases in the department, purchasing cardholder as well as the reconciler, works closely with the budget office to discuss the operation, salary, and proposals for the financial aid department troubleshoots various complaints from staff members and contacts the appropriate department to request repairs, enters e-PA forms and administrative support, including database and file management, answering phones and general office duties.

Organized new employee orientation schedule for all new hires, prepared monthly termination lists to permanent records, coordinated drug screens through doctor’s offices, compiled results and submitted the drug test for review, screening interviewees to identify the best prospective team member, recruiting, evaluated candidates strengths and weaknesses, reached out to new hires to see how the job was going, followed company policy to utilize social media sites to recruit new employees.

Enforced and revised company policies and procedures relating to all phases of human resource activity, conducted investigations of employee activities to identify and target operational and behavioral discrepancies, audited workplace, employee, and management policies and procedures, developed company personnel policies, standard operating systems, and employee handbooks, updated vital human resource metrics, including turnover and terminations, using reporting tools in databases, developed and facilitated new hire orientations, developed innovative new employee orientation programs, including safety training, improved hiring decisions by working with hiring managers’ inequitable recruitment and efforts and administrating new comprehensive employment selection exams, provided human resource generalist guidance to managers and employees, including talent management, payroll, FMLA, benefits, workers’ compensation, 401k, and OSHA compliance, conducted employment verifications and investigations, established and monitored employee pay scales.

Captured critical feedback from employees during exit interviews, reviewed human resource paperwork for accuracy and completeness by verifying, collecting, and correcting additional data, supported human resource staff with new hire orientations and monthly departmental meetings, monitored and handled all employee claims, including performance-based and harassment incidents, conducted background checks on candidates, coordinated complex travel schedules, accommodations, and trip logistic for candidates and executives, coordinated and conducted new hire pre-interviews, implemented training programs for new and existing employees, researched payroll, COBRA, disability, and FMLA issues, directed job fairs to bring local talent for long term positions, approved and received all FMLA paperwork.

Support senior staff, recruitment, and hiring process of all new employees by serving as the hiring manager, reviews and approves timesheets with accuracy for monthly and biweekly employees, coordinates travel arrangements for employees, completes registration applications and handle hotel/fleet car reservations, completes employee reimbursement vouchers in Concur, responsible for all purchases in the department, purchasing cardholder as well as the reconciler, works closely with the budget office to discuss the operation, salary, and proposals for the financial aid department, troubleshoots various complaints from staff members and contacts the appropriate department to request repairs, enters e-PA forms and administrative support, including database and file management, answering phones and general office duties.

Case management, receives claims, petitions, and suits relating to workers’ compensation, accumulates data from mine personnel, physicians, attorneys, etc., for claim workups, evaluations and processing, interviews and interprets medical assessments and reports on claimants, researches legal material relating to claim evaluation and processing, maintain a confidential file system, verifies and approves workers’ compensation amounts, calculates and prepares letters for workers’ compensation awards, supervised mine personnel in the preparation of workers’ compensation reports, prepares reports for government agencies, assists in semi-annual review for open file to provide estimates of future liability, arranged doctor and physical therapy appointment for injured employees, acts as a company representative at claims conferences and hearings, worked with MSHA daily, submitted forms to MSHA, handles all training forms, both paper and electronic, helped checked SCSRs, helped scheduler and payroll clerk as needed.