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General Electric. (Regal Beloit), Reynosa, Tamaulipas 11/2007 to Present Human Resources Manager Manage all Human Resources activities in the Reynosa facility, including: Recruitment and Employment, Salary Administration, Safety and Health, Employee relations, Negotiations with the union, Training and Employee Development, Plant Security, cafeteria management and Manager/Employee counseling. Facilities employed as many as 2000 + employees. • I am responsible for making all kinds of negotiations with the union, (Salaries, benefits, collective agreements, changes of days, and shifts)• Implementation and monitoring of succession plans.• Follow-up to the auditable matters of HR to comply with the IATF standard• To improve turnover and absenteeism I impeded the Supervisors Training Plan and developed three basic skills, communication, leadership and teamwork• To avoid conflicts or labor lawsuits, I implemented a daily monitoring in order to follow up with employees with bad • Agreements with Universities to develop students (develop our own talents)• Developing plans to retain our key employees.• To ensure the quality of the general operators I implemented a High Performance Center in order to reduce the waste and the learning curve.• Problem solving using the tools of Lean Six Sigma.• In charge of managing and development the compensation program.• Implementing practices to reduce absenteeism and turnoveOther Major Accomplishments• Absenteeism was reduced from 17.5% to 2.5%• Turnover was reduced from 15.5% to 3.2%.• As part of the plan to retain and develop internal talents, I was responsable to implement a Lean Manufacturing Academy• To improve the quality of customer service to employees, I implement a digitized Human Resources system for employees• $78.2K/yr saved from Education budget by having internal instructors.

As HR Manager I was responsible for supporting 5 facilities with 1,600 employees, specifically with negotiations with the union for collective contracts, labor Law, recruitment, hiring and selection process, communications, training and organizational development, compensation and benefits, work and satisfaction of the employees, and talent retention and attraction processLeadership to develop and implement strategic human resources initiatives to achieve process efficiencyMajor accomplishments• Development of talent attraction strategy, according to the needs• Strong negotiation skills of Collective Contract with union• Correct application of Human Resources policies and procedures.• Succession plan for the key Empoyees• Implementation of development plans for all employees.• Hiring of new talent, based on the objectives and needs of the position • Have a good communication and relations with the union, to ensure successful negotiations of the collective contract (salaries and benefits annually)• Responsible for the recruitment and personnel selection in the 5 Dura plants in Mexico, • Promote and encourage actions to work with a Leadership culture, living and practicing the values of the company.• Attention and follow-up to the ISO-TS-16949 audits in HR.• Keeping an strict control of the hired personnel in the 5 plants (headcount) • Responsible of the Medical Department, Plant safety and Cafeteria. • Responsible for the program of events of engagement for employees• In the safety area, responsible for receiving and coordinating the OSHA (USA) audits.

Human Resources Manager • I was a member of the project launch team in Saltillo• I was in charge of making the massive hiring of all direct and indirect employees and salary• Development and implementation of procedures and policies• Negotiations of Wages and Benefits with the Union• Agreement with schools to develop 300 welders • Implementation of safety programs according to the OSHA standard • Implementation of on boarding program• Responsible for conducting audits OSHA• Preparation of reports indicators of absenteeism, turnover and days lost due to accidents• Responsible for the program of engagement for employeesMajor accomplishments• Thanks to the implementation and monitoring of Programs such as Continuous Improvement and satisfaction surveys, it was possible for all employees to take better advantage of resources without having inventories.• We managed to ensure a good work environment through the application of surveys. Thanks to this, it was possible to identify employee complaints.• Turnover was reduced from 14.5% to 2.2% • Absenteeism was reduced from 7% to 2,5%