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We work across eight key market sectors: aerospace & defense; automotive; energy utilities and waste; financial services; government and public sector; industrial and manufacturing; maritime; rail and mass transit. We deliver technologically advanced solutions that ensure access to clean air and water; cross-sector engineering solutions to accelerate decarbonized transportation; innovation to support global net zero and industry agendas; comprehensive expertise in safety, assurance and certification.• Worked directly under the Head of Recruitment as a Corporate Recruiter for the Automotive & Industrial Division supporting US, Canada and UK.• Headed up recruitment efforts for our new location in multiple provinces in Canada.• Assisted with training new employees and managers on recruiting processes including rolling out the North American recruitment strategy to a global platform.• Worked closely with global hiring managers/directors to review and create job descriptions for their niche requirements, including; sitting in on lunch and learning to harness a deep understanding of resources needed, running and reporting compensation analytics, and developing effective recruiting strategies.• Performed LinkedIn Talent Insights with managers to give an in-depth understanding of the talent market and provided reports for review.• Responsibilities included successfully sourcing, pipelining, prescreening, scheduling and sitting in on interviews, and managing all communications between candidates, hiring managers, and the HR team through onboarding (full lifecycle). • Maintained an average workload of 20 open requisitions in multiple regions.• Responsible for the upkeep of multiple regional ATSs and assisted with maintaining the global recruitment tracker database for KPI’s.• *Sourced over 100 hires globally including hard-to-find skillsets: Battery Systems, Power Electronics, Chassis Systems, Hydraulics, Business Development, and Facilities.

• • Focus on Supply Chain, Aftersales, Chemical Packaging, Light Industrial, and Fulfillment Solutions. • Create a recruitment plan and calendar according to operation needs; full lifecycle recruitment; including sourcing, screening, interviewing, compensation analysis, and following the process for budget approval for multiple locations.• Generating official internal documents such as offer letters.• Presentation and assist new employees with the onboarding process, educate newly hired employees on HR policies and internal procedures (Specific to Covid mitigation)• Maintaining physical and digital files for employee files.• Collaborating with outside vendors, upper management, and employees to maintain production and non-production needs.• *40 hires between production and corporate staff.

Assignments including: Tata Technologies, Bordrin, JDM Systems Consultants, and Trillium Technical • Working VMS and direct clients for contract and direct hire roles.• Manage full cycle recruiting process to meet the various staffing goals for the Automotive Engineering Industry. • Covered Administrative, IT, Facilities, Manufacturing, EE, ME, Project Engineers, Project Managers, Program Managers.• Full cycle recruiting; scheduling meetings/interviews, negotiating salaries, running/reporting compensation analysis, and medical benefits.• Supporting package services to clients, direct and contract.• *New ATS system; data verification, testing, deployment, admin, and training.• Presents packaged applicants to hiring decision makers, schedules candidate interviews, coordinates interview feedback from hiring decision makers, provides timely constructive feedback to candidates, and extends offers to candidates upon request.• Ability to handle client pushback with finesse, persistence, and respect.

Supporting Tier 1 Automotive Suppliers• Manage full cycle recruiting process to meet the various staffing goals; including sourcing, screening, run/reporting compensation analysis and interviewing for the Automotive Engineering Industry.• Covered Administrative, Light Industrial, IT, Manufacturing, EE, ME, Designers, Project Engineers, Project Managers, and Program Managers.• Sourcing, recruiting, screening, interview prep, scheduling interviews, interview feedback, candidate feedback, benefits negotiations, and extending offers.• Assist the Account Manager, as needed, contacting clients with submittals, scheduling interviews/feedback, and walking candidates into interviews.• *About 21 hirers

*Company closed• Develop and manage marketing/sales strategy for new accounts. • Setting sales appointments with key decision makers at prospective client companies. • Full Cycle Sales – research, cold call, negotiating, closing. • Manage the recruiting process to meet hiring goals through the use of effective resource management and effective use of all the recruiting tools available.

*Contract ended• Resolve contractor and supplier issues through strong and effective communication and customer service skills.• Submit weekly reporting to all levels of leadership and management communicating all relevant business updates. • Continuously improve processes, procedures, excellent problem solving skills, interpersonal, ability to handle multiple problems simultaneously, and a working knowledge of labor and employment laws.• Demonstrate leadership, coaching, counseling abilities, proficient in dealing with irate employees diplomatically.• Validated the on-boarding supplier process; ensuring that the Certificate of Insurance and language documents are provided accurately.• Performed internal audits to ensure supplier compliance with contracts and insurance requirements.• Ensured compliance with all Independent Contractor, Service Provider contracts and insurance requirements. • Established, Researched, Compiled, Analyzed data for rate cards. • Conducted data research from internet sites such as Indeed, Salary, Career Builder and Kelly Services ERI Salaries and Cost of Living tool. • Managed 16 accounts through different vendor management tools. • Uploaded reports out of the vendor management tool, ran macros to authenticate accuracy of data.• Reconciled discrepancies in cash payments pay and bill rates, hours worked, vacation pay, holiday pay and travel expenses.• Communicated with the branches and customers to resolve inconsistency in a timely manner.

*Contract Assignment• Assisted management/ buyers with Blanket and Spot Buy revisions for approval process. • Maintained bids and awarded bids during audit purposes of the master supplier contacts list. • Collected business plans and applicable data in support of reporting to management.• Prepared bid and final new business presentations for approval process. • Managed and monitored master database for commodity specific data for implementation of online bidding process.• Formatted and mapped data for database upload for the supplier bidding process and execution. • Prepared, analyzed and corrected files per audit requirements.• Administrative duties included presentation preparation, scheduled meetings and conference rooms.

• Performed On-boarding/off-boarding duties and functions for employees. • Maintained and updated employee changes for payroll/Health, 401K, Short Term Disability, employee files. • Monitored timecard entry and payroll distribution including employee leave days. • Distributed, monitored, and collected 30-60-90 day and yearly reviews. • Facilitated Employee Recognition Program, Longevity Program, Moral boosting, Research/order new ideas for promotional items for events throughout the year, • Maintained company intranet, Attend public relations events• Created/maintained an employee handbook.• Volunteer - March of Dimes• Coordinate monthly fundraising for the March of Dimes• Coordinate & call local companies for donations for the yearly Charity Ball• Administrative duties including scheduling interviews

Electrical Systems Deliverables & Imperatives Management Team Platform/Program Analyst, Platforms Development and Implementation of the Web Based Deliverables. Supported Vehicle System Engineers and Directors in weekly Management Team meetings.Reviewed Program Timing Charts, data accuracy for program targets, and measured work hindrance. Maintained all ISO documentation, Created, populated, analyzed and reported piece cost, tooling, mass, part count, Base Engineer Content (BEC), JD Power, Warranty incident per thousand vehicle and warranty dollar.Maintained RISS (Request for Information System Services) Matrices, Asset recovery of equipment: laptops, cellphones, scanners, PC, workstation using procurement tracking software.Maintained Expense/Billing/Distribution and Cost Reduction for Saturn and Small Car Communication LAN Line and Cellular phones.Maintained budget inventory and data management Saturn and Small Car, Consolidated mainframe ID’s, Managed invoice detail.Vehicle Engineering Operations - Assist and support Managers, Organize/coordinate the infrastructure of the building, ordering furniture, equipment, move management, Updated the building floor plans, Created an employee handbook for the building tenants, Create and coordinated move matricesMaintained conference rooms with emergency evacuation plans, Xerox copier support (troubleshoot), Assisted and supported in the buildings Central Health and Safety Committee, Traveled/attended health and safety seminarsMember of the Emergency Response Team, Trained and certified in First Aid, CPR and Fire Brigade