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Responsible for directing the Human Resources function. Major Accomplishments: • Assessed organizational needs and developed policies and procedures.• Facilitated the smooth adaptation by management and staff to new corporate policy and legal requirements • Developed employee opinion surveys, metrics and performed analysis to determine areas of discontentment and made recommendations to address the concerns.• Developed organizational plans, associated policies, business processes, budget forecasts and scheduling requirements for deploying knowledge transfer.• Conducted workforce analysis, prepared job specifications and wrote new job descriptions. • Implemented an on-line HRIS program• Conducted compensation surveys, analyze results, and designed a complete wage and salary structure.• Created a multi-pronged recruitment program, including in-house, national advertising and job fairs-reducing the “Recruit to Hire” time.

Coordinated and directed all human resources activities for 3,300 managers, supervisors, and support personnel, Administered all benefits (401k, medical insurance, dental insurance, short-term disability, and life insurance).. Recruited personnel by visiting college college job fairs. Conducted new employee training and staff development training for groups and individuals. Evaluated managers and supervisors; organized, tracked, and conducted 90 day, six-month, and annual reviews for all new employees.• Worked with union representatives and senior management to resolve employee grievances.• Developed and monitored salary plans for exempt and non-exempt employees.• Planned and conducted diverse management training programs• Participated as HR advisor during collective bargaining process.• Implemented “Employee Engagement” as the key strategic in quality improvement.• Created “Employee Involvement Process" in cooperation with labor union.

Manage a 5-person staff servicing 1,300 union and non-union employees.• Performed in coaching / problem-solving role on issues of employee’s relations, employee development and organizational change.• Updated HR policies and procedures based on extensive research of similar organizations.• Performed personnel recruitment and coordination.• Worked with senior management to develop recruiting and hiring strategies.• Performed as the subject matter expert during salary planning exercise for management and non-management employees.• Planned and conducted diversity training programs.

Managed a team of training administrators and instructors to provide training for 15,000 design and mechanical engineers. • Developed organizational plans, associated policies, business processes, and budget forecasts and scheduling requirements for deploying process training for 15,000 design and mechanical engineers. • Facilitated training administration team to develop and implement a customer service response center to administer training requirements-increase training productivity by 15%. • Pioneered a "Special Workplace Assistance Team” to resolve training issues at the workplace-decrease training time by 35%.• Partnered with senior management to identify and resolve critical training.• Prepared and conducted, needs assessments and evaluations; analyze results and made recommendations to mitigate training challenges.• Wrote curriculum for diverse programs, including management training, stress management, diversity and change management.