Lakeside Foods Manitowoc, Wisconsin Human Resources Manager, September 2015-present• Maintains and enhances the organization's human resources by planning, implementing, and evaluating employee relations and human resources policies, programs, and practices.• Maintains the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions.• Maintains organization staff by establishing a recruiting, testing, and interviewing program; counseling managers on candidate selection; conducting and analyzing exit interviews; recommending changes.• Prepares employees for assignments by establishing and conducting orientation and training programs.• Ensures planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees; hearing and resolving employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors.• Maintains employee benefits programs and informs employees of benefits by studying and assessing benefit needs and trends; recommending benefit programs to management; directing the processing of benefit claims; obtaining and evaluating benefit contract bids; awarding benefit contracts; designing and conducting educational programs on benefit programs.• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions. • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.• Developed human resources operations financial strategies by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing action plans; measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions; minimizing the impact of variances.

• Provided managerial human resources support for 600 management and staff employees in multisite operation by fielding employee complaints or concerns, as well as requests for information, guidance, and counseling by reviewing the organization's policies and any applicable employment law to determine the appropriate course of action. • Built strong partnerships with the executive staff to ensure managers and employees work collaboratively to achieve business goals among the two sites.• Provided executive coaching to identify leaders and structure the departments to improve organizational effectiveness.• Managed all legal and compliance issues pertaining to human resource and labor law• Advised managers on fair hiring practices and employee performance issues to reduce corporate liability• Developed and implemented all safety training: Incident Response, evacuation drills, injury reporting to OSHA and workers compensation carrier• Reviewed unemployment claims and attends hearings• Administered leaves of absence and Americans with Disability (ADA)

• Oversaw the effective delivery of all human resource management, including compensation, recruitment, and HR information systems.• Managed leave-of-absence program: • Processed all salary changes due to merit increases, promotions, bonuses and pay adjustments. • Wrote and placed job vacancy ads for positions posted externally. • Coordinated onboarding/offboarding process. • Developed and implemented new core programs in performance management and human resource planning.• Administered employee relations activities, including employee counseling, EEO/AA, employee recreational activities, and policies. Interpreted and evaluated existing policies and programs. Developed and presented recommendations for change.• Answered benefit questions for managers and employees, as well as assisted with problem solving. Acted as a liaison between employees and insurance carriers to resolve problems and clarify benefits. Assisted with annual renewals, including enrollment procedures.• Participated in ongoing training in the areas of compensation and benefits, employee and labor relations, leaves of absence, worker’s compensation and workplace safety/security through seminars, webinars, and the Learning Management System.• Trained five hundred employees in Hazard Communication, PSM, Food Safety. Implemented continuous improvements derived from Kaizen events. • Developed and implemented training initiatives to identify internal talent for hard to staff positions.• Acted as Safety coordinator: managed shoe program implemented Take Five Initiative, created Behavioral Observations of Safety for all positions in facility, and conducted safety training. Worked with Safety Manager to repair and update safety related issues resulting from audits conducted at the facility. • Developed and built HRIS system and personnel data in preparation for SAP worldwide system integration. Managed data as system analyst after integration. Two-year project in program management.