Employee relations specialist; responsible for designing and facilitating training programs and new hire onboarding; maintained and created policies and provided policy education/interpretation for management and employees; compliance; Leaves management and Unemployment administration; partnered with management on discipline issues and creation and implementation of action plans to improve employee performance; team member communications; designed and implemented organization's performance management program; launched reward/recognition program

Executed all HR initiatives for a geographic region (7 states and approximately 600 professional and hourly employees) including employee performance management, career development, succession planning, salary planning, federal & state compliance, staffing & retention, reward & recognition initiatives, employee relations and training.