Human Resources Business Partner

**Objective of the Position:** This position is responsible for providing professional HR guidance, analysis, and administration in some or all of the following functional areas: employee relations, training, recruiting, employee relations, and benefit programs. Essential Accountabilities: - Collaborate with top leadership to align the HR strategy to the Business strategy. Cascades Global Initiatives into the Region. - Apply a change management process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative. - Support the design, development, delivery and management of change communications. - Provide advice and suggestions for culture-related initiatives, such as cultural transformation. - Human Resources Project Manager for regional business unit improvements. - Train managers on employee engagement results, action plans and effective engagement initiatives. - Develop and present performance improvement plans and progressive counseling notices. - Responsible for workforce development and training, in addition to monitoring succession planning. - Investigate employee relation issues such as employee complaints, harassment allegations and civil rights complaints and prepare report of findings. - Administer training records to include tracking and ensuring white collar matrices are being updated. - Collaborate with other HR team members on implementing innovative and inclusive recruitment strategies. - Initiate immigration procedures for new and existing employees, support international transfers and relocation for employees between companies. - Administer all payroll and benefits processes for employees at the corporate office, including but not limited to: benefits orientation/administration; timecard/payroll review/submission, paid time off processes, and FMLA requests. - Design and make recommendations for competitive and internally equitable compensation plans that mirror market trends and business strategies. - Verify all pay rates submitted companywide match production pay scale and/or offer approval form and approves to ensure “4 eye approach”. - Future-proof compensation and benefits planning. - Ensure corporate employee HRIS recordkeeping compliance and paper files are accurate and filed. - Administer and/or support local wellness programs at corporate; encourage participation and local buy-in. - Optimize organizational design to increase productivity and improve performance of the business. - HR Representative of Employee Engagement Committee & Employee Social Responsibility Committee - Implement reward and recognition interventions to increase bottom-line results and employee engagement. Secondary Accountabilities: the position incumbent ensures, that - Conduct all business-related activities for, and on the behalf of, Eberspaecher within the limits of applicable local, state, and federal legal requirements. - Provide support to, and compliance with, all local and corporate Eberspaecher Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) policies, procedures and other HSE related requirements. - Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and follows all ENA polices related to TS16949 and ISO 14001; looks for way to improve and promote quality. - Ability to travel domestically by car or plane. - Other duties as assigned.