We currently have an opening for an HR Manager at a food manufacturing company, located in Chicago, IL.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Leadership and Interpersonal Skills

• Able to work with employees at all levels to promote achievement of goals and objectives and overall common interests
• Able to develop and promote cooperation in and between work groups
• Able to resolve conflict and differences between employees and work groups
• Persistent in pursuing goals despite resistance from internal and external sources
• Takes charge, initiates action, and directs others while being relationship and achievement oriented
• Able to establish an environment where employees want to excel and work up to their potential

Communication Skills

• Delivers and receives information clearly, accurately, timely, thoroughly
• Ability to write memos, letters and reports in a clear and concise manner
• Good one-on-one and group-speaking skills – interviewing, presentations, meetings
• Ability to be persuasive, influencing, convincing, credible

Personal Characteristics

• Confident and self-assured of abilities and ideas
• Tough, winner’s attitude - overcomes obstacles and adversity
• Almost impossible to discourage or dishearten
• Projects positive, authoritative and professional image

· Resourceful learner and information agent

• Receptive, flexible and adaptable to change
• Balances independence and interdependence
• Emotionally mature - constructively handles frustration and needs satisfaction
• Able to handle demands of the job without outward emotional reaction
• Sets priorities and meets urgent situations head-on
• Personal and professional pride in the company - products, goals, and employees
• Desire and drive to learn and implement new technical, managerial, administrative ideas

• Places company goals and group efforts above personal and individual wants
• Learns new material quickly, and understands and applies abstract concepts
• Resourceful problem preventer, problem identifier, problem solver, decision maker

Technical Knowledge

Knowledgeable and experienced in the following key-result areas:

• General, overall Personnel and Labor Relations practices and legal requirements

• Recruiting, interviewing, screening, testing and employee selection techniques and resourcefulness regarding utilization of recruiting resources

· Concept of establishing and complying with approved company policies, practices and related legal requirements

· Employee Compensation Plans, Payroll Administration and Employee Benefits Administration (Group Insurance, Pension/401k Plans, Short-term Disability)

· Employee performance appraisal and evaluation systems, up to and including evaluation and administration of employee performance, attendance, and conduct matters

· Employee orientation and on-the-job skills training and employee development

· Labor Relations, especially from the standpoint of prevention of unionization

· Employee safety and accident prevention programs and related OSHA regulations and requirements

Required Job-Related Skills

Excellent written and oral communication skills: Write to the reader in a clear, concise and correct manner that does not require someone else to correct mistakes in content or context, including grammar, spelling, punctuation. Speak to an audience (one-on-one or groups) with generally accepted good oral-presentation skills.

Computer Skills: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint. AS400 experience helpful, but not required

Organized and orderly, good attention to detail, credible in only two areas: everything said and everything done.

Must be bilingual in English and Spanish.

Bachelor Degree required.