HR Generalist / Advisor

Why Work for WM?

Stability. Growth. .

About the Field HR Advisor Role

As a member of the WM People organization, the Field HR Generalist / Advisor provides tactical, responsive HR support to individual contributors in assigned business units and / or functions.

You'll be the first point of contact and trusted advisor for employee relations issues, HR policies and processes. You'll champion, demonstrate, and uphold WM Commitments & Values to foster an environment of trust, and employee engagement for a diverse workforce.

This role will be supporting our central and northern Minnesota market service areas (MSA) as well as our North Dakota MSA.

You'll regularly visit sites as a number of locations are a day trip distance away. Overnight travel will approximately be 1-3 nights per month.

What You'll Do

To be successful as a Field HR Generalist / Advisor, you'll be expected to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provides reliable and timely coaching and counseling to employees on issues to ensure consistent, transparent application of policies, procedures, and employments laws.
• Identify, communicate, and resolve employee relations issues balancing employee advocacy with stewardship of company policies and employment laws.
• Serves as the local People point of contact supporting / delivering internal processes including Performance Management, New Hire Orientation and Exit interviews.
• Conducts training on company policy, programs, and other issues as they arise.
• Partners and participates with local team(s) on recruitment outreach efforts.
• Serves as an active member of People related project teams as assigned.
• Apprise and escalates potential legal, risk, safety, etc. concerns to the People Manager.

What Does it Take to be a Field HR Generalist / Advisor?

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

Education and Experience

• Education : Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Human Resources, Business Administration or similar area of study, or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant work experience.
• Experience : Two (2) years of related work experience (in addition to education requirement)

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

PHR, SHRM-CP, or CHRP Certification preferred.

Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Approachable and responsive resource able to connect with employees at all levels.
• Solutions-oriented approach to problem solving and conflict resolution with a strong drive to create a positive work environment.
• Strong internal and external customer focus.
• Self-motivated; ability to navigate complex environments, get answers and autonomously drive solutions.
• Comfortable with high volume workload and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of employment laws and regulations and the ability to appropriately assess risk.
• Ability to use experience and judgment to make decisions that may be based on imperfect or incomplete information.
• Ability to recognize trends and communicate the same as appropriate
• Comfort with ambiguity; strong learning agility mindset to embrace and drive change.

Work Environment

Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• You'll use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, most of the work day;
• You'll rarely exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds
• You'll rarely be in a physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements
• Normal setting for this job is an office setting, however, operational site visits are required with exposure to weather and areas where large equipment is operated;
• Ability to travel up 10-30% of the time depending upon geographic span of responsibility.

About our Benefits

At WM, each eligible salaried employee receives a competitive total compensation package including :

• Industry leading health insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(K) + company match
• Life Insurance
• 100% Paid Tuition, Books, & Fees for 135+ education programs for you and your family
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Employee Discount Programs

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click Apply.

As an EEO / Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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