HR Division Manager- Warrenton

Company Summary

Hampton Lumber is a thriving family-owned company aspiring to be North America's preferred source for responsibly-sourced wood solutions. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, we operate nine sawmills in Western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. We also manage timberland and operate a wholesale and import/export division.  

 

Our mission is to grow, manufacture, and market renewable wood products and deliver innovative solutions for a more sustainable built environment. At Hampton Lumber, we accomplish this through our own operations as well as those of our affiliates—Trapa Forest Products, Idaho Timber, and RedBuilt. Our tagline, "Find a better way every day," encapsulates our commitment to innovation and improvement across all operations. 

We are guided by our core values: 

• Safety – Prioritize safety across all operations.
• Integrity & Authenticity – Operate honestly and ethically while preserving our distinctive family-owned brand.
• Responsible Stewardship – Endeavor to balance and maintain economic, social, and environmental values in everything we do.
• Tenacity – Embrace challenges with grit, determination, and a can-do spirit. 
• Continuous Improvement – Strive to enhance our processes, products, and people.
• Customer Satisfaction – Be nimble, responsive, and solutions-oriented.
• Community Engagement – Be a responsive, supportive, and respected member of the community.

 

With over 80 years in the sawmill business, we are proud to have cultivated the knowledge and experience needed to grow and prosper, even in challenging times.  We always look to the future and invest in our people, new technologies, and continuous improvement processes and techniques. 

Overview

This position's primary function is to build a workforce that creates a competitive advantage by recruiting, training, developing, and retaining top talent. This person will manage works relating to hiring, recruitment, training, compensation, promotion, termination, career development, or retirement of the employees at the mill. The HR Manager’s job entails providing practical, consistent, and proactive support, direction and advice to Management Team on HR procedure, policy, best practice, employment rewards, and benefits. The ideal candidate for this role will be able to clearly demonstrate their ability to provide strategic and technical Human Resource leadership in a manufacturing environment.  

Benefits Highlights

• Substantial company-paid assistance for Medical and Dental insurance premiums; mental health coverage; cost effective co-pays and deductibles
• 401(k) with 5% annual company contribution and generous company matching contributions vested over three years
• Paid time off, including eight paid holidays
• Opportunity to earn bonuses
• Employee wellness program that includes free counseling sessions, financial and legal guidance, and more
• Opportunities for paid training to support career advancement and personal development

Responsibilities

Recruitment

• Perform hands-on and or oversees the recruiting, interviewing, hiring for job openings, to ensure diversity of applicant pools; source and screen applicants, partner closely with the hiring manager to manage candidate selection process; help hiring managers with the job offer process.
• Creates (or reviews) job postings from the company approved template library making certain adherence to the overall Hampton brand and quality.
• Ensures adherence to using the iCIMS workflow including the timeline metrics to provide for an excellent candidate experience.
• Manages affirmative action records.
• Manage FMLA and Short Term Disability requests
• Administers new hire drug testing & background checks.
• For open postings, monitors that a sufficient number of qualified applications are being received. Proactively asks for help from the Corporate HR team to review the strategies for filling open positions if time to fill metric exceeds the stated goal.
• Manage (or be the on-site champion) to ensure that the recruiting connection team participates in the assigned activities to promote Hampton as a desired employer in all the communities we have operations in
• Be the subject matter expert for the iCIMS software. Train hiring managers on how to use the system.

 

Training and Development

 

• Oversees that ALL training on site is entered into the centralized, real-time, company-wide training tracking report.
• Ensures that the mill completes the planned training sessions, on-time, fo