Sr HR Generalist

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific – Sweetwater has an amazing opportunity for a Senior HR Generalist to work in partnership with supervisors and employees at Georgia-Pacific’s Gypsum Complex located in Sweetwater, Texas. Georgia-Pacistate has built a state-of-the-art gypsum wallboard production facility. The new ~$315 million plant was built adjacent to the existing plant and will incorporate state-of-the-art production processes. The two operations combined will be capable of supplying customers and distribution partners with more than 1 billion square feet of gypsum product each year. Our facility is located 40 miles West of Abilene, TX and employs about 200 team members. This location is a non-unionized facility. The Sweetwater facility is a short drive west from Abilene, Texas, a city with a metropolitan population of almost 170,000 people.

Our Team

This person will be key in advancing our HR vision and operational bets. While learning the business, your contribution will be at a Sr HR Generalist level with primary focus in employee relations, staffing, retention and turnover reduction strategies, and advancement of our PBM culture, supporting two manufacturing facilities.

This position is a work on-site role, in Sweetwater, TX.

What You Will Do

• Building Our PBM® Culture & Business Partnerships.
• Build credibility and trust with the workforce and leaders.
• Ability to influence others as an informal leader.
• Desire to understand, develop, apply, and coach employees and supervisors on our Principle Based Management culture.
• Apply judgement based on knowledge and discernment.
• Develop business acumen to understand key drivers of business performance and help deliver results.
• Drive innovation in HR functions and processes. Proactively support transformation efforts.
• Investigate questions and/or complaints; resolve employee relations issues and use each complaint/issue as an opportunity to understand the true root cause and develop a plan to resolve.
• Advancing Our Talent Position.
• Partner with various capability teams and staffing support groups to improve our talent position.
• Stay informed on competitors in the Sweetwater/Abilene west Texas market and develop a gap closure plan for this as needed.
• Own hourly staffing to include forecasting, staffing plan execution, onboarding effectiveness, and maintaining employee electronic files.
• Support performance management, turnover reduction efforts, and Supervisor development.
• Partner with each department leader, develop future talent within GP through. succession planning. Show employees there are future growth opportunities within GP.
• Driving Process Excellence.
• Identify HR compliance risks and develop gap closure plans to address risks while implementing a systematic approach to maintaining compliance, to include FMLA, ADA, AAP, OFCCP, FLSA, EEOC, SOX, and other critical compliance requirements. Utilize HR capabilities within GP to meet these goals.
• Mentor and train leaders and supervisors on HR compliance risk, and requirements
• Optimize risk by effectively interpreting current policies and practices while identifying opportunities to drive standardization and eliminate waste.
• Work with a platform mindset to build processes that are repeatable across plants and allows for remote support.
• Delivering on Business Objectives.
• Create solutions which support/enable teams to deliver on business objectives.
• Thrive in a fast pace, changing environment while meeting internal and external customer needs.
• Leverage data driven solutions to support the business and advance results.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to engage with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Initiative-taking to embrace, define, and drive continuous improvement in how you and the HR team serve the business.
• Purposeful person with excellent communication skills, initiative, and personal accountability.
• Ability to challenge leaders and confidently advance the facility towards the company’s vision.
• Be the “boots on the ground” on the plant manufacturing floor.
• Being engaged with employees and know the needs of the business.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s deg