Job Description

The senior HR specialist will play a key role in supporting the HR team with our day-to-day activities, including recruitment, employee relations, benefit administration, training, and compliance. This role will be a key partner for our shift leaders and managers.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

• Handles employee relations counseling, outplacement counseling, and exit interviews.
• Partner with Area Leaders and Section Managers in talent development and coaching.
• Assists in the development and implementation of personnel policies and procedures.
• Prepares and maintains the employee handbook and policies and procedures manual.
• Serve as a point of contact for employee inquiries regarding HR policies and procedures.
• Support conflict resolution, investigations, and employee disciplinary actions.
• Foster a positive workplace culture through employee engagement initiatives.
• Assist employees with benefit enrollment and questions.
• Coordinate with vendors to ensure benefits administration is accurate and timely.
• Performs benefits administration to include claims resolution, change reporting, and approving invoices for payment.
• Maintain accurate and confidential employee records.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws.
• Participate in HR-related projects, such as performance review cycles and policy updates.
• Prepare regular reports on HR metrics (e.g., turnover, headcount, absenteeism).
• Assist in new team member orientation, including presentation of materials.
• Maintains Human Resource Information System records and compiles reports from the database.
• Participates in developing department goals, objectives, and systems.
• Prepares management reports as requested, i.e., discipline, overtime, employee count, county of residence, etc.
• Represents the organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
• Other duties may be assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a four-year college or technical school, 7- 9 years’ experience as an HR business Partner, Generalist etc.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Fluent in English. Japanese as a second language is helpful.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is regularly required to talk or hear. The Team Member is occasionally required to stand and use hands, walk, bend, lift, or twist. The Team Member frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. The Team Member is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The Team Member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The Team Member must be able to lift a container of fasteners weighing up to 25 pounds on a regular basis. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is frequently required to sit; to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and to talk or hear.

Code of Conduct

Indiana Automotive Fasteners is a team environment. We operate with mission-driven integrity. Our mission of “Ensuring your family’s SAFETY through our team’s QUALITY” is at the heart of all our decisions and actions. We exemplify ethical practices, professionalism, and personal integrity, creating respectful and trusting collaborative work environments where sound advice is valued. We contribute to the IAF team by living the core values of T.E.A.M.W.O.R.K.

• We are Trustworthy. We do the right things right every time. We do our jobs with honest effort every time, every day. We follow all Safety, Quality, and Work Policies.
• We are Engaged. We are eager and enthusiastic to help our team succeed. We persistently pursue excellence every day. We work together to continuously improve.
• We are Accountable. We are responsible for every product and process we touch. Our choices and actions matter because our work matters. We produce Excellent Quality fasteners. Our work is a critical component to critical features on vehicles. It is our responsibility to follow our Quality-controlled procedures to ensure the Safety of our products.
• We are Motivated. Our work drives us. We can achieve, and we will achieve. We care about what we do.
• We are Welcoming. We encourage everyone’s best. We greet everyone with a friendly smile. We care about each other.
• We are Open-minded. We ask. We listen. We consider. We are curious about new possibilities. We are not content with the status quo, and we believe that our diverse backgrounds are what makes us stronger, so we listen to learn from each other.
• We are Respectful. We listen to understand. We help each other. We believe every team member matters and deserves respect.
• We are Knowledge-seeking We Genchi Genbutsu: Go, Look, See. We keep learning, we keep growing. We strive to understand, so we investigate problems to learn from our mistakes. We train and develop our team so that we continue to grow and improve.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Team Member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Indiana Automotive Fasteners is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer