HR Coordinator

Join Ford's HR team as an HR Coordinator, where you'll support the complete employee experience across recruitment, onboarding, compensation, leaves, transfers, and separations in a dynamic unionized manufacturing environment with employees at Lima Engine Plant.

You will serve as a key operational partner ensuring accurate administration and seamless processes across all stages of the employee journey. Your work will touch every HR function,recruiting, compensation, benefits, employee relations, and workforce planning,building the comprehensive operational knowledge and cross-functional expertise that are essential foundations for HR Business Partner and HR management positions.

Responsibilities

• Support hourly recruiting and new employee onboarding
• Administer a wide range of personnel actions such as promotions, internal transfers/movements
• Provide comprehensive support for various employee leaves of absence, including medical, FMLA, and other extended leaves, coordinating with employees and external benefit administrators.
• Manage employee reinstatements following leaves or other absences, ensuring all necessary records and system access are updated.
• Manage employee departures, including retirements and other separations, and administer processes related to staffing level adjustments such as layoffs
• Utilize HR data to conduct audits, process unemployment documentation, and resolve related inquiries.
• Coordinate internal employee movements and job postings. Administer position management changes.
• Facilitate external employee transfers from plant to plant, ensuring accurate transfer of personnel records, including disciplinary and attendance histories, and processing relocation assistance.
• Coordinate vacation shutdown activities, working in partnership with operations for workforce planning requirements and vacation pay administration.
• Administer wage changes, including processing apprentice wage adjustments and conducting regular wage and position management audits.
• Pay discrepancy in accordance with contractual agreements.
• Process payments for short-term leaves (e.g., bereavement, jury duty, military leave) and manage grievance-related payouts.
• Support the administration of profit-sharing and other bonus programs, including eligibility verification.
• Administer holiday pay and holiday conversion processes.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant labor laws, company policies and collective bargaining agreements.
• Maintain accurate and confidential employee records.
• Conduct various compliance with internal controls
• Identify and resolve data discrepancies across HR systems to ensure accurate employee reporting.
• Manage HR record retention processes in compliance with company policy.
• Collaborate with HR and Operations leadership to execute workforce planning strategies that meet production demands.
• Assist with system access and security audits.
• Actively participate in HR projects and initiatives aimed at process improvement and enhancing the overall employee experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Legal Studies, or related field required
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience may be considered
• Minimum 1 year of work experience in Employee Relations, HR or office management
• 2+ years data analytics

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Schedule

• Flexibility to work varied shifts including mornings, evenings, and weekends depending on plant operational needs. Primary schedule is Monday - Friday - Day Shift: 8:00 am - 5:00pm.