Job Description

On the most basic level, HR is involved in recruiting, hiring and retention, employment conditions, employee assistance and counseling, benefits, payroll and compensation, training, discipline, termination--just about anything that involves employees and their working lives.

These are some general areas of responsibility that characterize Dexter’s HR department, which include:

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS - Equal employment opportunity compliance, dispute resolution, and employee communications.

STAFFING - Forecasting, recruitment and selection, hiring, orientation, retention, performance management, discipline, and termination.

PERFORMANCE - Helping management assess an employee's specific and overall performance, and documenting performance accurately.

BENEFITS - Health insurances, HRA, FSA, profit-sharing, and 401(k) plans, other retirement benefits, work and family programs, vacations, leaves of absence.

PAYROLL - collecting, calculating, and entering data, updates payroll records by entering changes in exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, and job title and department/division transfers.  Generates labor distribution and other payroll related reports.

COMPENSATION - Wage and salary programs, job classifications, performance appraisals, salary surveys, incentive, and bonus programs

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT - Management training, supervisory and nonsupervisory training, skills-based training, team building, career development, organizational development.

COMPLIANCE - Keeping track of state and federal employment law and requirements, and keeping managers and supervisors informed of what they need to do.  Federal, State and local employment laws, including:  ADA, ADEA, FMLA, PFML, OSHA, worker’s compensation, wage and hour laws (FLSA), hiring practices, and EEO compliance.

RECORDKEEPING - Maintaining accurate records to help prove your compliance with government recordkeeping and reporting requirements, as well as to defend your decisions on such matters as hiring, discipline, and compensation

PLANNING - Strategic planning, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, succession planning.  HR metrics and analytics.

OHS - Inspect, test, and evaluate workplace environments, equipment, and practices to ensure that they follow safety standards and government regulations.  Prepare written reports on their findings.  Design and implement workplace processes and procedures that help protect workers from hazardous work conditions.  Developing, maintaining, and managing a company's workers' compensation program. Implements all matters of the program, including claim investigations, settlements, and litigation.

PHILANTHROPIC ASSOCIATIONS – DECA, United Way, Bay Path Education Foundation BoD, Bay Path Vocational HS Advisory Committee, and others

MISCELLANEOUS – Event planning, organization communications; newsletter and postings.

THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES TO INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

• Direct HR Staff; HR Specialist and HR Administrator
• Occupational Health & Safety (OHS)
• Employee Relations
• Compliance
• Direct hire recruiting
• HR Analytics
• Strategic Planning
• Compensation
• Training & Development
• Philanthropic programs

 REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree plus professional experience/training equivalent to 5 years required.
• A minimum of three (3) years of progressive Human Resources experience, with strong, high-level administrative, supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• MA state law knowledge and experience preferred
• Must be able to handle sensitive related and proprietary information in a confidential manner.
• Must follow company policies, procedures, practices, and standards of conduct.
• Must maintain professional competence, ethical integrity, knowledge, and skills.
• Working knowledge of the following areas:  employee relations, H.R. management, employee relations, business practices, H.R. legal practices, and generally accepted managerial practices and procedures.

CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

HRCI certification of PHR or higher and/or SHRM certification of SHRM-CP or higher. (PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP)

 LANGUAGE SKILLS

Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing in English.  Excellent communications skills dealing with all levels of employees.  Able to deliver small group and large group presentations.

REASONING ABILITY AND JUDGEMENT

Must be able to manage several assignments simultaneously.  Problem solving skills are essential to this position.  Must be able to handle extremely confidential and sensitive information.

 OTHER

Proficient in software tools: word processing / spreadsheets / presentations. MS Office proficiency is required. Experience with Paycom HRIS is preferred.

 WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Very Competitive Salary and Long-term Benefits with Excellent Career Opportunity in a Focused & Stable organization.
• Medical and Dental insurance
• HRA & FSA
• Paid vacation, holidays, sick, and personal time
• Disability and Life insurance
• 401(k)
• Profit Sharing
• Cash bonus
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee discount

Company Description

Dexter-Russell, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of professional cutlery in the United States. Throughout our long and rich history, we have maintained a tradition of excellence in both materials and workmanship. Our company is the proud successor to the two oldest American cutlery manufacturers: The Harrington Cutlery Company and the John Russell Cutlery Company. Henry Harrington, a New England craftsman and inventor, established the first cutlery company in the United States on June 18, 1818 in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Harrington manufactured surgical equipment and shoe knives, as well as well crafted firearms. As his cutlery line expanded, he gradually discontinued his firearm business. In 1884, Harrington introduced the Dexter trade name. The Dexter line of fine kitchen and table cutlery soon gained a reputation for quality in America's homes and restaurants. Another New Englander, John Russell, founded his Green River Works on March 1, 1834. After having made his fortune in the cotton industry, Russell, at age 37, turned his energies to the manufacturing of quality cutlery. He built his water powered factory on the banks of the Green River near Greenfield Massachusetts. His first products, chisels and axe heads, were made from fine English steel of the type normally reserved for tableware. As the Green River works expanded its line to include knives, the company continued to use only the finest materials. By paying much higher wages than English cutlers, Russell was able to attract skilled European craftsmen to his factory. With all the manufacturing operations consolidated under one roof, these skilled craftsmen were able to produce large quantities of high quality hunting knives to supply the needs of America’s western frontier. On May 1, 1933, the Harrington Cutlery Company and the John Russell Cutlery Company merged, bringing together the two most respected names in cutlery: Dexter and Russell. The new company, Russell Harrington Cutlery Company, offered a broad range of quality cutlery products from the famous knives that "won the west" to innovative cutlery for the professional and industrial markets. In 2001, the company changed its name to Dexter-Russell, Inc. to reflect its long history of product brand identity. Today, the same tradition of quality and variety is carried on in Southbridge, Massachusetts, where Dexter-Russell produces the broadest line of professional cutlery made by any single manufacturer in the world.