Director, Human Resources

The purpose of this classification is to manage the city's human resources programs and functions including classification and compensation, recruitment, employee relations, employee benefits, training, payroll, worker’s compensation, safety and compliance of all applicable federal and state laws.

• Directs, supervises and evaluates assigned staff, address employee concerns and problems, directs work, counsel, discipline, and complete employee performance appraisals.
• Plans, directs and manages the workers' compensation and safety programs of the city; establishes and oversees implementation of related policies and procedures; reviews work to ensure compliance with applicable policies, laws and regulations; conducts training for department and city staff.
• Directs development and implementation of the city's compensation and classification plan; establishes pay scale through competitive market research of salary surveys and job audits, analyze classification and pay issues; establishes and revises ratings of employee performance evaluations, and propose revisions of policies and plans to Mayor and Council.
• Monitors personnel practices in the public sector and reviews personnel laws and statutes to determine impact on city operations; proposes changes to personnel policies and personnel handbook and reviews same to ensure compliance with applicable state and federal laws.
• Oversees administration of recruitment and selection of workforce, applicant testing, and onboarding of new employees.
• Serves as liaison to the Mayor and Council, department directors, other city employees, state and federal officials, insurance carriers, actuaries, attorneys, consultants, and others.
• Reviews disciplinary actions and employee terminations to ensure adherence to the city's personnel policies; coordinates resolution of employee grievances and formal disciplinary actions; responds to inquiries from supervisors and employees; counsels employees; conducts hearings and investigations; prepares responses and reports.
• Oversees administration of the city's employee benefits programs and open enrollment; serves as liaison to third party administrators.
• Directs the city's workers' compensation program, family medical leave and long-term disability program; monitors processing of claims and bills; investigates claims; authorizes necessary medical care; ensures related records and files are maintained.
• Directs centralized retention and storage of employee personnel files and medical records.
• Prepares, reviews, and/or approves employee performance appraisals, salary and reclassification changes, promotions and demotions, terminations and other personnel actions.
• Serves as coordinator of the city's Drug and Alcohol Program; scheduling pre-employment and random drug testing, employee physicals and tests, and providing drug/alcohol awareness training.
• Serves as safety coordinator for the city; develops safety policies and procedures, oversees required reporting and field investigations of accidents, schedules employee safety training, maintains safety resource library, and leads safety committee meetings.
• Refers to the city's personnel policies, personnel handbook, labor and employment laws/regulations, and to various state and federal laws in performing management responsibilities.
• Develops management reports, policies and procedures, bid specifications, and annual budget; reviews and approves budget requests, bid proposals, invoices, and employee payroll time system.
• Maintains knowledge of policies and practices in human resources and other assigned areas by attending professional seminars and conferences and by reading professional journals and reports.
• Performs other related duties as assigned. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:   

• Knowledge of basic arithmetic functions.
• Skill in operating, maneuvering and/or controlling the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Skill in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data.        Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.
• Ability to function in a director capacity for a major organizational unit requiring significant internal and external interaction.
• Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.
• Ability to calculate decimals and percentages.
• Ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
• Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources Management, Business or Public Administration, or closely related field; supplemented by eight (8) years previous experience that includes progressively responsible experience in all aspects of human resources management (preferably in the public sector), budget administration, and management; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job. 

Licenses or Certifications: SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) or SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) certifications; valid state of Alabama driver’s license.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force. Work requires the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or work station. Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals.   Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Work is performed in an office environment. Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.