We are seeking an HR Business Partner for a northcentral Wisconsin (near Wausau) 24/7 Dairy Plant. Our client is a Fortune 250 company.

Responsibilities include:

• Proactively recommend ideas and solutions to effectively address the needs of the organization.


• Effectively teach, coach, and influence others to motivate and gain appropriate buy-in to drive results.


• Educate leaders to ensure consistent application of policies, union contract language, while promoting positive employee relations.


• Conduct investigations and make corrective action recommendations, with appropriate level of management intervention.


• Interpret complex and ambiguous situations while consistently applying company policy, union contract language and great employee relations to understand challenges and mitigate risk.


• Work with the HR Leader to ensure compliance, and claim response in coordination with Legal for EEOC, FMLA, Code of Conduct, Discrimination, Harassment, and other legal/policy issues.

Experience + Education:

• Bachelors degree in human resources or related field along with 2 years of HR Generalist/Business Partner experience. Candidates with an associates degree with 4 years of related experience may be considered.


• Experience working in a union environment highly desired.


• Manufacturing HR experience highly desired.

Competencies-Skills:

• Inspire trust and respect, bring people together, and get the most important things done.


• Strong communication skills and ability to lead and drive change in a manufacturing environment.


• Comfortable with Management by Walking Around.


• Communicates and administers HR related policies/procedures fairly and consistently.


• Handles all HR matters confidentially and with great tact and professionalism.


• Handles multiple demands and balances competing priorities, with a sense of urgency.

Reports to Human Resources Manager in this 400 employee plant.