Job Description Summary
The HR Specialist serves as the on-site HR partner for the Global MICTX Supply Chain organization and its people leaders within a dynamic manufacturing environment. This role provides day-to-day HR support, helps resolve employee and workplace matters, and promotes consistent application of HR policies and practices across the site. The position partners across Human Resources, Labor Relations, People Operations and Talent Acquisition and handles sensitive information with discretion.
The Human Resources Specialist serves as a trusted resource and advocate for employees, helping them navigate workplace concerns and connect with the resources they need to be successful. The role also partners with people leaders on employee relations, performance, engagement, and workplace culture to foster an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing environment.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Serve as a visible, approachable, and consistent HR presence on site and as a trusted point of contact for employees and people leaders.
- Help employees and leaders navigate HR policies, benefits resources, timekeeping, attendance, leave processes, Workday transactions, and other core HR programs.
- Guide and coach people leaders in addressing and resolving employee relations and performance matters, including attendance, conduct, policy application, and documentation.
- Plan and conduct objective, timely workplace investigations, in consultation with HR leadership as appropriate.
- Support employee engagement, recognition, retention, change management, and corporate and site-led culture initiatives.
- Maintain HR communication boards, signage, and plant-level HR communications and updates.
- Provide basic HR systems support, run reports, and assist with HR analytics.
- Listen to and elevate employee concerns and recurring workplace themes, advocating for appropriate resolution and recommending actions that strengthen culture, trust, inclusion, accountability, and the overall employee experience.
- Support HR projects, system changes, and operational initiatives; identify opportunities to simplify workflows and improve the employee and manager experience.
- Use HR technology and approved automation, including AI-enabled tools where permitted, to reduce manual work while protecting confidential information and following company requirements.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Labor and Employee Relations, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience with 3 years of HR experience.
- Required to work on site at the GE Healthcare Waukesha or West Milwaukee facilities and provide visible, responsive support within a manufacturing environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- HR Experience supporting a unionized, manufacturing, supply chain, or frontline employee population.
- Experience supporting culture, engagement, change management, retention, and employee experience initiatives.
- Experience managing employee relations matters through resolution, including performance improvement plans, corrective actions, and workplace investigations.
- Experience using Workday or a comparable HRIS, Microsoft Office, and HR reporting and analytics tools.
- Strong consultation, coaching, interviewing, investigation, documentation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Strong customer service focus, with the ability to build trust and credibility with employees and leaders while maintaining objectivity, appropriate boundaries, and consistent application of policy.
- Highly organized, resourceful, and comfortable operating with a high degree of independence in a dynamic environment.
LI-GM1
We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
Additional Information
GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No