HR Director

Responsible for the overall leadership, administration, and oversight of the division's Human Resources functions in accordance with established company policies and procedures. Directs, assigns, and evaluates Human Resources staff to ensure effective performance and service of delivery.

Oversees and administers all HR programs and operations, including talent acquisition, employee relations, payroll, compensation, benefits, and policy implementation. Ensures division-wide compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, including EEO, ADA, FMLA, and related government requirements.

The salary range for this position is $99,500 to $115,000 per year. All compensation offers are analyzed individually and take into consideration multiple factors including but not limited to geographic location, years of experience, and educational background.

Description

Essential Functions:

• Manage and develop direct reports to maximize productivity, efficiency, and overall team effectiveness. Responsibilities include hiring, assigning work, monitoring performance, coaching, counseling, training, performance appraisals, and making recommendations regarding compensation, promotion, and termination.
• Oversee full life-cycle recruiting and selection activities, including workforce planning, interviewing exempt candidates, extending offers of employment, employee transfers, job postings, job fairs, internship programs,. Ensure effective referral processes.
• Monitor staffing (FTE) levels in collaboration with management and produce, analyze, and distribute efficiency reports. Make staffing adjustments as needed.
• Provide guidance and counsel to executives, managers, and employees on human resources policies and employee matters to enhance productivity and minimize legal risk. Manage employee relations matters including grievances, discipline, harassment, and discrimination claims in consultation with management and corporate HR as needed. Administer compensation and payroll functions, including annual merit increases, discretionary bonuses, incentives, commissions,. Ensure accurate and timely payroll processing, including new hires, status changes, timekeeping, leaves, and terminations.
• Administer benefits,, including new hire enrollment, midyear changes, annual open enrollment, PTO tracking, FMLA, STD, ADA requests, and workers' compensation claims (including First Report of Injury).
• Lead training and development initiatives, including new employee orientation, on-the-job training, refresher training, leadership development, and required bank training. Evaluate training effectiveness and ensure timely completion of assigned courses.
• Develop and implement human resources strategies, , and operational plans aligned with organizational goals. Assist senior management with short- and long-term strategic planning.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, including but not limited to:
• FMLA
• ADA
• HIPAA
• EEO
• FLSA
• Bank Secrecy Act
• Patriot Act
• Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
• Affirmative Action requirements
• Monitor and track Affirmative Action goals and annual objectives.
• Maintain knowledge of industry trends and employment legislation to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Oversee and monitor the performance appraisal program and recommend improvements as needed.
• Prepare, update, and evaluate job descriptions using established evaluation systems.
• Promote and manage departmental projects, allocating financial and human resources appropriately.
• Coordinate employee engagement programs and sponsored activities to strengthen organizational relationships.
• Participate in committees, special projects, and serve as a member of the Senior Management Committee.
• Maintain accurate and updated personnel records and ensure required reporting to appropriate departments and external agencies.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Must comply with applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to, the Bank Secrecy Act, the Patriot Act, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
• Complete required bank training courses within assigned time frame(s).
• Adhere to Bank of the San Juans Company Core Values.
• Keep management appropriately informed of area activities and of any significant problems.
• Participate in Community Service and Bank sponsored activities that align with and support the mission and values of the Bank of the San Juans, while consistently representing the bank in a professional manner. This includes maintaining a professional image, upholding confidentiality, demonstrating a positive "can-do" attitude, ensuring good attendance and punctuality, and exhibiting flexibility, and adaptability to meet both bank and customer needs. Additionally, keep your work area tidy, maintain customer privacy, and attend and actively participate in required meetings.

Required/Preferred

Education Level

Description

Required

Bachelor's Degree

Human Resources or related field.

Required/Preferred

Experience Level

Description

Required

Ten years

Human Resources experience. Knowledge of human resource laws and regulations. Understanding of compensation and benefits policies and programs, employee relations practices, and recruitment techniques.

Would an equivalent combination of relevant education and work experience be considered?:

Yes

Required/Preferred

Yes

License/Certification

PHR or SPHR preferred

Description

Occasional travel required: (less than 10 days per year) by automobile (as driver and passenger), commercial airlines, rental vehicles and public transportation and be able to lodge in public facilities.

Environment: Indoors, a climate-controlled shared work area.

Noise Level: Moderate noise; not extreme or excessive; within reasonable limits.

Work: Sedentary work: Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Lifting: Light Work: Exerts up to 20 lbs. occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs. frequently and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, view a computer terminal, and read the computer screen, printed materials, and handwritten materials.

Physical Activities

Frequency

Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.

Infrequent-Rare

Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.

Infrequent-Rare

Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

Infrequent-Rare

Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

Daily

Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects such as size and shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips.

Daily

Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

Daily

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Daily

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make the discrimination of sound.

Daily

Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

Infrequent-Rare

Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.

Daily

Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

Daily

Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Daily

Repetitive Motion: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Daily

Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.

Infrequent-Rare

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Daily