Vice President of Human Resources

Summary of Duties:

The Vice President of Human Resources is responsible overall for developing and building a foundation and ensuring implementation that attracts, retains, on-boards, retains, motivates, develops, instills wellness, and manages the human capital needed to achieve company goals.

Provides overall strategic HR leadership and drives key strategies and execution in all aspects of the business including: overseeing the development and implementation of HR policies and procedures, recruiting, selection, apprenticeships, learning and development, retention, legal compliance, employee benefits, relations, wellness, and employment practices and procedures. Create, implement and drive the vision, mission, strategy and HR programs that will make RK one of the region’s top employers. Build, guide, provide expertise and mentoring to the HR team to support the business growth and achieve the company BHAG’s.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, experience and expertise in support of the company’s future strategic plans and initiatives. Ensure internal operational processes, organization and systems are driving scalable and profitable growth for RK.
• Implements HR strategies by establishing department accountabilities, including talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, apprenticeships, learning and development, records management, succession planning, employee relations and retention, and AA/EEO compliance.
• Responsible for advising management and in some cases developing programs to ensure company compliance with all federal, state and local laws related to employee benefits, compensation, employment, and learning and development
• Responsible for employee retention strategies as well as employee morale initiatives.
• Oversight of RK peRKs
• Drive initiatives for succession planning and performance management that motivates our different generations of employees.
• Provide monthly key performance indicators to ownership, leadership and appropriate management while facilitating the development of a people savvy management team.
• Serve as internal resource/expert to managers and advisor/mediator in employee situations.
• Collaborate with leaders within business units to create the plans that build a solid employment brand in our marketplaces; including attraction, engagement, development and retention of team members.
• Collaborate and strategize all aspects of talent management with leaders within business units. At the same time not encumbering or delaying leaders within business units from executing key personnel decisions against underperforming employees.
• Support all RK business units for scalable and profitable growth.

Accountability:

• Meaningful reduction of overall regrettable voluntary turnover
• Selection, support, and retention of our next generation of tradespeople and apprentices.
• Overall wellness metrics of our employee base and those insured by our healthcare plans
• Validation of open positions and ability to gill those roles timely, effectively with talent that is a strong fit with RK’s core values and hiring standards
• Strong reporting on RK’s investments into employees. i.e. training hours
• Comply with all company policies and procedures.
• All employees are accountable for safety and health and are empowered to stop work if an unsafe condition is present. Employees should immediately notify their supervisor so that the hazard may be corrected.
• RK Mechanical employees and subcontractors are required to implement and maintain all safety and health systems practices including the training requirements of RK Mechanical Orientation and CPR/First Aid/AED/Bloodborne Pathogens.

Executive Career Level:

• Vice President level
• Owns part of the company business strategy development and support initiatives.
• Establishes directions and leads the development of short and long-term corporate strategies and objectives broken down into 90 day plans, internally called “Rocks.”
• Aligns with and promotes company goals, strategies, products, services and achievements to key internal and external stakeholders.
• Ultimate accountability for performance results of the organization.
• 20 + years of broad-based HR experience, 10 of which must be at the senior management level – required
• Master’s degree/within relevant degree, preferred