HR Generalist

Role Purpose

The plant HR team promotes business success through:

• Employee Advocacy (positive employee relations),
• Workforce and Leadership Development,
• Delivering proactive, creative solutions to our business partners / clients, and
• Stewardship of the Corning culture and Corning values.

Key Responsibilities

The Plant HR Generalist partners with the Plant HR Manager to ensure that his/her plant has the right number and type of talent to execute plant strategy and achieve desired business results; ensures plant establishes and maintains a positive work environment and operates as “One Corning” in support of Corning’s values; assists in successful implementation of global HR business processes within the plant; and ensures plant compliance with HR-related legal and regulatory guidelines.

• Establishes and maintains a presence on the plant floor to keep a read on the pulse of the organization
• Proactively identifies and resolves employee relations issues in a fair and consistent manner that protects the needs of the plant to operate in an effective and efficient manner
• Manages and mitigates employee grievances by ensuring supervisors and leadership are creating an open forum for discussion and resolution of plant issues
• Coaches and counsel operations and engineering leadership management in development
• Demonstration of leadership and management practices required to establish and maintain a positive work environment
• Takes ownership for specific HR initiatives that support the effective operations of the organization by developing and/or delivering HR programs.
• Tracks and documents employment issues and requests as required for procedural and statutory purposes
• Identifies employee value proposition issues affecting turnover and works with Plant HR Manager to identify actions for improvement
• Administration of contract labor management and government apprenticeship program

Experiences/Education - Required

• Full time MBA or Post gradation in HR.
• 8-12 years work experience in a manufacturing organization in India.
• Strong interpersonal skills – able to build trust quickly with employees at multiple levels in the organization
• Solid technical understanding of HR and ER.
• Track record of delivering tangible business impact.
• Strong business acumen – an interest in and ability to learn the business, understand business drivers, etc.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, presentations)
• Strong influence skills, experience influencing stakeholders with competing and/or diverging priorities, able to manage in a matrix organization

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Experience with Greenfield or major plant expansion