HR Manager: Employee Relations and Engagment job in Louisville

The FMS Employee Relations and Engagement Manager is a true leader that takes pride in being part of the FMS Story and instills that pride in others. You are part of a rapidly growing company that values diversity, compassion, innovation, and hard work. You are a team player and love your job. As an FMS leader, you exhibit a strong work ethic, self-motivation, the ability to lead people through challenges, the discipline to follow procedures, organizational and planning skills and a positive, friendly attitude.

FMS Managers enjoy working directly with team members and take pride in seeing folks succeed. The Employee Relations and Engagement Manager is directly responsible for the overall administration, coordination and evaluation of their assigned HR functions. Working with other FMS leaders, the Employee Relations and Engagement Manager is able to appropriately handle employee relations issues both with frontline team members and FMS Leadership as well as create excitement around FMS employee engagement programs and execute those programs well. Most importantly, they help create a positive, team-oriented environment and are champions of FMS initiatives, values, and mission.

The Employee Relations and Engagement Manager reports to the appropriate Sr. HR Manager or Director and understands that this position requires second shift working hours with some flexibility. Duties include, but are not limited to:

Good People
• Understanding the needs of our workforce and the greater communities in which we live and work
• Showing each and every person you interact with that you care
• Believing in and acting out FMS’s core values
• Understanding your role in Human Resources as it pertains to confidentiality and modeling that behavior for others
• Acting as a key component to company and departmental success by developing positive relationships with FMS employees at all levels of the organization and participating in HR Team and Leadership Team activities
• Support all FMS employee events and initiatives
• Being available when needed and contributing to team work exhibiting a “can do attitude”
• Communicating company programs, initiatives and developmental opportunities to others with enthusiasm
• Working directly with your leader on the successful management of Employee Relations issues. 
• Working directly with your Leader on the successful execution of our employee engagement programs and those programs that have a direct benefit to FMS as defined by our social mission and goals.

• Regularly identifying and recognizing FMS team members and leaders that demonstrate and support our employee engagement programs

• Participating in interviewing, orientation and job placement when needed, as well as, other HR team needs
• Recruiting Good People wherever you go
• Promoting FMS to Good People wherever you go
Clean Buildings
• Understanding and teaching how clean spaces impact clean environments therefore promoting healthy communities
• Support FMS Operations in the field with employee engagement initiatives.
• Understanding your support role within the organization and helping to identify needs and areas for improvement as relates to employee relations, engagement and safety.
o Actively participating in the strategy to improve those areas
o Communicating and working through those strategies with FMS leadership and team members
o Collecting, analyzing and reporting data
• Assisting the HR team wherever needed as required and as directed by your supervisor
Sustainable Business
• As a mission driven business, understanding our role in the community and our commitment to positive social impact
• Being able to articulate and share FMS’ mission, values and business model both internally to FMS team members and customers, and externally to community partners and stakeholders
• Working with your leader to identify and measure the how the successful execution of both our Social Mission and Internal Employee Engagement programs directly affect our ability to be a profitable while allowing us to put resources back into our programs
• Understanding the importance of personal and professional development and actively working on your own leadership development as identified by you and/or your leader
• Ensuring employee needs and requests are met
• Holding management team accountable for relaying information to Human Resources
• Working with other departments to ensure that policies and procedures involving Human Resources are being followed (i.e., Operations, Finance and Accounting, Customer and Community Relations, and Special Services)
• Providing your manager reports and data as required

• Considering the impact your actions will have on our long term success before acting

Fundamentally, as a FMS leader, you are:
Kind
Positive and enthusiastic
A good communicator (oral and written)
Organized
Ability to multi-task and prioritize
A role model
Honest
Ability to manage projects and meet deadlines
Open to learning and accepting feedback
Ability to strategically think and problem solve
Driven to succeed and grow with FMS
Committed to living out FMS’s core values
Ready to handle challenges
Self-motivated
Excited to help and work with others
Reflective and self-aware
Willing to do what it takes to get the job done well
A true leader

Benefits Include: Paid Holidays, Paid Vacation, Paid Maternity Leave, 401K, Paid Short Term Disability, Bonus Potential, Opportunity for Growth

An FMS Manager must be able to:
Lift, push or pull objects up to 40lbs.
Spend many hours a day traveling between facilities and walking
Be flexible in their working hours
Be on their feet for extended amounts of time
Reach and bend with some regularity
Work in difficult environments
Utilize FMS software as required, including but not limited to: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and a smartphone