HR Specialist - Lake Charles

Shape Your World At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper & world-shaper. At Alcoa, you're an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the role:

Join Alcoa Lake Charles as an HR Specialist and drive impactful HR strategies aligned with our business objectives. This exciting opportunity allows you to leverage your HR expertise and hands-on experience to deliver measurable results across key HR functions and processes.

Main responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with the Regional HR Team, Department Leaders, and employees to strengthen work relationships, enhance productivity, and improve retention.
• Local employee relations leader acting as the primary liaison between management and local union representatives. Resolves location grievances. Interprets and enforces labor contract to ensure fair treatment and prevent legal issues.
• Provides guidance to management and supervisors on employee relations matters, to include disciplinary actions and strategies to maintain positive labor relations.
• Leads talent management including succession planning, employee development and ensuring local participation in talent reviews
• Demonstrates organizational effectiveness and leadership development.
• Translates business strategy into HR strategy through change management, influence and working cohesively with the plant manager and other site leaders.
• Actively participates with the site lead team and advises on team building and development opportunities.
• Ensure compliance by administering HR policies and regulatory requirements.
• Manage leave administration processes, including FMLA, PFL, STD, and Workers' Compensation, while providing guidance and support to employees.
• Develop and implement training and development initiatives, equipping employees with the skills they need to excel.
• Lead the Apprenticeship Program, fostering growth and professional development for emerging talent.
• Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, managing and executing impactful DEI initiatives that support a culture of belonging.
• Execute and oversee Social Performance strategy in collaboration with the SP center of excellence
• Responsible for Leading and executing internal and external communications for the location aligned with the NoA strategy and in collaboration with corporate communications team. What you can bring to the role:
• Demonstrated track record within an area of HR and Labor (Compliance, leave and/or policy administration, Labor/Employee relation.

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