Mueller Water Products the nation's leading manufacturer of flow control devices for the water and gas distribution industries, has an opening in Decatur, Illinois for an HR Assistant.

Under the general direction of the HR Manager, the HR Assistant will have responsibilities in the HR department at the Mueller Co. Decatur, IL facility providing support to approximately 600+ employees in a manufacturing environment.

The HR Assistant will be required to have strong computer skills and must be technologically savvy. This position will be involved in creating presentations for use in employee communications and will be involved in analysis, organizing, and designing charts from raw HR data for HR metrics and presentations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate a variety of complex HR administrative duties involving HR sensitive and proprietary information.
• Recruiting and on boarding of all new hires
• Conduct new hire orientation and present to groups of employees for training and other HR initiatives.
• Administer employee benefit administration, including new employee and annual benefit enrollment processes.
• Perform data entry into HRIS systems and third-party vendor systems.
• Act as an HR point of contact for managers and employees for inquiries on company policies and procedures. Will coordinate the distribution of HR information and updates to the workforce.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Word and mail merging is a plus.
• Involved in various HR initiatives including positive employee relations, recognition, and employee engagement initiatives.
• Maintain HR related records, ensuring accurate record and file maintenance. Maintaining personnel record systems including hard copy, digital, network file systems, and HRIS system record keeping. Ensures all files are in proper format and filed in a timely manner.
• Assist in the recruiting efforts by assisting managers during the hiring process, conduct phone screens, coordinate onsite visits, interviews, and testing. Facilitate the full life cycle of the recruitment process ensuring all documentation and forms are completed during the recruiting process. Will assist in staffing efforts for both regular employee and temporary staffing. Experience with web-based applicant tracking systems is a plus.
• Must be able to facilitate presentations or training sessions (in person and by phone) to assist in training and development efforts and to conduct new employee orientation.
• Work with the HR function to establish standardized HR processes and instructions by documenting work tasks and activities, creating repeatable processes and checklists.
• Must have excellent written communications skills. Will draft company announcements, memos, candidate offer letters, and other employee communications.
• Must have strong computer skills and with significant experience with collecting, organizing, compiling, and presenting data. Will assist in tracking HR metrics. Will be required to determine format and layout to present data in charts and graphs in presentations. Must have significant experience using MS PowerPoint, Access, and Excel (including pivot tables, conditional formatting, and advance functions such as Vlookup).
• This position will be cross trained in the other office administrative responsibilities to provide support and backup for the organization. Additional responsibilities will be required.

Required Experience and/or Education:

• Associate’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience. (Bachelor degree and or PHR, SHRM-CP is a plus).
• 1+ year experience in an HR role required, 2-5 years preferred. Experience in a Union environment a plus.

Perks of Joining Our Team:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance after 30 days
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Other Benefits Also Available