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HR ADMINISTRATOR

Augusta

Job Details

  • Job Location: Augusta Plant – Augusta, GA
  • Position Type: Full-Time
  • Education Level: High School Diploma / or Equivalent
  • Travel Percentage: Negligible
  • Job Shift: Monday – Friday
  • Job Category: Human Resources

Description

Essential Responsibilities & Functions include the following, others may be assigned.
Benefits Administration:
• Assist with administering employee benefits programs, including health insurance, retirement plans, and wellness initiatives.
• Assist employees with benefit enrollment, changes, and troubleshooting any issues.
• Educate employees on available benefits and provide guidance during open enrollment periods.
Payroll Administration:
• Process payroll accurately and on time, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
• Maintain payroll records and resolve discrepancies or payroll-related inquiries.
• Collaborate with Finance to reconcile payroll accounts and prepare reports.
• Ensure proper deductions for taxes, benefits, and other withholdings.
Employee Relations:
• Act as a point of contact for employee questions, concerns, and issues.
• Assist in addressing employee conflicts and escalating issues to the HR Business Partner, as necessary.
• Ensure company policies are communicated effectively and consistently enforced.
• Maintain confidentiality while managing sensitive employee information.
Recruitment and Interviewing:
• Assist with the recruitment process by scheduling and conducting interviews for hourly personnel.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand role requirements and identify qualified candidates.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience by communicating expectations and providing timely updates.
• Support onboarding efforts for newly hired hourly employees.
General HR Support:
• Maintain accurate employee records in HRIS systems.
• Assist in onboarding and offboarding processes, including preparing documentation and conducting exit interviews.
• Support compliance with labor laws and company policies.
• Participate in HR projects and initiatives to improve processes and enhance employee engagement.
Food Safety & Quality Standards/Requirements
The employee will comply with all relevant food safety and quality standards/requirements.
Supervisory Responsibilities & Functions
This is a non-supervisory position.

Qualifications

Requirements
Minimum

Education:  High School Diploma or GED.
Experience:  1+ years of experience as an administrative assistant or in a relevant position in an HR or accounting group.  Familiarity with employment laws and regulations (e.g., FMLA, ACA, FLSA).  Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal communication.

Preferred
Education:  Associates or bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or relevant discipline.  Formal training in employee benefits, hiring and HR records administration.
Experience: 2+ years experience as an Administrative Assistant or relevant position in a manufacturing environment, supporting HR requirements.  Previous work experience in Human Resources and Accounting, particularly with employee benefits administration, hiring, maintenance of personnel files and other HR records.

Language Skills
Reading/comprehension, speaking and writing at required education equivalency level.  Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business correspondence, technical/product information, policies/procedures or government regulations.  Ability to complete written forms and write routine to complex procedures, reports and correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions in a group or individual setting.

Mathematical Skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.

Computer Skills 
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and other Office 365 applications.

Proficiency in relevant HRIS preferred

Complexity
The work includes varied duties requiring many different and unrelated processes and methods be applied to a broad range of activities and/or substantial depth of analysis within a particular area.  Decisions generally include areas of established approach, methodology, interpretation or evaluation, but will also involve generation of new ideas and recommendations for approval. 

Physical Demands
The work requires both sedentary and limited physical exertion to include sitting; walking; standing; bending; traversing of stairs, carrying of light items such as papers, books or small parts; driving an automobile, forklift, etc.  Work routinely requires speaking and hearing (expression or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words and perceiving sounds by ear).

Work Environment
The work environment requires normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, personal or commercial transportation methods.  Requires use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations and traffic signals, etc.  Generally, the work area is well lighted, heated and ventilated.  Also includes work that requires special safety precautions such as working around moving parts, carts or machines or with irritant chemicals.  Employee may be required to use protective clothing or gear such as masks, gowns, coats, safety shoes, boots, goggles, gloves, safety glasses or shields.

Location

About working at Augusta

Located in Augusta, Georgia, the site is Prayon’s only US production location. It is primarily oriented towards the food sector, but also maintains a strong presence in the health and dental care, as well as technical markets.

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Why work at Prayon?

A fascinating job in an international Group

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for the health of both humans and plants, and the life of the planet. It is part of our DNA. The core of our company is our people, their values and their shared vision, and the sustainable technologies that help them to enrich everyone’s every day.

Working in locations around the globe, each and every one of our experts brings their unique skills and infectious dynamism to bear by improving the quality and effectiveness of the products we offer. It is thanks to them that we stay on top of the market and can develop the technologies of tomorrow. But, in order to keep our place as a leader in our sector, we always stay on the lookout for talented individuals.

Are you ready to join us and make the difference?
Benefits for you
Key figures for the Prayon group

Production sites

7
Active in more than

Countries

100
Technology used in over

Phosphoric acid plants

130
Worldwide

Employees

1,500
In billion euros

Group turnover

1.1
In the world

R&D centers

3
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