Mary Estrada
Fairfield,CA
Summary
Results-driven Human Resources Business Partner skillful in strategic planning, policy integration and performance improvements. Always pursuing ways to maximize efficiency, employee satisfaction and cost savings.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Human Resources Business Partner
East Bay Tire Co.
Fairfield, United States
06.2021 - Current
- Identified HR training needs and conducted training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity, and within thecompany to reach business goals.
- Liaised between multiple 14 store locations to improve communications.
- Streamlined HR efficiencies, coordinated new hire orientations, and provided onboarding and training for new employees.
- Engaged employees and conducted exit interviews to gain acomplete sense of satisfaction and areas in need of improvement.
- Maintained confidential nature of employee and company proprietary and privileged information used or observed in course of performing job duties.
- Reviewed applicant qualifications and assisted management and recruiting with hiring needs and determining compensation and total package.
- Collaborated with leadership to assess and improve policies across theboard.
- Resolved understaffing issues, disputes, employee terminations, and disciplinary procedures.
- Analyzed and modified compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and comply with legal requirements.
Human Resources Business Partner
Multi-Color Corporation
Napa, California
11.2017 - 06.2021
- Demonstrated key skills and abilities of coaching, consulting, facilitation, influencing communication, process development, analysis and problem solving
- Utilize leave management system, to manage leave of absences cases while ensuring compliance with all federal and state laws.
- Worked with managers to achieve compliance with organizational policies, providing clarifying information and recommending necessary changes.
- Briefed new hires on essential job information, such as company policies, employment benefits and job duties.
- Reduced workers' compensation claims by instituting corporate safety training program.
- Strengthened operational efficiencies and traceability by developing organizational filing systems for confidential employee records and reports.
Human Resources Coordinator
Multi-Color Corporation
Napa, California
- Partners with managers regarding recruiting and advises managers around recruiting process
- Provides data to support sourcing strategies (i.e., insufficiencies or gaps in talent capability)
- Interprets hiring data and provides recommendations to Recruiters and business leaders for sourcing strategies
- Understands local market for staffing needs
- Manage social media platforms (i.e., Facebook Company Page, LinkedIn, Instagram) to promote hiring job postings and employee relations, including mass communication.
- Participates in key interview loops and debriefs.
- Approves offers, transfers, and compensation exceptions within client org
- Engages with managers to ensure onboarding plans are created, participates in onboarding as needed
- Involved with safety initiatives, safety committee member for 2 departments. Conducted safety audits and managed safety programs. Completed worker's compensation paperwork and in some circumstances prevented adverse action.
- Assist with payroll and completed schedule changes data entry on every new pay period and mid-pay period requests.
- Managed agency relationship reviewed and approved contracts for the temporary workforce utilized yearlong for recruitment support.
- Attended career fairs, organized and coordinated onsite job fairs.
Senior Staffing Specialist
Chartwell Staffing Solutions
Fairfield, CA
04.2014 - 11.2017
- Followed up with notable applicants sourced via industry-specific pipelines, events, and job fairs.
- Leveraged social media platforms and online job boards to advertise open positions and engage with potential candidates.
- Generated specific candidate pool for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials, and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
- Verified applicant references and employment details.
- Provided leadership indirect sourcing methods, candidate referrals programs, coordination of job fairs, employment service programs, and initiated social networking for company recruiting and marketing purposes.
- Ensured client satisfaction by thoroughly conducting candidate screenings, including behavioral interviewing, skill assessments, referencing, background checks, credentialing, and education verification
- Implemented and upheld corporate policies and procedures including corporate training coordination, performance management.
- Oversaw branch office when management presence was required.
- Administered new employee paperwork, orientations, safety, and benefits including enrollments, change reporting, communicating benefit information to employees, and supported annual open enrollments.
- Monitored and implemented corporate programs to control unemployment and worker's compensation costs.
- Successfully grew client base and increased client loyalty by building a reputation of consistently providing superior customer service.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Communications
California State University - Sacramento
Sacramento, CA12.2021
Associate of Arts - Mass Communications
Napa Valley College
Napa, CA06.2019
Skills
- HRIS Program Analysis
- Labor Relations Coordination
- Cross Functional Collaboration
- Compensation and Benefits Administration
- Employee Development
- Employee Relations Oversight
- Conflict Resolution
- Advising Department Managers
- Hiring Trends and Analysis
- Policy Improvement Recommendations
- Recruiting and Interviewing
- Employee Engagement Strategies
- Onboarding, Training and Development
- Employee Feedback and Recognition
Languages
English
Full Professional
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Human Resources Business Partner
East Bay Tire Co.
06.2021 - Current
Human Resources Business Partner
Multi-Color Corporation
11.2017 - 06.2021
Senior Staffing Specialist
Chartwell Staffing Solutions
04.2014 - 11.2017
Human Resources Coordinator
Multi-Color Corporation
Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Communications
California State University - Sacramento
Associate of Arts - Mass Communications
Napa Valley College