Abbigail Winchell
Brunswick,OH
Summary
Results-driven strategic HR leader with strong business acumen and proven success in improving organizational efficiency. Personable and highly proficient in building and maintaining stakeholder relationships to achieve company goals. Dedicated and ambitious to leverage extensive HR skills and experience to take on new professional challenges.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
SR HR Generalist
Fisher Auto Parts
08.2021 - Current
- Lead and resolve complex employee relations issues, workplace investigations, and other sensitive issues in various locations/states.
- Lead and implement HR policies, procedures, programs, and functions.
- Manage full-cycle recruiting efforts for all positions within distribution center locations, and assist senior managers with efforts as needed.
- Developed comprehensive process for new hires and reviewed new hire productivity, optimizing onboarding effectiveness.
- Advise senior managers on best practices to develop strategies to increase employee engagement and culture to reduce turnover.
- Identify HR training needs and develop training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to continually improve business objectives, productivity, and engagement to reach business goals.
- Collaborate closely with internal teams to develop, implement, and maintain successful human resources systems and processes.
- Identify potential talent gaps and develop career plans to identify and retain current talent and attract outside talent to the business.
Human Resources Admin/HR Manager
JBC Technologies
02.2020 - 08.2021
- Coordinate orientation and provide onboarding and training for new employees.
- Develop and implement HR policies and procedures to promote a clear and consistent approach to managing employees.
- Revise existing policies and procedures to make recommendations for enhancing work productivity, recruitment, hiring processes, and talent management.
- Identify and implement appropriate strategies to increase employee satisfaction and retention through organizing recognition and engagement initiatives.
- Conduct full-cycle recruiting efforts for all open positions within the organization.
- Strategize with senior leadership regarding business goals and recommend new HR approaches, policies, and procedures for continual improvements focused on meeting business objectives and enhancing productivity.
- Monitor and ensure HR compliance and regulatory requirements and ISO standards.
- Advise and support departmental managers on best practices regarding conflict resolution, corrective action, training, and engagement.
- Implement and maintain HRIS system to improve operational efficiency with tactical HR and Operations tasks
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Knockout Recruiting
10.2018 - 02.2020
- Evaluate resumes, interview, and present qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicit feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
- Source and screen to coordinate interviews, offers, and onboarding.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients and candidates to foster partnerships that produce consistent results
- Implement innovative recruitment strategies to increase number of high-quality job applicants.
- Operate and maintain applicant tracking and candidate management systems.
- Conduct phone interviews to assess applicants relevant knowledge, skills, experience and aptitudes.
Recruiter
Manpower Staffing
05.2018 - 10.2018
- Operated and maintained applicant tracking and candidate management systems.
- Build strong relationships with clients and candidates to ensure an excellent hiring experience.
- Conduct phone interviews to assess applicants relevant knowledge, skills, experience and aptitudes.
- Conduct reference checks, background screening and other pre-employment checks to verify information on applicant's resume.
- Evaluate resumes, interview, and present qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
- Implement innovative recruitment strategies through social media, job fairs, and community events to increase number of high-quality job applicants with a quick fill rate.
Executive Trainer/Recruiter
Company 9 LLC
07.2017 - 05.2018
- Built and maintained professional relationships with vendors and suppliers.
- Identified new targets, developed new business opportunities and presented solutions to customers.
- Managed recruitment, training and development for highly effective sales team.
- Assessed training program effectiveness on regular basis and improved upon deficient areas.
- Support, mentor, and manage direct reports regarding business objectives.
- Developed and led group training courses to align with corporate sales and service goals.
- Conduct needs assessments to identify gaps in performance and develop targeted learning solutions.
- Train on sales and account management practices to reduce process lags and enhance performance, efficiency and profitability.
Master Trainer/Production Operator
Whirlpool Corporation
03.2015 - 07.2017
- Conduct training, orientation, and onboarding for all new hires.
- Manage in-house standardized training program for all new employees related to production and manufacturing processes.
- Collaborate with the HR department to maintain accurate training records for compliance.
- Train new staff on safe and efficient production procedures and proper machine operations for all new machines and processes.
- Assess staff performance and training effectiveness, capitalizing on opportunities to develop new standardized training procedures and improve existing courses.
- Assist the HR department by resolving complex conversations, conflict resolution, leading sensitive topic conversations, workers comp claims, and corrective action documentation.
- Perform continuous improvement evaluations of training content and positions to improve overall effectiveness.
- Implement, coordinate, and manage a work hardening program to mitigate the potential for workplace injuries resulting in a decreased number of reported workplace incidents.
- Identify workers with specific skill sets to recommend for promotions or raises in the training department
- Advise trainers and leadership on policies, process improvement, work-hardening, training, 5s initiatives, and lock-out tag.
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
Franklin University
Columbus, OH12.2024
Bachelor of Science - Human Resources Management
Franklin University
Columbus, OH12.2021
Associate of Science - Applied Business
Terra State Community College
Fremont, OH05.2017
High School Diploma -
Bettsville High School
Ohio05.2014
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Organizational Development
- Employee Engagement
- Employee Relations
- Human Resources Management
- Training & Development
- Performance Management
- Succession Planning
Timeline
SR HR Generalist
Fisher Auto Parts
08.2021 - Current
Human Resources Admin/HR Manager
JBC Technologies
02.2020 - 08.2021
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Knockout Recruiting
10.2018 - 02.2020
Recruiter
Manpower Staffing
05.2018 - 10.2018
Executive Trainer/Recruiter
Company 9 LLC
07.2017 - 05.2018
Master Trainer/Production Operator
Whirlpool Corporation
03.2015 - 07.2017
MBA - Human Resources Management
Franklin University
Bachelor of Science - Human Resources Management
Franklin University
Associate of Science - Applied Business
Terra State Community College
High School Diploma -
Bettsville High School
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