Cara Wardon

• Partner effectively with HRBP team, managers, and employees to ensure seamless HR service delivery across functions.
• Provided outstanding service to all individuals, promoting effective, and lasting business relationships
• Developed and implemented training to enhance partner relations
• Actively engage with employees and managers on HRIS systems, recruitment, employee relations, engagement, and total rewards.
• Collaborate closely with Benefits team to manage employee leave programs efficiently within the function.
• Work in tandem with HR colleagues across all Centers of Excellence (COEs) and HRBP teams on key projects, initiatives, and day-to-day operational tasks.
• Foster strong employee relations by providing guidance to managers and employees, driving fair practices, and achieving positive outcomes for all parties.
• Develop a deep understanding of core HR processes, analyzing their impact on employee experience and operational efficiency; offer strategic recommendations to enhance, modify, or automate processes for future scalability and effectiveness.
• Ensure robust organization and efficiency in HR processes, optimizing business performance and supporting overall organizational goals.

Provided outstanding service to all individuals, promoting effective, and lasting business relationships
Developed and implemented training to enhance partner relations

• Collaborate with HRBP teams, managers, and employees to ensure seamless HR service delivery across functions.
  Engage with employees and managers on HRIS systems, recruitment, employee relations, engagement, and total rewards.
  Partner with Benefits team to efficiently manage employee leave programs.
  Work with HR colleagues across COEs and HRBP teams on key projects and daily operations.
  Guide managers and employees in employee relations, fostering fair practices and positive outcomes.
  Analyze core HR processes to improve and automate for enhanced effectiveness and scalability.
  Optimize HR processes to support business performance and organizational goals.

• Responsible for all recruiting, pre-employment verification, orientation, and onboarding
• Advise and coach managers on company HR policies, procedures, and best practices
• Investigate, fact find, and manage all employee relations issues, including harassment, employee conflict, Union grievances, work complaints, or any other employee concern
• Investigate and deliver all employee disciplinary actions, including termination
• Coordinate terminations, both voluntary and involuntary
• Responsible for all employee inquiries on HR Policies and Procedures, payroll issues, and other general employment issues
• Utilized HRIS to input, and maintain employee records and create employee reports.

• Recruit, interview, screen, and accept applicants, verify eligibility and background checks on eligible applicants
• Meet with employees, supervisors, managers, etc
• To gather information needed to prepare job specifications descriptions
• Provide orientation to new employees
• Manage benefits enrollment process for all employees
• Coordinate safety initiatives, including training, and participate in safety meetings
• Administer manual revisions and implementations for company handbook
• Manage and coordinate temporary workers
• Assist in planning and researching for company Union negotiations
• Act as backup for payroll services
• Assist employees with day to day Human Resource needs.