Christopher Cimino

Employee Relations:

• Serve as trusted advisor and point of contact for 80+ employees, addressing their concerns, resolving conflicts, and promoting positive work culture
• Develop and implement employee engagement initiatives to foster supportive and inclusive work environment
• Handle disciplinary actions, grievances, and investigations in accordance with company policies and legal requirements

Benefit Administrator:

• Oversee weekly payroll operations, ensuring accurate and timely processing of payroll for employees, and payroll-related activities such as benefits administration, time and attendance tracking, and leave management
• Manage employee benefits program (Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement and Health Saving Accounts, etc.), working with vendors, providers, and staff to maintain strong portfolio of insurance and retirement options
• Improved organizational filing systems for confidential employee records, resulting in improved accessibility and efficiency for Leave of Absences

Compliance Officer:

• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, and Legal teams to ensure compliance with relevant labor laws, tax regulations, and company policies
• Prepare and submit required reports to regulatory bodies, as well as internal reports for senior management
• Evolve and maintain facility training programs, training manuals and current files of pertinent regulations, manuals, charts, maps and training material

• Partnered with Chief HR Director and General Manager to evolve and implement effective HR policies, procedures, and practices to support company goals towards strategic growth
• Analyzed and interpreted various types of employee reports (e.g., compensation, job levels, performance, disciplines) to guide decision-making and provide proactive solutions
• Collected and analyzed 25+ Worker's Compensation and Reasonable Accommodation cases to monitor compliance outcomes and identify and address trends of non-compliant behavior
• Reviewed Grievance complaints and claims from Union members against company regarding civil rights, determined validity and helped build satisfactory resolutions

• Developed and evolved 370+ job descriptions to accurately depict each role's responsibilities, duties, requirements needed, and expected pay range
• Led research focus groups and generated reports and data visualizations in presenting findings to HR Manager and HR Director
• Observed and shadowed team of 8 recruiters by evaluating applications, viewing live interviews, and hiring and onboarding process