Danny Dixon
Riverton,UT
Summary
Results-oriented HR professional with 10+ years of experience in employee relations, training, and safety support. Skilled in global collaboration, employee management, and team development. Proven track record in aligning HR objectives with organizational goals. Expertise in talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, and training programs.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Human resources Manager
CSI
Salt Lake City
07.2022 - Current
- Conduct leadership and developmental trainings, responsible for the safety training program.
- Managed hiring employees for all open positions and oversaw the onboarding and training process
- Work closely with local leaders regarding performance review process. Ensuring managers and leaders were continually developing their employees, as well as reviewing their performance regularly.
- 9-Box management for employee ratings and reviews.
- Reviewed timecards each pay period to ensure they were ready for payroll processing. Worked closely with Supervisors to ensure employees timecards were accurate
- Oversee recruiting, hiring, job postings, benefit administration, and temporary staffing openings.
- Worked with temporary staffing on a daily basis to ensure the necessary positions were filled.
- Conducted Employee investigations, disciplinary actions, as well as employee engagement opportunities.
- Heavy focus on retention and identified the opportunities to improve. Weekly meeting with supervisors and other employees to understand how we can improve retention.
- Learned and used the HRIS system Paycom for employee data, hiring, performance management, timecards, data entry.
Human Resources Manager
Nellson LLC
Salt Lake City
04.2021 - 07.2022
- Conducted leadership trainings, development trainings, and safety training
- Managed performance review process working with managers and leaders to ensure they were developing their employees as well as reviewing their performance regularly
- 9-Box management for employee ratings and reviews
- Responsible to ensure correct payroll processing
- Oversee recruiting, hiring, job postings, benefit administration, temporary staffing openings
- Worked with temporary staffing office to fill openings
- Employee relations, investigations, disciplinary actions, employee engagement
- Responsible to maintain I-9 documentation, complete E-Verify and conduct new hire orientation
- Completed audit to ensure compliance with federal and state employment policies
- Safety committee member, worked with employees and supervisors to complete incident investigations
- HR Contact for plant of 500 employees, including temporary staffing
- Learned and used the HRIS system ADP for employee data, hiring, performance management, timecards, data entry.
Human Resources Manager
Alpha Packaging
Salt Lake City
01.2018 - 12.2020
- Responsible for on-site recruiting, hiring, terminations, benefit administration for local plant of 120 employees, including temporary staff
- Partnered with local community teams to maintain the necessary staffing level
- Responsible to ensure performance management and development was being completed
- Worked with managers/supervisors to review, rate, and develop their employees
- Implemented the Performance Management process for all employees, including leadership
- Worked with managers and leaders to create performance development plans with their employees
- Analyzed and implemented the attendance policy and points system by integrating with Kronos
- Worked daily in Kronos as a time keeping component, performance management, and employee information
- Ensured attendance was entered in correctly and the attendance policy was being correctly administered to all employees
- Administer disciplinary actions generated by the Kronos system
- Responsible to maintain I-9 documentation, complete E-Verify and conduct new hire orientation
- Completed audit to ensure compliance with federal and state employment policies
- Safety committee leader, worked with management to complete safety incident investigations, working with the shift supervisor and production manager, and any others as needed
- HR Signed off on completed safety incident investigations and given to plant manager
- Discussed and implemented necessary preventative actions
- Understanding of Utah law and the ability to adapt based on the everchanging landscape of employment laws
- Hiring strategies to fill open positions
- Worked with local community to leaders to understand available hiring programs, transportation programs, and work programs
- Worked closely with staffing agencies to fill open temporary roles
- Responsible for retention, performance management and employee engagement
- Oversaw Benefit administration by working with all levels of employees to ensure that correct and proper enrollment in the chosen benefit plan
- Worked with the carriers to ensure employee information is current and accurate
- Handled FMLA, Short-term disability claims, long-term disability claims and life insurance claims
- Worked with temporary agencies and a temporary workforce to ensure that production needs are being met
- I was responsible to ensure daily staffing needs are met to staff the production lines that were running.
Human Resources Manager
BIMBO Bakeries USA
Salt Lake City, UT
03.2015 - 10.2017
- Responsible to ensure performance management and development was completed
- Met with site leadership in both the sales department and production department to identify employees ready for additional responsibilities and create a plan to develop them
- Worked with managers/supervisors to review, rate, and develop their employees
- Used the Performance Management process for all employees, including leadership to identify potential in employees where leadership could work to develop these employees into leaders
- Worked with managers and leaders to create performance development plans with their employees
- Decreased requisition openings by 50% and closed jobs within 45 days
- Worked with two contracts and two different business agents to handle all union grievances and resolutions involving contract negotiations, resolving union contract disputes, and understanding all related contracts
- Promoted safety initiatives and identified opportunities to ensure safe work practices by executing work-safe programs, initiatives, and incentives for employees
- Provided information regarding incident recording, incident reporting, and the process for incident investigations, as well as managed incident logs and worker’s compensation claims
- Performed management reviews and assisted with the process for all managers and their direct reports, as well as ensured the right associates are included in suitable positions
- Oversaw recruiting, hiring, and retention process for both the sales staff and the production staff, as well as ensured staffing and head-count requirements are appropriately and timely filled for the production plant
- Managed all employee engagement initiatives, surveys, promotions, and events, as well as promoted and organized employee engagement events and activities
- Developed a working relationship with Union Business agents for both the production facility and the Sales Force
- Collaborated with plant management and union representatives for disciplinary actions and resolving grievances.
Complex Human Resources Manager
JBS LLC-Greeley Colorado, Pilgrim’s a subsidiary of JBS
Mt. Pleasant, TX
08.2012 - 03.2015
- Conducted leadership trainings, coaching, development opportunity meetings and plans to develop employees to be supervisors
- Worked with supervisors to ensure safety trainings were completed
- Managed all HR functions at a poultry processing complex with approximate 3,300 employees at multiple plant locations, as well as with four direct reports and 16 total HR staff
- Liaised with plant management and decreased turnover by 10% during my tenure while being responsible for recruitment of hourly employees, retention, and employee engagement
- Worked closely with the safety department to ensure safe working environments by investigating jointly any accidents or injuries, as well as building relationship with the safety department to encourage open communication
- Directed staffing for entire complex, including hourly and management personnel, interviewing, hiring, job postings, on-boarding, applicant screening, job analysis, compensation analysis, job descriptions, and benefit administration
- Maintained personnel files, including new hire documentation, applicant information, employee records, data entry into HRIS systems of SAP and PeopleSoft
- Performed employee investigations regarding employee relations, reports, incidents, complaints, EEO charges, as well as managed progressive discipline policies and procedures
- Organized leadership trainings to improve coaching, supervising, and managing team members while mentoring and monitoring progression of employees, facilitated hourly and salary annual training
- Conducted annual salary reviews and compensation analysis for the HR department.
Education
Master of Science in Human Resource Management -
Utah State University, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
09.2024
Bachelor of Science in Psychology/Minor in HR Management -
Utah State University, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
08.2012
Skills
- Recruitment/Hiring Strategies
- Project Management
- Talent Acquisition
- Collaborative Problem Solving
- Continuous Improvement
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Team Development/Training
- Employee Relations
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
- Strategic Planning
- Contract Negotiation
- Communication Skills
- Staff Management
- Organizational Development
- Employee Onboarding
- New Employee Orientation
- Legal Compliance
- Risk Management
- Labor Relations
Affiliations
Member of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)
Training
DDI Certified-Leadership Development and Assessment Training
Timeline
Human resources Manager
CSI
07.2022 - Current
Human Resources Manager
Nellson LLC
04.2021 - 07.2022
Human Resources Manager
Alpha Packaging
01.2018 - 12.2020
Human Resources Manager
BIMBO Bakeries USA
03.2015 - 10.2017
Complex Human Resources Manager
JBS LLC-Greeley Colorado, Pilgrim’s a subsidiary of JBS
08.2012 - 03.2015
Master of Science in Human Resource Management -
Utah State University, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
Bachelor of Science in Psychology/Minor in HR Management -
Utah State University, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
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