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Grace Kovar

San Antonio,TX

Summary

Bilingual Human Resources Administrator offering 12 years of progressive success in HR roles. Strong foundation of utilizing excellent communication and emotional intelligence to build strong teams and cultivate positive work cultures. Superior employee relations acumen and passion for recruiting, retaining and supporting high-quality talent to drive company growth.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Human Resources Administrator

Alamo 1
11.2023 - Current


  • Onboarding Duties and Terminations
  • Work closely with the payroll department with Certified Payroll
  • Provide customer service support and develop communication tools to enhance understanding of the company's benefits package
  • Manages permissions, access, personalization, and similar system operations and settings for HRIS users
  • Ensure all company HR policies are applied consistently
  • Partner with management to ensure strategic HR goals are aligned with business initiatives
  • Maintain HR systems and processes
  • Maintaining physical and digital files for employees and their documents, benefits, and attendance records
  • Maintained accurate employee records through diligent documentation of personal information, job history, performance evaluations, and other relevant data.

Human Resources Director

St. Joseph's Health
04.2023 - 08.2023
  • Primary responsibility is the coordination of the human resource function in accordance with state, federal and local regulations
  • Facilitation of the hiring process to include; recruitment, initial applicant screening, interviewing, reference checks, administering required examination, license verification and criminal history checks
  • Maintenance of personal files
  • Assist in the orientation process to include completion of required employment documents, name badges, and employee education of personnel files
  • Promotes compliance with all federal labor, and state requirements
  • Performs other duties as required.

HR Generalist

Texas International Terminals (Robert Half)
10.2022 - 10.2022
  • Supported new employee orientation, benefits, payroll, terminations, promotions, and retirement
  • Maintain reports and talent dashboards through ADP
  • Prepared employment status, and background/drug screening through HASC & I3 screening
  • Delivering training/orientation for all new onboarding employees
  • Managed all I9 compliance for new and present employees
  • Oversee the Uniform program.

HR Assistant

Lincoln Manufacturing Inc.
05.2021 - 08.2022
  • Monitoring daily attendance, balancing daily attendance records, disseminating training information to newly hired employees
  • Compiling employee training records
  • Relaying employee complaints and grievances to the Human Resource Manager
  • Assisting in administration of employee benefits and performance evaluation
  • Maintaining personnel records on non-exempt employees.

Office Administrator

Texas Fueling Services
09.2019 - 12.2019
  • Oversee office administration to ensure operations run smoothly
  • Provided executive assistance to the Frac operations manager and Transport operations manager in a variety of functions
  • Provided a direct line of communication operators
  • Assisted in reporting any problems with oil flow, and ensured smooth operations throughout the oilfield
  • Keeping organized records of details, locations, and needs
  • Prepared and processed initial payroll to ensure accuracy for the internal payroll specialist for the corporate Houston, Texas Office
  • Handled monitoring timesheets, salary and staff bonuses, employee inductions/termination, and overseeing that all transport drivers are within ELD regulations
  • Administered and disseminated purchase order numbers to generate/collaborate with work orders and generate information into the RTA system and manage reports.

Education

High School Diploma - General Studies

Northwest Hills Christian Academy
San Antonio, TX

Associate's degree - Liberal Arts and Science

Sinclair Community College
Dayton, OH
01.2003

Skills

  • Employee Relations
  • Organizational Development
  • Payroll Administration
  • New Hire Orientation
  • Termination Documentation
  • Benefits oversight
  • Employee Onboarding
  • Payroll coordination
  • Personnel file management

Timeline

Human Resources Administrator

Alamo 1
11.2023 - Current

Human Resources Director

St. Joseph's Health
04.2023 - 08.2023

HR Generalist

Texas International Terminals (Robert Half)
10.2022 - 10.2022

HR Assistant

Lincoln Manufacturing Inc.
05.2021 - 08.2022

Office Administrator

Texas Fueling Services
09.2019 - 12.2019

High School Diploma - General Studies

Northwest Hills Christian Academy

Associate's degree - Liberal Arts and Science

Sinclair Community College
Grace Kovar