Meredith Deleon

· Full-Cycle Recruitment: Led the end-to-end recruitment process, including sourcing, interviewing, and hiring candidates for various positions within the company, ensuring a smooth onboarding experience.

· Strategic Recruiting:Collaborated with senior management to develop and execute strategic recruitment plans that meet the company’s current and future staffing needs.

· Recruitment & Retention Oversight:Managed all recruiting and retention activities across the company and its entities, with particular focus on driver recruitment, ensuring high standards of candidate experience and retention.

· Confidentiality & Compliance:Maintained strict confidentiality in handling sensitive candidate and employee information, ensuring compliance with legal standards and company policies.

· Supervisory Leadership:Provided leadership and direction to the HR team, ensuring all recruiting activities were aligned with the company’s financial guidelines and strategic goals.

· Transportation Law & DOT Knowledge: Applied working knowledge of transportation laws and DOT regulations to ensure compliance in all recruitment and HR activities.

· Applicant Tracking System Management: Oversaw the applicant tracking system, ensuring accurate and timely updates for each candidate to streamline the hiring process.

· Employment Law Compliance: Ensured the company adhered to all applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, including EEO, FLSA, ADA, and other relevant legislation. Acted as the primary point of contact for legal compliance issues, providing guidance to management and employees.

· FMLA Administration: Managed the administration of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), ensuring accurate tracking of leave, timely communication with employees, and compliance with all legal requirements. Provided support to employees throughout the FMLA process, ensuring a clear understanding of their rights and responsibilities.

· Benefits Administration: Oversaw the administration of employee benefits programs, including health insurance, retirement plans, and other voluntary benefits. Worked closely with benefits providers to manage enrollments, changes, and claims, ensuring that employees received accurate information and support.

· Policy Development and Implementation: Developed, updated, and enforced HR policies and procedures in alignment with legal requirements and best practices. Communicated policy changes to employees and provided training as needed.

· Employee Benefits Support: Assisted in managing employee benefits, ensuring that all staff members received the necessary support and information regarding their benefits packages.

• Manages full-cycle recruitment and hiring process
• Help develop both long-term and short-term strategic driver recruiting plans to meet the company’s needs for future growth
• Proactively engage passive candidates through sourcing and pipeline building as well as adopting new sourcing channels
• Coordinate hiring events and network with potential candidates at all levels
• Maintain strict levels of confidentiality in handling sensitive information to ensure that the candidate's information is protected.

• Intake of employment applications
• Review of employment applications to insure accuracy completeness and compliance with Federal and State specific laws/regulations and DOT regulations
• Ordering of Occupational/Accident, and physical damage liability insurance policies as needed for clients
• Request plates and temporary permits for Commercial Vehicles
• Apply for IFTA permits
• Maintain Electronic Logging Data
• Utilize various software programs along with TC services system TM3, driver reach, tenstreet, Keep Trucking, Driver IQ, Work number, Hireright.

• Intake of employment applications
• Review of employment applications to insure accuracy completeness and compliance with Federal and State specific laws/regulations as well as DOT regulations
• Communicate with applicants and clients
• Communicate hiring decisions to clients
• Ability to follow and abide by DOT, FMCSA, HIPPA, and ADA guidelines and regulations
• Ability to maintain an attitude of confidentiality
• Utilize basic Human Resource principles in all aspects of the CSR role
• Utilize TLC HRIS system, file center, driver reach, driver IQ, Tenstreet, Hireright
• Assist supervision and management in risk management efforts.