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Hampton Lumber is a thriving family-owned company aspiring to beNorth America's preferred source for responsibly-sourced wood solutions. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, we operate nine sawmills in Western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. We also manage timberland and operate a wholesale and import/export division.

Our mission is togrow, manufacture, and market renewable wood products and deliver innovative solutions for a more sustainable built environment. At Hampton Lumber, we accomplish this through our own operations as well as those of our affiliates—Trapa Forest Products, Idaho Timber, and RedBuilt. Our tagline, "Find a better way every day," encapsulates our commitment to innovation and improvement across all operations.

We are guided by our core values:

• Safety – Prioritize safety across all operations.
• Integrity & Authenticity – Operate honestly and ethically while preserving our distinctive family-owned brand.
• Responsible Stewardship – Endeavor to balance and maintain economic, social, and environmental values in everything we do.
• Tenacity – Embrace challenges with grit, determination, and a can-do spirit.
• Continuous Improvement – Strive to enhance our processes, products, and people.
• Customer Satisfaction – Be nimble, responsive, and solutions-oriented.
• Community Engagement – Be a responsive, supportive, and respected member of the community.

With over 80 years in the sawmill business, we are proud to have cultivated the knowledge and experience needed to grow and prosper, even in challenging times. We always look to the future and invest in our people, new technologies, and continuous improvement processes and techniques.

This position's primary function is to build a workforce that creates a competitive advantage by recruiting, training, developing, and retaining top talent. This person will manage works relating to hiring, recruitment, training, compensation, promotion, termination, career development, or retirement of the employees at the mill. The HR Manager’s job entails providing practical, consistent, and proactive support, direction and advice to Management Team on HR procedure, policy, best practice, employment rewards, and benefits. The ideal candidate for this role will be able to clearly demonstrate their ability to provide strategic and technical Human Resource leadership in a manufacturing environment.

• Substantial company-paid assistance for Medical and Dental insurance premiums; mental health coverage; cost effective co-pays and deductibles
• 401(k) with 5% annual company contribution and generous company matching contributions vested over three years
• Paid time off, including eight paid holidays
• Opportunity to earn bonuses
• Employee wellness program that includes free counseling sessions, financial and legal guidance, and more
• Opportunities for paid training to support career advancement and personal development

Recruitment

• Perform hands-on and or oversees the recruiting, interviewing, hiring for job openings, to ensure diversity of applicant pools; source and screen applicants, partner closely with the hiring manager to manage candidate selection process; help hiring managers with the job offer process.
• Creates (or reviews) job postings from the company approved template library making certain adherence to the overall Hampton brand and quality.
• Ensures adherence to using the iCIMS workflow including the timeline metrics to provide for an excellent candidate experience.
• Manages affirmative action records.
• Manage FMLA and Short Term Disability requests
• Administers new hire drug testing & background checks.
• For open postings, monitors that a sufficient number of qualified applications are being received. Proactively asks for help from the Corporate HR team to review the strategies for filling open positions if time to fill metric exceeds the stated goal.
• Manage (or be the on-site champion) to ensure that the recruiting connection team participates in the assigned activities to promote Hampton as a desired employer in all the communities we have operations in
• Be the subject matter expert for the iCIMS software. Train hiring managers on how to use the system.

Training and Development

• Oversees that ALL training on site is entered into the centralized, real-time, company-wide training tracking report.
• Ensures that the mill completes the planned training sessions, on-time, for compliance and to make certain that Hampton is developing talent per our stated training goals.
• Review the company-wide training library. Proactively request training and development activities if there are gaps.
• Support career development per our stated goals. Connect with management, supervisors, and employees to ensure they know about training opportunities available for themselves (and employees).
• Forward requests for new training inquiries to the Corporate HR team so they can coordinate developing the new material.

On-Boarding/Orientation and Retention

• Conduct new hire orientations and onboarding.
• Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of our current techniques to achieve our stated goals. Recommend new ideas when needed.
• Perform exit interviews. Send reports to the Corporate HR team.

Management

• Support and engage in Hampton Continuous Improvement (HCI) and team strategic activities.
• Accountable for meeting the stated Human Resource metrics
• Ensure planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results. Mentor managers to coach and discipline employees
• Manage random and post-accident drug tests.
• Work closely with payroll and benefits to ensure compliance with all payroll and benefits related issues.
• Manage FMLA and Short Term Disability requests
• Manage changes in benefits, diversity, etc.
• Management may modify, add or reallocate job responsibilities to better accommodate the needs of the business

• Superior communication skills. Ability to objectively coach employees and management through issues that may be complex, difficult and emotional.
• Excellent writing skills— (spelling, sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar) as well as overall content flow.
• Excellent PC skills using Microsoft products
• Attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, competing priorities, facilitate projects and business processes and work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate opportunities and provide practical solutions given the business environment.
• Strong work ethic, sense of commitment, team-oriented, customer focused and willingness to embrace change while striving for continuous improvement.
• Must have the ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulations or government law.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Five to seven years’ experience in HR and/or Management in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, competing priorities, facilitate projects and business processes and work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Ability to objectively coach employees and management through issues that may be complex, difficult and emotional.
• Must have the ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulations or government law.
• Mastery of Microsoft Office tools to document company policies and procedures.
• Able to travel for work as necessary.

Hampton took over management of the Warrenton plant in 2010, however, this site has had a sawmill on it since 1921. We currently employ 140 people, some of which have worked here for over 30 years while others have just started their careers. This creates an incredible team of skilled problem-solvers who work together to continuously improve in all areas within the plant-site. Warrenton employees live out the company’s deep commitment to people, community, and sustainability—the heart of Hampton’s company culture—by supporting organizations such as 4H, Girls Build, Robotics Club, and the Clatsop Works Internship program.

Learn more athamptonlumber.com, or follow us on Facebook:@HamptonLumber. You can also learn about our company and our priorities by visiting our blog.

Hampton Lumber is an equal opportunity employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Disability accommodation available: If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process, please contact the Human Resources Office for the location that you are applying.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please see these government posters: EEO is the Law and its accompanying temporary supplement.