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Position Summary

Minnkota is seeking applicants for a Human Resource Manager based at their Grand Forks, North Dakota headquarters. This role is responsible for all facets and functions of human resource processes, including: retirement and pension programs, employee benefits and insurance programs, employee and labor relations, recruitment and retention, professional development, salary administration, performance management and payroll. This position also supports Senior Management on strategies and vision for matters related to these functions.

The salary range for this position begins at $136,500 per year. Appropriate compensation will be determined based on a candidate's skills, education, and previous relevant experience.

Essential Responsibilities

1. Departmental Management Responsibilities
   1. Responsible for the direction of departmental initiatives, goals and objectives
   2. Responsible for providing support, direction and development of employees within their assigned department(s) to achieve both short- and long-term initiatives
   3. Sets goals, monitors work, and evaluates results to ensure that departmental and organizational objectives and operating requirements are met and are in line with the needs and mission of the organization
   4. Oversees assigned cost center(s), budgeting, expense accounting, and payroll processes
2. Oversees the administration of retirement and pension programs
   1. Performs duties as fiduciary to the various retirement plans, as appropriate
   2. With the Pension Investment Committee and Accounting Manager, coordinates and monitors investment managers and their performances, and ensures that retirement plan assets and documents are handled in accordance with all laws and regulations
   3. Acts as liaison between Minnkota and third parties (Thomas Weisel Partners, Charles Schwab, Milliman, e.g.)
   4. Ensures that federal filings are made in a timely, thorough, and accurate manner
3. Maintains employee benefits and insurance programs
   1. Manages all benefit and insurance programs, including maintaining relationships with vendors, and monitors market trends
   2. Recommends benefit changes to provide cost efficiency while also maintaining competitiveness when recruiting and retaining employees
   3. Coordinates relationship with ND REC medical insurance trust
   4. Responsible for ensuring proper deduction and remittance of benefits and personnel related expenditures; responsible for the administration of the 401(k) and Pension Plans A/B assets
4. Manages employee recruitment and retention, employee relations and engagement, and professional development activities
   1. Responsible for the recommendation, development, implementation, and tracking of appropriate training, employee activities, and staff professional development
   2. Provides oversight on recruitment activities, including position control, sourcing, and interview processes, job descriptions, and counseling managers on behavioral-based interviews and candidate selection
   3. Ensures compliance with the AAP/EEOC compliance programs
   4. Manages and analyzes exit interviews for pertinent trends and feedback
   5. Conducts Personnel Risk Assessment functions for compliance and access concerns, including new and current employees, and contractors/vendors as directed
5. Responsible for the salary administration and performance management programs
   1. Manages the performance management processes and systems to ensure timely and pertinent feedback is provided to employee, including employee goals and objectives
   2. Ensures individual salary adjustments are based upon guidelines developed by Senior Management and approved by the Board of Directors, including salary adjustments resulting from hires or promotions
   3. Ensures wage and salary surveys are completed to develop sufficient data for wage comparison
6. Oversees the payroll function
   1. Approves all pay increases and adjustments
   2. Reviews payroll management periodicals, laws and labor agreements
   3. Ensures accurate employee assignment records as they relate to payroll
   4. Works with IT and HR team to identify and resolve problems and facilitate enhancements
   5. Manages document and record retention as it relates to payroll information
7. Provides oversight of labor relations activities
   1. Implements and maintains Minnkota’s labor relations program, policies and procedures, including management of collective bargaining agreements and side agreement letters, including interpretation thereof
   2. Manages response to disciplinary issues, including guidance on supervisors’ tentative responses to grievances; provides guidance on all grievance phases, including arbitrations and assists all levels of management in labor matters
   3. Develops strategy, coordinates, and manages the negotiation of labor agreements with each union, including labor relation records of negotiations and grievances are maintained
   4. Researches and provides information such as reference documentation, labor market conditions, prevailing union and management practices, wage and salary surveys and employee benefit programs for use in review of current contract provisions and proposed changes
   5. Facilitates Labor/Management meetings at both sites for each Union body and set of Management representatives
8. Supports Senior Management
   1. Provides strategic direction and vision for Human Resource related matters
   2. Provides ongoing consultation for implementation of employee performance and development processes to include performance reviews, promotion reviews, re-organization processes, and succession planning
   3. Keeps Senior Management apprised of employee and related information for matters of significance

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Human Resource Management or a related field
• OR an equivalent combination of education and/or significant directly-related work experience

Preferred:

• Society for Human Resource Management certification (SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP) or Human Resources Certification Institute (PHR or SPHR) certification

Experience

Required:

• Five or more years of progressively responsible related experience in a human resource department or a medium to large organization

Preferred:

• Experience in a union environment and industrial workplace setting(s)
• Experience with Affirmative Action Plans and EEOC compliance

About Minnkota Power Cooperative

Our Power is our People Minnkota Power Cooperative, headquartered in Grand Forks, ND, has played a major role in bringing a better quality of life to residents of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota for more than 75 years. The company has a wide range of about 400 knowledgeable and skilled employees who work to bring reliable, low-cost electric energy to rural America. Minnkota creates career growth and development a priority by creating a challenging and rewarding work environment. The company also promotes a true work-life balance that helps enhance employees' quality of life. A generation and transmission cooperative, Minnkota Power Cooperative is owned by 11 distribution cooperatives. Three in eastern North Dakota and eight in northwestern Minnesota. Minnkota also serves as operating agent for the Northern Municipal Power Agency (NMPA) in Thief River Falls, MN. In total, the Minnkota/NMPA Joint System provides electricity to more than 150,000 customers. Minnkota's Milton R. Young station is a two-unit coal fired power plant providing a stable energy source for our cooperative member-owners. The station is located 35 miles from Bismarck, ND, a growing and progressive city with many recreational opportunities.

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