Human Resources Employee Relations

Richard E. Schriner

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Summary of Skills

• Champion HR leader with exceptional relationship skills to build trust with management and employee population

• Innovative recruitment/Talent Aquisition strategies

• Develop and deployment of HR Strategies

• Training and Development

• Champion of leadership development, teambuilding and accountability

• Teambuilder and fostering a positive work environment/culture

• Budget development/Management

• Performance management front to end

• Exceptional web-based reporting skills including HR Data Mapping

• Exceptional proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite

• Merger/Acquisition

• Employee Relations Investigations

• Conflict Resolution Expert

• Employee Compensation and Benefits

• Project Management

• Coaching management and employee development

• Proven track record of developing subordinates

Professional Experience

Human Resources Consultant

December 2024 to February 2025

Temp Assignment

ScaffTech – Davie, FL

Temporary position brought in to help this construction company that specialized in scaffolding with 100+ employees to implement a new Payroll/HR system converting from Paylocity to Paycom.

Partnered with Paycom staff along with ScaffTech leadership to set up parameters of payroll structure.

Prepared and validated all payroll data to roll forward to the new HCM.

Tested and worked through any conversion issues to ensure seamless transition.

Trained ScaffTech staff to process payroll.

Conducted audit of HR files and provided recommendations to be better prepared for audits.

Trained administrative staff on how to use Paycom

Assisted employees with payroll and HR issues

Project started and completed within the designated time frame

New payroll/HCM system accurately working upon completion of assignment Senior HR Consultant

August 2018 to July 2024

TeamHealth – Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Strategic Business Leader for the Anesthesia/Emergency/Hospital Medicine’s Divisions directly responsible for supervision of Human Resources Specialist servicing an employee population of over 1800 employees. Oversees employment administration for exempt and non-exempt level staff including recruiting; applicant documentation maintenance and screening; initial and pre-screening interviews; completing reference and employment checks; facilitating employment offers/agreements, rejection notices and new hire paperwork; develops and maintains job descriptions for respective client areas. employees, answers questions, directs information and provides general human resources information as needed in areas such as FMLA, ADA, FLSA, EEOC, AAP, HIPAA, USERRA, worker’s comp, and other employment law areas.

Develops and oversees employee retention and engagement strategies.

Oversees employee evaluations to be given to directors, managers and supervisors on a timely and accurate basis.

Lead employee relations HR contact, conducting extensive investigations in relations to compliance complaints, sexual harassment, unfair labor, personnel policy violations, regulation violations. Advise, coach and guide leadership team in regards to applying human resources theories, principles, and methods.

Developed integration plan for merging Anesthesia division into regional divisions within the company.

Managed the Covid leave process for entire division.

Work directly with site leadership daily on coaching, counseling and develop performance improvement plans for staff. Affiliate Director/Human Resources Director

November 2011 to December 2017

Physician Affiliate Group of New York – Harlem Hospital Center, NY

• Directly responsible for supervision of 7 site employees consisting of HR, finance, payroll and administrative management staff that services an employee population of over 400 employees.

• Negotiated new contracts with three unions that include The Doctors Council, 1199 Physician Assistant and 1199 Tech United Healthcare Workers East.

• Point of contact for resolving grievances filed by the union.

• Organized focus groups to identify gaps and develop ways to bridge them.

• Performs all duties related to employee relations, providing corrective action guidance to management as well as providing guidance with policy interpretation. Teaching management team techniques to avoid unfair labor practices in their departments and to foster a positive work environment.

• Coordinates with corporate legal counsel on any litigation involving employee issues.

• Assessed training and development needs within departments and developed recommendations to meet those needs.

• Developed onboarding process for new hires, established HR file maintenance guidelines to ensure all regulatory compliances are met.

• I was the lead point of contact working with numerous regulatory agencies during site visits and when conducting file audits, providing the documentation to maintain accreditations.

• Worked with medical director, chiefs of service and department directors to identify, screen and interview director level physicians.

• Revamped a sub-standard HR/payroll department struggling after a speedy company start up and turned it into a world class health care facility administrative office.

• Process improvement leader, working with staff to develop ideas and turning them into corporate initiatives.

• Partner with new hires and general counsel to assist with visa and green card processing.

• Developed termination process to ensure communication between multi-leveled organizations to ensure timely and accurate processing.

• Responsible for maintaining budget database to ensure proper approvals process has taken place with documentation.

• Worked as a liaison between operations management and corporate finance to obtain approvals for vacant positions by providing detailed justification to ensure approval.

• Posting of vacant positions and working as a bridge for the corporate recruitment team and the operations management team seeking to fill positions.

• Was a leader in the implementation of the new HRIS/Payroll system, helping to determine the best product to purchase and how implement the system, trouble shoot problems that arouse and worked to resolve those issues quickly so that the employees did not see an impact with the change. Human Resources Manager

February 2007 to June 2011

Coventry Health Care – Cranberry, PA

• Directly responsible for driving all recruitment efforts for this site and was selected to help other Coventry sites with peaked recruitment activity. Hired 85 new employees during a peek hiring season, meeting abnormally large hiring quotas that steadily increased from 50 to 85. Myself and my team developed creative recruitment strategies that included community outreach programs and leveraging cost effective recruitment tools.

• Worked with management team to develop a talent succession plan that resulted in reduced turnover, increased productivity and increased employee morale.

• Successfully filled all positions within the expected time frame in a site that historically struggled with meeting hiring deadlines by utilizing new recruitment tools and planning recruitment events.

• Responsible for developing new, cost efficient recruitment efforts, for my site and region, reducing advertising budget over 80% in 2008, maintaining that savings year over year.

• Participated in companywide Human Resources projects, taking the project management lead role such as employee development, helping to develop HR strategies that tied to the business plan.

• Performed all duties related to employee relations, providing corrective action guidance to management as well as helping with policy interpretation.

• Coordinated with corporate counsel on any litigation involving employee issues.

• Assessed training and development needs within departments and developed recommendations to meet those needs.

• Delivered quarterly management training sessions, including Compliance and Ethics training, Unlawful Harassment training, as well as other management training sessions.

• Conducted focus groups in departments struggling with turnover or not achieving their department goals to identify the gaps and helping the teams to develop ways to improve.

• Became an active member of the management team meetings to build communication with the team, to teach and coach and to quickly identify HR issues and get them and include them in developing HR strategies to address their needs.

• Oversaw two direct reports and supported the operations management team and serviced over 300 hourly employees.

• Assisted HR director with additional projects and to fill in as the HR leader when there were vacancies at other site locations.

Human Resources Manager

November 1993 to July 2006

Filene's/Kaufmann's Department Stores– Pittsburgh, PA

• Senior Human Resources Executive oversaw staffing of the largest sales volume store in the company, with over 650 associates.

• Directly supervised and coordinated all recruitment efforts, training of staff, payroll and benefit administration, approval of all promotions of qualified associates, disciplinary action and counseling process, and all terminations needed my approval.

• Monitored business trends and adjusted store staffing to suit the projected needs on a weekly basis.

• Produced weekly and monthly reports analyzing turnover trends, open position index, and customer service scores.

• Selected to train new Human Resources Executives for Kaufmann's other store locations.

• Troubleshooter for other branch locations, helping to resolve recruitment challenges, operations efficiencies, streamlining office procedures.

• Directly responsible for opening two Kaufmann's locations, hiring over 350 and 700 employees, beating the set deadline for both openings.

• Participated in opening 12 store locations.

• Store locations were consistently top ranked within the Filene's/Kaufmann's organization.

• Conducted orientation training for all newly hired employees, customer service training and management training programs.

• Education

Robert Morris University 1990 - Moon Township, PA

Bachelors of Science

Major in Economics

Minor in International Studies

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