People's Energy Cooperative (PEC) is a Touchstone Energy® cooperative with nearly 24,800 services in southeast Minnesota.  We have an excellent opportunity for a full-time Human Resources Assistant located in Oronoco, MN

General Summary

The primary purpose of the position is to assist with providing professional, confidential, prompt, efficient, and reliable payroll, benefit, and human resource services for cooperative employees.  Provides administrative support on a wide variety of human resource related tasks, goals, and programs such as benefits, recruiting, training, and employee services.  Provides customer service to employees about HR issues. Promotes a friendly, inclusive, supportive, productive, and stable work environment.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Maintains confidential personnel files consistent with the approved filing system, archiving personnel records using the approved archival program, reviewing files at least annually for inactive and obsolete data, and removing data for relocation or discard, according to approved record retention plans to enable efficient retrieval of documents when needed. Performs periodic systematic audits of HR files for compliance.

Updates and maintains the ‘Additional Resources’ section in Connect Financials HR system to ensure employees have access to cooperative information to be well-informed.

Publishes documents in the Connect Financials HR Acknowledgement Center for employees to review and acknowledge and then follows up to make sure all employees have acknowledged the documents.

Assists with the payroll function by reviewing timesheets for accuracy, resolving discrepancies with the employee and supervisor, and answering questions.

Assists with coordinating the cooperative performance review process to ensure they are conducted on time and with the appropriate forms. This includes ensuring job descriptions are reviewed as part of the process, so they remain current.

Responsible for administrative role for NISC Document Vault for human resources, member services, and Document Vault non-iVUE for engineering and operations.

Assists with the recruitment and hiring process by posting job openings, distributing information to applicants, maintaining appropriate files, sending response letters, administering tests, scheduling appointments, and providing other information as requested to ensure appropriate and timely information is provided.

Maintains continuing education training records for all employees of the cooperative. Responsible for apprenticeship records and submittals, including OJT hours, and administers tests to assist employees in their continuing education efforts.

Processes travel/training requests and makes travel reservations and registrations for all employees. Maintains the Training Meeting List.

Qualifications

High School diploma or equivalent required.  Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or human resources is required.  SPHR or PHR certification is preferred.  Payroll experience and experience as a human resource administrator, benefits administrator, insurance claims processor, or another related field is preferred and may replace educational requirement. Experience with compensation plans, employment regulations, retirement programs and group health and welfare programs desired. 

Apply

Qualified candidates will find we have a lot to offer with a competitive wage and benefit package including retirement pension, 401k, medical insurance, dental, vision, PTO, holidays and more.  Please apply at www.peoplesenergy.coop  under the "Cooperative Information" tab and follow the "Careers" link. 

Deadline:  Monday August 8, 2022