Onboarding Lead Administrator / Human Resources Assistant 4
Northrop Grumman is seeking an Onboarding Lead Administrator responsible for facilitating a seamless, customer-centric onboarding experience for our new hires and transferring employees. This person will serve as the Lead Administrator for an assigned customer group interacting with other administrators, pre-hires, hiring managers, IT, HR, and external vendors. General Onboarding responsibilities include processing offer acceptance, initiating pre-employment investigations, coordinating and communicating various onboarding activities, and processing the new hire or transfer record upon completion of the Onboarding process. The Lead Administrator must be self-motivated, highly flexible, possess strong initiative and be willing to assist with processing cases in addition to lead duties.
This role will sit out of Irving, TX and has a hybrid remote schedule of Tuesday and Wednesday in office.
Work schedule is 9 AM to 6 PM, Monday through Friday.
Lead responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Serve as primary point of contact and subject matter expert for assigned customer group and the onboarding administrators to the customer group, communicating status, and ensuring timely completion of action(s)
- Distribute work to Onboarding Administrators and monitor workloads, adjusting where needed
- Lead and coordinate weekly meetings with internal sector and business service to ensure performance is within acceptable agreed upon levels.
- Monitor schedules and time Onboarding Administrators take to ensure it is within reasonable time limits for the tasks.
- Train and assimilate new staff; retrain current staff as needed by documenting progress of competency of the understanding of the process, technology, and Service levels.
- Work with leadership to make recommendations and to drive service level performance.
- Respond to / resolve escalations
- Monitor onboarding cases and transactional accuracy for assigned Onboarding Administrators
- Escalate cases to management where necessary, i.e., cases that are considered high impact and risk such as VP or Director escalations, impact to pay, process improvements, policy changes, etc.
- Monitor service performance, identify trends, and work with onboarding administrators or appropriate resources to address issues/deficiencies.
- Participate in and foster employee engagement activities
- Provide feedback to management on staff performance, process improvement opportunities and customer concerns.
- Maintain process documentation ensuring it is always up to date.
- When necessary, maintain a case load of onboarding cases in addition to lead duties
Basic Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent required with 6 years of experience or a Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years of experience or Associates Degree with 4 years of experience.
- 2 years of experience within a similar role leading / directing work of others
- Ability to work on site in Irving, TX 2-3 times a week
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
- Previous experience interacting with customers in a service environment
- Strong customer service and problem-solving skills
- Strong technical aptitude
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience using ServiceNow, Workday, Aires/MobilityX
- Previous experience in all areas of offer and new hire and transfers processes within Northrop Grumman
Skills Required
- High school diploma or equivalent with 6 years of experience
- Bachelor's degree with 2 years of experience
- Associate's degree with 4 years of experience
- 2 years of experience leading or directing the work of others in a similar role
- Ability to work onsite in Irving, Texas, 2 to 3 times per week
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Previous experience interacting with customers in a service environment
- Strong customer service and problem-solving skills
- Strong technical aptitude
- Experience using ServiceNow, Workday, or Aires/MobilityX
- Previous experience with offer, new hire, and transfer processes at Northrop Grumman
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