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Ralcorp Holdings, Inc

Ralcorp, headquartered in St. Louis, MO, is the leading producer of a variety of value brand and store brand foods sold under the individual labels of various grocery, mass merchandise and drugstore retailers, and frozen bakery products sold to in-store bakeries, restaurants and other foodservice customers.  Through a recent merger with Post Foods, Ralcorp is now also a leading producer of branded cereals. Ralcorp's diversified product mix includes: ready-to-eat and hot cereals; nutritional and cereal bars; snack mixes, corn-based chips and corn snack products; crackers and cookies; snack nuts; chocolate candy; salad dressings; mayonnaise; peanut butter; jams and jellies; syrups; sauces; frozen griddle products; frozen biscuits and other frozen pre-baked products.

We have emerged as a solid and powerful organization focusing on newly energized and highly motivated teams.  Today we also emerge with a heightened commitment to expand our presence through new product development and through the acquisition of allied store brand businesses.  Through operations in over thirty plants within the United States and Canada we employ about 9,000 people with sales boasting of $4 billion. Every location offers an environment that values each of its employees!

The Employee Relations Manager is responsible for coordinating employee relations programs and functions in conjunction with the Human Resource Manager.

MAIN DUTIES:

• Management – employee relations, personnel administration, and training and development programs. These functions include responsibility for developing, interpreting, and recommending program goals.
• Assists in identifying union avoidance opportunities and strategies.
• Investigates problems incidental to sound and uniform administration, such as working conditions, disciplinary actions, and employee complaints.
• According to circumstances, provides guidance and recommendations for problem resolution to departmental individuals, production management and plant management team.
• Assists in development and implementing the management – employee relations area of the personnel program in an effort to improve employee relations and to reduce operating costs.
• Responsible for training programs which include, implementation and coordination to include training and procedures.
• Effectively recommends hiring, promotion, termination, and commendatory actions of all hourly employees.
• Responsible for administering the Affirmative Action Plan initiatives through a variety of techniques, such as biannual meetings and plan goals.
• Coordinates Associate activities.
• Administers all disciplinary action for hourly employees.
• Participates in unemployment hearings.
• Prepares new and updates existing job descriptions.
• Conducts wage and benefit surveys.
• Employee relations for entire plant.
• Contact with employees at all levels of the organization.

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