532 East Mifflin St, Orwigsburg Pa 17961

W. David Lafko

532 East Mifflin St, Orwigsburg Pa 17961

Cell-570-617-4406 &

• Staff Recruitment and Interviewing
• Onboarding and employee orientation
• Analyze turnover trends and provide retention strategies
• Create and maintain Policies and Procedures
• Create and maintain job descriptions and hiring evaluation forms
• Develop standard processes for Human Resource activities throughout the department
• Development of employees through coaching and training
• Focused attention to employee relations
• Conflict resolution up to and including formal mediation
• Human Resource skills in both union and non-union organizations
• Employee investigations
• Salary and compensation design
• Health benefit creation, design and implementation
• Payroll, Time Keeping and Benefits administration
• Proficient in all Microsoft Products, SAP, Database Construction, Crystal Reports
• Knowledgeable in employment law to include, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Tile IIV of the Civil Rights Act, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), as well as, others.

• Supervise 10-15 employees with 7 direct reports
• Key decision maker in all daily operations of my unit
• Planning and development of $38 million budget
• Performed staff allocation and analysis for cost reduction of $1 million dollars.
• Leader for process improvement initiative for the statewide operating procedures
• Maintain personnel files, reports, and other correspondence as needed.
• Empower employees through coaching and mentorship
• Prepare formal correspondence directed to the established chain of command about employee performance, significant activity, officer safety alerts, and administrative updates

• Nominated for Police Communication Operator of the year
• Professional and courteous at all times
• Ability to handle all manner of customer issues
• Maintain a calm and comforting demeanor in high stress situation

• Summa Cum Laude Honors withCumulative GPA 4.0, Deans List all semesters

• Inducted into Delta Epsilon Sigma Honor Society achieved by high academics.
• Inducted into Delta Mu Delta Top 20% of students in the Business School

• Plan, direct, supervise and coordinate work activities of the staff related to daily work assignments, labor relations issues, employee proficiency reviews and staff cohesiveness on the daily assignments
• Recruit, interview, hire and design compensation packagea for executive level employees.

• Personnel Chairman:

• Application reviews and interviews for executive level positions
• Create executive level compensation packages based on expertise
• Analyze job positions and staffing needs for the district to create efficient operations
• Also lead an effort to reevaluate all district office job descriptions, create new job descriptions
• Finance Chairman: Oversight of $38 million budget, staff allocation analysis, health care benefit creation to achieve a cost reduction of over $1 million dollars.
• Facility Chairman: Long term strategic facilities planning to establish capital costs account
• Policy Chairman:

• Annual review with updates and changes
• Recommends new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements
• Negotiation Team: negotiated 3 employee contracts

• Created a Community information series which has grown from 10 people attending to over 100
• Designed and implemented a new Qualified High Deductible Health care plan

• Fiscal management including expense/income spreadsheets, payroll, and tax payments
• Negotiate with vendors to ensure best pricing
• Developed new clientele from start-up to 55 clients

• Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• Delta Mu Delta National Business Honor Society
• Delta Epsilon Sigma Honor Society

• Schuylkill River Trail Ambassador
• Orwigsburg Borough Council
• Boy Scouts-Eagle Rank

• OSHA/Workplace Safety
• Talent Acquisition
• FMLA/Leave of Absence

• Employee Issues
• Employment Law
• Gender Pay Gap: 10 Promising Practices to Close It

• Basic Project Management
• Over 40 other training courses including: Workplace Safety, Supervisors Leadership, HR Management

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