Columbus McKinnon

• Oversee day-to-day HR operations while serving as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive team • Drive initiatives that strengthen workforce capability, leadership effectiveness, and organizational stability across a blended union and non-union manufacturing environment • Ensure compliant, efficient HR processes while helping shape programs that support employee development, performance, and engagement

• Develop and maintain positive sales relationships with existing customers and end users. • Ensure the company's sales goals are met in the assigned product and territory. • Act as a technical resource to customers. • Conduct end user site visits. • Coach distribution personnel and evaluate their competency. • Identify and maintain relationships within key end users, OEMs, and/or vertical markets.

• Act as the primary liaison between the company and the managed services provider. • Oversee service delivery, performance metrics, and service-level agreements (SLAs). • Review incident trends, root cause analyses, and remediation plans. • Ensure timely resolution of escalations and critical incidents. • Participate in regular operational and governance meetings with the MSP. • Partner with management to develop, understand, and maintain the company’s IT strategy and technology roadmap. • Translate strategic objectives into actionable projects and operational priorities. • Coordinate with the MSP to plan and implement infrastructure, security, and application initiatives. • Support budgeting, forecasting, and vendor management activities. • Provide oversight for workstation, server, network, and cloud environments. • Ensure systems are reliable, scalable, secure, and properly documented. • Validate patching, backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring practices. • Oversee cybersecurity posture, including endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and incident response.

• Oversee end-to-end payroll operations for a manufacturing workforce, ensuring accurate and timely pay for hourly, union, and salaried employees. • Lead full-cycle payroll processing for multi-shift manufacturing operations, including hourly, union, temporary, and salaried employees. • Validate timekeeping data from plant systems, ensuring accuracy across overtime, shift differentials, weekend premiums, and meal-break compliance. • Review and approve payroll batches before final submission. • Manage complex payroll scenarios such as retroactive pay, incentive payouts, production bonuses, and attendance-based pay programs. • Oversee garnishments, benefits deductions, tax withholdings, and union dues. • Maintain payroll compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws, including FLSA and union contract requirements. • Partner with HR and plant leadership to resolve discrepancies and support workforce changes. • Prepare payroll reports for Finance, HR, and plant management; support month-end and year-end close. • Lead internal and external payroll audits; ensure documentation meets SOX and corporate standards. • Train and mentor payroll staff; act as the escalation point for complex payroll issues. • Identify and implement process improvements to increase accuracy, efficiency, and compliance. • Stay current on payroll regulations, union agreements, and system updates.