Renata Silva — HR Generalist
Phoenix, AZ
HR generalist with seven years across manufacturing and clinical services, running a 480-person employer from onboarding through investigations single-handed. Returned from a sixteen-month family care break in 2022 and has cut voluntary turnover from 29% to 17% since.
Experience
HR Generalist, Sandera Health Partners · September 2022 – present
Sole HR generalist for a 480-person clinical services employer across six sites.
- Cut voluntary turnover from 29% to 17% over two years by rebuilding onboarding into a 30-60-90 plan and adding stay interviews at month four.
- Closed 34 employee relations cases at an average 11-day cycle time, with no matter advancing beyond an agency intake.
- Rewrote 22 job descriptions and the pay bands behind them, ending a $4,800 average gap between new hires and tenured staff in the same role.
- Runs open enrollment for 480 employees; election errors fell from 61 to seven after the move to one portal with a guided checklist.
HR Generalist, Ironvale Manufacturing · May 2018 – March 2021
- Staffed a second-shift launch, filling 64 production roles in eleven weeks with 92% still employed at 90 days.
- Brought OSHA recordable incidents from 14 a year to five by pairing a structured return-to-work program with monthly supervisor briefings.
- Replaced paper time cards with a badge clock, removing 11 hours of weekly payroll correction and $37k of annual overpayment.
HR Assistant, Pennant Logistics · August 2016 – April 2018
- Processed payroll for 210 hourly employees at a 0.3% error rate across 20 months.
- Built the I-9 audit process that cleared every record in a third-party sample of 120 files.
Education
- B.S. Human Resources Management · Arizona State University · August 2012 – May 2016
Skills
- HR operations: Onboarding, Benefits administration, Open enrollment, Payroll coordination, HRIS data hygiene
- Employee relations: Workplace investigations, Performance management, Policy writing, Leave administration, Exit and stay interviews
- Compliance: FLSA classification, FMLA and ADA, I-9 and E-Verify, OSHA recordkeeping, EEO-1 reporting
- Systems: Workday, ADP Workforce Now, Greenhouse, Excel
Certifications
- SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) — SHRM
- Professional in Human Resources (PHR) — HRCI
