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Commissioners need help managing people and dogs
YOUNGSTOWN
Mahoning County commissioners say they need help to manage people and dogs.
They are advertising the jobs of human-resource director and dog warden, and both jobs have a 4:30 p.m. March 11 application deadline. Both advertisements say the jobs are nonunion and the salary is negotiable.
The HR director’s job has been vacant since Susan Quimby resigned May 30, 2009, at a salary of $62,500 a year.
“With the number of employees we have, we need to have a central person with the knowledge and the expertise to deal with employees on a daily basis, to deal with union grievances,” and to negotiate labor contracts, John A. McNally IV, chairman of the county commissioners, said of the HR post.
With 1,725 county employees and 19 labor contracts, McNally said the HR function cannot effectively be performed by county Administrator George J. Tablack in addition to his other duties.
By hiring an HR director, McNally said he hopes to reduce the grievance and arbitration work now burdening the civil-division of the county prosecutors’ office and to reduce the need to hire outside lawyers for labor negotiations.
The job description says the HR director must have a master’s degree in public administration, human resources, or labor relations or a related field. He or she must have at least eight years of HR administration experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Experience in government employment and labor-contract negotiation and administration is preferred.
The HR director will be responsible for personnel administration, including employee recruitment and selection, personnel policy development and implementation, unemployment and Workers’ Compensation claims, and labor contract negotiation.
Dave Nelson, promoted about seven or eight months ago from deputy dog warden to dog warden, is returning to his old job at his request, McNally said.
Nelson’s annual salary as dog warden is $43,769. The salary of deputy dog wardens wasn’t available late Wednesday.
Nelson could not be reached to comment.
The dog warden enforces state animal ordinances, directs county dog-pound operations and supervises pound employees.
The job requires a high school diploma, Ohio peace officer firearms training and at least three years of animal control experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.