Manufacturing HR
HR tools built for the plant floor: attendance and points, skills and certifications by shift, hiring and onboarding for operators, and pay that holds up to overtime law. Excel, Word, and PDF you edit and keep.
What plant HR has to get right
Three pressures a plant runs into that an office HR binder was never built for.
Coverage by shift
When an operator calls out, you need to know in the moment whether the shift still runs, not after the line has already stopped.
Certifications that stay current
Forklift, EPA, and safety cards expire on their own schedule, and a lapsed card surfaces at the worst possible time unless something counts it down.
Pay that holds up
Shift differentials change the overtime math, and pay set on memory drifts against the plant down the road until someone resigns.
The Manufacturing HR shelf
See how you run it, before you buy anything
Two free reads built for a plant floor. No sign-up to start, and both are built for development and self-understanding, not hiring or selection.
Calculators for this work
Free, no sign-up to run. Each one opens on a worked example and links to the toolkit that takes the next step.
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When the toolkit needs a senior pair of eyes
The two free assessments on this page give you the read on how the operation is run. When the next step is a judgment call rather than a template, this is where it goes.
The 6 red flags to check before you discipline or fire someone
A five-minute screen to run before you act. Free PDF, sent to your inbox. Unsubscribe anytime.
Get the whole Manufacturing HR program in one purchase
Every tool on this page works on its own. Bought together as the Plant HR Manager Complete System, they share one license and a use order, plus the exclusives that only come with the system.