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Deborah Thompson

Hot springs village

Summary

HR Manager and New Facilities Director with a proven track record at L&S Mechanical, recognized for exceptional service during facility relocations. Highly dependable and strategic, adept at cross-functional collaboration and maintaining confidentiality. Skilled in an HR position, including payroll administration, conference planning, and employee events.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

HR Manager and Director of New Facilities

L&S Mechanical
Richardson
01.2021 - 03.2025
  • Direct report for 3 employees in HR and Payroll.
  • HR functions consist of the distribution and communication of personnel changes, i.e., salary, titles, transfers, employee advances, and terminations.
  • Onsite visits to streamline acquisition transfers, I-9 compliance, the rollouts of benefits, open enrollment, payroll setups, performance reviews, and.Conduct and report to the Director of Human Resources on internal investigations.
  • Maintained employee records in accordance with company policy and applicable legal requirements.
  • Investigated employee relations matters through interviews with involved parties to ensure a fair resolution.
  • Handled sensitive employee and company information with highest level of confidentiality and discretion.
  • Scheduled meetings with employees to address concerns and grievances.
  • Organized team building activities to foster collaboration among staff members.
  • Facilitated communication between management and staff by conducting regular meetings to discuss concerns or suggestions.
  • Worked with cross-functional teams to achieve facility moves and meet time-sensitive goals.
  • Recognized by management for providing exceptional service during the move of several location/building changes of project offices and warehouses.
  • Achieved cost savings by developing functional solutions to problems such as pre-move in. Such as sprinkler and fire system inspections, movers, high-pile permitting, and decorating within budgets.

Assistant to President/New Facilities Director

L&S Mechanical
01.2006 - 01.2021
  • Early responsibilities (2006 – 2007) Starts Dept. Include creating spec levels for hardware, China, water heaters, etc. to begin the house packages for 50 plus new single-family home builders and their different spec levels.
  • Assistant to the President managing calendar and travel. Special projects.
  • Bid liaison between President and sales/estimating departments profit margins, monitoring sales lifecycle, price increase mgmt.
  • Coordinate new construction, remodels and relocating multi project/warehouses for company, including design, décor orders, construction schedule, including GC’s and cities.
  • Coordination of office location for new hires and turnover and monitor capacity of corporate office as well as warehouses.
  • Manage building maintenance for all facilities.
  • Employee engagement projects including, semi-annual employee attire (budgeting, ordering and design of shirts/hats/t-shirts), appreciation mailings, company picnics, employee and builder retreats, etc.
  • Manage the corporate account for Mavericks, Stars, Rangers and concert tickets for employees and vendors and builders.
  • Managed the admins that dealt with reporting, utility locates, meeting preps and all company courier and postal services.

Project Coordinator/Asst to VP

David Weekley Homes
01.1999 - 01.2006
  • Project Coordinator and Assistant to VP of Operations (DFW), including balancing sales contracts, permits and lot take downs.

Skills

  • Trustworthy
  • Highly dependable and accountable
  • Professional demeanor
  • Maintain confidentiality
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively
  • Strategic counsel
  • Ability to work remotely without direct supervision
  • Work well with executives as well as individual contributors
  • Good judgement and problem solving
  • MS Office, Word, Excel, Teams
  • DocuSign
  • Organizational skills
  • Confidentiality practices
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Analytical skills
  • Employee surveys
  • Time management abilities
  • Written communication
  • Performance appraisals
  • Collective bargaining
  • Confidential document control
  • Exit interviews and processes
  • Payroll administration

Affiliations

  • Through my career, I was always able to be counted on to fill a position that I was called upon to fill sometimes with no experience. I wore many hats from developing an uniform system by working with vendors, entertainment which fully responsible for the negotiation and distriibution of major league teams (Rangers, Mavs, Stars) including concerts. Planning company events, leadership events, gatekeeper between sales, executives and estimating with recommendations on profit margins and why to the owner of the company while assisting him with utmost confidential matters. Many assigned projects that required confidentiality and accuracy.

Timeline

HR Manager and Director of New Facilities

L&S Mechanical
01.2021 - 03.2025

Assistant to President/New Facilities Director

L&S Mechanical
01.2006 - 01.2021

Project Coordinator/Asst to VP

David Weekley Homes
01.1999 - 01.2006

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