Golden Queen Mining Company, LLC (the “Company”) is operating a gold and silver, open pit, heap leach operation on its Soledad Mountain property, located just outside the town of Mojave in Kern County in southern California. The Project uses conventional open pit mining methods and the cyanide heap leach and Merrill-Crowe processes to recover gold and silver from crushed, agglomerated ore.

The Company is seeking a Human Resources Manager for its Soledad Mountain Project (the “Project”) in Mojave. The Human Resources Manager will be primarily responsible for maintaining and enhancing the organization’s staff by recruiting, orienting, and training employees, as well as evaluating employee relations, policies, programs and practices to ensure compliance. This position maintains personnel records in accordance with Federal, State, and the Company’s SOX procedures, counsels and disciplines employees, oversees benefits administration. This is a safety sensitive position.

This position reports to CEO.

Responsibilities

• Ensures legal compliance by monitoring and implementing HR related Federal and State requirements, conducting investigations, and maintaining records;
• Oversees recruiting, hiring, orienting, counseling, disciplining, terminating, and training employees in conjunction with Manager - Administration;
• Establish, implement and maintain personnel files, job descriptions, employee handbook Corporate Governance, and policies;
• Establish, administer and educate employees on benefits programs;
• Establish, maintain and compile reports for staffing, worker’s compensation, community relations, donations, ads, and company housing.

• Business degree or equivalent;
• Maintains employee confidence and protects operations by keeping human resource information confidential;
• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in human resources;
• An effective communicator, ability to interact with others, mediation background a plus;
• Ability to read, interpret, and comply with laws, regulations and policies;
• Must have excellent computer skills in MS Office, Paylocity experience a plus;
• Driver’s license required
• High school diploma or GED