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Southland Trailer Corp.
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
EL
Human Resources Manager
3
Preferred learners
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
Categories
Human resources Workplace culture Leadership Organizational structure Talent recruitment Employee retention
Skills
talent recruitment employee onboarding management auditing
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?

The main goal for the project is to audit Southland Trailer Corp.'s current recruitment and onboarding process and provide researched data to present recommendations for improvement. This will involve several different steps for the learners, including:


- Analyzing the current recruitment and onboarding process at Southland Trailer Corp.


- Researching best practices and industry standards for recruitment and onboarding.


- Identifying areas for improvement in the current process.


- Developing recommendations for improving the recruitment and onboarding process.


- Presenting the researched data and recommendations to the company.


What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?


By the end of the project, learners should complete the following tasks:


- A comprehensive analysis of Southland Trailer Corp.'s current recruitment and onboarding process.


- Researched data on best practices and industry standards for recruitment and onboarding.


- Recommendations for improvement in the recruitment and onboarding process.


- A presentation of the findings and recommendations to the company.



Final deliverables:


- A detailed report outlining the analysis, researched data, and recommendations.


- A presentation to the company's management team.


How will you support learners in completing the project?

We can support learners with providing time with our current HR team members, access to the tools and process that we are currently using. Daily we have huddles with team members to review our wins, loses, and ways for continuous improvement.


We are open to offering other support and mentorship opportunities that are not mentioned above.

About the company
  • https://southlandtrailers.com
  • 201 - 500 employees
  • Agriculture, Construction, engineering & trades, Human resources & recruitment, Manufacturing, Technology

Our mission and strategy is to achieve operational excellence through focusing on quality, empowering employees and optimizing opportunities. 

Southland Trailer Corp. manufactures trailer transportation products.  We have three brands and produce up to nine different trailer types from dump, and flat deck, to gravel trailers and car/toy haulers.  The company was started in 1980 and has grown to be one of the largest light industrial trailer manufacturers in Canada.  It is still a private family owned business. 

From the philosophy of lean manufacturing we train all our employees about continuous improvement, and how to view problems with a different approach, and empower them to make changes and solution to improving everything they interact with. This creates a culture of continuous improvement and allows everyone to be engaged in the business and as a collective team we are all empowered to improve our day-to-day.