Position Overview: The HR Operations Intern provides administrative, reporting, and program coordination support to the HR Business Partner. 

Key Responsibilities

HR Metrics, Reporting & Records Support

•  Run, review, and summarize weekly attendance reports, including exceptions, missing punches, trends, and department-level follow-up needs. 
•  Track staffing levels, headcount, and hiring status; prepare monthly staffing summaries for leadership. 
•  Support training documentation by maintaining completion records, 30/60/90-day onboarding checklists, and training compliance logs. 
•  Prepare data pulls and reports from Paylocity as directed, including attendance, turnover, headcount, and benefits enrollment. 

Onboarding Administration

•  Prepare and maintain new hire packets, orientation materials, onboarding paperwork, and checklists. 
•  Coordinate new hire orientation logistics and monitor completion of required onboarding steps. 
•  Track benefits eligibility dates, enrollment documentation, and missing required forms; flag items to the HR Business Partner. 
•  Maintain I-9 compliance tracking and audit files for completeness. 

Employee Recognition & Communications

•  Support the Employee of the Month program by collecting nominations, tallying results, coordinating photos, and preparing town hall slides. 
•  Maintain recognition tracking logs for milestones, anniversaries, service awards, and core value recognition. 
•  Create and maintain employee communications, including newsletter content, recognition spotlights, communication board updates, event promotions, and photos. 
•  Maintain the employee event calendar and assist with planning logistics for appreciation events, town halls, and luncheons. 

Survey & Feedback Coordination

•  Build, maintain, and standardize surveys and templates across all AECO companies. 
•  Schedule and send reminders for stay interviews, engagement surveys, exit surveys, and new hire feedback. 
•  Track survey participation rates and compile raw data into summary reports for HR Business Partner review. 

Performance Review Tracking

•  Monitor review completion status through Paylocity and tracking tools, including annual, quarterly, 360-degree, self-review, and wage progression reviews. 
•  Send reminders to supervisors and employees for overdue evaluations and escalate outstanding items to the HR Business Partner. 
•  Generate completion reports for HR and leadership. 

Preferred Experience

•  Junior or senior standing, or graduate student status in an HR or Organizational Development program. 
•  Interest in manufacturing HR and comfort working regularly on a shop floor rather than solely in a corporate office. 
•  Prior internship or work experience in an office, HR, or administrative capacity. 

Work Environment

•  Manufacturing setting with regular shop floor presence. Closed-toe shoes are required; PPE is provided when needed. 
•  Primarily on-site at Alloy Engineering in Berea, Ohio, with occasional visits to Mach3 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 
•  Fast-paced, employee-owned company culture. 
• Must be able to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening, including marijuana, as a condition of employment. Alloy Engineering is a drug-free workplace, and employment is contingent upon passing the required drug test.

AECO Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.