Plant HR Manager Complete System

One price for the whole program. The five toolkits inside total $345 bought separately, and the two workbooks that run them are exclusive to this system.

A plant HR manager, or the plant manager doing the job without one, inherits five fires at once: attendance nobody enforces the same way, supervisors who avoid hard conversations, pay that drifted years ago, hiring on gut feel, and onboarding that loses operators in the first month. Buying five disconnected fixes leaves you to make them agree with each other.

The Plant HR Manager Complete System is the five systems built to work together, plus the two tools that run them as one program: a 54-point plant HR audit that tells you where to start, and a 12-month calendar that keeps the whole thing running.

What is inside

Five complete toolkits, each in its own folder with its own Start Here, plus two exclusive workbooks and one license covering everything.

• 1. Manufacturing Attendance and Points System. The points tracker with three policy presets, the ready-to-adopt attendance policy, five supervisor conversation scripts, and four bilingual forms.
• 2. Shift Supervisor Toolkit. The playbook, quick reference, supervisor workbook, floor conversation scripts, and bilingual documentation forms for the leaders who run your shifts.
• 3. Compensation and Shift Differential Toolkit. Salary band builder, shift differential pricing that follows the federal overtime rule, wage ladders, a market check log, and the merit increase matrix with budget rollup.
• 4. Manufacturing Hiring Kit. The hiring field guide, operator and maintenance job descriptions, hands-on skills checklists, structured interview guides with score sheets, and a bilingual application, so the floor hires on one fair standard.
• 5. Plant Onboarding System. The field guide and onboarding workbook for the first 90 days, the signed safety orientation pack, the day-one floor checklist, the buddy program guide, and editable templates.
• Plant HR Audit Checklist (Excel, exclusive to this system). The 54-point audit a sharp HR leader runs in their first 60 days: nine sections from hiring to separation, scored by section so you know exactly where the plant stands, with owners, target dates, and an honest evidence rule.
• 12 Month Plant HR Calendar (Excel, exclusive to this system). The operating cadence that keeps it that way: four tasks a month plus a standing weekly rhythm one HR manager can run, tracked by category with progress rollups.

Plus the Product License, one license covering everything in this system.

What makes it different

The two exclusives are tools you cannot buy separately, and they are what turn five toolkits into a program. The audit finds the gaps and tells you which folder to open first. The calendar keeps the gaps closed, with the audits, reviews, and compliance checkpoints paced through the year.

Every system inside is the full standalone product, not a sample: the same workbooks, scripts, bilingual forms, and completed examples, organized in numbered folders with a seven-step use order that starts with the audit and ends with the calendar. Each toolkit also stands on its own, so if attendance is your fire today, start there and come back to the rest.

Questions plant leaders ask

Where do I start?

Run the audit first, in your first week, before you open any toolkit folder. The root Start Here walks the full seven-step order.

Is this just the five products zipped together?

No. Everything ships under one license with a single use order, and the audit and the calendar are not sold separately.

Will it work without a dedicated HR person?

Yes. It is built for plant managers, a lean HR team, and operations leaders at 20- to 500-employee manufacturers. The calendar is sized for one person to run.

Do I need special software?

No. The documents open in Word, the guides are PDF, and the workbooks open in Excel or Google Sheets, with a short guide for the Sheets path.

If you are looking for a single piece rather than the whole system, the Manufacturing Hiring Kit, the Plant Onboarding System, the Manufacturing Attendance and Points System, and the Manufacturing Compensation and Shift Differential Toolkit are each available on their own.

How the download works

Your files arrive as a single ZIP download, best opened on a computer: save it, extract it (right-click and Extract All on Windows, double-click on a Mac), and open the Start Here file first. PDFs open in any reader, and the editable files work in Microsoft Word and Excel or their free equivalents, including LibreOffice and Google Docs and Sheets. No other software is needed. Step-by-step help for every device is at truestephr.com/pages/download-help.

Scope

This system is a set of working tools and editable templates for running plant HR in a clear, consistent, and defensible way. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for qualified counsel on your specific situation. Attendance, leave, wage, and overtime rules vary by state and change over time, so have policies and pay decisions reviewed against applicable law before you finalize them.

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