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Marine Log Employees
Austal USA has named Kristin Parsons as its vp human assets. On this position, Parsons is liable for the general improvement and implementation of company-wide human assets insurance policies, applications and providers.
Parsons is an employment lawyer with over twenty years of expertise working with human assets administration and govt groups to offer strategic, sensible, and solutions-oriented employment counseling. Parsons beforehand served as Austal USA’s affiliate basic counsel and was the corporate’s in-house employment lawyer throughout Austal USA’s international footprint spanning Alabama, California, Virginia, and Singapore. On this position, Parsons offered employment counseling and recommendation throughout all human assets features, together with expertise acquisition and workforce planning, coaching and improvement, worker relations, efficiency administration, complete rewards, occupational well being, and variety and inclusion.
Parsons obtained a B.A. in psychology from Loyola College New Orleans and a J.D. from the College of Alabama College of Regulation, and holds a Senior Skilled in Human Sources (SPHR) certification.
“Kristin’s prior expertise with Austal USA and her intensive expertise as an employment lawyer makes her the right choice to guide our human assets staff,” mentioned Austal USA appearing president, Michelle Kruger. “We’re excited to have her be a part of our senior management staff as we work to recruit and retain our superior shipbuilding workforce required to efficiently execute our present and projected contracts.”