We all know that onboarding cannot happen in just a few days.
However, the day-to-day operations of manufacturing companies leave little time for proper employee integration.
How can we solve this situation and optimize the onboarding process in the manufacturing industry?
Here are all the tips you need to provide the best employee onboarding to your staff, including an onboarding checklist for manufacturers!
Warmly welcoming a new recruit properly seems natural, but what are the stakes and concrete benefits of an effective onboarding process for your manufacturing company?
In short, more productive and engaged teams!
All organizations, especially SMBs, face challenges related to employee onboarding. These issues are even more important in manufacturing, where the daily efficiency of operations is paramount:
These questions can quickly become organizational headaches, especially when you have to welcome several employees in a row (or at the same time!)
Fortunately, our tips will help you save time and avoid oversights while ensuring a quality onboarding for your hire.
Onboarding is not a two-day process: it is essential to follow the different phases of the process and avoid oversights. Use our dedicated checklist to avoid getting lost!
With Folks HR, you can enter all onboarding tasks directly into your platform and assign them to the people in charge. In addition, all reminders are automated!
Psst… Here’s a free onboarding checklist to use whenever you need it!
Our advice for avoiding time-consuming onboarding tasks while remaining efficient: anticipation, organization and dematerialization! These notions are even more crucial in the manufacturing sector.
Read our articles on the benefits of centralizing HR information and digital transition to learn more!
Manufacturers must ensure that their new hires are properly trained for their position at the end of their probationary period. Maintaining well-trained teams prevents professional accidents, absenteeism, and loss of productivity and engagement. Therefore, a large part of the onboarding period should be dedicated to learning tasks specific to the position and identifying future training needs. By anticipating the development of skills to be planned in the coming months, we can avoid drops in performance and loss of time!
Did you know that training hours can be detailed in Folks HR? Save time on calculating training costs and safely store training documents!
Manual and repetitive processes are undoubtedly a source of errors and oversights. Unfortunately, this is also the case in HR!
There’s no better way to optimize your onboarding processes than with HR software:
Folks HR offers all these features and more! Interested? Feel free to download our free HR software handbook!
Don’t forget to communicate with the new hire throughout the onboarding and integration process. Remember to introduce them to their future colleagues to get the whole team involved from the start! The introduction can start via email before the first day and detail the newcomer’s passions and personality.
To make sure you’re adopting the most relevant onboarding practices, ask the people involved! Your new hires and employees are in the best position to share ideas for improvement.
You can do this by asking questions (or providing a questionnaire) to your new employee during the probationary evaluation. It will help you determine what worked and what didn’t during the onboarding period.
You can even take it a step further with engagement surveys! They are the best way to measure employee satisfaction and implement relevant engagement strategies over the long term. In addition, by involving your employees throughout the process, you will be sure to build an onboarding plan that THEY will love!
Your onboarding and integration processes can – and should – be continuously improved to better adapt to your company’s growth and each employee’s reality.
By following all our tips and using your checklist adapted to the manufacturing industry, you will improve your practices, and your recruits, as well as your current employees, will appreciate your efforts!
From remote onboarding to onboarding manufacturing managers, you will find everything you need to optimize your processes on our blog!
