Mission Statement

The Human Resources Department collaborates with county leaders to effectively meet the personnel needs of our employees as well as external customers. To accomplish this, the department develops and administers programs and services that support the success of the county’s mission and contribute to the achievement of Escambia County goals.

The Human Resources Department provides services, innovative HR leadership and operations to BCC employees and managers in the areas of classification, compensation, training and development, recruitment and placement, employee and labor relations, and employee benefits. Human Resources also ensures BCC compliance with all applicable employment-related local, state and federal laws and regulations. Additionally, Human Resources administers the group medical, dental, life, retirement, deferred compensation and cafeteria plan benefits to the BCC and other county agencies employees serviced by the BCC HR staff.

• Collaborated with the internal IT department to automate new employee onboarding documentation using DocuSign.
• Due to the changes in the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the BCC Human Resources Department was tasked with modifying the FLSA status for 55 employees.
• Performed a national recruitment for a Natural Resources Director.
• The benefits team generated the federal form 1095-C, Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage, to report the required information about offers of health coverage and enrollment in health coverage for county employees.

Human Resources Statistics

• 346 external hires
• 67 internal promotions
• 1,459 personnel action forms processed
• 8 new job classifications created
• 1 filled director position
• 6 job fairs
• 396 eVerify
• 179 FMLA occurrences
• 525 safety-sensitive random screenings
• 0 positive safety-sensitive random screenings
• 13 workplace investigations
• 9 terminations
• 27 suspensions
• 167 disciplines

• 8 Tuition reimbursements
• 6 MSPB appeals
• 2 MSPB dismissals
• 4 MSPB mediations
• 75 Retirements Processed
• 30 Disability Retirements
• 30 Deferred Retirement Option Plan enrollments
• 27 Death claims processed
• 330 Benefit enrollments processed
• 280 COBRA qualifying event notifications sent
• 360 Initial COBRA notifications sent
• 15 Benefit Open Enrollment meetings provided
• 675 Employees who participated in Wellness Biometrics screening
• 4 Retirement meetings
• 8,725 Health Clinic visits
• 16:42 minute average Employee Clinic wait time
• 250 Flu shots administered
• 822 Physicals performed
• 2,160 Distributed Affordable Care Act requirements
• 53 Orientation for new employees
• 70 Employee Development sessions
  • County Essentials sessions 16 - policy discussions, retirement, HR procedures
  • Professional Development sessions 24 - ethics, supervisor skills, customer service
  • IT Desktop application sessions 30 - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
• 1,138 Employee Development total participation