{"id":11074,"date":"2015-07-15T09:55:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=11074"},"modified":"2015-07-15T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:55:37","slug":"achenbach-appointed-as-countys-new-hr-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=11074","title":{"rendered":"Achenbach appointed as county&#8217;s new HR head"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1143960\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Michelle-Achenbach-2-288x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1143960\" class=\"wp-image-1143960 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Michelle-Achenbach-2-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle-Achenbach-2\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1143960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Achenbach<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Chester County Commissioners have appointed Michelle Achenbach, PHR, as Director of Human Resources and Performance Management for the County of Chester. She replaces Dr. Karen Florentine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to facilitating the hiring and development of a highly effective workforce, our HR department maintains a fiscally responsible health care program, achieved by incorporating an award winning employee wellness program,\u201d said Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Chair Terence Farrell. \u201cI\u2019m confident that Michelle will continue to provide our county departments and staff with quality human resources services.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Achenbach has 20 years of human resources experience, working with organizations including US Airways, Johnson Matthey and Sunoco Logistics. She joins Chester County from Berwyn-based Ametek, Inc. where she was Director of Human Resources for the company\u2019s Chemical Products Division. Achenbach holds a degree in HR Management from Rosemont College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichelle\u2019s appointment follows the retirement of Karen Florentine, who led the department for ten years,\u201d said Commissioner Kathi Cozzone. \u201cWe thank Karen for her years of HR leadership, as well as the staff of Human Resources for continuing to provide excellent services while the search for a new director was conducted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karen Florentine will remain with the County on a part time basis for the coming months, to support Michelle Achenbach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichelle Achenbach brings a strong background of knowledge and experience to the County HR leadership role,&#8221;Commissioner Michelle Kichline said. &#8220;Karen Florentine\u2019s flexibility, and her agreement to provide a smooth transition for Michelle as she takes on the role of HR Director, will ensure a continuity of service to all of Chester County\u2019s 2500-plus full and part time employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Achenbach was given a warm welcome by the county&#8217;s administrative staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome Michelle to the County and look forward to working with her as a part of the team that provides many high quality programs and services to the citizens of Chester County.\u201d\u00a0Chester County\u2019s Chief Operating Officer, Mark Rupsis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Chester County Commissioners have appointed Michelle Achenbach, PHR, as Director of Human Resources and Performance Management for the County of Chester. She replaces Dr. Karen Florentine. \u201cIn addition to facilitating the hiring and development of a highly effective workforce, our HR department maintains a fiscally responsible health care program, achieved by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[138,6133],"class_list":["post-11074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-director-of-human-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}