HR Manager

About the company

AMPI owns six Midwest-based manufacturing plants where 10 percent of the nation's American-type cheese and processed cheese is produced. The cooperative's award-winning cheese and powdered dairy products are marketed to foodservice, retail, and food ingredient customers. In 2019, the co-op launched its Dinner Bell Creamery brand and accompanying Co-op Crafted promise, highlighting more than 50 years of dairy farm families partnering with skilled Cheesemakers.

Responsibilities

• All AMPI employees have an obligation to report employee safety, food safety, and food quality issues to personnel of authority.
• Coordinates facility recruitment by sourcing candidates, conducting interviews, and referring qualified applicants.
• Extends job offers and arranges background checks, drug screens, and physicals.
• Conducts new hire orientation.
• Assists with workers' compensation and OSHA compliance programs.
• Through the workers' compensation carrier, monitors the progress of employees with claims.
• Ensures legal compliance with all federal and state regulations applicable to human resources, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA).
• Completes the location's Affirmative Action Plan, provides training, and completes outreach.
• Monitors human resource processes for compliance, posts notices, maintains records, investigates and resolves employee complaints, and recommends changes necessary to achieve compliance.
• Maintains all Human Resources related records, including personnel records, employment selection process records, I-9 forms, affirmative action/equal employment related records, records related to complaint investigations, and employee performance issues. Ensures confidentiality and limited access according to procedure.
• Leads and manages all Human Resource functions, including answering HR questions, benefit enrollment, entering and processing new hires, changes and termination information, background checks, performance reviews, forms, policy updates, and conducting stay and exit interviews.
• Assists with planning and presentation of meetings, including division meetings.
• Responsible for communication to the union.