Human Resources Director

Key Responsibilities

• Lead HR support for 700+ employees across multiple locations and onsite/offsite operations, maintaining a strong and visible connection with our workforce.
• Lead, coach, and develop a small HR team supporting a primarily hourly and frontline employee population.
• Serve as a trusted resource and first line of defense for employees, ensuring concerns are heard, investigated appropriately, and addressed consistently and without retaliation.
• Take a preventative approach to HR, identifying employee relations, leadership, compliance, and cultural issues early and addressing root causes before they escalate.
• Lead complex employee relations matters, workplace investigations, performance management, corrective action and other sensitive employee issues.
• Provide strong technical guidance on California, Nevada, and federal employment law, including wage and hour, leaves, accommodations, and compliance.
• Partner closely with Operations to improve leadership practices, employee communication, engagement, retention and the overall frontline employee experience.
• Build scalable HR processes and infrastructure that support continued organizational growth while creating greater consistency across locations, shifts and teams.
• Strengthen manager capabilities through coaching, training and clear expectations around communication, accountability, conflict resolution and employee management.
• Use employee feedback and workforce data, including turnover, attendance, engagement and employee relations trends, to identify root causes and opportunities for improvement.
• Apply continuous improvement and root-cause problem-solving principles to HR and workforce challenges.
• Champion a mission-driven culture where employees understand how their work contributes to improving access to healthy food and positively impacting the communities we serve.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field required.
• 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including HR leadership responsibility.
• Bilingual English/Spanish required, with professional fluency in both languages.
• Experience supporting a large, complex, and growing workforce, preferably 500+ employees across multiple locations.
• Strong experience supporting primarily hourly/frontline employees in food production, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, or similar operational environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing a small HR team.
• Strong California employment law and employee relations expertise required.
• Experience conducting complex workplace investigations and resolving sensitive employee concerns.
• Strong knowledge of wage and hour, performance management, corrective action, leaves, and accommodations.
• Demonstrated experience building HR processes and infrastructure within a growing or changing organization.
• Experience improving employee engagement, retention, and frontline leadership effectiveness.
• Experience supporting organizational change or cultural transformation strongly preferred.
• Experience with Lean, continuous improvement, root-cause problem solving, or similar methodologies preferred.
• SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or comparable professional certification preferred.

Pay

Salary Range: $180,00 - $220,000