Staffing Manager

About the Role

The Staffing Manager leads and owns the hourly team member recruiting, staffing, and onboarding programs for the facility, ensuring a consistent candidate experience, timely fulfillment of staffing needs, and compliance with applicable employment practices and policies.

The Staffing Manager combines hands-on, high-volume hiring execution with candidate communication, compliance, and partnership with operations leaders to meet facility staffing needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own internal and external recruiting and staffing efforts for hourly team members, including reviewing applications/resumes, scheduling and conducting interviews, coordinating pre-employment testing, attending offsite job fairs, hosting on-site hiring events, and assisting internal candidates with the application process.
• Identify, develop, and maintain staffing pipelines through schools, job boards, employers, nonprofit organizations, signage, community resources, and other recruiting channels.
• Coordinate and support New Employee Orientation (NEO) events to ensure new hires receive timely onboarding information and a consistent introduction to the facility.
• Responsible for maintaining applicant tracking system integrity and organization.
• Maintain appropriate communication with internal and external applicants through the recruiting and onboarding process.
• Provide timely reports on staffing levels, open positions, and turnover, and analyze the results to identify trends and staffing needs.
• Assist HR team in identifying opportunities for process improvements or cost savings.
• Partner with HR team to take timely and appropriate action in the investigation and resolution of workplace complaints, including discrimination, harassment, and wage/hour concerns.
• Ensure recruiting, staffing, and onboarding activities comply with applicable federal, state, and local employment requirements and company policies, and maintain accurate, timely records.
• Responsible for reporting food safety issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, organizational development, or a related field preferred.
• At least five years of recruiting and staffing experience required.
• At least two years of experience recruiting and staffing hourly employees in a manufacturing or production facility.
• Bilingual (Spanish or Arabic) a plus.
• Knowledge of current state and federal employment laws.

Skills

• Excellent customer service, communication (oral/written) skills, project management, and team collaboration skills.
• Strong initiative, problem-solving, organizational skills, and attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams.
• Experience using HRIS/ATS systems.
• Ability to work successfully with all levels of applicants, employees, and management.
• Experience and/or ability to excel in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment.
• Ability to communicate and understand instructions in English.

Working Conditions

• Primarily an office environment but occasionally on the production floor with exposure to heat, dust, and allergens such as nuts, peanuts, dairy, and grains.
• Must be able to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally.
• Must be able to ascend and descend building stairways and ramps to perform tasks required in the job description.
• Position requires frequent sitting for long periods of time with occasional standing, reaching, walking, lifting, grasping, bending, and twisting.