HR Manager

Build a Career, Not Just a Job

Join ALPLA, a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions serving some of the world's most recognized brands, including P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, PepsiCo, and many more.

As a family-owned company with locations around the world, ALPLA offers stable careers, hands-on training, competitive benefits, and opportunities for growth. Whether you're an experienced manufacturing professional or looking to start a new career, we provide the support and development you need to succeed.

At ALPLA, we invest in our people, promote from within, and foster a culture focused on safety, teamwork, innovation, and continuous improvement. From apprenticeship programs and technical training to leadership development opportunities, ALPLA is committed to helping employees build long-term careers.

What You Can Expect from ALPLA

• Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Childcare and dependent care savings programs
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement and educational assistance programs
• Career growth and advancement opportunities
• Employee recognition programs
• Hands-on training and professional development
• A stable, growing company committed to sustainability

Ready to Build Your Future?

Join a team where your contributions matter, your development is supported, and your career can grow with a global industry leader.

Apply today and discover what a career at ALPLA can offer.

What Will You Enjoy Doing

The Human Resources Manager serves as a strategic business partner to Plant Leadership, supporting organizational growth through a comprehensive talent development strategy while safeguarding both company and employee interests.

This role fosters a culture of accountability and pride grounded in transparent communication, fairness, consistency, and firm adherence to organizational principles and business objectives. As a key member of the Plant Leadership Team, the HR Manager helps establish the site as a benchmark for attracting, developing, and retaining high-caliber talent aligned with ALPLA's culture of excellence.

The HR Manager is responsible for delivering comprehensive HR leadership that strengthens organizational capability, enhances employee engagement, and ensures full compliance with company policies and employment regulations.

This position oversees talent acquisition, employee relations, training and development, performance management, HR systems, and workforce planning to build and sustain a high-performance culture.

• Recruiting/Staffing
  • Conducts recruitment effort for exempt and nonexempt personnel; conducts new-employee orientations; writes and places advertisements
  • Coordinates all employment testing and background checks
  • Prepares all required employment documentation
• Employee Maintenance
  • Maintains personnel files in compliance with federal and state regulations concerning employment
  • Administers compensation program
  • Leads performance review and merit review processes to ensure consistency and appropriate rigor for talent calibration and succession planning
  • Maintains and updates HR and timekeeping system
  • Submits accurate information to Payroll
• Employee Relations
  • Coaches and trains managers to properly apply human resources policies and procedures, laws, standards and government regulations
  • Responds to employee relations issues such as employee complaints, harassment allegations, and civil rights complaints
  • Coordinates employee activities to ensure that all programs comply with company guidelines
• Employment Policies
  • Participates in administrative staff meetings and attends other meetings and seminars
  • Maintains company organization charts and employee directory
  • Assists in evaluation of reports, decisions, and results of department in relation to established goals. Recommends new approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency of department and services performed
• Terminations
  • Processes terminations
  • Conducts exit interviews, analyzes data and makes recommendations to the management team for corrective action and continuous improvement
  • Represents the company for any unemployment claims
• Safety
  • Participates and supports management with safety program to evaluate effectiveness of safety processes
  • Conducts continuous safety training
• Training
  • Develops and administers onsite training programs to assure maximum effectiveness of staff
  • Manages training; identifies training needs, supports organizing training, ensures that training is performed, maintains training files
  • Coordinates external trainings with employees, supervisors and management

What Makes You Great

• 2 year Degree (Associates) in related field or equivalent
• 5 years of experience preferred
• Ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues, by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulations and employment law
• Ability to objectively coach employees and management through complex, difficult, and emotional issues
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and behave in a professional manner
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with superiors, co-workers, and individuals inside and outside the Company
• Substantial knowledge of employment practices, laws and regulations
• Good computer skills

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is:

• Frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear
• Occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by
adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #salaried #BET

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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