Human Resources Manager (Bilingual in English/Spanish)

Human Resources Manager (Bilingual in English/Spanish)

About Shaw Bakers

At Shaw Bakers, we love mixing renowned French technics with state-of-the-art process innovation to bring delicious baked goods to our local community through our legendary local Cafes, as well as national retail partners across North America. We are an aggressive, fast-growing company with a full pipeline of exciting new projects, products, and employment opportunities.

The Human Resources Manager will serve as a proactive people partner to the manufacturing operations leadership team in South San Francisco, partnering to build people programs for Shaw Bakers, effectively executing the programs in consultation with key stakeholders across all functions, including the executive leadership team. The role will be responsible for helping to create and evolve an inclusive, employer-of-choice work environment through continuous assessment of our rapidly scaling workplace needs, including incorporation of all systems, tools, processes and innovative people programs needed to drive business goals and employee satisfaction.

In this role, the HR Manager will work with the Sr. Director People Operations and CFO to build people initiatives and programs that will be used as best practices that can effectively be deployed across all current and future Shaw facilities. The HR Manager will work to ensure consistency and compliance across all programs, executing them with a high level of integrity and discretion. The HR Manager will develop, document, and communicate all company policies, employee wellness, with a focus on company and manufacturing plant morale, staffing, and employee relations.

The HR Manager ensures their site-specific supervisors, managers and employees are managed effectively and have the necessary tools and training to manage performance effectively. This position also serves as an active member in the external HR community, with local manufacturing HR networks to bring best practices from the manufacturing industry, ensuring a strong competitive position.

Who You Are:

• Analytically driven, using data to make decisions about future programs.
• Critical thinker, engaged in root-cause analysis.
• Strategic thinker with a focus on long-term continuous improvements, aligning with business objectives
• Understand the talent landscape, and proactive consultant to your business leadership.
• Able to advise how to take critical, calculated risks.
• Able to inspire, engage and mobilize the organization.
• Thrive in a dynamic environment, working on multiple projects simultaneously, requiring strong organizational and time management skills.
• Hands-on people leader.
• Ability to communicate effectively, managing employee relations and conflict fairly.
• Operational and execution oriented, with comfort in working in a manufacturing environment.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.

What You Need:

• BS/BA - HR Management, Business or IO Psychology, OR equivalent experience
• Bi-lingual English/Spanish.
• 7+ years of Human Resources experience, as a Manager leading all people functions, including hourly staff recruiting, salary administration, payroll, benefits, employment law, training and performance management.
• 3 + years’ experience in a manufacturing operations environment; specifically partnering with the plant.
• 3+ years managing an HR staff, including payroll and/or coordination.
• Equally experienced with executing people operations programs and successfully partnering with advising leaders.
• Proven ability to work in a rapidly growing, fast-paced organization, managing competing priorities.
• Advanced technical skills, including HRIS Systems, Microsoft Office, ERP, and PM Systems.
• PHR or SPHR strongly preferred

What You’ll Do:

Management

• Manage all HR processes, policy and practices to ensure compliance.
• Serve on plant management team and people operations team to drive alignment, progress, quality, and innovation.
• Management of site HR Coordinator and other direct reports, as needed.
• Manage specifically assigned vendor partners.
• Manager employee events, meetings, trainings.

Talent Planning

• Lead headcount planning across the plant, in partnership with the Plant Director, ensuring proper talent mix for maximum productivity.
• Ongoing headcount management for the SSF facility.
• Advise succession plans, promotions, & new hires.
• Contribute to the full-cycle Shaw recruiting methodology, partnering with Talent Acquisition.
• Develop ongoing relationships with employment career centers, trade schools, and outside staffing agencies.
• Plan and execute local career fairs ensuring Shaw Bakers is represented professionally.
• Manage all federal and state compliance audits, collecting data and creating action plans.
• Develop and lead all training and development initiatives.

Performance Management

• Execute established full cycle annual performance processes locally, in partnership with plant and corporate leadership.
• Advise leaders about succession and promotion planning, through a systematic process around competency models, mobility, and the identification of skill gaps.
• Ensure job descriptions are reviewed and compliant with all local, state and federal regulations.
• Manage compensation with Plant Management, and HR & finance leadership, ensuring compensation and bonus rewards are mapped to performance-based outcomes.
• Manage annual bonus program, in partnership with plant leadership.
• Ensure all salary increases are equitable, managed to compliance, documented and reported.
• Advise and manage succession planning.
• Conduct exit interviews, gather insights on employee experiences, and provide feedback to leadership to improve retention.

People Operations

• Lead all people operations functions, including onboarding, offboarding, training, systems administration, payroll, compliance, and reporting.
• Manage data in the HRIS, ensuring reporting accuracy.
• Ensure timely coordination of all exit paperwork, benefits, final pay, and system access termination.
• Manage benefits open enrollment, including partnering with benefits provider.
• Participate on the safety team.

Employee Relations

• Support development and training of supervisors and leads teams on all aspects of employee relations and compliance.
• Ensure all company policies are applied consistently, and systems and processes are maintained.
• Investigate and document employee issues and conflicts to bring them to resolution thoroughly, supporting disciplinary meetings, terminations, and investigations.
• Manage employee relations communications with all key stakeholders.
• Manage all local, state, and federal compliance, related to employment, ensuring a safe, sound, and compliant work environment.