Senior HR Generalist, Employee Relations and Recruitment

Rookwood Pottery is seeking a Senior HR Generalist to own and strengthen the company's core human resources function. Reporting directly to the President, this is a hands‑on, build‑and‑run role for someone who wants real ownership — not a seat in a large HR department, but the HR professional for a growing, ~65-person manufacturing company who sets the standard for how we hire, support, and take care of our people.

You'll run the day‑to‑day across employee relations, benefits, onboarding, compliance, and records, while improving the systems underneath them over time. The right person is equally comfortable on the production floor and in a leadership meeting, exercises sound judgment and discretion with sensitive matters, and keeps leadership genuinely informed. This role carries clear authority and direct access to the President, and offers the chance to build durable HR systems in a stable, hands‑on environment.

Serve as the primary point of contact for employee relations across production, retail, and administrative teams

Manage discipline, performance documentation, corrective action, and terminations — applied consistently and fairly across every department

Lead administration of the company's health, dental, vision, and ancillary benefit programs

Partner with our broker and carriers on plan design, open enrollment, and cost management (we are actively modernizing our benefits — you'll help shape it)

HR Systems & Payroll Partnership

Administer our HRIS (ADP Workforce Now) — employee records, onboarding, time & attendance, and reporting

HR builds and verifies from approved time records, Finance reviews and submits

Identify and implement improvements to HR workflows, internal controls, and data accuracy

Own onboarding end to end, including Form I‑9 completion and new‑hire orientation

Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment law — including FMLA, ADA/PWFA accommodations, FLSA classification, ACA/ALE reporting, and EEO

Support workplace safety and OSHA compliance in a manufacturing setting, partnering with operations

Maintain the employee handbook as a living, practical, enforceable document; revise policies as operations and law evolve

Keep complete, accurate, and confidential personnel files and manage record retention

Support onboarding and compliance‑related training, and help managers with performance documentation

3-7 years in an HR generalist role, ideally including time as the sole or lead HR person for a site or company

Direct experience with employee relations, discipline, and terminations

Hands‑on HRIS/payroll experience — ADP Workforce Now strongly preferred

Working knowledge of employment law and HR compliance (FMLA, ADA, I‑9, FLSA, ACA, OSHA)

Manufacturing, operations, or similar hourly‑plus‑salaried environment strongly preferred

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

This is a role for an HR professional who values clarity, consistency, and accountability.