Sr. Human Resources Manager

Description

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At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Break stone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—
Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis Heritage Dairy, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Senior Human Resources Manager based in Tulare, California.

The Senior Human Resources Manager partners with the local plant management team and employees to drive business strategy and achieve breakthrough results. S/he serves as a consultant to management on HR related issues and proactively assesses and anticipates people related needs, with a strong emphasis on Safety, Quality, Resource Deployment and Continuous Improvement. The HR Manager formulates partnerships across the HR function to deliver value added service to management and employees that reflect LHD's business objectives

From your EXPERTISE to our

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Understands, follows, and enforces all safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Oversees and participates in the recruitment, selection, and retention of all plant employees. Partners with Plant Leadership to maintain staffing levels according to business needs and the annual operating budget. Oversees the plant orientation/onboarding program for newly hired employees in partnership with the plant management team.
• Oversees site payroll administration and LOA process. Partners with USA Shared Services to ensure accurate payroll processing.
• Partners with Plant Director and USA Compensation team to administer annual hourly wage increase program.
• Partners closely with the plant management team to understand business issues and opportunities and assist them in developing HR initiatives as a strategic and tactical response to those needs.
• Partners with management team to improve organizational effectiveness by optimizing resource utilization, employee morale and engagement.
• Partners with management to implement tools and processes designed to improve the organization's overall effectiveness, change management initiatives, performance management processes and succession planning.
• Partners with LHD Corporate HR to enhance employee and management performance by identifying training and development needs, offering, and evaluating appropriate training programs, and ensuring effective utilization of performance management feedback systems and processes.
• Manages and enhances a productive work environment by resolving conflicts between management and associates, coaching management on effective management and coaching techniques and maintaining open communication with employees and managers.
• Advise and counsel managers on a variety of topics to optimize employee engagement, team development and organizational effectiveness. Provide counsel and training to…