Hr Generalist

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

As our Bakery HR Business Partner, you will foster an inclusive, engaging culture that empowers employees and drives business outcomes. We seek a strategic, ethical leader to provide guidance on equitable programs and policies, resolve issues with empathy, coach managers, and nurture our teams.

Responsibilities: 

• Provides support to the bakery in the areas of investigations, policy, and procedure enforcement.
• Investigate & resolve employee complaints including disciplinary actions, harassment, etc.
• Execute the many daily & weekly HR functions such as wage reports, temp labor reports, and other activities. Serve as a liaison between employees' concerns/issues & management.
• Administration of FMLA & all other personal leave of absence tracking for hourly employees.
• Recommends solutions to the management team for issuing appropriate steps of discipline following the attendance policy, and providing backup documentation for attendance–related corrective actions.
• Ensures timely government compliance in areas of wage & hour, EEO/AA, and Immigration & Naturalization Services. Responsible for policies and procedure implementation regarding staffing to ensure legal compliance.
• Primary support to coordinate company benefit programs to new hires which include health and welfare insurance, 401k, PTO, workers compensation & SDI. Assists employees with online enrollment and/or changes in the ADP portal. 
• Provides Human Resources support to the bakery in the areas of investigations, and policy & procedure enforcement. Assists in the daily administration of HR functions & activities. Is an advocate for the employees and interacts with employees to resolve issues.
• Investigate & resolve employee complaints including disciplinary actions, harassment, etc. Execute the many daily & weekly HR functions such as wage reports, temp labor reports, and other activities. Serve as a liaison between employees' concerns/issues & management.
• Designated Representative for I-9s and E-Verifying employment eligibility determinations and is the primary “set of second eyes” on all I-9 & E-Verifying processing paperwork, initialing I-9s after review. Maintains all active & terminated I-9 binders as well as updates & verifies all employment authorization information.
• Process changes such as leaves of absence, terminations, and resignations utilizing Success Factors and conduct exit interviews.
• Leads & performs open enrollment activities at the respective local bakery as required by Corporate Human Resources.
• Performs other duties or special projects as required by the Human Resources Manager.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred in Human Resources or Business Management or related field
• 5-7 years experience in Human Resources, preferably in a Manufacturing Environment
• Basic understanding of employment laws and regulations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and Internet fluency.
• Good presentation skills for (orientation of new hires).

Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.