Hr Generalist - Full Time - Coke Farm

Coke Farm, a division of Charlie’s Produce - Who We Are

Coke Farm is a dynamic organic farming company, a part of Charlie's Produce, in beautiful San Juan Bautista, CA. We offer an interesting and challenging work in a team oriented environment. 

Charlie's Produce is a privately owned wholesale produce company. We are the largest privately owned produce wholesaler on the West Coast, and we are growing. The secret to our success in this industry is PEOPLE! We strive to hire the best and we reward them with a working environment that fosters loyalty, stability, innovation, and growth. Charlie’s was founded in quality, and we are proud that it is still our focus.

With a team of dedicated people who are passionate about food, supply chain, and their community we are looking for like minded individuals to help further our goal to enhance our communities through quality produce.

What we offer:

• An amazing company culture!
• Medical/Dental/Vision/ Supplemental Life/AD&D/CCI/Accident insurance and One Pass fitness plans on the first of the month following hire.
• ESOP (Profit Sharing) and 401(k).
• Paid vacations, paid holidays and paid sick time. 
• 100% Prepaid College Tuition for employees and their dependents.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).

Additional Compensation Details:

• $27.00-$31.00 per hour Dependent on Experience and Location of Role
• Part-time hours, 20-24 hours per week - with eligibility to full benefits package!
• Potential 90-day performance-based raise
• Yearly review with possibility of increase based on performance and tenure

The Role

To provide full-time human resources assistance to site specific division. This is an employee facing position and reports to the General Manager. The HR Generalist is able to answer general HR questions and knows when to escalate complex problems and issues. The HR Generalist is responsible for creating and maintaining confidential personnel files, managing anniversary and service award program, uploading new and current employee data into HRIS, running daily-weekly-monthly audit reports using RMC and HRIS system for compliance auditing and other duties as assigned by the manager.

Essential Responsibilities Include, but Not Limited To

• Answers routine inquiries from employees regarding benefits, company policies and procedures, vacation and sick accumulation, and job postings.
• Help employees resolve common issues related to: timeclock registration, timecard issues, HRIS access, workers comp and benefits.
• Perform employment verifications in accordance with company procedures.
• Manage division specific employee safety training program, safety committee with the Facilities Manager.
• Ability to train all employees ongoing on a variety of topics to include: food safety, safety, anti-harassment and ongoing compliance or policy specifics. 
• Upload all new hire forms into HRIS, work with the Safety and Food Safety team to ensure all relevant new hire courses are assigned in the RMC.
• Review and pull termed files monthly, organize the annual term file storage and purge project
• Monthly updates to the employee communication boards and intranet: anniversaries, employee spotlight, employee news and info section.
• Maintains employee personnel files in line with company policies and government regulations. Retains records in line with company record retention requirements.
• Work with managers to assign employees coursework in RMC (learning management system).
• Maintains knowledge of internal human resources functions and ensures policies, procedures, and reporting are in compliance.
• Process local unemployment claims.
• Maintain accurate updated OSHA, Accident Log.
• Processing workers comp claims and steering the preventative injury management process and maintain updated work comp files.
• Participate in safety committee meetings, being a champion of safety.
• Complete special projects necessary for the department and/or company assigned by management. 

Required Skills and Experience

• Bi-lingual, Spanish is required.
• 3+ years human resources experience, exposures to employee relations, time & attendance, compliance, safety, food safety, worker's compensation, training in CA 
• Ability to maintain the highly confidential nature of human resources work.
• Must possess stellar time management skills and be able to meet task deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail, and with pragmatic problem-solving skills
• Adept computer and word processing skills.
• Ability to plan, organize, implement, and follow through on projects.
• Exhibit tact, above average communication skills, ability to work effectively with both employees and managers with business acumen.
• All employees are responsible for food safety and are expected to notify the appropriate manager, supervisor or key personnel if they witness any compromise to food safety or food quality.
• Ability to convey a positive and professional image to applicants, employees and external customers.

Hear from Charlie's employees

Supplemental Information

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

We do not provide H1-B sponsorships at this time.

Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. 

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Charlie's Produce is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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