Senior Hr Operations Specialist

Who We Are

Founded in 1920 and based in Addison, Illinois, Clyde’s is a thriving, 4th generation family-owned food manufacturer and a leading national supplier of donuts to the largest global retailers in mass grocery, convenience stores, and food service. We specialize in the manufacture of a wide assortment of ready to serve, ready to sell, and ready to finish donuts for customer showcases and retail display. Our Company is financially strong with a consistent track record of stability and growth under the careful leadership of the Bickford family. Clyde’s offers the best in a family-owned environment with a friendly, informal, and supportive culture. We invite you to consider a career with our special company.

Why are we hiring?

Clyde's is growing very fast. We continue to enjoy multi-year, accelerated, double-digit growth. In 2023, we opened our 2nd production plant and are adding many new positions! Clyde's is a place where you can make a real difference and find real opportunity. We are looking for enthusiastic, collaborative, and hard-working individuals to join our family and become part of our 103-year-old success story.

Summary of Position

Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, the Senior HR Operations Specialist will support the VP of Human Resources and the HR team in establishing and executing well-engineered and documented business processes, improving analytics and reporting, and optimization of HR systems. The Specialist will serve as the subject matter expert and primary administrator for HR systems, processes, and reporting with a focus on continuous improvement, data integrity, timeliness, reliability, and documentation.

Essential Duties

• Benefits Administration: Employee issue resolution, leave of absence and advice-to-pay processing, weekly maintenance of HR benefits system, project management for annual enrollment including system configuration and testing, benefits records management, and monthly billing reconciliations.
• HR Analytics, Reporting and Compliance: Preparation/ maintenance of HR reports including workforce plan, HR flash report, safety report, OSHA 300 logs, annual EEO-1, food safety and safety training report, turnover/ retention report, and attendance report.
• Payroll Administration: Weekly time and attendance processing for payroll.
• Systems Administration: System optimization and maintenance for Paylocity, Bswift, Kronos, Alchemy, Yourco, and Company access control systems.
• HR Processes: Collaboration with HR team on evaluation, streamlining and improvement of all HR processes. Execute critical administrative components for on-boarding, off boarding, benefits, leave of absence, compensation, payroll, and training.
• Records Management: Oversee major overhaul/ re-organization of HR electronic records repository. Maintenance of all critical HR records.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or combination of education and significant experience.
• 7+ years of technical administrative experience in mid-size to large companies in payroll, benefits, or HR analytics.
• Fluent in MS Suite. High intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel to assist in creation, maintenance, and analysis of reports (formulas, VLOOKUP, pivot table, formatting)
• Demonstrated and substantial experience with HR systems.
• Exceptional organizational/ administrative skills.
• A warm personality; upbeat, friendly, approachable, and steady under pressure.
• Someone who enjoys detail-oriented, analytical and administrative work.
• Polished written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred/ Helpful

• Bi-lingual, read/write fluency in English and Spanish.
• Manufacturing experience supporting multiple shifts.
• Prior experience with Paylocity, Kronos, Alchemy.
• A self-starter with a strong work ethic and desire to improve things.
• Honest and highly ethical.

We Offer

• Highly competitive base pay.
• Generous annual bonus with history of consistent payout.
• Medical plan options including HMO, PPO and HDHP with H.S.A
• Dental Plan. Two plan options.
• Vision plan.
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Short-term disability plan (Company paid).
• Long-term disability plan (Company paid).
• Group term life and AD&D insurance (Company Paid).
• Voluntary insurance plans Including life, AD&D, accident and critical illness.
• Generous paid time off benefits and 7 holidays.
• 401(k) plan including 4% matching contribution and immediate vesting.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Various leaves of absence programs for life’s emergencies.
• Clean, modern, and safe facilities.
• Company-provided uniforms and an annual safety shoe subsidy.

Clyde’s Donuts is proud to be an equal opportunity/ reasonable accommodation employer.