Staffing Manager

Job Summary: The Staffing Manager leads and owns the hourly team member recruiting, staffing, and onboarding programs for the facility, ensuring a consistent candidate experience, timely fulfillment of staffing needs, and compliance with applicable employment practices and policies.

Essential Functions:

The Staffing Manager combines hands-on, high-volume hiring execution with candidate communication, compliance, and partnership with operations leaders to meet facility staffing needs.

• Lead and own internal and external recruiting and staffing efforts for hourly team members, including reviewing applications/resumes, scheduling and conducting interviews, coordinating pre-employment testing, attending offsite job fairs, hosting on-site hiring events, and assisting internal candidates with the application process


• Identify, develop, and maintain staffing pipelines through schools, job boards, employers, nonprofit organizations, signage, community resources, and other recruiting channels


• Coordinate and support New Employee Orientation (NEO) events to ensure new hires receive timely onboarding information and a consistent introduction to the facility


• Responsible for maintaining applicant tracking system integrity and organization


• Maintain appropriate communication with internal and external applicants through recruiting and onboarding process


• Provide timely reports on staffing levels, open positions, and turnover, and analyze the results to identify trends and staffing needs


• Assist HR team in identifying opportunities for process improvements or cost savings


• Partner with HR team to take timely and appropriate action in the investigation and resolution of workplace complaints, including discrimination, harassment and wage/hour concerns


• Ensure recruiting, staffing, and onboarding activities comply with applicable federal, state, and local employment requirements and company policies, and maintain accurate, timely records


• Responsible for reporting food safety issues

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, organizational development, or a related field preferred


• At least five years of recruiting and staffing experience required


• At least two years of experience recruiting and staffing hourly employees in a manufacturing or production facility


• Bilingual (Spanish or Arabic) a plus


• Knowledge of current state and federal employment laws


• Excellent customer service, communication (oral/written) skills, project management and team collaboration skills


• Strong initiative, problem solving, organizational skills and attention to detail


• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams


• Experience using HRIS/ATS systems


• Ability to work successfully with all levels of applicants, employees and management


• Experience and/or ability to excel in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment


• Ability to communicate and understand instructions in English

The company is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Working Conditions/Physical Factors:

• Primarily an office environment but occasionally individual is on production floor with exposure to heat, dust and allergens such as nuts, peanuts, dairy and grains

• Must be able to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally


• Must be able to ascend and descend building stairways and ramps to perform tasks required in job description


• Position requires frequent sitting for long periods of time with occasional standing, reaching, walking, lifting, grasping, bending and twisting