About the role

We are a 200-person operation across two production facilities. As our first dedicated HR hire, you will own building a excellent team - recruiting frontline workers, supervisors, department leads, accountants, sales executives, software engineers and other professionals.

You will own the full journey: defining hiring needs, sourcing and assessing talent, improving hiring decisions, learning from employee performance and continuously raising the quality of the team.

If you enjoy being on the floor, solving real people problems, and seeing direct results from your work this role is for you.

Responsibilities
Post jobs and source candidates across multiple channels
Work with the team to understand role requirements clearly
Shortlist, screen and coordinate interviews end-to-end
Run recruitment across all levels: labour, supervisors, staff and managers
Run recruitment across all departments: harvesting, packing, maintenance, growing and more
Build a candidate pipeline for current and future hiring needs




Observe teams on the ground to understand real people and performance issues
Take ownership of people problems on the floor and help resolve them
Support supervisors in addressing attendance, discipline and performance issues
Work with leadership to improve retention and reduce avoidable turnover
Flag low performers and high-potential staff within the current team
Track easy but meaningful people metrics and report to leadership

What We're Looking For
Minimum 4 years of experience in talent acquisition and people operations
Extremely hands-on and results-oriented this is not a desk role
Comfortable with both blue-collar and white-collar hiring
Not afraid of physical work settings (farm, production, warehouse)
A quick learner who can figure things out with limited hand-holding
Experience in manufacturing, agriculture, food processing, dairy, logistics, warehousing or similar industries strongly preferred

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