Plant HR Lead (Manufacturing)

About the role

We are a 200-person operation across two production facilities. As our first dedicated HR hire, you will own building a great 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 simple 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 environments (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