HR Business Partner

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.

Michael foods, Inc. located in Britt, Iowa where more eggs are produced within a 100 mile radius than anywhere in the world. Small town living and friendly faces make Britt, Iowa a place to call home. Our location is an egg processing flacility that varies from breaking, pasteurization, and dried egg. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that's First in Food.

We are seeking a dynamic HR Business Partner to join our team. As an integral part of our organization, you will collaborate closely with frontline leaders to drive plant performance while providing crucial support for employees. Reporting to the HR Director, you will play a pivotal role in coaching, supporting, and influencing our customer groups to effectively execute their people plans. This position requires a strong partnership mindset, contributing to company objectives within a matrix structure. Directly supporting plant leadership team members, you will also engage in HR projects impacting the entire facility, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, and environmental practices. Many of our employees are Spanish speaking so being proficient in both English and Spanish is preferred.

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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Be a partner to deliver value to customer groups and their management teams in a plant environment that will enable them to develop individual employee ability resulting in increased organizational capabilities.
  • Work in partnership with customer groups to manage employee relations issues. Promote positive and pro-active employee relations support to team members and respective leaders. Be a role model for and provide high levels of customer service to employees. Build management responsibility and capability for managing employee relations (where appropriate).
  • Lead generalist duties in the areas of performance management, OJT, training, talent acquisition, new employee orientation, benefits, compensation, etc., as a resource to team members and leaders.
  • Embed engagement, safety, and a performance management culture within the business area as a means of driving business improvement by ensuring clear goals and objectives, feedback and the improvement of customer service through behaviors aligned with our values.
  • Drive, influence, advise and support the cultural and people aspects of organizational change, structures, people processes and business improvement initiatives within the customer groups in order to improve business efficiency and people management, allowing for flexibility and planned growth.
  • Assist customer groups to improve and deliver decision support via HR data and metrics that are meaningful to drive business objectives, as well as building accountability and visual management.
• Partner with the HR Centers of Excellence (COE) to leverage resources and support company-wide initiatives and processes.
  • Provides feedback to HR team, including Specialists (COE) and peer groups on implementation and utilization of tools to ensure flawless execution of HR initiatives.
  • Responsible for representing the customer’s needs from the plant level and providing customer feedback to the COE teams.
• Lead projects that support plant and Supply Chain initiatives to enhance HR processes.
• Minimize business risk and enhance the company culture by ensuring that all management are knowledgeable in all required legal subject areas Compliance, Code of Conduct, Diversity & Sexual Harassment, Interviewing and selection skills, employment law, etc.
• Ensures compliance with all Federal, State and Local legal and regulatory requirements.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• B.S. or B.A. degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field preferred.
• 5+ years of increasing Human Resources responsiblities in a manufacturing environment required.
• Demonstrated success managing projects required.
• Bilingual English Spanish Preferred.

Physical Demands

The physical demands required in this position are those that are typical of an office environment. The ability to travel by automobile, airplane or other transportation is necessary, and such travel may occasionally entail long distances.

Work Environment

The primary work environment for this position is typical of an office work environment; it will require the periodic presence in a manufacturing environment in which appropriate personal protective equipment is prescribed and must be used.

Language Skills

The ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations; write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients and customers.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of ERP/HCM software, Applicant Tracking System; Internet software; Project Management software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the work and may not include all the duties associated with this position.