Recruiting Manager

Shenandoah Growers, Inc. (SGI) is the nation's leader in fresh, organic and sustainable herbs, herb purees, and much more, enabling us to change the way the world experiences food and flavor! We have facilities in VA, GA, TX, AZ, MI, IN, WA, CA and are rapidly expanding, adding new professional opportunities on an ongoing basis. If you are the best of the best and have an intense desire to be a part of something truly amazing, we want to talk with you!

SHENANDOAH GROWERS, INC.

JOB LOCATION: HARRISONBURG, VA

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: RECRUITING MANAGER

DEPT: HUMAN RESOURCES

REPORTS TO: VP of HUMAN RESOURCES

SUPERVISES: RECRUITING TEAM MEMBERS

FLSA CLASSIFICATION: Exempt

TYPE: Full-Time

JOB SUMMARY: The Recruiting Manager is responsible for efficient, compliant, and effective full cycle recruitment nationally for Shenandoah Growers, Inc. (“SGI” and “the Company”). The Recruiting Manager is also responsible for ensuring the Company has access to the widest possible pool of candidates, that selection focus remains on the best qualified hires, and that staffing activities are executed in a manner consistent with SGI’s Purpose, Vision, Mission, and Core Values.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBIITIES:

• Critically evaluates SGI current recruiting procedures and modifies them accordingly, and when necessary, designs brand new procedures and oversees their implementation.
• Supervises the Recruiting team utilizing a great deal of communication with the team in order to streamline processes, solve problems, identify areas in need of improvement, and promote a sense of team.
• Manages, coaches, and develops all members of the Recruiting team, ensuring staff are engaged, empowered, trained, and fully optimized.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable federal and state employment laws and requirements, Company policies and Core Values. Ensures that every individual responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring activity performed at SGI sites and Corporate Headquarters has been properly trained on compliant interviewing and selection practices before they conduct interviews.
• Applies knowledge of talent acquisition best practices in advising and coaching hiring leaders and other HR team members on recruitment and staffing processes to increase efficiency, reduce total time-to-fill, and improve new hire and hiring leader satisfaction.
• Prepares and presents for approval to CHRO and Director of HR an Annual Recruiting Plan reflecting alignment with corporate goals. Present strategic sourcing and candidate attraction plans and campaigns for critical roles and functional segments, such as Operational leadership, Project Managers, CDL Drivers, as well as site-by-site seasonal staffing to meet peak season labor demands.
• Develops clearly defined roles, qualifications, and requirements for every job title, and collaborates with the Corporate Training Specialist to finalize valid job descriptions including proper FLSA, EEO, Workers Compensation classifications/codes, and partners with Payroll & Benefits team to ensure job titles are listed accurately in HRIS/Payroll system.
• Ensures authorized Hiring Requisitions are tracked and promptly added to Internal Jobs Posting. Determines openings to be advertised on SGI website and other external job boards, etc. and develops and places ads accordingly.
• Works with hiring leaders to develop a candidate profile to aid in identification of the best candidates for each role and partners closely with SGI’s vendor to conduct appropriate candidate assessments to help assure best hiring decisions.
• Conducts and documents professional, well-prepared phone and/or in-person interviews before presenting top qualified candidates to hiring leaders.
• Conducts reference checking, pre-employment background checking as required by the role and Company policy; collaborates with Payroll and Benefits Manager to recommend appropriate starting compensation; obtains required salary and offer final approval; prepares offer letters, presents job offers, and coordinates start dates with all stakeholders.
• Responsible for creating and implementing clearly defined, well-documented and authorized hiring incentive programs when needed, working together with SGI’s Payroll & Benefits Manager to ensure efficient integration with payroll.
• Responsible for the Company’s full compliance nationally with verifying legal eligibility to work in the U.S. through timely and accurate completion of Form I-9’s and the E-Verify process.
• Responsible for all aspects of SGI’s Visa Guest Worker programs, including management and documentation for individuals to work at SGI under any type of Visa.
• Responsible for ensuring SGI representation at and advance coordination for appropriate in-person and virtual career fairs and establishing relationships and recruitment advertising accounts with state and county employment centers, ensuring openings to be externally advertised are posted there.
• Develops and implements an effective, consistently applied means of applicant and applicant-source tracking and reporting and proactively communicate status of open searches to hiring leaders.
• Creates SGI’s “Gold Standard” for candidate and new hire experience, personally execute against it, and coach other hiring/onboarding decision makers and stakeholders to ensure its Company-wide usage.
• Collaborates with the SGI Marketing Team to provide text/copy needed for timely creation of print and electronic recruitment materials, displays, etc. that reinforce the Company’s brand, mission and core values, commitment to diversity, and that articulate SGI’s employment value proposition.
• Remains abreast of current recruiting and onboarding best practices and projected trends and embrace new tools and technology that provide optimal recruiting/onboarding efficiencies.
• Responsible for monitoring and updating SGI’s websites’ career center to ensure it accurately reflects SGI’s employment value proposition and is always up to date as positions are filled and new openings arise.
• Establishes and nurtures relationships with community college and university career centers near each SGI location, and establish SGI Internship Programs.
• Other duties as required (non-essential function).

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field.

Experience: Minimum of 4 years’ progressive full-cycle recruiting experience, demonstrated success in recruiting front-line production workers to executive-level positions. Experience managing and prioritizing multiple concurrent searches/recruiting activities in a very fast-paced, high-volume environment. Experience with ATS, social media recruiting platforms and practices, recruitment metrics, and related reporting required. Prior experience recruiting in food production/manufacturing or CPG preferred but not required.

Language Fluency: English fluency reading, writing, spoken, and understood required; bi-lingual English/Spanish fluency is strongly preferred.

Technology: MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and strong keyboarding skillsets required.

Licensure: Valid driver’s licensure strongly preferred but not required.

Credentials: TA or HR certification desired but not required.

REQUIRED PHYSICAL ABILITIES:

Locomotion: Ability to move about between various environments and on different surfaces sufficiently to perform job duties and responsibilities.

Muscle Strength & Flexibility: Ability to bend, reach, stoop, squat, pivot, turn, balance, walk, push, pull, and lift and carry up to 25 lbs.

Sustained Fast Pace: Ability to perform duties, responsibilities and assigned tasks with maximum efficiency while working at a very fast sustained pace without reduction in accuracy and quality.

COGNITIVE/SENSORY REQUIREMENTS:

Learning: Ability to understand and follow directions and learn new skills.

Near Vision: Ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Speech Recognition: Ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Oral Comprehension: Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Oral Expression: Ability to communicate information and ideas speaking so others will understand.

Problem Sensitivity: Ability to discern when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem and knowing when to act.

Emergency Response: Ability to understand, respond quickly, and move appropriately according to workplace safety protocols.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Temperature: Generally, performs work in an office environment within a standard office temperature range.

Noise: Moderate – generally, between 80-90 decibels or below.

Fumes, Gases, Dust: Minimal.

REQUIRED PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMET (PPE) USED:

Workplace Safety: Non-slip shoes when in production areas.

Food Safety: Nitrile gloves, hair, and facial hairnets when in production areas.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:

Caring for Others: Job requires leaving egos at home and being sensitive to needs and feelings of co-workers as well as being understanding and helpful throughout the day.

Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, dependable, and fulfilling commitments.

Promptness: Job requires being on time and ready to begin work at start of shift and following breaks.

Friendliness: Job requires being friendly, welcoming, and inspiring to new teammates.

Cooperation: Job requires working with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.

Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive and negative) and to frequent variety in the workplace.

Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting constructive criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.

Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.

Respect for Diversity: Job requires working respectfully and with sensitivity alongside individuals from a very broad range of global cultures, languages, orientations, preferences, and appearances.

Accountability: Job requires being accountable for our own actions, behaviors, communication, and work performance.

Communication: Job requires, and it is the teammate’s responsibility, to communicate with their direct supervisor in a timely manner regarding any changes to attendance, time off, FMLA, etc.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

Ability and willingness to travel up to 15%.

This job description is not intended to cover or describe all the tasks, duties, and responsibilities the teammate may be required, or is asked to perform. Shenandoah Growers, Inc. retains to add, remove, and otherwise amend the job duties at any time, with or without notice to the teammate.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay
• Signing bonus

COVID-19 considerations:
All SGI Teammates are required to wear protective face masks at work. We are taking a broad range of steps to ensure both teammate and food safety.

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Recruiting: 4 years (Required)
• Microsoft Office: 1 year (Required)

Language:

• Fluently Bilingual: English/Spanish (Preferred)

Willingness To Travel:

• 25% (Preferred)

This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:

• Dependable -- more reliable than spontaneous
• People-oriented -- enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects
• Adaptable/flexible -- enjoys doing work that requires frequent shifts in direction
• Detail-oriented -- would rather focus on the details of work than the bigger picture
• Achievement-oriented -- enjoys taking on challenges, even if they might fail
• High stress tolerance -- thrives in a high-pressure environment

This Company Describes Its Culture as:

• Innovative -- innovative and risk-taking
• Aggressive -- competitive and growth-oriented
• Outcome-oriented -- results-focused with strong performance culture
• People-oriented -- supportive and fairness-focused
• Team-oriented -- cooperative and collaborative

Company's website:

• www.shenandoahgrowers.com

Benefit Conditions:

• Waiting period may apply

Work Remotely:

• No