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Kansas AG

Director HR - Manufacturing

Kansas AG, OK, United States

at SunOpta Companies, Inc. in Midlothian, Texas, United States

Job Description

SunOpta Overview:
SunOpta (Nasdaq:STKL) (TSX:SOY) is an innovative and sustainable manufacturer fueling the future of food. With roots tracing back over 50 years, SunOpta drives growth for today's leading brands by serving as a trusted innovation partner and value-added manufacturer, crafting organic, plant-based beverages, fruit snacks, nutritional beverages, broths, and tea products sold through retail, club, foodservice, and e-commerce channels. Alongside the company's commitment to top brands, retailers, and coffee shops, SunOpta also proudly produces its own brands, including SOWN, Dream, and West Life. For more information, visit SunOpta and LinkedIn.
SunOpta is looking for talented individuals that demonstrate our most valued behaviors: Passion, Dedication, Speed, Entrepreneurship, Customer-Centricity, and Problem-Solver, to help create a brighter, healthier, and sustainable future of food!

Job Summary:
SunOpta is seeking a seasoned HR Director to be the dedicated business partner to our VP Manufacturing and to lead our Plant HR Manager team.
They will be responsible for:

  1. All HR strategies for manufacturing operations (design and execution)
  2. Thought/business-partnership and employee relations & manager development for the manufacturing operations organization.
  3. People leadership over all plant HR Managers/Sr HRMs (6) & their HR Assistants/Plant Admin Assistants (5).

Essential Functions of the Job:

Business Partnering

  1. Contribute to and implement HR (aka Org Effectiveness, Talent & Culture) strategy for assigned clients to achieve business objectives and drive employee engagement.
  2. Coach and guide managers/leadership to increase their effectiveness as leaders, providing direct, transparent, and timely feedback and coaching.
  3. Provide insights and trends to leadership as well as solutions and strategy ideas to solve problems.
  4. Ensure execution of/personally facilitate talent/team development sessions, performance calibrations, talent reviews, compensation review, employee relations, and talent acquisition support/onboarding for key roles.

Team Leadership

  1. Inspire, demonstrate, and teach strategic HR business partnering capabilities.
  2. Coach and guide HR Managers to increase their effectiveness including providing direct, transparent, and timely feedback, set goals, team meetings, best practice sharing, program/process completion tracking, etc.
  3. Ensures each plant has a documented "Org, Talent & Culture" plan-on-a-page/strategy for the year that syncs up to overall Ops leadership & HR priorities and ensures the plans are progressed throughout the year through the HR and plant leadership teams.
  4. Actively participate in plant Quarterly Business Reviews with C-suite leadership.
  5. Travels to and builds personal relationships with plant regularly and headquarters teams.

Org Effectiveness, Talent & Culture

  1. Review line staffing, staffing costs to budget, turnover, time-to-fill, org health (engagement) survey, focus groups, safety, etc. data for trends and offers insights & coaching to leadership/HRMs for action planning as appropriate.
  2. Leads projects personally or through others to streamline and improve HR processes, tools, and programs & build people manager capabilities (i.e., lead People Pillar of Ops Transformation, onboarding, manager/supervisor training, career pathing, performance process, talent review, Roles, Accountabilities & Measures, Role Profiles, etc.)
  3. Ensures organizational effectiveness through ongoing organizational design, analysis and implementation, and change management consulting/leadership.
  4. Drive the people strategy & change leadership on significant organizational changes that include transformations, reorganizations, downsizings, acquisitions, factory moves, and start-ups.
  5. Develop and coordinate all aspects of communication relating to change initiatives.
  6. Partner with HR Centers of Expertise in learning & development, OD, talent management to facilitate and/or ensure execution locally of programming (i.e., may lead/co-lead team effectiveness and/or manager/supervisor trainings at some plants).

Employee Relations & Safety

  1. Stay current in general recent federal, state and case law changes and monitors labor law updates/changes that affect HR.
  2. Ensures effective safety procedures, tools and record keeping are managed through site leadership.
  3. Adheres to company GMP's (good manufacturing practices), safety procedures and all other quality processes.
  4. Leads/ensures call-in line investigations are conducted.
  5. Assist with communication and interpretation of HR policies and procedures.

Other duties, as assigned.

The Employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Employer does not discriminate in employment and no question on this application is used for the purpose of limiting or excusing any applicant's consideration for employment on a basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

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