At Gordon Food Service, "Everyone Is Important"

It's one of the Core Values that makes our company strong.  Our Human Resources professionals are here to ensure that we have both the tools and the culture in place to maximize the performance of our people and ensure that they feel valued and recognized.  Divisional HR teams work daily with the business to bring the "people perspective" into the discussion and also to support our employees through their work life cycle, preserving the culture that makes us unique.  In addition, HR teams in our Home Office provide the strategy, processes, and programs that allow us to attract, develop, reward, and retain a workforce of over 19,000 people.

As an HR Generalist, you will perform professional level human resources duties in the following functional areas: benefits administration, employee relations, training, performance management, onboarding, policy implementation, recruitment/employment, diversity and inclusion, affirmative action and employment law compliance.  You will work closely with senior HR management to provide services for our Grand Rapids Warehouse departments.

What will you be responsible for:

• Serve as the liaison and HR business partner between various HR Shared Services and the division.
• Onboard new employees from offer through their first 90 days.
• Educate leadership on the Performance Management process and coaches employees and managers on basic employee relation
• Promote and educate on the Gordon Food Service Leadership Development initiatives.
• Plan and support benefits enrollment processes as well as educating employees on different benefit options.
• Understand, promote and support the Gordon Food Service Diversity and Inclusion vision, guiding principles, and initiatives.
• Support the management and administration of Workers Compensation, short and long term disability and FMLA.
• Be involved in decision making process regarding claim activities and denials, return to work process, serves as point of contact with employee, manager and Shared Service.
• Provide insights on how to interpret HR metrics such as turnover, new hires, diversity and AAP.
• Evaluate third‐party vendor bills and processes for payment.
• Administers Offboarding process, including paperwork processing, retirement information, employee relations, and departure survey, etc.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Two or more years of experience with broad knowledge of Human Resources functions OR equivalent combination of experience, education and training
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field is preferred
• A SPHR, PHR, SHRM SCP or SHRM CP certification preferred but not required