Full-Time

Sr Human Resources Generalist

Posted on 10/1/2025

Shearers Foods

Shearers Foods

1-10 employees

Manufactures private-label salty snacks

No salary listed

Massillon, OH, USA

In Person

Category
People & HR (1)
Required Skills
Customer Service
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred (not required) or 5 years on the job experience as a Human Resource Generalist.
  • Minimum of 3 years Human Resources work experience in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
  • Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of employees and management.
  • Knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, including knowledge of EEO, ADA and FMLA
  • Strong drive for results to lead and facilitate efforts to ensure human resources alignment with the company and/or site.
  • Experience with HRIS systems, ADP preferably
  • Demonstrated ability to deal directly with line management and hourly workforce to build consensus, establish trust, communicate effectively and foster culture change.
  • Strong project management and customer service skills
  • Ability to manage priorities.
  • Ability to lead with empathy.
  • Ability to work in a fast pace, results oriented environment.
  • Ability to lead others.
Responsibilities
  • Administers various human resource plans and procedures for all employees; assists in the development and implementation of personnel policies and procedures; prepares and maintains employee handbook and policies and procedures manual.
  • Administers LOA programs, processes applicable paperwork and disability claims if needed.
  • Develops and maintains affirmative action program; files EEO-1 report annually; maintain other records, reports and logs to conform to EEO regulations.
  • Handles employee relations counseling, outplacement counseling and exit interviewing.
  • Assists in evaluation of reports, decisions and results of department in relation to established goals. Recommends new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency of the department and services performed.
  • Maintains compliance with federal and state regulations concerning employment.
  • Manage corporate ethical sourcing audit program, which includes the relationship with the 3rd party auditor, scheduling audits for the plants, and ensuring plants are completing pre-work for the audits
  • Own relationship with corporate uniform vendor
  • Facilitates training on HR related topics.
  • Responds to the DOL pertaining to unemployment information requests.
  • Assists on special projects as requested.
  • Keeps abreast of changes in HR law to continue to maintain compliance.
  • Drive an actively engaged culture through positive interactions with the hourly workforce.
  • Communicate, interpret, and enforce all company policies and practices applicable to the site.
  • Manage headcount and execute staffing strategy that supports the needs of the business.
  • Work with Operations Leaders to develop effective new hire on boarding programs.
  • Lead Retention and Rewards and Recognition Employee Involvement Teams.
  • Oversee all corrective actions/discipline to assure compliance with Company policy and best practices regarding documentation.
  • Oversee administrative process around data management including but not limited to new hire set up and associate information management, compensation and benefits administration, leave of absence management, and other similar requirements.
  • Assure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements such as FMLA, ADA, FLSA, and other federal, state, and local regulations that are applicable to the human element of our business.
Desired Qualifications
  • None, since after filtering the text for non-trivial items, the job posting does not list any "desirable" or "preferred" qualifications.

Shearer's Foods makes and packages salty snacks, focusing on private-label and contract-pack production for other brands. Its core product line began as hand-cooked kettle chips, made in-house at its Ohio facilities, and the business now services retailers and food companies across North America. How it works: it operates as a full-scale contract manufacturer, handling cooking, processing, packaging and distribution of snacks for private-label brands, with facilities equipped for large-volume production. How it differs: it has a long-standing history of manufacturing from scratch (since 1979), a deep specialization in private-label and contract packing, and a wide geographic footprint supported by private-equity ownership that enables scale and reliability. What it aims for: to be one of the largest private-label salty-snack manufacturers in North America, delivering consistent quality and capacity to retailers and brand owners.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$53M

Headquarters

Massillon, Ohio

Founded

1974

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Expanded from 5 to 17 plants under prior ownership.
  • Grew to 5,000 employees via automation and safety.
  • $2.1 billion revenue in 2024 shows strong performance.

What critics are saying

  • Lubbock closure lays off 176 due to key customer loss.
  • Oyster cracker recall hits Walmart, Target in 24 states.
  • CD&R forces cost-cuts, disrupts in 18-36 months.

What makes Shearers Foods unique

  • Largest North American private label salty snacks manufacturer.
  • World's biggest kettle-cooked snacks producer.
  • First LEED platinum-certified food plant in Massillon.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

401(k) Company Match

Short Term Disability

Long Term Disability

Group Critical Accident Insurance

Group Critical Illness Insurance

Employee Assistance Plan

Company News

Taste of Home
Mar 14th, 2025
Cracker Recall: Oyster Crackers Sold at Walmart, Target Recalled Over Metal Contamination

Shearer's Foods, which supplies oyster crackers that are sold as store brands, recently issued a recall in 24 states because of a possible contamination risk.

Cox Media Group
Jan 7th, 2025
Snack food company gets $12.5M in tax credits to build local factory

Shearer's Foods received $12.5 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits for their new facility in Moraine, according to a media release by CityWide Development Corporation.

Powder & Bulk Solids
May 1st, 2024
Food and Beverage Industry Projects in May 2024

Snack food manufacturer Shearer's Foods is planning to invest $106 million for the renovation and equipment upgrades on a processing facility in Moraine.

FreightWaves
Feb 8th, 2024
329 Layoffs Hit Freight-Related Firms In Texas

Shearer’s FoodsShearer’s Foods is permanently closing a production facility in Lubbock, Texas, and laying off all 176 workers, according to a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).The Massillon, Ohio-based company is a contract manufacturer and private label supplier of salty snacks, cookies and crackers.“After an extensive period of consideration, the difficult decision has been made to shutter production at our facility in Lubbock, effective March 31,” the company said in an email to FreightWaves. “This decision came after closely analyzing our supply chain and determining how to best manufacture our products to service our customers. The decision was made largely due to a decrease in demand from the largest customer of the facility.” Shearer’s opened the 180,000-square-foot facility in Lubbock in 2007. The company and its subsidiaries currently operate 16 manufacturing facilities and a distribution center in North America. Company officials did not say if they plan to close other facilities.In December, Shearer’s Foods was acquired by New York-based private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier Rice. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.HollingsworthTransportation and logistics provider Hollingsworth is shutting down a distribution center in Fort Worth and laying off 153 workers. Company officials said the facility’s closure was related to losing a contract with security and aerospace firm Lockheed Martin

Grocery Insight Magazine
Dec 13th, 2023
CD&R to Acquire Shearer's Foods from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board

In this time, Shearer's has also invested in its plant network to strengthen its relationships with strategic blue-chip customers, while also diversifying its geographic and product mix.

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