Bilingual Recruiting and Onboarding Specialist

PURPOSE OF POSITION

The Bilingual Recruiting and Onboarding Specialist is responsible for managing and executing comprehensive recruitment and onboarding processes. This role aims to ensure a seamless experience for both candidates and hiring managers. The specialist will focus on creating effective strategies to attract and retain top talent, while also ensuring compliance with organizational policies and standards.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Recruitment

• Oversee the full recruitment lifecycle
• Manage job requisitions
• Evaluate resumes
• Conduct initial phone screenings and in-person interviews
• Create offer letters and negotiate salaries under the hiring managers direction
• Perform pre-employment checks
• Develop policies and strategies for talent attraction
• Utilize various channels to source candidates including but not limited to job boards, social media, referrals, networking and headhunting
• Collaborate with hiring managers to anticipate and meet staffing needs in line with staffing budgets
• Build and maintain relationships with applicants and former employees
• Research trends in talent acquisition to refine processes
• Participate in job fairs and recruitment events

Onboarding

• Coordinate and conduct new hire onboarding
• Introduce new hires to the company's culture, values, policies, and procedures
• Provide guidance and support to new hires throughout the onboarding process ensuring completion of all new hire employee forms along with access to necessary resources and tools in the HRIS platform
• Process all new hire paperwork in the HRIS platform
• Prepare and distribute onboarding material including uniforms

TRAVEL REQUIRMENTS

• Occasional travel to all Anchor owned locations as needed
• Overnight trips (1 to 2 nights) within Minnesota, Wisconsin and Indiana may be required periodically
• Company vehicle available for travel
• Must have valid driver’s license and personal car insurance

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, or a related field
• 4 years of experience in recruitment
• SHRM-CP or PHR a plus
• Bilingual in English and Spanish
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality
• Knowledge of employment-related laws and regulations
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
• Proficiency with or the ability to quickly learn the organizations HRIS and talent management systems

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job operates within a professional office environment. While performing the duties of this job inside the office, the employee is frequently exposed to normal working conditions for an office environment with a noise level that is usually quiet to moderate. The role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee may be required to stand for long periods of time as well as use hands or fingers to reach or handle, and to reach with hands and arms. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. All vision abilities are required to encompass close-up work. On occasion, employee must be able to tolerate and endure extended seasonal hours and maintain alertness to meet deadlines.

Occasionally while performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to machinery and moving parts, airborne particles including grain dust and hazardous materials or fumes, which may require the use of PPE. The employee may be exposed to adverse weather conditions, extended seasonal hours, high precarious places, and confined spaces. The noise level in some of the work environments may require the use of hearing protection.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Headquartered in Fargo, ND, Anchor Ingredients is the most customer-centric, innovative and transparent farm-to-food partner, dedicated to delivering premium ingredients and added value services to the food and pet food industries. Our farm-level relationships, combined with our global reach, allow us to efficiently procure and process ingredients from around the region and throughout the world, uniquely positioning us to fulfill our customers' diverse ingredient requirements. We take pride in our world-class team which boasts extensive industry experience combined with an unwavering dedication to our company’s mission, vision and values, and a commitment to delivering quality and innovation throughout the entire food supply chain.

DISCLAIMER

This job description is not a complete description of responsibility, but reflects the general qualifications, duties and/or responsibilities necessary to perform this position. All candidates who receive a written offer of employment will be required to successfully pass a background check, as well as testing for commonly abused controlled substances in accordance with the company’s Drug Free Workplace Policy. Anchor Ingredients reserves the right to revise the job description as circumstances warrant. Anchor Ingredients is an at-will employer, which means that either the employee or the company may terminate the relationship at any time, with or without notice, and with or without cause. We are an equal opportunity employer.