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Heidi Smith
Human Resources Business Partner
Posted: 01/14/26
2025-12-22
2026-02-13
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Category: HR - Generalist
Job Number: 11009
Job Description
Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP)
Turlock, CA
Comp: $80k-$100k We’re seeking a hands-on Human Resources Business Partner to support a fast-paced food manufacturing operation. This is a strong opportunity for mentorship and long-term growth, with a path toward expanded leadership responsibility over time. This role is a key partner to leadership and the floor - helping ensure we stay compliant, build strong people practices, and continuously improve how we hire, train, develop, and retain our workforce.
The ideal candidate is current on California employment law and payroll practices, confident handling sensitive issues, and comfortable operating in an environment where safety, quality, and production priorities matter every day.
What You’ll Do
HR Compliance, Employee Relations & Risk Reduction
California Labor Law & Payroll Support
Talent, Onboarding & Training
Safety, Workers’ Compensation & Leave Administration
Benefits & Employee Support
Turlock, CA
Comp: $80k-$100k We’re seeking a hands-on Human Resources Business Partner to support a fast-paced food manufacturing operation. This is a strong opportunity for mentorship and long-term growth, with a path toward expanded leadership responsibility over time. This role is a key partner to leadership and the floor - helping ensure we stay compliant, build strong people practices, and continuously improve how we hire, train, develop, and retain our workforce.
The ideal candidate is current on California employment law and payroll practices, confident handling sensitive issues, and comfortable operating in an environment where safety, quality, and production priorities matter every day.
What You’ll Do
HR Compliance, Employee Relations & Risk Reduction
- Serve as a trusted HR partner to leaders and employees—supporting day-to-day guidance and escalating issues appropriately.
- Help protect the company by identifying risk, improving documentation practices, and supporting fair, consistent application of policies.
- Support employee relations matters including coaching conversations, conflict resolution, attendance issues, performance documentation, and workplace investigations.
- Maintain HR records and ensure confidential files and processes are handled with integrity.
California Labor Law & Payroll Support
- Support accurate, compliant payroll processes (hourly and salaried), including HRIS/payroll updates for pay changes, garnishments, deductions, and employee status updates.
- Partner with operations and supervisors to troubleshoot timekeeping/timeclock issues, review exceptions, and support compliance with CA wage & hour rules (meal/rest periods, overtime, reporting time, etc.).
- Assist with separation processes and provide support for unemployment responses and related documentation.
Talent, Onboarding & Training
- Coordinate recruiting and hiring activities including job postings, screening coordination, interview scheduling, and offer/onboarding support.
- Strengthen onboarding and training routines in partnership with operations—helping new hires ramp effectively and consistently.
- Support performance review cycles and help leaders build better coaching and accountability habits.
Safety, Workers’ Compensation & Leave Administration
- Partner with the safety and operations teams to support a strong safety culture through tracking, reporting, and follow-through.
- Assist with Workers’ Compensation coordination: reporting claims, maintaining communication with internal stakeholders and providers, and ensuring documentation is complete.
- Maintain injury/incident tracking and support required logs/reporting as needed.
- Support leave of absence processes (CFRA/FMLA/other applicable leaves) and help ensure documentation and timelines are met.
Benefits & Employee Support
- Assist with benefits administration support and employee changes; help coordinate open enrollment communications and enrollment updates with vendors/partners.
- Answer employee questions related to policies, benefits, and HR processes with professionalism and care.
- Continuous Improvement & Strategic Partnership
- Bring a “see it, fix it” mindset: identify gaps, recommend improvements, and help build clearer, simpler HR processes.
- Partner with leadership to strengthen communication, training effectiveness, retention, and compliance systems.
- Support special projects as assigned by finance/leadership (policy updates, process improvements, audits, training rollouts, etc.).
- Leaders trust HR guidance because it’s consistent, compliant, and practical.
- Payroll/timekeeping issues shrink because root causes are addressed.
- Employee relations and documentation improve—reducing risk and improving accountability.
- Safety tracking and follow-through become tighter and more visible.
- Onboarding/training gets more consistent and helps retention.
- 4+ years of progressive HR experience, ideally in food manufacturing, production, warehouse, or other hourly high-compliance environments.
- Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources or related field preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of California employment law and wage & hour practices.
- Experience supporting payroll administration and timekeeping practices (HRIS exposure strongly preferred).
- Exposure to Workers’ Comp, leave administration, and employee relations investigations/documentation.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both leadership and frontline teams.
- Highly organized, discreet, and capable of handling sensitive matters with sound judgment.
- Bilingual English/Spanish strongly preferred.
- Full-time, Monday–Friday (regular business hours aligned to production needs).
- Occasional travel to an additional local site and periodic offsite training may be required.
Meet Your Recruiter
Heidi Smith
Executive Recruiter
Heidi was raised in The Woodlands, Texas, and earned her degree in Mass Communication from Sam Houston State University. After adventures in the Rocky Mountains and the Ozarks—where she started with the APS team—she’s now back in her hometown.
An experienced recruiter, Heidi blends Southern hospitality with professional expertise, prioritizing authentic relationships, understanding individual career aspirations, and connecting candidates with companies for the ideal fit.
Outside of work, Heidi enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband, Blake, their son, Hawk, and their two dogs, Phil Collins and Charlotte York.
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