Rackson Restaurants Looking for People and Culture Generalist at Bridgewater, NJ Full Time

People and Culture Generalist

Reports to: VP, People and Culture and Director, People Operations and Compliance

The People and Culture Generalist is responsible for supporting all People and Culture programs. This role provides support to the People and Culture function as needed, including record-keeping, audits, communication, collateral design, file maintenance, and HRIS/ATS/LMS administration. The P&C Generalist will partner with senior leaders in the function to understand strategic priorities and help optimize the execution of HR processes, programs, and policies.

What You’ll Do: Support people and culture programs and processes in order to make the People successful, the Process efficient, and the Profit beneficial to all. Essential functions:

• Supervise and coordinate overall administrative activities for the People & Culture team.
• Conduct basic research and present it in a clear, organized way for People and Culture projects.
• Manipulate and enter data into a variety of platforms including Smartsheet, LMS, ATS, HRIS, and Microsoft Excel.
• Pull, filter, and organize excel reports from various platforms to create clean, usable data/lists for projects as needed.
• Draft and send email communications and respond to basic inquiries on behalf of the People & Culture team, partnering with other departments as necessary to provide a seamless employee experience.
• Communicate with employees and managers to support People and Culture activities, including program rollouts, employee inquiry response, and Workers’ Compensation / Unemployment / Investigation tasks.
• Create, review, and file required HR reports potentially including but not limited to SOII and EEO-1 reporting.
• Support people operations and compliance by writing and mailing letters to employees.
• Communicate with DOL, DOH, Workers Compensation vendor, State Unemployment Commissions, Unemployment vendors, etc. on behalf of Rackson, pulling pieces of data from our systems as needed to answer official inquiries and interfacing with external parties professionally and promptly.
• Assist with FMLA and ADA administration by speaking with employees, determining eligibility, preparing and sending paperwork, following up for late or missing paperwork, and managing leave tracking.
• Maintain and update diversity and disability data on all employees in compliance with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• In partnership with the Director of People Ops and Compliance, manage internal audits including I-9 audits, working paper audits, and more.
• Support recruiting by completing initial phone screenings, scheduling interviews, handling ATS cleanup audits, performing Source reporting analysis, tracking Recruiting KPIs, and attending hiring events as needed.
• Under direction of senior team members, draft and publish regular communications on behalf of the P&C team and Rackson, including newsletters, program rollout materials, instructional guides, and social media posts.
• Support the scheduling, organization, communication, and execution of trainings, wellness and teambuilding events, employee experience initiatives, and other events.
• Assist Recruiting team with Employer Branding Calendar and Employer Branding support for Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Rackson company website, and Indeed.
• Work evenings and weekends as necessary for emergencies.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

. What Will Make You Successful:

• 3-5 years of previous HR experience required.
• Previous experience utilizing an ATS / HRIS preferred.
• Strong partnership and influencing skills, including the ability to work at and across all levels in the organization, manage external providers, and interact with government agencies. Confidence and desire to create new relationships quickly.
• Strong time management skills. Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deliver results on time and within budget. Ability to multitask and work well under pressure.
• Solid judgment, discretion, and decision-making, and ability to handle challenging conversations with patience, tact, and professionalism.
• Strong work ethic that includes punctuality, organization, and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English with the ability to communicate clearly and directly. Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.
• Basic understanding of human resource principles, practices and procedures, including federal anti-discrimination laws.
• Demonstrated proficiency with computers and various software platforms, MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Smartsheet, Canva, Adobe Suite, iMovie or similar, Canva, HRIS/HRMS, ATS, Smartsheet etc.
• Ability to maintain a friendly, enthusiastic, and positive attitude.
• Ability to quickly acquire and apply new knowledge and skills.
• Outwardly facing professional appearance.
• Physical Requirements – Ability to move freely throughout restaurants. Ability to communicate via phone including hearing and talking. Ability to perform sedentary work such as computer-based work. Ability to utilize close visual acuity such as for creating and analyzing data/spreadsheets, word documents, and graphic designs.
• Travel – ability to drive a motor vehicle and travel to restaurants and other business locations up to approximately 15% of the time.

What You Can Expect From Us:

Competitive pay

Flexible/hybrid environment

Authentic, values-based leadership

About Rackson Restaurants:

Rackson Restaurants is recognized as one of the top QSR operators in the US with a strong growth strategy and a commitment to values-based leadership. Putting people first is at the core of our company culture. We believe in internal mobility and growing leaders from within. Come be a part of our all-star team!