For more than 100 years, Purina has led the charge in revolutionizing pet food production and its ability to enrich the lives of pets everywhere. Nestle Purina has a large presence in Oklahoma City (OKC) with one of our dry pet food factories located just 10 miles outside of downtown in Edmond. Having served as a production facility for many years in this area as producers of Dog Chow®, Puppy Chow®, Beneful® and Purina ONE® brands, we have left a big paw print on this charming western city.

As an HR Generalist, you are responsible for providing HR support to the assigned Nestle Purina business unit with regard to labor/employee relations, compensation, performance management, policy interpretation, workforce planning, human resources investigations, recruiting, leave management, employment law, training and development and HR administrative processes.  

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage employee and labor relations activities in the factory.
• Develop and provide training solutions for hourly and salaried members.
• Oversee recruiting/staffing activities to find and select top talent for open positions.
• Counsel, coach and drive continuous improvement efforts pertaining to the working environment.
• Assist with performance evaluations, development plans and succession planning.
• Manage leaves of absences, short-term disability program (salaried), sickness and accident leaves (hourly), FMLA requests and related personnel policy issues.
• Ensure compliance with all Federal, State and Local regulations and Nestle standards.

Assist HR Manager with other tasks as assigned.