HR Generalist

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Juneau, WI, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Food
The Role
Provide end-to-end HR support for a manufacturing plant, serving as primary HR contact for employee relations, recruitment, onboarding, performance management, HRIS/payroll transactions, benefits, and HR projects while ensuring compliance and implementing corporate HR strategies.
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HR Generalist, Juneau Plant

At Sensient Technologies, we are experts in science, art, and innovation of color and flavor. We are market savvy and visionary. We are problem solvers, and we will be better with you. 

We are looking for dynamic HR Generalist to join our team.  Are you ready to be the go-to HR person for a fast-paced, high growth manufacturing facility? Are you able to build rapport quickly and maintain effective working relationships with employees and managers across all levels?  Do you have a bias toward action with a focus on getting things done and making things happen? Are you a problem-solver with the ability to develop and execute practical solutions? Bring your hands-on approach, high level of employee engagement and ability to monitor the "pulse" of the organization to Sensient Flavors. Join the team with great taste in this full-time office-based position at our Juneau, WI site.

What you’ll do:

  • Provide end-to-end HR support across employee relations, recruitment, onboarding, performance management, learning & development, compensation, and benefits. 
  • Serve as the primary HR contact, advising leaders and employees on HR policies, procedures, and people-related matters. 
  • Manage employee relations issues for union and non-union employees while ensuring compliance with labor laws and corporate directives. 
  • Lead recruitment activities, including approvals, job profile management, candidate sourcing, screening, and coordination with recruiters and agencies. 
  • Oversee HR and payroll transactions (hires, terminations, promotions, salary changes) while maintaining data accuracy and integrity. 
  • Support onboarding/offboarding, performance management cycles, change initiatives, employee engagement programs, and HR projects. 
  • Prepare HR reports, facilitate employee roundtables, and drive implementation of corporate HR strategies, policies, and process improvements.

What you’ll bring:

  • HRIS experience: Oracle Cloud or similar HCM/HRIS/ATS systems preferred.
  • Proficiency in MS Office packages, with strong Excel reporting skills required.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, preferably in Human Resources or a Business- related discipline or equivalent experience is required.
  • HR generalist experience of the full HR/employee lifecycle in a fast-paced manufacturing environment required, experience working with unions a plus.
  • Recruitment experience: sourcing, screening, scheduling, interviewing, preparing offers and coaching hiring managers
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully and independently managing employee relation issues. 

What you’ll get:

  • Opportunity to collaborate with your colleagues, onsite 5 days per week.
  • An excellent salary and benefit offering as well as development opportunities.
  • A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond.

About Sensient

Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world's best-known brands.

About Sensient Flavors: 

Sensient Flavors offers innovative, global taste solutions and specialized flavor delivery systems that help bring life to your food and beverage products. Our leading-edge technologies reflect our core philosophies to be dynamic and innovative and to add value to your applications.

THIRD PARTY AGENCY: Any unsolicited submissions received from recruitment agencies will be considered property of Sensient Technologies, and we will not be liable for any fees or obligations related to those submissions. 

Sensient is an Equal Opportunity Employer, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

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Skills Required

  • Experience with Oracle Cloud or similar HCM/HRIS/ATS systems
  • Proficiency in MS Office with strong Excel reporting skills
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education (preferably HR or Business) or equivalent experience
  • HR generalist experience across the full employee lifecycle in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
  • Experience working with unions
  • Recruitment experience including sourcing, screening, interviewing, preparing offers, and coaching hiring managers
  • Demonstrated ability to independently manage employee relations issues
  • Ability to work onsite at Juneau, WI full-time (office-based, 5 days per week)

Sensient Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sensient Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Sensient Technologies.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Fair pay is frequently highlighted as aligning well with job responsibilities, and base compensation is often framed as competitive for the industry. The overall package is commonly characterized as good when considering pay together with benefits.
  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance are consistently described as comprehensive, with day-one eligibility and strong employer premium cost-sharing noted for U.S. salaried employees. Low premiums are repeatedly emphasized as a differentiator in the health offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is reinforced by a 401(k) match with immediate vesting and the presence of additional retirement vehicles such as an ESOP, with certain locations also referencing pension arrangements. This stack is presented as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.

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The Company
3,065 Employees

What We Do

We Bring Life to Products. Our name communicates what we do: Enhance SENSory experiences through specialized ingredIENTs, delivered through proprietary TECHNOLOGIES. Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, essential oils and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, colors, natural ingredients, and extracts. The Company’s customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world’s best-known brands. Sensient has some 75 operational sites in 35 countries and customers in more than 150 countries worldwide. Learn more about how Sensient can help you discover your next color, flavor and specialty solutions at www.sensient.com

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