A rapidly growing manufacturing company with approximately $100M in revenue, is seeking a People Operations & Recruiting Specialist to join its lean corporate team. This is a hands-on opportunity for an HR professional who thrives in a fast-moving environment and wants meaningful ownership of recruiting, payroll, onboarding, and day-to-day employee support for a growing workforce.
What You'll Do as the People Operations & Recruiting Specialist:
- Own recruiting from initial hiring need through offer and onboarding, with a particular focus on hourly manufacturing and production talent
- Build proactive candidate pipelines for positions that are consistently difficult to fill
- Partner directly with managers to understand workforce needs and develop practical recruiting strategies
- Source, screen, interview, and help move qualified candidates efficiently through the hiring process
- Represent the company at job fairs, workforce development programs, community events, and other recruiting initiatives
- Process bi-weekly payroll accurately and on schedule
- Maintain payroll information and help ensure compliance with applicable employment and payroll requirements
- Serve as a resource for employees with payroll questions and work quickly to resolve discrepancies
- Coordinate onboarding and new-hire orientation
- Support benefits enrollment, employee changes, and benefits communication
- Pitch in wherever needed as part of a small, highly collaborative corporate team
Must-Haves as the People Operations & Recruiting Specialist:
- 2-3+ years of hands-on HR experience
- Experience owning or substantially supporting full-cycle recruiting
- Direct payroll processing experience
- Comfort recruiting for hourly, production, skilled labor, or similarly high-volume workforces
- Working knowledge of HRIS, payroll, and applicant tracking systems
- Strong follow-through, attention to detail, and ability to juggle competing priorities
- A proactive mindset and comfort operating in a company where things move quickly
- Ability to work effectively with everyone from frontline employees to ownership and senior leadership
Nice-to-Haves as the People Operations & Recruiting Specialist:
- Experience in manufacturing, construction, precast concrete, building products, or another industrial environment
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
- Experience developing new sourcing channels or recruiting partnerships rather than relying solely on inbound applicants
- Exposure to benefits administration, employee relations, compliance, or broader HR operations
- Experience working in a growing, entrepreneurial business with a lean corporate team
The Company Offers:
- $60,000-$90,000 base salary, depending on experience
- Medical and dental insurance with meaningful employer contributions
- Voluntary life insurance
- 401(k) program planned for 2027
- A highly entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where your work has visible impact
- A small, tight-knit salaried team with direct access to company ownership
- A family-friendly atmosphere within a growing organization
- The opportunity to take real ownership of HR and recruiting initiatives within a successful, expanding company
Skills Required
- 2-3+ years of hands-on HR experience
- Experience owning or substantially supporting full-cycle recruiting
- Direct payroll processing experience
- Experience recruiting for hourly, production, skilled labor, or similarly high-volume workforces
- Working knowledge of HRIS, payroll, and applicant tracking systems
- Strong follow-through, attention to detail, and ability to juggle competing priorities
- Proactive mindset and comfort operating in a fast-moving company
- Ability to work effectively with frontline employees, ownership, and senior leadership
- Experience in manufacturing, construction, precast concrete, building products, or another industrial environment
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
- Experience developing new sourcing channels or recruiting partnerships
- Exposure to benefits administration, employee relations, compliance, or broader HR operations
- Experience working in a growing, entrepreneurial business with a lean corporate team
What We Do
Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI—improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges—like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity—it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.
