Human Resources (HR) Manager

CSBio•Milpitas, CA

13h•Onsite

About The Position

CSBio is a peptide contract manufacturing company founded in 1993. It produces peptides for research organizations and pharmaceutical companies and operates cGMP production facilities, including a clinical production facility in Milpitas, California. CSBio is seeking a Human Resources Manager to lead HR across its teams and build and maintain practical HR processes in a regulated environment. The position combines hands-on HR operations with planning, policy development, people management, meetings, and cross-functional coordination. It requires a regular on-site presence in Milpitas to understand the work of laboratory, manufacturing, clinical, and pharmacy teams and to provide timely, practical guidance to employees and managers. The manager will oversee recruiting, employee lifecycle processes, payroll and benefits administration, compliance, employee relations, training documentation, credential tracking, compensation practices, vendors, and HR metrics. The role also safeguards the company’s stealth status through confidential hiring and controlled access to information. The manager will work with Quality Assurance and other functions to keep records complete and ready for inspections and audits, and will determine when matters can be resolved directly or require escalation to leadership or counsel.

Responsibilities

Lead the HR function across CSBio teams and manage day-to-day HR operations, priorities, HR coordinators, and outside HR service providers.
Maintain a regular on-site presence in Milpitas to learn how laboratory, manufacturing, clinical, and pharmacy teams work, build employee trust, and respond to people issues in real time.
Run full-cycle recruiting for scientific, clinical, pharmacy, quality, laboratory, and operations roles, including workforce planning, job descriptions, sourcing, interview coordination, offers, and background checks.
Protect the company’s stealth status by managing confidential postings, candidate NDAs, controlled communications, and need-to-know access to information.
Manage onboarding and offboarding, ensuring new hires complete required safety, GMP, data-integrity, and role-specific training before beginning regulated work.
Partner with Quality Assurance to maintain complete, current, inspection-ready training records, curricula vitae, job descriptions, and qualification files for FDA, customer, and internal audits.
Track professional licenses, registrations, and certifications for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, clinical staff, and other credentialed personnel, including renewals and primary-source verification.
Administer payroll, benefits, leave, and open enrollment across multiple legal entities in coordination with Finance, brokers, and the payroll provider; ensure accurate employee classification and entity assignment.
Develop and maintain salary ranges, offer guidelines, and job leveling benchmarked to Bay Area life-sciences market data and California pay-transparency requirements.
Ensure compliance with federal and California employment laws and requirements, including wage-and-hour rules, meal and rest breaks, overtime, FMLA/CFRA, ADA, Cal/OSHA, I-9, EEO, postings, and reporting.
Advise managers on performance management, coaching, corrective action, accommodations, and terminations; conduct fair, timely, and well-documented workplace investigations.
Build and maintain the employee handbook, HR policies, and HR SOPs, keeping them aligned across entities and current as laws and the business change.
Run the annual performance review and goal-setting cycle and support career development and retention for scientists, technicians, and clinical staff.
Manage HR vendors, including the HRIS, payroll, benefits brokers, background-check providers, recruiting agencies, and employment counsel, as well as the approved HR budget.
Coordinate employee rewards and recognition, company social events, and quarterly team-building activities.
Track and communicate HR metrics, including time-to-fill, offer acceptance, turnover, training compliance, license renewal status, and open investigations.
Build HR processes from the ground up, train managers, review personnel files and records, and determine whether issues can be resolved directly or require escalation to leadership or counsel.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance; the employer pays 85% of employee coverage and 50% of employee family coverage.
Basic life insurance of $20,000 paid by the company; optional supplemental life insurance.
Disability insurance with 50% standard employer-paid coverage.
401(k) with a 10% 1:1 match.
10 days of PTO.
Companywide paid holidays during the week of July 4, two days for Thanksgiving, and the week of December 25.
Carpool, clean-air vehicle, and cell phone reimbursement.
Employee rewards and recognition program.
Company-organized social events.
Quarterly sponsored team-building activities.