People Generalist, Warehouse Operations

Nuts.com•Cranford, NJ

17h•$65,000 - $72,000•Onsite

About The Position

Nuts.com is hiring a People Generalist for Warehouse Operations, serving as the on-site People team representative for its Operations workforce in Cranford. The role owns hourly talent acquisition and leads new-hire orientation, first-line employee relations, and on-site incident intake. The People Generalist works closely with the People Business Partner and the People Ops Associate, who handles HRIS data entry, timesheets, and offboarding administration. The role manages hourly recruiting from start to finish, including coordinating with staffing agencies, interviewing candidates, preparing offers, and tracking recruiting and turnover metrics. It coordinates onboarding and offboarding for warehouse hourly employees, provides routine policy guidance and employee support, and documents or escalates concerns and workplace incidents. The position also supports workers’ compensation and OSHA recordkeeping, employee communications, training records, engagement activities, and warehouse culture initiatives. The position serves more than 350 warehouse employees at the Cranford site and leads daily Open Office Hours on the production floor. The role requires English and Spanish bilingual ability and 3–4+ years of relevant HR or recruiting experience. Warehouse, manufacturing, or distribution experience and familiarity with Paycom or a similar HRIS are preferred. Nuts.com describes this as a high-growth, rewarding role in a rapidly evolving business. The annual salary range is $65,000–$72,000, plus an annual bonus. Benefits include a 401(k) match, paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave, snacks, and a 40% employee discount.

Requirements

3–4+ years of experience in HR business partner, generalist, or recruiting roles.
Bilingual in English and Spanish.
Experience owning high-volume hourly recruiting, including screening, interviewing, and offers.
Strong organizational skills, follow-through, and attention to detail.
Clear and warm communication style; comfortable supporting hourly employees and supervisors.
Sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential information.

Nice To Haves

Experience in warehouse, manufacturing, or distribution environments.
Familiarity with Paycom or similar HRIS systems.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end hourly recruiting, including working with staffing agencies, scheduling interviews, conducting on-site interviews, preparing offer letters, and coordinating new-hire logistics.
Partner with Operations leaders and the People Business Partner on hiring needs and workforce plans.
Coordinate candidate flow and temp-to-hire conversions with staffing agencies; track and report open roles, pipeline, time-to-fill, and early turnover.
Coordinate first-day onboarding logistics, including orientation schedules, locker setup, access requests, and welcome items.
Lead new-hire orientation for warehouse hourly employees and review key policies, attendance expectations, and safety basics.
Help new hires access Paycom and enter personal, tax, and direct-deposit information; hand completed onboarding to the People Ops Associate for final HRIS data entry.
Own warehouse employee offboarding, including collecting badges and key cards and submitting termination PAFs with resignation reasons.
Capture turnover data and analyze it to identify retention insights and actions.
Serve as the on-site first point of contact for hourly employee questions and concerns; document concerns and escalate matters as appropriate.
Provide basic policy guidance to employees and supervisors and support investigations led by the People Business Partner.
Receive workplace injury and incident reports on site, gather details and witness statements, and route information to the People Business Partner.
Support workers’ compensation claims and OSHA recordkeeping, including first reports of injury to the carrier, claim tracking, return-to-work and modified-duty coordination, and OSHA 300/300A log entries.
Answer routine questions for the 350+ Cranford warehouse employees about policies, pay and benefits, workers’ compensation incidents and restrictions, attendance, call-outs, timeclock and missed-punch issues, and staffing-agency concerns; route complex matters to the appropriate owner.
Manage the Employee Matters form for supervisors and managers, monitor submissions, and ensure questions are answered and complex matters escalated.
Support Spanish-language communication with hourly employees.
Serve as super administrator and expert for YourCo, the internal warehouse communications text tool, and help stakeholders understand how and when to use it.
Lead daily Open Office Hours on the production floor.
Support Operations recognition and engagement activities with the Employee Experience Lead.
Track required training and certification completions, including harassment prevention and forklift training, and keep training records current in Paycom.
Serve as the Cranford Culture Club liaison and support programs led by the Employee Experience Lead.
Run the company-wide engagement survey on site for warehouse employees in partnership with the Employee Experience Lead and lead warehouse action plans with supervisors and managers.