ABOUT YA YA FOODS:

Ya YA Foods is a dynamic and high-growth manufacturer of liquid food and unique beverages. With over 30 years’ experience, we have evolved into a versatile manufacturer and co-packer of a variety of low acid and high acid beverage and liquid food items. We are a family-owned Canadian business who prides itself in its proven track record of satisfying the needs of global multi-national customers. We are a solution provider for our customers, always striving to exceed expectations on innovation, quality, service, and speed to market. For further information about us, please check our website at yayafoods.com

• Serve as frontline support for employee questions and concerns, fostering positive employee relations, providing guidance, and resolving workplace issues with fairness, confidentiality, and professionalism.
• Serve as a trusted business partner to the leadership team to provide strategic insight and recommendations on HR functions to achieve organizational goals.
• Conduct thorough, timely, and objective workplace investigations into employee complaints, policy violations, and workplace incidents, documenting findings and corrective actions.
• Develop, update, and implement HR policies and procedures in alignment with company values, provincial and federal legal requirements, and industry best practices.
• In collaboration with HR leadership team, implement annual HR plans and special projects. Build and implement employee engagement strategies to increase employee satisfaction and retention.
• Support with planning and execution of annual engagement survey, company social events, and other HR programs.
• Engage as a trusted adviser and subject matter expert to coach employees and managers on sensitive work-related issues related but not limited to conflict resolution.
• Maintain confidentiality and integrity through all course of actions.
• Cross functional collaboration with key stakeholders and employees to ensure effective change management and application of HR strategies across the organization.
• Utilizing data and metrics to make informed decisions in support of the organization.
• Work cohesively with the recruitment team to align talent with organizational goals.
• Partner with leadership to facilitate the annual performance review cycle, and ongoing performance management steps (progressive discipline, coaching, performance improvement plans etc.).
• Compliance with all rules & policies regarding health safety, occupational safety, environmental safety, food safety, legal regulations, company requirements, etc.
• Compliance with the Company’s Integrated Management Systems which includes, but is not limited to Production, Quality, Food Safety & GMP.
• Support with document collection as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.