Human Resources Manager

About Us:

Mid-States Distributing is the leading Farm, Ranch, and Home Retail Organization. Our 72+ year old company is owned by 29 independent Farm, Ranch & Home retailers (“Members”) who operate approximately 700 stores across the US with combined annual sales in excess of 7.5 billion dollars. Our member/owners retail items such as agriculture parts & supplies, petroleum products, hardware & tools, pet food, lawn & garden, animal health supplies, apparel & footwear, sporting goods, and various other products for the Farm, Ranch, and Home.

We are looking for enthusiastic people who like to win! We place a tremendous amount of emphasis on creating a dynamic and positive company culture. Most of our employees will tell you that Mid-States is the best place they’ve ever worked. We value high-energy people with positive attitudes who believe in the concept of “serving to wow”! Our consumers are primarily rural people raising kids, pets, cows, and crops so traditional values like God, family, and patriotism are important virtues.

So, if you are enthusiastic, competitive, have a great attitude, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, like to build strong relationships, like to win, and refuse to eat meat grown in a lab – Mid-States may be the place for you! If you are not, please apply with our competitors!

Position Summary The HR Manager is the senior HR leader for the distribution center and a member of the facility leadership team, owning the full HR agenda for the site: employee relations, workforce planning, talent, compliance, safety partnership, and culture. Reporting to the HR Director, this role operates with a high degree of autonomy — setting the site’s people strategy in alignment with company direction and serving as a trusted advisor to operations leadership on organizational design, retention, and labor cost decisions.

The HR Director is engaged as a strategic partner and on matters of significant legal exposure or enterprise policy; the day-to-day people leadership of the facility belongs to this role.

Key Responsibilities Strategic HR Leadership Serve on the facility leadership team

Own site HR metrics — turnover, absenteeism, time-to-fill, overtime utilization, incident trends and present insights and recommendations to facility and corporate leadership

Lead change management for facility initiatives such as shift restructuring, automation, process changes, and policy rollouts

Employee Relations & Risk Management Own employee relations for the facility; lead complex and sensitive workplace investigations end-to-end and render defensible findings and recommendations with HR Director Set the standard for corrective action across the site: ensure consistent, well-documented progressive discipline and approve written warnings and separations, escalating terminations with elevated legal risk to the HR Director Monitor the facility climate and proactively address emerging issues, including positive employee relations strategies and early identification of organizing risk Partner with the HR Director on charges, claims, and litigation support, including document preparation and witness coordination

Talent & Workforce Planning Own workforce planning for the facility, including peak season ramp strategy, temporary labor mix, and performance management

Lead hiring for salaried and leadership roles at the site; oversee hourly recruiting

Build supervisor and lead capability through coaching, training programs, and performance management, drive succession and development planning for front-line leadership

Design and execute retention strategy, with particular focus on first 90-day attrition and critical-skill roles

Compliance & Policy Administer complex leave and accommodation…