People & Culture​/Recruitment Specialist

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Pittston, PA, US, 18640

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People & Culture / Recruitment Specialist

Greiner Packaging is a family-owned global leader in rigid plastic packaging solutions serving the food, consumer goods, and healthcare markets. Since establishing our U.S. footprint in 2014, Greiner Packaging USA has grown into a strategic platform for North American expansion. We are now seeking a senior commercial leader to accelerate profitable growth, strengthen key customer partnerships, and help shape the long-term business strategy.

Position Summary

The People & Culture / Recruitment Specialist plays a critical role in supporting organizational growth and operational excellence by leading strategic talent acquisition efforts and ensuring the highest standards of data integrity across People & Culture (P&C) systems. This position partners closely with Operations and P&C leadership to attract, hire, and onboard top talent while maintaining accurate, compliant, and audit-ready employee records within Success Factors (Recruiting, Onboarding, Employee Central) and our payroll service provider (UKG Ready).

Serving as both a recruiting strategist and people data steward, this role drives efficient hiring workflows, enhances system utilization, and upholds consistent recordkeeping practices that enable informed business decisions. The successful candidate will leverage deep knowledge of HR technologies and talent processes to streamline the candidate-to-employee lifecycle, reduce process gaps, ensure regulatory compliance, and provide leaders with reliable, real-time workforce insights.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

Recruitment & Talent Acquisition (Primary Focus – approx. 70%)

• Lead full-cycle recruiting for hourly and salaried roles within manufacturing, maintenance, quality, logistics, and administrative functions.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies including job boards, career fairs, community outreach, vocational schools, and social media.
• Screen candidates, conduct interviews, coordinate hiring manager interviews, and support selection decisions.
• Manage Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) workflows, job postings, applicant communication, and compliance with hiring documentation.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for high-volume and hard-to-fill roles.
• Partner with marketing or internal teams to enhance employer branding and recruitment campaigns.
• Partner with Operations to strategically secure top talent for critical roles, ensuring continuity and organizational success.

Onboarding & New Employee Integration

• Facilitate onboarding programs and orientation for new hires.
• Ensure accurate and compliant completion of new-hire paperwork (I-9, E-Verify, background checks, etc.).
• Coordinate with operations, safety, and training teams to ensure a smooth Day 1 and beyond.

Local execution of P&C processes

• Execute operational P&C processes in line with group-wide standards, local requirements, and divisional priorities
• Support managers and employees in day-to-day P&C matters and ensure reliable local service delivery
• Implement new programs, standards, and processes locally in close alignment with P&C Business Partners
• Ensure local compliance with labor law, regulatory requirements, and entity-specific constraints where applicable
• Identify operational challenges, implementation issues, and local improvement needs and feed them back into the wider P&C organization
• Contribute to data quality, process discipline, and accurate local execution of system-supported processes
• Support local communication, adoption, and readiness for changes in P&C processes, tools, or policies
• Act as an important source of practical feedback on…