Director of Human Resources at Ready Foods in Denver, CO

Director of Human Resources

About Ready Foods

Ready Foods is a Denver-based, family-owned food manufacturer on a transformation journey. While rooted in more than five decades of manufacturing excellence, we are building the next generation of food manufacturing by combining Lean principles, Industry 4.0 technologies, digital transformation and systems thinking.

Across our 4 Denver facilities, we are creating a connected enterprise that leverages data, automation, continuous improvement and employee expertise to drive better decisions and better outcomes. Our culture is built on respect for people, operational excellence, learning, collaboration and a relentless pursuit of improvement. We are looking for individuals who want to help shape the future of manufacturing while making a meaningful impact on our customers, employees and community.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced HR Director to lead our day-to-day HR function while helping build the people systems needed for Ready Foods' future.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can manage the realities of HR today while continually improving how we work. The HR Director will lead HR operations, employee relations, compliance, talent processes and HR technology while developing a strong, capable HR team.

The HR Director will also oversee our Training function. The Training Manager will continue to lead Training strategy and day-to-day operations, while the HR Director ensures learning and capability development connect to our broader people and business priorities.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead, coach and develop the HR team.
• Oversee employee relations, investigations and corrective action.
• Ensure strong HR operations, including benefits, leave, compliance and employee lifecycle processes.
• Lead recruiting, talent and workforce processes.
• Provide functional leadership for HR technology, data and UKG.
• Improve HR processes using systems thinking and continuous improvement.
• Partner with leaders across our facilities to solve people and organizational challenges.
• Connect recruiting, onboarding, training, development, performance and succession as an integrated people system.
• Lead and develop the Training Manager while providing autonomy to run the Training function.
• Partner with Operations, Training, Continuous Improvement, IT and other functions as Ready Foods continues its Lean and digital transformation.

Requirements include:

• Progressive HR leadership experience, preferably in manufacturing or a complex operational environment.
• Strong employee relations and workplace investigation experience.
• Experience leading and developing HR professionals.
• Broad knowledge of HR operations and employment compliance.
• Experience with HRIS systems and HR technology.
• Strong judgment and the ability to navigate sensitive issues objectively.
• A practical, hands-on leadership style and willingness to spend time where the work happens.
• Curiosity about Lean, systems thinking, continuous improvement and the changing nature of work.
• Bilingual in Spanish a plus.

Experience with multi-site manufacturing, UKG, Lean or continuous improvement is a plus.

The Leader We're Looking For

You'll be successful here if you can balance people, business and systems thinking. You build trust without avoiding accountability, develop others instead of making yourself indispensable and look beyond individual problems to understand what may be happening in the broader system.

This isn't an opportunity to simply maintain an HR department. It's an opportunity to help Ready Foods build a stronger People & Capability System for the future.