HR Generalist

Salt Lake City · On-site$69k – $78k

About this role

Lead people. shape culture. drive manufacturing excellence and grow boldly with Pretium!

At Pretium Packaging, we don’t just manufacture rigid packaging, we build careers, strengthen communities, and power essential industries across North America.

We are searching for an onsite, hands-on, Human Resources Generalist to support our Salt Lake City, Utah plant.

If you’re energized by fast-paced manufacturing environments and the opportunity to leave a lasting organizational impact — this is your platform.

Why This Role Matters:

This isn’t a sit-behind-the-desk HR role. Your influence will help shape, recruitment, engagement, retention, safety culture, and leadership capability across entire operation.

What You’ll Support:

Frontline Recruitment:

  • Increase employee retention, reducing turnover while also increasing employee satisfaction.
  • Implement staffing and hiring plans and spearhead proactive plantwide workforce planning activities.
  • Conduct on-site job fairs and host external hiring events to ensure consistent, proactive frontline recruitment occurs.
  • Engage with local community-based organizations and initiate continuous outreach activities to increase candidate talent pools.

Culture & Engagement

  • Champion a positive, compliant, and high-performance workplace culture.
  • Help bridge communication between leadership and frontline employees.

Organizational Development

  • Conduct new hire orientation and onboarding.
  • Help assess training needs.
  • Provide support to plant leadership in support of employee growth and development.

Compliance & Risk Management

  • Ensure adherence to labor laws, HR best practices, and safety standards.
  • Provide support and leadership to ensure a “see something, say something” plant culture exists.
  • Support and reinforce plant safety and employee well-being programs.

What You’ll Bring:

  • 3+ years of proven success as an HR Generalist in manufacturing or an industrial environment.
  • Strong frontline recruitment outcomes.
  • Stellar communication skills with the ability to challenge plant leadership with humility and manage without direct authority.
  • Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, or related field is preferred.
  • Bilingual Spanish/English ability is preferred.

The Impact You’ll Leave:

  • Stronger recruitment pipelines
  • More engaged employees
  • Safer workplaces
  • Higher employee retention

You won’t just support the business you’ll help drive it.

Why Pretium Packaging:

  • Industry-essential manufacturing footprint
  • Multi-site leadership exposure
  • High visibility to operations executives
  • Opportunity to shape culture at scale
  • Growth-oriented, people-first environment

Apply today and help us mold the future of our workforce!

Company at a glance

Pretium Packaging is a leading plastic container and closure manufacturer with a global footprint of 25 facilities and more than 330 production lines. Capable of producing plastic containers using PET, HDPE and PP, Pretium specializes in sustainable packaging for five key markets:

  • Food & Specialty Beverage
  • Nutrition & Wellness
  • Consumer Chemicals
  • Home & Personal Care
  • Clinical Healthcare

At the core, Pretium is known for a focus on market knowledge, sustainability, product innovation and highly responsive operations. Pretium emphasizes superior quality, value and customer service, becoming one of the most trusted suppliers of injection-blow molded plastic containers and closures today.

Pretium has the expertise and capability to design, develop and manufacture custom bottle designs for various customer applications. In addition, Pretium offers one of the most extensive libraries of stock bottles (sizes 10CC to 12L) and preforms, providing the ability to satisfy customer requirements in an expedited time frame.

At Pretium, it is our goal to provide customers with industry-leading service, quality-driven products that result in cost-effective and innovative packaging solutions.

Feel free to visit our website for more information about our company and capabilities:

https://www.pretiumpkg.com/

Contact

314-727-8200

Team Size1,001-5,000 employees
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustryPackaging and Containers Manufacturing
Location
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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