HR Specialist

About the role

We are seeking an HR Specialist with manufacturing experience. This role serves as a strategic partner to plant operations, owning end-to-end recruitment for director operators and office staff, while demonstrating a solid understanding of factory dynamics—shift scheduling, piece-rate compensation logic, and seasonal workforce fluctuations. Beyond recruitment expertise, you must have worked knowledge of C&B, talent development, and employee relations. You will thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, driving organizational effectiveness and cultural integration.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the entire recruitment lifecycle for production operators, technicians, engineers, specialists and other staff—from demand validation, sourcing, screening, structured interviewing, salary negotiation, offer extension to onboarding
• Develop and optimize local recruitment channels (Job Street, indeed, offline labor markets, vocational schools, agencies, employee referrals)
• Build a tiered talent pool system tailored to local labor behaviors to reduce cost-per-hire
• Maintain a recruitment dashboard with weekly tracking of channel conversion rates, interview-to-offer ratios, acceptance rates, and probationary retention
• Collaborate with production heads on monthly/quarterly manpower forecasting, creating agile recruitment contingency plans to address sudden shortages
• Assist in reviewing attendance anomalies, overtime compliance, and piece-rate payroll data verification with the C&B team
• Participate in salary review research and performance data collection; assist in refining frontline KPI scorecards aligned with safety, quality, and productivity metrics
• Support the pipeline building for team leaders through skills competitions and internal promotion assessments; coordinate new-hire orientation programs
• Drive cultural initiatives (e.g., Safety Month, Quality Star awards) at the plant level; handle basic labor disputes and foster a harmonious production atmosphere
• Support organizational restructuring, team consolidation, and change management projects

About you

• Bachelor's degree or above
• Fluent English for daily documentation and headquarters communication
• Minimum 3 years in recruitment, with proven experience in manufacturing/plant HR, specifically familiar with the recruitment pace and channel challenges of frontline production roles
• Deep understanding of factory operations (shift systems, cleanroom protocols, OHS compliance), and willingness to interact with shop-floor employees regularly
• Practical experience in the local Indonesian labor market;
• Ability to multitask during peak hiring seasons and adapt to urgent staffing demands
• Proficient in Excel for recruitment reporting and basic manpower cost analysis
• Fair, detail-oriented, culturally inclusive, with strong conflict-resolution instincts
• Mandarin proficiency is a significant plus
• Prior HR experience in Chinese/Taiwanese/Japanese-invested manufacturing firms, with familiarity of their management culture is a bonus