HR Specialist (Talent Aquisition Focus)
- Salary: $55,000 per year. Starting pay aligned to your experience
- Schedule: Full-time, Monday–Friday (on-site)
- Location: Honolulu
- Benefits: Free medical/dental/vision for team members; discounted family coverage; 401(k) and PTO/holidays
Help shape the workforce that keeps Hawai‘i fed.
At Hawaii Foodservice Alliance (HFA), we’re building the teams that move food across the islands and support our local communities every day. As Hawai‘i’s largest local supplier of perishable foods and logistics, the people we bring in directly impact how we serve grocers, retailers, and families across the islands.
Our team is the heart of our success. That’s why we invest in our people, creating opportunities for growth, ownership, and impact.
Grow with us. Thrive with us. Join the HFA ‘ohana.
Why This Role Matters
The HR Specialist plays a key role in powering our talent acquisition efforts—helping HFA attract, engage, and hire the people who keep our operations running across the islands. In this role, you’ll partner closely with hiring managers to drive a timely, high-quality hiring process while also providing essential HR support across employee relations, compliance, onboarding, and the overall employee experience.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role ideal for someone who enjoys working across multiple areas of HR while supporting hiring in a fast-paced environment.
What Success Looks Like in This Role
- Keep open roles moving by aligning hiring managers and candidates on clear next steps and timelines
- Deliver a positive, consistent candidate experience from first touch through offer and onboarding
- Build trusted partnerships with managers and serve as a reliable point of contact throughout the hiring process
- Provide day-to-day HR support across onboarding, employee relations, compliance, and HR administration
- Maintain accurate HRIS/ATS documentation and help improve recruiting and HR processes
What You’ll Be Doing
Talent Acquisition & HR Support
- Partner with hiring managers to clarify role needs, build hiring plans, align interview strategy, and drive timely next steps
- Source and screen candidates (including initial phone screens), build talent pipelines, and support recruiting campaigns, job fairs, and community outreach
- Coordinate interviews and assessments, gather feedback, and keep the process smooth, consistent, and candidate-friendly
- Support offers and pre-employment steps (references/background checks as applicable) and ensure a clear transition into onboarding
- Maintain accurate ATS/HRIS data and HR documentation to support employee records, reporting, and compliance
- Provide day-to-day HR support including onboarding, HR administration, and guidance on policies and procedures for employees and leaders
- Support compliance, help ensure consistent HR practices, partner across departments, and contribute to continuous improvement of recruiting and HR processes
What Makes This Role Different
- Direct impact on teams that keep Hawai‘i fed
- Opportunity to own and improve the end-to-end hiring process while also supporting broader HR operations
- Strong partnership with leadership across departments
- High visibility role—partnering directly with leaders to solve staffing needs across the business
What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years of experience in talent acquisition/recruiting, HR coordination, or a related HR role
- Familiarity with ATS platforms, HRIS systems, and recruiting tools (posting, scheduling, candidate communications)
- Comfortable managing multiple requisitions at once, prioritizing effectively, and driving next steps to close hires
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and discretion
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Understanding of Hawai‘i’s local workforce and culture preferred
The Impact of This Role
- Contribute to a culture rooted in care, growth, and accountability
- Support hiring and retention efforts across the organization
- Help strengthen employee experience through consistent and thoughtful HR support
