Human Resources Summer Hire - Summer 2025

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Cranston, RI
Entry level
Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
This role assists the HR department with various tasks, including recruitment, onboarding, benefits management, and employee relations, while providing hands-on experience in HR functions.
Summary Generated by Built In

As a family-owned and operated company, we feel a special obligation to the employees who comprise our Taco family.  We are committed to offering employees access to the tools necessary to live long and productive lives. We strive to instill in all of our employees:

  • A positive mental attitude that helps us to be a leader in the industry
  • A commitment to building strong relationships, both inside and outside the organization
  • A desire to learn, grow, and contribute to moving our strategy forward
  • A need to create and to innovate

Employment Type: Temporary

Shift: 1st Shift

Work Status: Onsite

Position Summary

The Human Resources Summer Hire applies their educational experience in a real world setting with Taco’s Human Resources team. They support the HR department in various tasks and projects aimed at optimizing organizational processes related to employee management and development. This role offers hands-on experience in HR functions such as recruitment, onboarding, benefits, and employee relations. This role will require confidentiality and the ability to remain neutral. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience with Human Resources functions, including Employee Relations, Benefits and Talent Management.

Measures of success:

  • Complete assigned tasks accurately
  • On-time completions of projects
  • Regular attendance and punctuality

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Assist with front desk duties, including serving as the initial point of contact.
  • Support event planning and coordination.
  • Order the new employee orientation lunch and handle invoicing tasks.
  • Meet and greet the new hires on their first day of orientation.
  • Prepare and organize benefits files.
  • Schedule preliminary phone interviews with job candidates.
  • Create New Employee Orientation folders monthly.
  • Direct employee questions to correct individuals within HR.
  • Answer telecommunication devices.
  • Research trends and best practices. 
  • Data entry, compile data for reports.


Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor degree program Junior or Senior majoring in Human Resources, Psychology, or related field required
  • 0-1 Years’ experience in Human Resources
  • Knowledgeable with computer systems including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint)
  • Good communication skills both oral and written
  • High understanding of working collaboratively
  • Able to take feedback and apply it to performance
  • Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Must have good time management skills
  • Travel to occasional off-site events and meetings is required


Work Environment

This position works primarily in an office environment using computers and technology.  Verbal and auditory capability are required. Occasional exposure in production plant and testing lab where large equipment and noise are prevalent.  Safety gear is required in these areas.

This position reports into the site every day. 

Management

This position has no direct reports.


Benefits

With nearly 1,000 people working at Taco worldwide, each with their own story, you will discover a sense of community and diverse, intelligent colleagues who help us innovate, create and explore.

Taco employees benefit from a company that:

  • Provides competitive salaries and benefits
  • Offers tuition reimbursement, career development, and on-site training programs in our learning center
  • Believes in sharing profits with its employees
  • Is mindful about family, health and well-being
  • Fosters conditions that allow people and communities to reach their full potential
  • Embraces and celebrates diversity

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Top Skills

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PowerPoint
Teams
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The Company
HQ: Cranston, Rhode Island
369 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1920

What We Do

Taco Comfort Solutions is a third generation, family-owned American manufacturer of high quality, high-efficiency heating, cooling, plumbing, and irrigation products. #Taco100years

Headquartered in Cranston, RI, Taco is global in scope with manufacturing facilities in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Ontario, Vietnam, and Italy. Its skilled employees produce precision pumps, valves and controls, air-dirt separators. heat exchangers, tanks, domestic hot water recirculation systems, and web-based building management controls.

Since its founding, Taco has been dedicated to the success of its people and its customers, bringing products to market that save energy, enhance system longevity, and provide a superior level of safety and comfort to building occupants.

With nearly 100 years in the HVAC industry, Taco’s knowledge and engineering expertise is passed along to professionals through the company’s expansive factory training and online learning programs. That same depth of experience is applied every day at hundreds of job sites across the country, making Taco one of the most trusted names in controlling the flow of water.

Website: www.TacoComfort.com

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