Job Description

Important Notes:

• Reports To: Plant Manager
• Automotive experience is highly preferred but not required
• Direct Reports: Yes; (2-3)
• In-Direct Reports: No
• BS degree.
• Strategic thinker.
• A turnaround person.
• Familiarity with union avoidance.
• Strong employee relations and employee engagement background.
• Experience developing others.

Our award-winning client is seeking a Plant Human Resources Manager to join their team. This role will be the Senior site Human Resources / Support Personnel leader. This role will forecast, plan, lead, direct, develop, and coordinate the strategy, policies, activities, and staff of the local HR/ SP department, ensuring legal compliance and implementation of the organization’s mission and talent strategy. This is a strategic role, requiring sustainable execution of both short-term objectives, along with long-term strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with senior plant leadership to understand the organization’s goals and strategy related to staffing, recruiting, and retention.
• Identifies, plans, leads, develops, coordinates, and implements programs, processes, training, and leads activities to support the team’s human capital strategy.
• Responsible for the processes of human capital programs including, but not limited to, total rewards, disciplinary matters; disputes and investigations; performance and talent management; productivity, recognition, building employee engagement, and training and development.
• Forecasts and identifies staffing and recruiting needs for the site; develops and executes best practices for hiring and talent development.
• Conducts research and analysis of organizational trends including review of reports and metrics from the organization’s human resource information system (HRIS) and talent management systems.
• Monitors and ensures the site’s compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews and modifies practices to maintain compliance.
• Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law; applies this knowledge to communicate changes in policy, practice, and resources to plant leadership; fosters a lifelong learning mindset.
• Facilitates professional development programs, training, and events for plant leadership teams.
• Performs other duties as required.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Plant Human Resources Manager experience in the manufacturing industry
• Automotive industry experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to be the site HR manager for the plant.
• Strong people management skills.
• Ability to design and lead strategic HR/SP activities.
• Ability to influence and persuade to achieve desired outcomes.
• Ability to identify future human capital challenges, and conduct activities for early intervention.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Proficient with computer systems (Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Results-oriented and flexible with change.
• Team collaborator: works cooperatively with others to solve problems.
• Self-motivated; takes initiative and works with a minimum of supervision.