HR Manager

We are partnered with a long-established, rapidly growing manufacturing organization.

This HR Manager opportunity supports a smaller, highly active manufacturing facility with approximately 300employees. The site operates 24/7 with a highly tenured, skilled workforce. This is a true hands-on plant HR role
. The person coming in will work alongside the Sr. HR Manager across everything from hourly payroll and recruiting to employee relations, union grievances, training, performance management, and broader corporate projects.

• Serve as a hands-on HR partner to frontline supervisors across the plant.
• Take significant ownership of hourly payroll processing
  , which runs biweekly and typically requires approximately 6–8 hours each cycle.
• Learn and administer the union contract, particularly the compensation and payroll provisions that drive many employee questions and grievances.
• Field employee relations issues and union grievances while continuing to build labor-relations knowledge.
• Participate in hourly performance reviews followed by the salaried performance-management cycle.
• Support benefits and open enrollment.
• Facilitate meetings, training sessions, and employee communications.
• Participate in corporate projects and occasionally support other locations.

• Manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Adjacent backgrounds could include distribution, logistics, industrial, or other environments with significant hourly employee populations.
• Experience working in a union environment is highly valuable, but someone with the right aptitude and desire to learn labor relations can be considered.
• Comfortable handling both highly tactical responsibilities and increasingly strategic work.
• Must be willing to personally process payroll—not simply oversee it.
• Strong employee-relations judgment and comfort working directly with hourly employees.
• Recruiting experience or willingness to own recruiting initiatives.
• Strong facilitator and communicator who can eventually stand in front of employee groups and leadership teams.
• Curious, energetic, and genuinely interested in learning the operation.
• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred; HR-specific degree is not required.

This is an exceptional opportunity to learn under a leader who is highly invested in developing HR talent while gaining broad, hands-on exposure across payroll, labor and employee relations, recruiting, talent management, benefits, training, and corporate initiatives. The role also offers the chance to deepen union and labor relations expertise in a collaborative environment while serving as a highly visible, on-site HR partner to plant supervisors and employees.