HR Manager

Build Relationships. Help Shape The Future.

Industrial Finishes & Systems is looking for more than an experienced HR professional. We are searching for a capable, curious, and highly adaptable leader who can help a successful organization continue to grow, and improve. This is an opportunity to lead the Human Resources function for a complex, multi-state company while working directly with our President/CEO, Chief Operating Officer, and senior leadership team.

For the right person, this is not simply another HR Manager position. It is an opportunity to be a part of a successful, still growing 68-year-young organization with a national footprint.

Industrial Finishes & Systems has been serving customers for more than 68 years. What began as a local business has grown into a stable and increasingly complex organization with:

• More than 40 locations
• Operations in over 17 states
• Nearly 400 employees
• Customers across the automotive, industrial, aerospace, recreational vehicle, and specialty-vehicle markets

We are proud of our history, but we are not standing still. We continue to grow, evolve, invest in our people, and prepare the organization for the future.

Our culture is grounded, in part, with Christian values of serving others, gratitude, genuine relationships, and integrity. We want capable leaders who are innovative, forward-thinking, and passionate.

The Human Resources Manager plans, leads, coordinates, and performs the functions of the Human Resources Department. As a member of our Corporate Office Leadership Team, you will work closely with the President/CEO and Chief Operating Officer to translate organizational strategy and leadership direction into effective HR programs, systems, practices, communication, and results.

You will lead the HR team, advise managers and senior leaders, strengthen HR systems, resolve complex employee matters, and help create greater consistency across a growing multi-state organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You must be comfortable moving between leadership conversations and practical execution. On any given day, you may coach a manager, lead an investigation, facilitate a difficult conversation, evaluate a compensation issue, improve an HR process, develop training, or advise senior leadership on an important employment decision.

You are a consummate professional with a proven record of HR leadership, but your experience and identity extend beyond policies and compliance.

Others describe you as:

• Genuinely humble
• Hungry to learn
• Naturally curious
• Emotionally intelligent
• Highly adaptable
• Resilient
• Creative
• Energetic
• Proactive
• Collaborative

You enjoy building relationships and serving others, but you are also able to establish priorities, professional boundaries, and clear expectations.

You are flexible without compromising your principles. You are humble without being passive. You are collaborative, but you are willing to respectfully disagree when the situation requires it.

You do not wait for every problem to arrive at your desk. You anticipate organizational needs, recognize emerging risks, identify opportunities for improvement, and recommend practical solutions.

You remain composed when circumstances change, priorities compete, or difficult issues arise. Rather than becoming discouraged by complexity, you bring structure, clarity, sound judgment, and forward movement.

Most importantly, you want to be part of a stable, growing organization where your work can influence employees, managers, leaders, and the future of the company.

In this position, you will:

• Lead, coach, develop, and support the Human Resources team.
• Translate organizational priorities into practical HR plans, processes, programs, and results.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the President/CEO, Chief Operating Officer, senior leaders, managers, and supervisors.
• Provide objective guidance regarding employee relations, performance management, workplace conduct, organizational needs, and employment-related risk.
• Conduct and oversee professional workplace investigations.
• Facilitate difficult conversations and help managers resolve employee and workplace conflicts.
• Maintain current knowledge of federal and multi-state employment laws.
• Develop, implement, communicate, and administer HR policies, practices, and programs.
• Lead or support recruiting, onboarding, performance management, employee development, succession planning, and retention initiatives.
• Design, facilitate, and coordinate training for employees, supervisors, and managers.
• Support compensation analysis, job evaluation, pay practices, and compensation‑plan design.
• Improve HR systems, processes, reporting, communication, and consistency across company locations.
• Use technology, automation, data, and artificial intelligence to improve HR effectiveness and employee service.
• Help leaders evaluate difficult decisions by considering legal requirements, company values, employee impact, operational…