Human Resources Director

Description

FOXTROT AVIATION SERVICES

Job Description — HR Director

The HR Director is the senior-most Human Resources leader for Fox Trot Aviation Services, a multi-location aviation and facility-detailing services company operating across multiple states in safety-sensitive environments. Reporting to executive leadership, the HR Director owns HR strategy, multi-state employment-law compliance, employment-risk management, benefits strategy, workforce planning, and leadership of the HR team. The role sets policy and direction, advises the executive team, and leads the company's highest-risk employment decisions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the HR strategy in alignment with company growth goals and operational needs.
• Advise executive leadership on workforce planning, labor strategy, and organizational structure.
• Lead company-wide HR policy development and HR initiatives across all locations.
• Oversee HR systems, processes, and strategic reporting, and review HR metrics to guide decisions.

• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws across all operating locations and states.
• Oversee policy updates as laws change (wage-and-hour, leave, pay transparency, and related requirements).
• Provide guidance on complex employment matters and legal risk, coordinating with outside employment counsel when necessary.
• Oversee compliance across FLSA wage-and-hour, OSHA workplace safety, FMLA and state leave, ADA accommodations, and EEOC / anti-discrimination law.
• Lead HR compliance reviews and audits and ensure required documentation is maintained.

• Identify and mitigate employment-related risk and oversee the company's legal exposure.
• Oversee internal investigations into harassment, discrimination, and workplace misconduct, personally leading high-risk matters.
• Manage litigation risk and coordinate legal responses.
• Partner with insurance providers on employment practices liability (EPLI) coverage.
• Partner with operations leadership to strengthen the safety culture in a safety-sensitive aviation environment.

• Design and manage the overall benefits strategy and long-term benefits planning.
• Lead benefits renewals and broker negotiations and evaluate cost-control strategies for health plans.
• Oversee retirement plan strategy and governance.
• Ensure compliance with ACA reporting, ERISA, and COBRA requirements.

• Forecast staffing needs, labor costs, and expansion planning, and develop long-term recruitment and retention strategies.
• Analyze turnover, staffing levels, and labor-market trends to inform decisions.
• Establish recruiting strategy and employer branding and set onboarding standards and programs.
• Oversee leadership development, succession planning, and the leadership / compliance training strategy.
• Partner with operations leadership on workforce scalability across locations.

• HR staff and establish HR performance standards and goals.
• Lead HR training initiatives for people managers across the company.
• Ensure consistent, compliant HR practices across all sites and states.

• Provide guidance on complex employee-relations issues, disciplinary actions, and terminations.
• Review and approve high-risk terminations and other high-risk employment decisions.
• Oversee sensitive investigations and ensure fair, consistent, and legally sound outcomes

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Progressive HR experience, including senior HR leadership and team supervision.
• Demonstrated expertise in multi-state employment law and compliance (FLSA, FMLA, ADA, OSHA, EEOC).
• Proven experience owning benefits strategy, broker negotiations, and employment-risk management.
• Strong track record leading investigations and advising executives on complex employee-relations and legal matters.
• Excellent leadership, judgment, and communication skills, with the ability to influence at the executive level.

• Master's degree in HR, business, or a related field.
• SHRM-SCP or HRCI-SPHR Certification
• Experience in aviation, transportation, manufacturing, or another safety-sensitive, multi-location industry.
• Experience with DOT/FAA-regulated or drug-and-alcohol testing programs and safety-sensitive workforce compliance.

Directly supervises HR staff and provides functional leadership for all HR activity across company locations. Establishes performance standards, develops the team, and ensures consistent HR practices company-wide.