Manager, Human Resources, Madera

POSITION PURPOSE

The Human Resources Manager serves as a strategic business partner to site leadership, helping drive organizational effectiveness, workforce capability, employee engagement, and business performance. This role proactively identifies opportunities, solves complex people and organizational challenges, leverages data to drive informed decision-making, and partners across functions to build a high-performing, inclusive, and continuously improving culture. As a highly visible, onsite leader, the incumbent is expected to maintain a strong presence throughout the facility, fostering relationships with employees and leaders while remaining connected to the day-to-day realities of the manufacturing environment.

• Plan, develop, organize, implement, direct, and evaluate the site’s Human Resource function and performance aligned to site business objectives. This includes the development and implementation of change management and communications activities.
• Ensures that the site’s people strategy is aligned to BAC by fostering an innovative, diverse, agile, and empowered culture that enables strategic growth and grows BAC’s identity as an Employer of Choice.
• Translate strategic and tactical business plans into HR strategic and operational plans.
• Manage the budget and other financial impacts of the plant human resource department.

• Lead site workforce planning initiatives by partnering with business leaders to anticipate staffing needs, identify capability gaps, develop succession pipelines, and align talent strategies with short- and long-term business objectives.
• Partner with site leadership to assess organizational effectiveness, recommend organizational design improvements, clarify roles and accountabilities, and build structures that support business growth and operational excellence.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition Team to develop and support staffing strategies to identify talent within and outside the plant for positions of responsibility.

• Champion the employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle, ensuring meaningful onboarding, development opportunities, recognition programs, career growth pathways, and positive employee relations practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders by providing coaching on performance management, employee relations, leadership effectiveness, team dynamics, conflict resolution, and change management.
• Partner with leaders in design and presentation of engaging training programs for all levels of the facility to educate and develop employees.
• Establish credibility throughout the organization with management and employees as an effective listener and problem solver.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within HR and across the site by identifying process inefficiencies, leveraging employee feedback, utilizing workforce data, and implementing sustainable solutions that improve operational effectiveness and employee experience.
• Analyze workforce metrics including turnover, engagement, recruiting effectiveness, absenteeism, labor productivity, retention, and talent movement trends to identify root causes, provide actionable recommendations, and influence business decisions.

• Partner with the site EHS Manager to embed safety culture, drive workers’ compensation cases to close and facilitate successful return to work programs.

The Human Resource Manager will report to the Regional Operations HR Leader
- Americas and will have matrixed reporting to the site Plant Manager. As part of the Americas Human Resource Team, the Human Resources Manager will have interactions and engagement with the HR Director
- Americas as well as partner with the HR Managers at other locations for consistent implementation of policies and procedures. The Human Resources Manager will have direct reports.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, HR or similar required. MBA is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Human…