Human Resources Business Partner

Human Resources Business Partner – Manufacturing

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Work Arrangement: Hybrid — three days onsite each week
Employment Type: Full-Time, Exempt
Salary Range: $90,000–$110,000 annually

Guided Niche is partnering with a growing client operating in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul market to identify an experienced and highly resourceful Human Resources Business Partner – Manufacturing
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This opportunity is ideal for an HR professional with an entrepreneurial spirit—someone who is comfortable navigating ambiguity, finding solutions, building processes, and moving work forward without waiting for a perfect roadmap.

The successful candidate will be curious, practical, collaborative, and willing to roll up their sleeves. This person must be able to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on execution while building credibility with executives, operational leaders, supervisors, and frontline employees.

The Human Resources Business Partner will support the organization’s manufacturing operations while partnering with leaders across the business. This position will provide hands‑on HR leadership in employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, compliance, employee development, and organizational effectiveness.

The HRBP will be expected to learn the business, understand operational challenges, identify what is getting in the way, and help build practical solutions that work.

This is not a narrowly defined or highly transactional HR role. It requires someone who can see what needs to be done, determine the best path forward, engage the right people, and follow through.

The position follows a hybrid schedule with three days each week onsite in Minnetonka. Regular visits to a nearby manufacturing operation and occasional schedule flexibility may be required to support employees working across multiple shifts.

• Serve as a trusted HR advisor to executives, operational leaders, supervisors, and employees.
• Develop a strong understanding of the company’s business model, manufacturing operations, workforce, culture, and growth objectives.
• Translate business challenges into practical people strategies and HR solutions.
• Coach leaders on communication, accountability, performance, employee development, and effective people-management practices.
• Identify organizational and workforce risks before they become larger problems.
• Balance employee needs, operational realities, legal requirements, and business priorities.
• Help leaders navigate change, growth, evolving responsibilities, and shifting business demands.

• Build strong, credible relationships with employees across departments, levels, backgrounds, and shifts.
• Respond to employee questions, workplace concerns, and employee relations matters promptly and professionally.
• Conduct fair, thorough, and well-documented workplace investigations.
• Guide leaders through performance improvement, corrective action, conflict resolution, accommodations, leave, and separation processes.
• Promote consistent and appropriate application of company policies.
• Identify employee relations trends and recommend proactive solutions.
• Handle sensitive information with confidentiality, sound judgment, and professionalism.

• Partner with manufacturing leadership to understand staffing levels, production needs, attendance patterns, skill gaps, and workforce challenges.
• Support workforce planning for business growth, production changes, seasonal needs, and hard‑to‑fill roles.
• Collaborate with recruiting to attract and hire production, maintenance, warehouse, supervisory, and other manufacturing talent.
• Improve onboarding, orientation, training, and early‑tenure employee retention.
• Help strengthen attendance, engagement, communication, recognition, and employee accountability.
• Support career development, succession planning, cross‑training, and internal advancement opportunities.
• Partner with leaders to create a respectful, safe, productive, and high‑performing work environment.

• Evaluate existing HR…