HR Leader

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The Human Resources Leader is a senior HR professional who manages core HR activities across the team member lifecycle and leads efforts in talent acquisition, team member/labor relations, compliance, performance management, and talent management in a unionized site. This role collaborates with applicable teams to lead HR initiatives across inclusion, engagement, HRIS, safety, compensation, and benefits. This role serves as a subject matter resource and advisor to team members and leaders, handles complex escalations, and coordinates HR programs across functions/divisions/locations.

This position generally reports to the Division HR Manager.

The HR Leader performs direct responsibilities and accountabilities, including, but not limited to:

• Serve as a trusted HR partner and subject-matter advisor to functional and operational leaders to advise ontalent, performance, and engagement strategies.
• Mentor, coach, and potentially supervise HR team members; assign and prioritize operational tasks and provide development feedback.
• Oversee the talent acquisition process, review resumes, build candidate pools, and design structured interview and selection processes that leverage automation, ensure legal compliance and fair evaluation.
• Create offer recommendations aligned to internal equity and market data; oversee preemploymentscreening process and onboarding quality.
• Lead complex team member relations, investigate escalations, recommend corrective actions, and document findings.
• Ensure fair, consistent application of policies and practices, adherence to employment/labor laws, and leadaudit readiness and corrective actions.
• Lead the full performance cycle (goal setting, check-ins, calibration, merit, reviews) across assigned business units.
• Partner with leaders in talent reviews, succession planning, and development planning. Monitor performance trends and talent movement; provide guidance on performance improvement plans and development pathways.
• Address complex compensation and benefits questions; partner with applicable teams as needed.
• Lead inclusion and engagement initiatives, including survey action planning and recognition programs;compile insights and present to leadership.
• Oversee HR data integrity and conduct HR reporting and analytics; translate insights into recommendations for leaders.
• Collaborate with EH&S to coordinate training, incident documentation, trend analysis, and post-incident actions.
• Coordinate HR programs across the site to ensure alignment and execution excellence.
• Lead cross-functional HR projects; manage timelines, resources, and stakeholder alignment.
• Standardize and optimize HR processes and implement continuous improvement with measurable outcomes.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive HR experience.
• Advanced understanding of HR principles across the team member lifecycle (talent acquisition, relations,performance, compliance, compensation, benefits).
• Working knowledge of employment law fundamentals (EEO/AA, FLSA, FMLA, ADA), recordkeeping,and confidentiality requirements.
• Demonstrated exposure to complex team member relations, policy development, and HR program ownership.
• Proven experience with HRIS and ATS platforms (e.g., People Soft, Workday, Success Factors, UKG);proficient in Excel and data analysis.
• Experience leading HR projects and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.
• Bilingual in English & Spanish is a requirement

• HR certification in progress or completed (e.g., SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP, PHR).
• Exposure to manufacturing environments; familiarity with union/labor relations processes.

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