Vice President Human Resources

Opportunity Overview

The Vice President of Human Resources (VP of HR) will set direction across GEOTEK in all areas of people, culture, and human resources to meet the company’s strategic needs while increasing employee engagement, retention, and satisfaction. The VP of HR for GEOTEK reports to the CEO and serves as a member of the company’s executive leadership team.

GEOTEK joined the Granite community in 2009 and shares its 100-year sustainability objective. This is an excellent opportunity for a leader who appreciates the support of a clear commitment to long‑term planning horizons. The VP of HR also serves as a member of the Human Resources Affinity, a group of HR leaders across the Granite Companies who collaborate closely on wellbeing, benefits, learning, compensation, and other talent‑related initiatives.

Reporting to the CEO, the Vice President of Human Resources (VP of HR) is responsible for providing leadership and direction across all GEOTEK sites, leading people strategy, culture, and employee communications. The role leads the human resources function to meet the strategic needs of the company while initiating efforts to increase employee engagement, retention, and wellbeing. The VP of HR leads the HR team, managing and developing a team of dedicated HR professionals to support the organization’s growing HR needs.

As a member of the executive leadership team, the successful candidate must be an effective, collaborative leader with the ability to connect the dots between vision, people, and performance.

Major elements of the VP of HR’s responsibilities include:

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CEO, the executive management team, and the Board of Directors in setting strategic direction for the company. Provide insight on team, talent, culture, and wellbeing as we craft strategic plans and initiatives.
• Champion a values‑driven, inclusive culture that reflects the company’s core values and models servant leadership at every level. Serve as a visible culture ambassador, internally and externally.
• Lead the people, culture, and communications aspects of acquisition integrations, serving as the relationship manager for new team members and leaders.

• Lead the HR function, supporting a 24/7 operation across multiple sites. Oversee policies and programs, including onboarding, talent management and workforce planning, employee training and development, compensation, workers compensation, safety, performance management, wellbeing, engagement, and inclusion (including EEO/affirmative action).
• Oversee HR‑related risk (compliance, employee relations, ethics, workplace safety in partnership with Operations and Safety) and ensure that HR policies and practices reflect GEOTEK’s values and protect its reputation.
• Keep abreast of emerging industry trends, technologies, and skills to anticipate talent needs and identify capability gaps, ensuring they are effectively planned for and addressed in support of organizational growth.
• Manage and monitor all benefit programs to ensure that costs are predictive and controlled and that program specifics are addressed to ensure that employee needs have been given the appropriate attention and benefits are competitive to attract and retain talent. Collaborate with the HR Affinity and Chief Financial Officer regarding the 401(k) plan, health, vision, dental, and other benefit vendor offerings.
• Lead communication and planning around changes in federal and state employment laws, advising on employee relations issues, organizational realignments, and other HR‑related functions as required.
• Lead the HR team in investigating employee complaints and disputes; work with leaders across the organization to administer disciplinary actions, suspensions, and terminations when needed.

• Lead annual and long‑range workforce planning (headcount, capabilities, and critical roles). Anticipate talent needs as new lines, facilities, or services are added and develop the long‑term talent roadmap.
• Lead organizational design at the enterprise level to support growth, productivity, and…