Regional HR Manager {SE}

The Regional Human Resource Manager provides strategic HR leadership across three manufacturing locations, directly supporting one site and overseeing HR staff at the others. The role links workforce strategy with operational performance, capability, compliance, and employee experience.

• Strategic Regional Leadership: Partners with General Managers and site leaders, turns business priorities into people strategies, coaches HR staff, and promotes consistent HR practices.
• Talent and Workforce Planning: Leads staffing, recruitment, learning and development, succession planning, leadership-pipeline development, and initiatives that improve engagement, culture, retention, and effectiveness.
• Employee Relations and Compliance: Manages complex employee-relations matters, including investigations, performance concerns, conflict resolution, and corrective action, while ensuring employment-law compliance, risk mitigation, and adherence to quality, safety, regulatory, and company requirements.
• Business and Operational Support: Uses workforce analytics (turnover, absenteeism, staffing, retention, labor costs), supports compensation programs, advances continuous improvement and productivity, and manages the HR budget.
• Qualifications and Capabilities: Requires a bachelor’s degree in human resources management, Business Administration, or a related field and 8+ years of related experience; 5+ years of HR management experience is strongly preferred. Desired capabilities include strategic thinking, business acumen, decisive leadership, talent development, change communication, adaptability, and employment-law knowledge.
• Systems and Work Conditions: Requires HRIS experience (UKG preferred) and proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; ERP knowledge is preferred. The role is primarily office-based near a manufacturing plant and may involve moderate to loud noise, heat, airborne particulates, hazardous materials, and required personal protective equipment.