Human Resources Manager

About the role

Eaton’s Power Reliability Division is seeking a Human Resource Manager to join our team. This position is based at the South Milwaukee non-union manufacturing location with 360 employees. The role will report directly to the Plant Manager and has three (3) direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead the HR team consisting of a Lead HR Generalist, Sr HR Generalist, and HR Training Coordinator while serving on the plant leadership team focusing on partnering with peer leaders to drive continuous improvement and functional excellence across the facility.
• Lead employee and labor relations for 300 plant employees and 60 salaried employees across three shifts by building relationships, practicing positive employee engagement and investigating and resolving labor and employee issues timely and effectively.
• Drive HR functional excellence through deployment of Eaton programs, ensuring quality of process and content and alignment with the Eaton Business System to achieve goals and objectives.
• Develop, optimize, document and standardize sustainable processes, sharing best practices across the division.
• Lead the talent management and organizational effectiveness strategy by championing robust cross-training, succession planning, performance management practices and developing talent.
• Ensure compliance with all country, provincial, federal and state laws and compliance requirements
• Lead the talent acquisition strategy for all salaried and hourly positions while understanding trends in the local and national labor markets, facility turnover and annual profit plan headcount requirements.
• Lead the building organizational capability process by ensuring high levels of manager effectiveness, employee engagement and inclusion and diversity strategies to ensure facility has the talent and teams needed to meet our customer’s needs and key metrics.
• Foster a culture where ownership of health and safety is embraced by all employees.
• Utilize MESH to ensure compliance with state/federal/provincial safety requirements and drive a Zero Incident Safety Culture (ZISC).
• Security MESH champion.

Qualifications

• Required (Basic): Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution Minimum of seven (7) years Human Resources experience Minimum of three (3) years managing people Minimum of three (3) years working in a manufacturing environment Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship
• Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in Human Resources or MBA from an accredited institution 7 years managing people PHR or SPHR certification preferred