Manager, Human Resources, Madera

The Human Resources Manager serves as a strategic business partner to site leadership, helping drive organizational effectiveness, workforce capability, employee engagement, and business performance. This role proactively identifies opportunities, solves complex people and organizational challenges, leverages data to drive informed decision-making, and partners across functions to build a high-performing, inclusive, and continuously improving culture. As a highly visible, onsite leader, the incumbent is expected to maintain a strong presence throughout the facility, fostering relationships with employees and leaders while remaining connected to the day-to-day realities of the manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, organize, implement, direct, and evaluate the site’s Human Resource function and performance aligned to site business objectives, including change management and communications activities.
• Ensure the site’s people strategy aligns with organizational goals by fostering an innovative, diverse, agile, and empowered culture that enables strategic growth and reinforces the company’s identity as an Employer of Choice.
• Translate strategic and tactical business plans into HR strategic and operational plans.
• Manage the budget and other financial impacts of the plant human resource department.
• Lead site workforce planning initiatives by partnering with business leaders to anticipate staffing needs, identify capability gaps, develop succession pipelines, and align talent strategies with short- and long-term business objectives.
• Assess organizational effectiveness, recommend organizational design improvements, clarify roles and accountabilities, and build structures that support business growth and operational excellence.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition Team to develop and support staffing strategies to identify talent within and outside the plant for positions of responsibility.
• Champion the employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle, ensuring meaningful onboarding, development opportunities, recognition programs, career growth pathways, and positive employee relations practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders by providing coaching on performance management, employee relations, leadership effectiveness, team dynamics, conflict resolution, and change management.
• Partner with leaders in the design and presentation of engaging training programs for all levels of the facility to educate and develop employees.
• Establish credibility throughout the organization with management and employees as an effective listener and problem solver.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within HR and across the site by identifying process inefficiencies, leveraging employee feedback, utilizing workforce data, and implementing sustainable solutions.
• Analyze workforce metrics including turnover, engagement, recruiting effectiveness, absenteeism, labor productivity, retention, and talent movement trends to identify root causes, provide actionable recommendations, and influence business decisions.
• Partner with the site EHS Manager to embed safety culture, drive workers’ compensation cases to close, and facilitate successful return-to-work programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, HR, or a related field required; MBA preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Human Resources roles with progressively increasing responsibilities.
• Minimum 1 year of California-specific HR experience.
• Proven knowledge of all core HR processes, including performance management, leadership development, talent management, compensation, succession planning, training, and organizational development.
• Prior experience providing confidential counseling and coaching to all levels of the organization; exercising judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Ability to identify strategic needs, resource key projects, develop recommendations, and lead change implementation with little or no direction.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate people-related metrics into actionable results.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to clearly express complex ideas and deliver strong presentations.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to disseminate information clearly and concisely.
• Demonstrated sound judgment in decision-making, including the ability to involve appropriate stakeholders and make timely decisions.
• Prior direct experience managing and mentoring a team preferred.
• Demonstrated success in a manufacturing environment required.
• Professional certifications (e.g., PHR, SHRM) preferred.

Working Conditions

• While performing this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk up to 40% of the time.
• Occasional lifting up to 20 pounds.
• Travel, both domestically and internationally, up to 10% of the time.

Pay

BAC Hiring Compensation Range: $98,400 to $168,900.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision.
• Paid time off.
• 401k retirement plan.
• Employee stock ownership plan.
• Eligibility to participate in an annual bonus incentive program.