Vice President HR/EHS

Key Data Points

Manager: Chief Operating Officer - Greg Simpson
Direct Reports: 2 HR Managers, 2 EHS Managers, 1 Executive Administrative Assistant
Other Key Partners: CFO, VP Operations, VP Sales & Marketing, VP Engineering
Locations/Employees: Milwaukee, WI (258); Warwick, RI (123); Riberac, France (50); Suzhou, China (25).

Major Responsibilities

• SLT Membership - Partner with the President to effectively engage Lucas Leadership Team to accomplish collective objectives and achieve business financial and strategic goals.
• Ensure a strong leadership team is in place and fully developed and succession plans are maintained for key roles.
• Talent Acquisition and Retention - Develop, implement, and execute a recruitment and retention strategy with consistent process and tools. Apply engagement and talent development strategies to drive retention. Maintain a talent pipeline of internal high potential candidates, candidates from internship programs and hiring from the outside.
• Culture - Utilize strong engagement strategies to achieve a dynamic culture, pushing employees to apply discretionary effort to achieve company goals. Utilize communication to bring employees together and understand how they individually contribute to the success of the whole.
• Compensation and Benefits - Effectively implement Steel Partners benefits and performance management processes. Communicate compensation and incentive programs to achieve transparency. Assess and communicate to Steel Partners the competitiveness of total rewards programs and practices to drive recruiting and retention.
• Talent and Organizational Development - Effectively implement the Steel Partners performance management system. Identify and promote high potential employees, and ensure key positions have successor candidates. Encourage employees to make use of all development tools, including learning management system and tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Relations - Deliver effective employee relations strategies to support the culture/values and ensure business success. Establish relationships with employees. Provide coaching and act as adviser to employees, management, and senior leaders.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Actively promote the organization’s efforts to encourage diversity and foster an inclusive environment. Ensure HR practices, policies, programs, and guidelines support diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
• HR Operations - Maximize the use of HR systems, and recommend new tools as necessary, to support achievement of HR strategies and company goals. Encourage employee self-service to drive efficiency and transparency.
• EHS - Ensure EHS program complies with regulatory requirements and reporting. Support EHS team to implement necessary programs in Operations to achieve safe work, even if at odds at times with production goals. Promote health and wellness through leading EHS and HR programs and tools.

KPIs

Identify metrics annually for HR and EHS that allow progress against goals to be tracked regularly. Adjust action plans as necessary to ensure goals are met, implementing countermeasures for missed targets.