Human Resource Manager

Eaton’s Commercial Products & Assemblies (CPA) business is seeking a HR Manager to lead the HR function at one of our largest manufacturing sites in El Paso, TX. As a key member of the site’s senior leadership team, you’ll help shape the people strategy for a 1,000-person engineer-to-order manufacturing operation. Relocation assistance is available.

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the HR Manager provides strategic and tactical leadership for the HR function throughout the organization. As an integral part of the site leadership team, this role will identify, develop and deploy business-driven HR strategies designed to attract, manage, develop, motivate and retain talent while creating a high-performance, sustainable organization capable of achieving the business objectives and action plans.

In this role you will:

• Culture and Organization Effectiveness: Understand the business strategy and identify opportunities to improve organizational capability and drive culture change to align the organization with the strategy. Must have the ability to diagnose gaps between current and desired organization performance and deploy actions to resolve gap, including organization redesign, process change, coaching and training. Ensure organization practices align with Eaton Philosophy.
• Performance Management: Through the performance management system assure that annual employee job performance assessments are conducted. This includes the annual goal setting process, the annual assessment process and periodic feedback sessions that strive to raise the performance bar in the organization. Provide coaching and consulting to business leaders on effective performance management intervention.
• Employee Communications: Advocate employee communications processes that inform employees as well as to assure two way communications between employees and management.
• Coaching, Consulting and Facilitating: Provides guidance and direction to business leaders on human resource management policies, processes and systems.
• Training and Development: Manage these processes to facilitate employee development
• Legal Compliance: Assure that the business has in place processes that comply with country legal requirements in the areas of employment and employment administration. This includes several changing state and local jurisdictions across the United States.
• Compensation: Administer compensation programs to assure competitive pay practices through systems that strive to reward superior employee performance
• Employee Relations: Promotes positive employee relations and employee engagement.
• Talent Management and Retention: Develop talent acquisition plans that anticipate short/long-term business needs. Coach others on how to engage and retain key talent, identify when there is a retention risk and differentiate between wanted and unwanted turnover

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or other related field
• Minimum 5+ years of HR experience
• Requires knowledge of accepted HR theory, policies, practices, laws, and regulations affecting such areas as: Wage and Salary Administration, Labor Relations, OSHA, EPA, Right-to-Know, FMLA
• Administrative knowledge required includes Benefits Administration, Budgeting, Forecasting, Wage, and Salary Administration.

• Leadership and supervisory knowledge and skills are required
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Human Resources/Industrial Relations or related field
• Prior direct leadership experience managing people
• Experience in a manufacturing field
• SPHR/PHR certification is a plus

Position Criteria:

• Ability to navigate change management, re-prioritization, and ambiguity
• Must have strong conflict resolution skills, ability to diffuse tense situations, and maintain confidentiality
• Must have experience recruiting for top talent, both professional and production positions
• Well-developed verbal, written, and PC skills; along with training and facilitation skills

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year. This role is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.