Director of Human Resources - GAM Motion
Union Park Capital
·Yesterday
- Salary
- $120k – $180k/yr
- Location
- Mount Prospect, IL
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Human Resources
- Seniority
- Director
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- ApplyToJob
Description
Overview
Precision motion technologies are the unsung heroes of industrial automation, robotics, and smart factory systems that are foundational to Industry 4.0 as they enable smooth, reliable, and repeatable motion with sub-micron accuracy when it matters most. GAM Motion, a Union Park Capital portfolio company, is a proven leader in precision motion components, recognized for our engineering depth, flexible manufacturing, and highly collaborative approach to customer problem-solving. As we continue to scale and expand through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, we are building the talent and operational infrastructure needed for our next chapter.
Reporting to the CEO, the Director, HR will play a hands-on role shaping the company’s future building a scalable foundation for human resources by implementing new tools and processes while actively working alongside global teams to improve performance. You will translate GAM’s core values of Teamwork, Professionalism, Being Action-Oriented, Building Long-Term Relationships and a Fun atmosphere into competitive strategies that attract and retain high performing engineering talent. In this role, you will split your time between serving as the HR Generalist for the local site in Mount Prospect and serve as the strategic human resource leader for the broader organization in collaboration with the C-Suite and executive teams.
This role requires a servant leader who is equally strategic and willing to roll up their sleeves and do the daily administrative work and get into the weeds building capabilities into the organization from the ground up. Our platform is young but growing fast; therefore, the right person in this role has an opportunity for upward mobility and a clear pathway to expand their scope of responsibilities to the VP HR level influencing the corporate strategy, supporting M&A diligence and integrations and driving meaningful organizational impact as GAM grows.
Responsibilities
Precision motion technologies are the unsung heroes of industrial automation, robotics, and smart factory systems that are foundational to Industry 4.0 as they enable smooth, reliable, and repeatable motion with sub-micron accuracy when it matters most. GAM Motion, a Union Park Capital portfolio company, is a proven leader in precision motion components, recognized for our engineering depth, flexible manufacturing, and highly collaborative approach to customer problem-solving. As we continue to scale and expand through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, we are building the talent and operational infrastructure needed for our next chapter.
Reporting to the CEO, the Director, HR will play a hands-on role shaping the company’s future building a scalable foundation for human resources by implementing new tools and processes while actively working alongside global teams to improve performance. You will translate GAM’s core values of Teamwork, Professionalism, Being Action-Oriented, Building Long-Term Relationships and a Fun atmosphere into competitive strategies that attract and retain high performing engineering talent. In this role, you will split your time between serving as the HR Generalist for the local site in Mount Prospect and serve as the strategic human resource leader for the broader organization in collaboration with the C-Suite and executive teams.
This role requires a servant leader who is equally strategic and willing to roll up their sleeves and do the daily administrative work and get into the weeds building capabilities into the organization from the ground up. Our platform is young but growing fast; therefore, the right person in this role has an opportunity for upward mobility and a clear pathway to expand their scope of responsibilities to the VP HR level influencing the corporate strategy, supporting M&A diligence and integrations and driving meaningful organizational impact as GAM grows.
Responsibilities
- Champion of core values and develops mechanisms to reinforce a positive organizational culture across platform
- Responsible for implementing and optimizing HR systems to deliver HR Analytics and talent programs efficiently and effectively
- Sets Human Resource policy across all locations and acquired entities – owns the employee handbook for the full platform
- Develops standardized compensation and benefits philosophy that incentivizes performance and pay equity
- Designs programs for talent development, succession and career pathing in alignment with key organizational objectives
- Builds harmonized job levels, titles and compensation bands
- Drives human resource workstreams for M&A post-close integrations
- Owns Employee Relations and related policies
- Owns end to end Talent Acquisition programs from shaping roles with management through identification, sourcing, hiring and onboarding top talent.
- Develops an authentic and attractive employer value proposition to improve quality of candidates
- Manages and runs payroll locally in Mount Prospect with responsibility for ensuring seamless delivery of compensation and benefits through the rest of the organization
- Coordinates company events including holiday parties, birthdays, lunches, picnics
Qualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business administration or related field.
- Minimum of 10-20 years of progressive Human Resource leadership experience in global manufacturing companies
- Demonstrated track record of shaping cultures through policy, incentive and communication
- Strong understanding of compensation, benefits
- Strong track record of attracting and retaining top engineering, commercial and operational talent
- Skilled change agent with demonstrated ability to lead change in industrial organizations
- Strong understanding of talent development with ability to design development programs that retain and advance high performers
- Strong understanding of Organizational Design and HR strategy for international manufacturing companies
- Strong partnership skills with presence and ability to communicate at executive and lower levels
- Obsessed with getting things done better, faster, and more efficiently with familiarity with AI tools
- Sits onsite in Mount Prospect with travel to other sites as needed
GAM offers a compensation and benefits package that includes a competitive salary, choice of 3 medical plans, dental reimbursement, company paid life insurance and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, holidays, flexible work schedule, business casual environment, and more.