Junior Architectural Project Design Manager - Residential

TM Grupo Inmobiliario; Alicante; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Life and accident insurance

Salary continuation during illness or

Flexible working hours

Fuel cards

Learning Academy & Mentoring

Job summary

Clarios is seeking a Plant HR Manager to lead HR for two manufacturing sites in Spain (Guardamar del Segura and Ibi). You will act as strategic advisor to local leadership, shape organizational effectiveness, and drive employee engagement for ~550 employees across sites.

You will be responsible for HR processes, payroll governance, compliance, talent development and labor relations, partnering with Works Councils and senior management to implement an ambitious HR agenda.

Qualifications

• University degree in HR, Law, Economics or related field.
• Strong experience as HR Manager in industrial production.
• Fluent in Spanish and English.
• Experience with Works Councils and labor law.

Responsibilities

• Lead HR for two manufacturing sites in Spain (Guardamar del Segura and Ibi).
• Partner to Plant Manager and align regional HR strategy with local execution.
• Oversee payroll, recruitment, talent development and HR administration; ensure labor-law compliance.
• Develop and lead the local HR teams; drive organizational development and culture.
• Collaborate with Works Council and international HR projects.

Skills

HR leadership

Labor law

Works Councils

Change management

Strategic partner

Bilingual Spanish-English

Education

HR/Law/BA degree

Job description

Spain, Alicante, Guardamar del Segura

Spain, Ibi

Full time

WD49627

Your role

As Plant HR Manager (m/f/d), you will lead the HR function for two key manufacturing sites in Spain, serving as a strategic advisor to local leadership teams and a champion for employee engagement and organizational effectiveness. You will guide approximately 550+ employees through an evolving business environment while ensuring excellent HR service delivery, strong employee relations, and sustainable business performance across the Guardamar del Segura battery plant and the Ibi poly plant.

The position will be based at the Clarios battery plant in Guardamar del Segura in Spain.

Key Responsibilities

• Represent the EMEA HR function at plant level, providing strategic HR leadership and ensuring alignment between regional HR strategy and local business execution while acting as the primary HR business partner to the Plant Manager.
• Overall responsibility for all HR processes at the site, including temporary labor, recruiting, talent development, employee relations, labor law compliance, payroll and HR administration
• Leadership and development of the local HR teams
• Establish and maintain a strong HR Business Partner role for the Plant Manager while representing the EMEA HR organization at site, ensuring regional HR strategies, standards, and initiatives are effectively implemented locally
• Design and implementation of a future-oriented HR agenda in the context of growth, organizational development, and leadership culture
• Confident and solution-oriented collaboration with the Works Council
• Overall governance of the payroll agenda
• Ensuring discipline and managerial accountability within the production environment together with the leadership team
• Strengthening, refining, and continuously supervising existing compensation, benefits, and performance management systems.
• Supporting employee engagement, company culture, and internal communication
• Active involvement in cross-functional, international HR projects (HR digitalization, process efficiency, leadership development)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• University degree in HR, Law, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field
• Solid years of experience as HR Manager / HR Lead in an industrial production environment, ideally automotive environment
• Advanced working knowledge of labor law and its practical application.
• Proven track record in transformation or change processes, ideally involving cultural and/or structural change
• Experience working with Works Councils and confidence in handling labor law matters
• Ideally, experience in building or scaling HR structures in growing organizations
• Fluency in Spanish and English language
• A strong leader with a cooperative mindset, bringing clarity, structure, and energy to the team
• Strong interpersonal skills and assertiveness - credible on the shopfloor as well as within the management team
• Ability to think strategically while reliably managing operational HR processes

What we offer you

• Exciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international future-oriented environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement, and sustainability
• Your well-being is very important to us: Private medical, life and accident insurance & 100% salary continuation during illness or workplace accidents
• Arrange your working hours via our flexible working hours model and combine your professional and private life even better according to our mobile work policy
• Power your drive to work with Fuel cards (Repsol & Cepsa) provided by us
• Our well-advanced onboarding process supports you to quickly grow into the position and team. By using the offering in our Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program you will be able to further grow professionally and personally

About Clarios

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus - advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here ( (PDF).

Clarios is the creator behind the world's most recognizable car battery brands. We are the car battery found in most new vehicles including leading brands such as Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan. Our 16,000 employees develop, manufacture, and distribute batteries for virtually every type of vehicle. We recover, recycle, and reuse up to 99% of our battery materials, leading sustainability practices in our industry.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email