Field HR Partner

ABM industries; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Travel up to 25%

Job summary

ABM Industries is seeking a Field HR Partner to align business objectives with employees and frontline leaders in the South TX Market. The role emphasizes a consultative HR partnership, data-driven decision making, and collaboration with HR Centers of Excellence.

The Hybrid role requires in-office or field presence 4 days a week and up to 25% travel. ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package and a focus on enabling a high engagement, high performance workforce across a distributed hourly team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources Management or related field or 10+ years of related experience in lieu of degree.
• Minimum 5 years of applicable HR, business operations or management experience.
• Experience with a large hourly and distributed workforce is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR guidance to line management.
• Foster an engaging, customer-focused workforce environment.
• Review onboarding and orientation for new leaders.
• Analyze turnover, retention and engagement trends for improvement.
• Plan staffing needs with leadership and Talent Team.
• Collaborate with Learning & Development on frontline programs.
• Read data to drive continuous improvement and decision making.
• Manage employee relations investigations and policies.

Skills

HR guidance

People analytics

Consultation

Change management

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

Bachelor's Degree in HR Management or related field

10+ years experience in HR

Experience with large hourly/distributed workforce

Job description

Overview

ABM Industries is seeking a Field HR Partner to align business objectives with employees and front-line leaders in the South TX Market. Bilingual ability (English/Spanish) is preferred.

This position serves as a consultant to front line leaders on human resource-related issues. The successful Field HR Partner acts as an employee champion and change agent. The role assesses and anticipates HR-related needs. Works in collaboration with HR centers of excellence to achieve talent goals necessary to sustain and drive business performance. Ability to implement innovative and practical solutions through a strong process and metrics focus. The position formulates partnerships across the HR function to deliver value-added service to management and employees that reflects the business objectives of the organization.

This is a Hybrid Role (expected to be in-office or in the field 4 days/week) with up to 25% travel. Our regional ABM office is located at: 9211 Waterford Centre, Austin, TX 78758.

Benefit Information: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM's benefits, visit ABM 2026 Employee Benefits | Staff & Management

Responsibilities

• Consults with line management, providing HR guidance when appropriate.

• Building and maintaining an environment for our Team Members that results in a high customer focused and engaged workforce.

• Review onboarding and orientation for new leaders.

• Analyzes trends and metrics, seeking opportunities and strategies to improve trends in turnover, retention and key indicators of employee and customer engagement.

• Partner with leadership to understand current and future staffing needs.

• Partner with Talent Team to develop workforce plans that respond to current and future staffing needs.

• Partner with Learning & Development Team to ensure key programs are focused on front line managers and team members.

• Ability to read and understand data to inform continuous improvement and inform decision making.

• Manages and resolves employee relations issues. Conducts effective, thorough and objective investigations.

• Maintains in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. Partners with legal as needed/required.

• Provides day-to-day performance management guidance to front line leaders (e.g., coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions).

• Works closely with front line leaders to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention.

• Provides HR policy guidance and interpretation.

• Provides guidance and input on business restructures, workforce planning and succession planning.

• Identifies training needs for business and individual coaching needs.

• Participates in evaluation and monitoring of training programs to ensure success. Follows up to ensure training objectives are met.

• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence to deliver programs to meet organizational goals

• Review key business performance targets and their related talent implications with business leaders.

• Identify and drive the sharing of best practices across functions to facilitate continuous improvement.

• Understand and mitigate corporate risk associated with relevant employment laws/policies

• Partner with and maintain an effective matrix relationship with HR COE and Team Member Services

Qualifications

Qualifications – Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources Management or related field

• In lieu of degree, 10+ years of related experience required

• Minimum of 5 years of applicable experience in Human Resources, business operations or management

• Appropriate experience with a large hourly & distributed workforce is a strong plus

• Experience working with union and non-union employees preferred

Qualifications – Other Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Clear, comprehensive understanding of the link between talent and other HR initiatives and business strategy

• Strong consultation and communication skills

• Ability to effectively challenge, influence, and develop productive relationships inside and outside of HR

• Intellectual agility, interpersonal flexibility and deep curiosity to learn

• Exposure to strong process and project management discipline

• Effective team player and networker

• Travel expectation up to 25% - local travel

• Bilingual ability (English/Spanish) preferred.

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