HR Leader

Parker Hannifin; Town of Chetek (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

401(k) with company matching

Tuition reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Parker Hannifin is seeking an HR Leader to partner with business leaders to support talent, performance, engagement, employee relations, and workforce needs. This role oversees recruiting, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, compensation and benefits, HR reporting, and policy administration.

It also guides safety-related EH&S activities and leads inclusion efforts. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years HR experience, strong knowledge of HR principles, and proficiency with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, business administration, or related field.
• At least 5 years progressive HR experience.
• Strong understanding of HR principles across the employee lifecycle.
• Knowledge of employment law fundamentals (EEO/AA, FLSA, FMLA, ADA).
• Experience with HRIS/ATS platforms and data analysis.
• Proven ability to lead HR projects and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted HR partner to leaders on talent, performance, and engagement strategies.
• Mentor, coach, and potentially supervise HR team members.
• Oversee talent acquisition, design structured interview processes leveraging automation.
• Oversee preemployment screening and onboarding quality.
• Lead complex employee relations investigations and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws and policies; lead audits.
• Lead full performance cycle across business units.
• Collaborate on talent reviews, succession planning, and development planning.
• Address compensation and benefits questions with cross-team coordination.
• Lead inclusion and engagement initiatives and analytics reporting.

Skills

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related

5+ years HR experience

HR lifecycle proficiency

Employment law fundamentals

Complex employee relations

HRIS/ATS platforms

Excel and data analysis

HR project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

PeopleSoft

Workday

SuccessFactors

UKG

Job description

Org Marketing Statement

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems with $21.5B in revenue in FY26. Parker’s Quick Coupling Division is the largest manufacturer of quick couplings in the world. A quick coupling is used to provide a fast, make-or-break connection of fluid or gas transfer lines. Our plants provide critical equipment for many different industries including Agriculture, Construction, and Data Processing.

What Is a Quick Coupling?

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems with $21.5B in revenue in FY26. Parker’s Quick Coupling Division is the largest manufacturer of quick couplings in the world. A quick coupling is used to provide a fast, make-or-break connection of fluid or gas transfer lines. Our plants provide critical equipment for many different industries including Agriculture, Construction, and Data Processing.

What We Offer

• Solid employer present on the market for over 100 years.
• Career growth and opportunities: we hire from within.
• Collaborative and empowered work environment where team spirit is at the center of our success.
• Company values that encourage trust, respect, collaboration and professional growth.

Position Summary

Our Quick Coupling Division is looking for a HR Leader to partner with business leaders to support talent, performance, engagement, employee relations, and workforce needs. This role oversees key HR activities, including recruiting, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, compensation and benefits support, HR reporting, and policy administration. The HR Leader handles complex employee relations matters, helps ensure compliance with employment laws and company policies, and supports audits and corrective actions. This position also helps guide HR team members, supports safety-related activities with EH&S, and leads engagement and inclusion efforts. The role uses HR data and process improvements to help leaders make better decisions and improve business results.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted HR partner and subject-matter advisor to functional and operational leaders to advise on talent, performance, and engagement strategies.
• Mentor, coach, and potentially supervise HR team members; assign and prioritize operational tasks and provide development feedback.
• Oversee the talent acquisition process, review resumes, build candidate pools, and design structured interview and selection processes that leverage automation, ensure legal compliance and fair evaluation.
• Create offer recommendations aligned to internal equity and market data; oversee preemployment screening process and onboarding quality.
• Lead complex team member relations, investigate escalations, recommend corrective actions, and document findings.
• Ensure fair, consistent application of policies and practices, adherence to employment/labor laws, and lead audit readiness and corrective actions.
• Lead the full performance cycle (goal setting, check-ins, calibration, merit, reviews) across assigned business units.
• Partner with leaders in talent reviews, succession planning, and development planning. Monitor performance trends and talent movement; provide guidance on performance improvement plans and development pathways.
• Address complex compensation and benefits questions; partner with applicable teams as needed.
• Lead inclusion and engagement initiatives, including survey action planning and recognition programs; compile insights and present to leadership.
• Oversee HR data integrity and conduct HR reporting and analytics; translate insights into recommendations for leaders.
• Collaborate with EH&S to coordinate training, incident documentation, trend analysis, and post-incident actions.
• Coordinate HR programs across the site to ensure alignment and execution excellence.
• Lead cross-functional HR projects; manage timelines, resources, and stakeholder alignment.
• Standardize and optimize HR processes and implement continuous improvement with measurable outcomes.

The essential functions have been provided as example of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive HR experience required.
• Advanced understanding of HR principles across the team member lifecycle (talent acquisition, relations, performance, compliance, compensation, benefits).
• Working knowledge of employment law fundamentals (EEO/AA, FLSA, FMLA, ADA), recordkeeping, and confidentiality requirements.
• Demonstrated exposure to complex team member relations, policy development, and HR program ownership.
• Proven experience with HRIS and ATS platforms (e.g., PeopleSoft, Workday, SuccessFactors, UKG); proficient in Excel and data analysis.
• Experience leading HR projects and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• HR certification in progress or completed (e.g., SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP, PHR).
• Exposure to manufacturing environments; familiarity with union/labor relations processes.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Pay, Benefits, Work Schedule

Benefit & Retirement Plans

Parker Offers Competitive Benefit Programs, Including

• Participation in Annual Incentive Program
• Comprehensive coverage for medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, voluntary optional life, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance and critical illness insurance with competitive premium cost.
• 401(k) Plan with company matching contributions at 100% of the first 5% of pay.
• Company provided defined-contribution retirement plan with annual contribution equal to 3% of pay.
• Career development and tuition reimbursement.
• Other benefits including paid parental leave, short and long-term disability programs, adoption assistance, a Care.com membership and financial planning assistance are provided at no cost to you.
• Supplemental benefit programs including identity protection, legal protection, and pet wellness are available at competitive rates.
• Paid Time Off and Company-Paid Holidays.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affiliation is not quoted; this paragraph continues: Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affiliation. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)

If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Drug Tests

Drug-Free Workplace

In accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.