HR Manager

Destaco; Wheeling (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DESTACO, a Stabilus Company, seeks an experienced Human Resources Manager for its Wheeling, IL facility. You will lead HR strategies for recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and development for hourly and salaried teammates, partnering with the Plant Manager to drive engagement and high performance.

You will oversee talent acquisition, retention, safety, and employee relations, implementing continuous improvement and lean initiatives across the site while traveling up to 10% as needed.

Qualifications

• 7–9 years of HR Generalist experience with leadership at a manufacturing facility.
• Experience in non-union environments is required.
• Familiar with the Chicagoland talent market is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Fosters a culture of transparency, disciplined problem-solving, high-performance work teams, and continuous improvement.
• Leads talent identification and succession planning with site leadership.
• Drives employee engagement and cross-functional collaboration.
• Coaches employees and managers on employee relations and problem solving.
• Promotes safety and continuous improvement across manufacturing teams.

Skills

HR Leadership

Talent management

Change management

Coaching

Communication

Strategic thinking

Lean/CI

Recruitment

Employee relations

Analytical

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Position Description

Human Resources Manager

Wheeling, IL

Company Overview:

DESTACO, a Stabilus Company, is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance automation, workholding, and remote handling solutions. The company serves customers in a variety of end-markets, including the automotive, life sciences, consumer goods, packaging, aerospace, and nuclear sectors.

Built on a legacy of over 100 years, DESTACO offers a comprehensive portfolio of products to engineer precise movement, placement and control solutions that drive productivity and uptime for manufacturers around the world. The DESTACO family of products consists of industry-leading brands such as DESTACO Manual and Power Clamps, Camco and Ferguson Indexers, Robohand Grippers and CRL Manipulators and Transfer Ports.

DESTACO is based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and operates globally through ~700 employees across 13 locations.

With nearly 90 years of demonstrated expertise, The Stabilus Group is one of the world's leading providers of motion control solutions for customers across a broad spectrum of industries.

Stabilus, approaching 1.5B EUR in revenue, is headquartered in Koblenz, Germany and employs more than 7,000 team members across 34 locations in 18 countries.

Stabilus SE is listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Position Summary:

The Human Resources (HR) Manager is responsible for providing HR leadership and support of a multi-functional, multi-product line manufacturing facility. This includes the coordination and implementation of systems, processes, policies and programs for recruitment and selection, onboarding, coaching as well as training and development for both the hourly and salaried workforce. This role will partner closely with the Plant Manager in developing and implementing strategic initiatives around engaging the employee workforce and creating high performing teams.

The Human Resources Manager reports to the Human Resources Director with a dotted line to the Plant Manager. This position is of key importance and visibility within the Company. This position is in Wheeling, IL and requires the ability to travel up to 10%.

Key Job Responsibilities included but not limited to:

• As a member of the plant leadership team, fosters a culture of transparency, disciplined problem-solving, high-performance work teams, and continuous improvement. Strives to ensure the appropriate team, tools, and processes are in place to support these desired cultural traits.
• Works with Destaco's corporate team on identifying key talents, aligning them in the right roles, and preparing them to deliver great results for the company.
• Creates excitement within the facility with a keen ability to drive strong employee engagement and cross-functional collaboration.
• Operates as a trusted leader for the site, coaches both employees and managers on all employee relations, helps establish a culture of problem solvers
• Fosters an environment of appreciation within the facility, developing ways to recognize employees and celebrate wins.
• Leads and promotes safety awareness with other key members of the plant team. Promotes accident prevention and employee involvement in regard to a safe work environment. Ensures employees understand the safety expectations of the organization.
• Leverages continuous improvement tools to drive continued operational improvements and ensures engagement of the entire manufacturing team through strong communication and clear direction.
• Drive proactive workforce planning for future and current staffing needs. Will lead all hiring, onboarding and retention activities with the support of corporate team.
• Provides support with compensation and benefits questions and delivery for the site.
• Other challenging and amazing duties as they arise.

Job Requirements:

• 7-9 years of experience of HR Generalist experience including HR Leadership at a manufacturing facility (manufacturing experience desirable)
• Successful experience with high performance work teams in a non-union facility required.
• Experience working in and knowledge of the broader Chicagoland area and talent market highly desired.

Experience with leading and implementing the following in some capacity:

• Change Management
• Coaching and developing managers, supervisors and team members
• Talent Acquisition/Recruitment
• Experience with Continuous Improvement / Lean processes and tools

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High energy, tenacity to get results, does what it takes to win
• Independent self-starter and strong learner
• Hands on with the ability to do heavy lifting work directly and through others
• Excellent communicator including verbal, and written skills
• Natural relationship builder/collaborator
• Strong business acumen, analytical and strategic capabilities balanced with ability to implement and get the right things done with strong organization skills and attention to detail.
• Best-practice and continuous process improvement oriented
• Demonstrated ability to work across levels and cultures a plus

Education and Certification Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required

Travel Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other factors prohibited by law.