HR Talent Generalist, Beech Island Mill

Kimberly-Clark USA; Beech Island (SC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Kimberly-Clark Beech Island Plant is hiring an HR Talent Generalist to partner with manufacturing leaders and support talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, and workforce planning.

You will coach leaders, develop team capability, and drive continuous improvement while fostering safety, inclusion, and a culture of accountability. This role requires effective collaboration across functions and a passion for building a high-performing workforce.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Human Resources experience.
• Ability to influence leaders and employees through coaching and difficult conversations.
• Strong employee relations experience.
• Proven credibility and engagement with frontline/hourly employees.
• Manufacturing, industrial, warehouse, plant, or operations HR experience.
• Ability to work effectively in a large, complex and fast-paced environment.
• Clear, concise and direct communication style.
• Ability to navigate organizational change, ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Strong floor presence and comfort engaging employees across the facility.
• Ability to operate independently with limited development required.

Responsibilities

• Coach leaders on onboarding, performance management, employee relations, development planning, and career growth.
• Support recruitment activities, hiring events, onboarding programs, and workforce planning initiatives.
• Partner with leaders to identify capability gaps, succession opportunities, and development needs.
• Support performance management processes and employee development initiatives.
• Facilitate team effectiveness, leader assimilation, and change management efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement through coaching, collaboration, and problem solving.
• Promote site communications, recognition programs, engagement activities, and community initiatives.

Skills

Coaching

Employee relations

Influence leaders

Communication

Education

SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP/PHR/SPHR

Job description

HR Talent Generalist, Beech Island Mill

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it's all here for you-innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

You're not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we're out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you'll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

The HR Generalist serves as a trusted business partner to manufacturing leaders, providing support across talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, organizational effectiveness, learning and development, and workforce planning. This role helps build a high-performing, engaged workforce by coaching leaders, developing team capability, supporting organizational change, and fostering a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and mutual respect.

At the KC Beech Island Plant, we are transitioning from a traditional system to a High Performance Work System (HPWS) where employees are empowered to make decisions, solve problems, develop new skills, and directly influence business results.

HR Business Partnering

• Coach leaders on onboarding, performance management, employee relations, development planning, and career growth.
• Support implementation of people strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Partner with leaders to develop action plans from engagement and culture survey results.

Talent & Workforce Planning

• Support recruitment activities, hiring events, onboarding programs, and workforce planning initiatives.
• Partner with leaders to identify capability gaps, succession opportunities, and development needs.

Learning, Performance & Organization Effectiveness

• Support performance management processes and employee development initiatives.
• Facilitate team effectiveness, leader assimilation, and change management efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement through coaching, collaboration, and problem solving.

Communication & Employee Experience

• Support site communications, recognition programs, engagement activities, and community initiatives.
• Promote a culture of inclusion, accountability, teamwork, and employee ownership.

Compensation & HR Programs

• Partner with leaders and Centers of Excellence on compensation, retention, and workforce solutions.
• Support implementation of HR programs and corporate initiatives at the site.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In one of our professional roles, you'll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of Human Resources experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and employees through coaching and difficult conversations.
• Strong employee relations experience.
• Proven credibility and engagement with frontline/hourly employees.
• Manufacturing, industrial, warehouse, plant, or operations HR experience.
• Ability to work effectively in a large, complex and fast-paced environment.
• Clear, concise and direct communication style.
• Ability to navigate organizational change, ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Strong floor presence and comfort engaging employees across the facility.
• Ability to operate independently with limited development required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• High Performance Work System (HPWS) experience.
• Multi-site HR experience.
• Organizational transformation or change-management experience.
• Continuous improvement experience.
• SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR or SPHR certification.
• Willingness to relocate in the future.
• Experience in facilities of similar scale.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.

Here are just a few of the benefits you'd enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com