Regional Human Resources Manager

Cardinal Senior Living; Mentor (OH); In loco; USD 65.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Cardinal Senior Living is seeking a Regional Human Resources Manager to support Ohio communities from an onsite base in Mentor, OH. You will bring HR guidance to community leaders and ensure consistency, compliance, and confidence in employee matters across the region.

You will serve as a strategic HR partner, guiding operational leaders through people decisions, providing structure, guardrails, and clear recommendations. Travel throughout Ohio is required.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field.
• Strong employee-relations experience.
• Knowledge of FMLA and ADA; accommodations.
• Experience with workers’ compensation.
• Experience with performance management and investigations.
• Experience with terminations and corrective action.
• Knowledge of federal and state employment law.
• Strong documentation and case-management.
• Ability to coach leaders and travel Ohio region.

Mansioni

• Provide regional HR leadership across multiple Ohio communities.
• Take primary responsibility for employee relations and ensure consistency.
• Lead workplace investigations and manage documentation and case workflow.
• Own corrective action and performance management processes, coaching leaders.
• Support termination review and high-risk employment decisions with risk assessment.
• Manage FMLA administration and complex leave situations.
• Provide guidance on ADA and accommodations.
• Oversee workers’ compensation case management and return-to-work coordination.
• Ensure employment law and regulatory compliance are met.
• Interpret and apply HR policies consistently across communities.
• Escalate material employee, legal, or compliance risk as needed.
• Collaborate with Executive Directors and regional operations leadership.

Conoscenze

Employee relations

FMLA knowledge

ADA accommodations

Workers’ compensation

Performance management

Workplace investigations

Terminations

Corrective action

Employment law

Documentation

Coaching leaders

Traveling Ohio region

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field

Descrizione del lavoro

Cardinal Senior Living is seeking a Regional Human Resources Manager to support multiple Ohio communities from an onsite base in Mentor, OH. This role brings HR guidance directly to community leaders, strengthening consistency, compliance, and confidence when handling employee matters across the region.

In this position, you serve as a strategic HR partner and regional escalation point. You help operational leaders make sound people decisions by providing structure, compliance guardrails, and clear recommendations. Your work has a direct impact on how employee relations situations are managed and how effectively community leaders can lead day-to-day.

What You’ll Do

• Provide regional HR leadership across multiple Ohio communities.
• Take primary responsibility for employee relations and ensure issues are handled consistently.
• Lead workplace investigations and manage the documentation and case workflow.
• Own corrective action and performance management processes, including coaching leaders through difficult situations.
• Support termination review and high-risk employment decisions with careful risk assessment.
• Manage FMLA administration and complex leave situations, including support for leaders navigating challenging circumstances.
• Provide guidance on ADA and reasonable accommodations.
• Oversee workers’ compensation case management and return-to-work coordination, including review of active cases.
• Ensure employment law and regulatory compliance are met.
• Interpret and apply HR policies consistently across communities.
• Escalate material employee, legal, or compliance risk as needed.
• Work closely with Executive Directors and regional operations leadership to help them make better decisions.
• Ensure community leaders understand what to do, why, what risk exists, and where boundaries are.
• Prioritize quickly, communicate clearly, and distinguish routine matters from those that create meaningful organizational risk.

Compensation

$65,000 to $85,000 annually, based on experience, credentials, and demonstrated capability.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• Strong employee-relations experience.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of FMLA.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of ADA and accommodations.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Workers’ compensation.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of performance management.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of workplace investigations.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of terminations and corrective action.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of federal and state employment law.
• Strong documentation and case-management discipline.
• Ability to coach and influence operational leaders.
• Strong judgment and comfort making recommendations in ambiguous situations.
• Ability and willingness to travel throughout the Ohio region.
• SHRM-CP, PHR, SHRM-SCP, or SPHR (Strongly Preferred).
• Multi-site or regional HR experience (Strongly Preferred).
• Experience supporting decentralized operations such as senior living, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, or similar environments (Strongly Preferred).
• Experience supporting front-line leaders in high-volume employee populations (Strongly Preferred).

Why Cardinal

Cardinal Senior Living emphasizes that HR should help operators operate. The goal is to give leaders the judgment, structure, compliance guidance, and guardrails they need to lead effectively. This role directly influences how employee issues are addressed across the region and how confidently community leaders can make people decisions.

The Role in Practice

• Community leaders own the day-to-day people work.
• Your role is to ensure they know what to do, why, what risk exists, and where the boundaries are.
• You must prioritize quickly, communicate clearly, and recognize when situations are routine versus when they represent meaningful organizational risk.