Senior HR Leader, Manufacturing & Union Relations

Henkel; Bay Point (CA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Work-Life Balance

Financial: 401k matching and bonus

Job summary

Henkel is seeking a strategic HR leader to support a diverse workforce across the plant and corporate locations. You will lead HR initiatives on the production floor, oversee a team of HR business partners, and partner with centers of excellence to optimize Benefits, Compensation, and Talent Acquisition.

You will drive change, monitor HR KPIs, coach leaders, and ensure safe, inclusive, and compliant operations while leveraging AI tools for data-driven decisions. Travel up to 10% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Psychology, Business Administration or related field.
• Minimum 5 years professional HR experience.
• Prior experience leading, coaching, and developing HR professionals.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment; HR on production floor and prioritizing tasks to support.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
• Strong ability to handle complex HR concepts, practices, and procedures in areas such as dispute resolution, performance management, employment law, employee relations, recruiting/ Staffing, and communications.
• Demonstrated experience leading labor relations activities in a unionized manufacturing environment, including collective bargaining agreement administration, grievance resolution, union-management relations, and providing strategic guidance to plant leadership on labor matters.
• Comfort using AI tools to facilitate problem solving.
• Experience supporting employees in multiple locations is preferred.
• Ability to travel 10% time.

Responsibilities

• Lead, support and implement change management projects and manages HR related internal and external communication.
• Monitor relevant cultural & HR related KPI's such as turnover, drop off and engagement; work with local & regional teams to implement action plans.
• Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence to ensure best-in-class delivery of Benefits, Compensation, and Talent Acquisition resources to the plant.
• Frequently be present on manufacturing floor, interacting with employees to reinforce Henkel cultural values and address employee concerns.
• Act as a Champion of Henkel D&I commitment & steers diversity and integration management.
• Champion Henkel Safety Culture by modeling proper behavior and escalating recognized safety issues.
• Actively use storytelling using dashboards and visualization tools and uses data to make solid decisions.
• Comfort working in a union environment and able to interpret/administer collective bargaining agreement and provide appropriate guidance to leaders.

Skills

Change management

Labor relations

Employee relations

HR leadership

Communication

Data storytelling

Diversity & inclusion

Manufacturing HR

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Tools

AI tools

Dashboards

Visualization tools

Job description

Henkel is seeking a strategic HR leader to support a diverse workforce across the plant and corporate locations. You will lead HR initiatives on the production floor, oversee a team of HR business partners, and partner with centers of excellence to optimize Benefits, Compensation, and Talent Acquisition.

You will drive change, monitor HR KPIs, coach leaders, and ensure safe, inclusive, and compliant operations while leveraging AI tools for data-driven decisions. Travel up to 10% is expected.