Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design, supply, and service a range of water systems and monitoring equipment in industries ranging from pharmaceutical to food and beverage applications, and from microelectronics ultrapure water to municipal water and industrial wastewater treatment. We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of total organic carbon (TOC) analyzers and corresponding certified reference materials. Our ground-breaking endotoxin analyzer is the latest addition to our expanding analytical instruments portfolio. We strive to provide not only superior technology and design, but also outstanding quality, service, and application support.

Job Description

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is looking for an experienced Senior Human Resources Manager based in Baytown, Texas. This high impact HR professional will partner with the General Manager of our North America South Region ES Services business to support the success of our people.

The Senior HR Manager drives engagement within a growing industrial services setting. They influence leaders and understand both broad business, manufacturing and service specific challenges to enable a salary and an hourly workforce to meet business objectives.

They act as a subject matter expert providing guidance and direct support for functional areas such as employee relations, consultation/conflict resolution, policy interpretation and application, management consultation, talent acquisition, succession planning, workforce data analysis, and performance appraisal training.

This challenging role requires a high degree of emotional intelligence, critical thinking and
decision-making skills to work with all levels of management and hourly staff to help create a safe, healthy, vibrant work environment. If you like the idea of working with a company that’s doing big things to create a cleaner, more sustainable world, here’s more!

Key Responsibilities:
● You will guide the development and execution of workforce strategies in
collaboration with the human resources team and operations’ leadership.
● Ability to develop a deep understanding of the business. You will participate in client
activities to build knowledge of the operational objectives as well as our culture. This
includes attending client meetings to give HR updates while assessing operational
needs.
● You will look for new opportunities and solutions to deliver HR support in line with
business goals.
● Support workforce planning while monitoring trends such as turnover and time to fill
to support clients with staffing challenges. You will work closely with the Talent Acquisition shared service centre and management to identify and remove barriers to filling positions. Participation in the recruitment process may be necessary from time to time, in particular for any managerial positions.
● You will leverage data to identify opportunities for improvement in a number of key
workforce areas.
● You will manage local employee relations including conflict resolution, providing
counselling to managers and employees and conducting interviews. You will work
with managers to coach, train and guide them in regards to employee relations,
policy and procedure interpretation, turnover, employee satisfaction, performance
management, conflict resolution, and legal issues.
● You are accustomed to working in a shared service environment and will ensure that
HR workflows support this model while leveraging the expertise of HR COEs
(Compensation, Payroll & Benefits, Talent Acquisition, HRIS and Mobility).
● When issues arise, you will manage investigations for a variety of issues including
local government agency concerns, business practice complaints, and
Unemployment Claims.
● You will identify appropriate options for senior leadership consideration, making
recommendations as necessary, and writing summary reports to support business
decisions.

● You will also need to be fluent with compensation policies and able to give
recommendations to management on handling crucial compensation conversations.
This position partners with the compensation COE.

Qualifications

Core Requirements:
● Bachelor’s degree required with 10 years of HR Experience.
● Previous experience in a manufacturing, oil and gas, energy or chemicals industries
is preferable
● Strong employee relations experience is required
● Accustomed to working in a fast paced high growth working environment
● Solid working knowledge of Federal and local laws for the US as they pertain to
human resources administration, employee relations and investigation compliance
● Demonstrated ability to work with and influence an hourly manufacturing population
while provide strong partnership with management
● Based in the Greater Houston area
Travel:
● Ability to travel up to 20% out of the Greater Houston area

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.