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Director of HR - Hybrid
Location: Tiffin, OH area
Step into a high-impact, strategic HR leadership role where your expertise directly shapes business outcomes, talent strategy, and organizational growth. Enjoy executive-level influence and multi-site team oversight while leveraging the stability of a non-automotive, non-union environment—complemented by the ultimate flexibility of a hybrid work schedule (1–2 days per week from home).
Why Join Our Executive Team?
📌 Strategic Seat at the Table: Partner directly with executive leadership to align talent strategy with long-term business goals, driving measurable organizational growth and culture transformation.
📌 Multi-Site Leadership Scale: Direct, mentor, and elevate a high-performing, tenured team of HR professionals across multiple operational facilities.
📌 Agile, Non-Automotive & Non-Union Environment: Lead within a collaborative, forward-thinking organizational framework that values innovation, modern HR practices, and a business-casual culture.
📌 True Hybrid Flexibility: Achieve an ideal professional-personal balance with a structured hybrid schedule (1–2 days remote weekly) and stable, weekday-focused hours.
📌 Dedicated Leadership Workspace: Enjoy the privacy, comfort, and productivity of your own individual office within an employee-centric corporate campus.
Key Responsibilities:
As the Director of HR, you will provide overarching strategic vision and operational leadership to a dedicated team across multiple sites. Key execution areas include:
- Strategic Business Alignment: Drive the overarching HR vision by integrating departmental strategies with key enterprise goals, fostering cross-functional alignment, and championing continuous workforce optimization.
- Executive Coaching & Leadership Development: Act as a trusted strategic advisor to managers and executives, facilitating executive coaching, high-level conflict resolution, and modern talent strategy execution.
- Workforce Continuity & Leave Strategy: Direct enterprise-wide leave programs (FMLA, ADA, Disability, USERRA), governing interactive ADA processes and partnering with finance/payroll to ensure a frictionless employee experience.
- Governance, Policy & SOP Ownership: Architect, refine, and enforce scalable HR policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to mitigate operational risk, strengthen compliance, and ensure structural data integrity.
- Employee Relations & Organizational Health: Lead strategic employee relations frameworks and complex investigations, ensuring consistent, equitable, and resolution-focused outcomes aligned with enterprise risk management.
- Talent Elevation & Performance Optimization: Architect performance management frameworks, employee engagement initiatives, and succession pathways, leveraging workforce trends to advise leadership on structural improvements.
- Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Monitor state and federal labor landscapes proactively to safeguard the organization, overseeing back-up operations for Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Risk Management.
- Targeted Capability Building: Design and roll out high-impact training initiatives for leadership and employees, focusing on modern management, policy adherence, legal compliance, and DFWP programs.
- HR Analytics & Data Insights: Harness HR analytics, retention metrics, and workforce data to perform comprehensive compliance audits and guide data-backed executive decision-making.
- Change Leadership & Cross-Functional Projects: Cultivate strong relationships at all organizational tiers, serving as a primary HR advocate in strategic planning and leading strategic projects focused on culture, retention, and employee experience.
REQUIREMENTS for the Director of HR:
- A Bachelor’s degree is highly preferred; an Associate’s degree is required
- At least five years in a similar HR leadership role
- Experience overseeing a team of HR professionals
- Experience leading and participating in strategic HR and company initiatives
- Experience with Workers’ Compensation
- Experience leading employee relations, including investigations, conflict management, etc.
- Experience overseeing benefits administration
- Microsoft Office experience
Skills preferred but NOT required:
- HR certifications
- HRIS
- Payroll
- Multi-site responsibilities
- Experience overseeing direct and indirect reports
What Makes This Role Unique?
📌 Exceptional work-life balance with built-in remote flexibility and stable hours.
📌 Minimal weekend commitments within a highly predictable operational tempo.
📌 Stable non-automotive, non-union corporate culture prioritizing long-term growth.
📌 Welcoming, business-casual professional environment with a dedicated individual office.
📌 Direct opportunity to influence corporate strategy and drive immediate impact.
Note: Candidates are required to be local to the Tiffin, OH area. Relocation assistance is not available at this time.