Vice President HR/EHS

Lucas Milhaupt, LLC. (“Lucas” and/or “the Company”) is the most diversified, vertically integrated brazing alloy producer in the United States. We melt, process, and fabricate high-precision alloys with industry leading lead times and reduced risk of supply disruptions. With manufacturing facilities in North America, China and France, Lucas is an equal opportunity employer valuing safety, teamwork, respect, integrity, commitment, and inclusion.

Steel Partners Diversified Industrial Group

Lucas is part of the Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (“Steel Partners”) Diversified Industrial Group. Steel Partners is a diversified global holding company that engages in multiple businesses through consolidated subsidiaries, associated companies and other interests. It owns and operates businesses and has significant interests in leading companies in various industries, including diversified industrial products, energy, defense, supply chain management and logistics, banking and youth sports.

Steel Business System

Lucas utilizes the Steel Partners Business System (SBS) to maximize its productivity and eliminate waste. Using Lean Manufacturing, Design for Six Sigma, Six Sigma, Strategy Deployment and other operational efficiency initiatives that form the foundation of this program, Lucas is committed to embedding continuous improvement within our organization as a means of achieving profitable growth.

Kids First

Lucas is a proud supporter of the Kids First initiative of Steel Partners, and our sister company Steel Sports. The purpose of Kids First is to forge a path of success for the next generation of leaders by helping kids thrive, instilling our core values of Teamwork, Respect, Integrity and Commitment, and teaching life lessons through sports. Lucas encourages employees to become youth sports coaches and we offer youth sports camps facilitated by the Steel Sports team not only to our employees’ children and grandchildren, but also underprivileged kids in our communities.

Position

The Vice President HR/EHS plays a critical role in aligning HR and EHS strategies with overall business goals. This role requires a proven track record of building and maintaining a culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion, all with a safety mindset. While strategy is a primary focus, critical to success will be the ability to balance short- and long-term planning with day-to-day execution and employee engagement. The VP HR/EHS must achieve goals by building the necessary relationships with people to achieve a reputation of care and concern.

Key Data Points

Manager: Chief Operating Officer - Greg Simpson

Direct Reports: 2 HR Managers, 2 EHS Managers, 1 Executive Administrative Assistant

Other Key Partners: CFO, VP Operations, VP Sales & Marketing, VP Engineering

Locations/Employees: Milwaukee, WI (258); Warwick, RI (123); Riberac, France (50); Suzhou, China (25).

Major Responsibilities

• SLT Membership - Partner with the President to effectively engage Lucas Leadership Team to accomplish collective objectives and achieve business financial and strategic goals. Ensure a strong leadership team is in place and fully developed and succession plans are maintained for key roles.
• Talent Acquisition and Retention - Develop, implement, and execute a recruitment and retention strategy with consistent process and tools. Apply engagement and talent development strategies to drive retention. Maintain a talent pipeline of internal high potential candidates, candidates from internship programs and hiring from the outside.
• Culture - Utilize strong engagement strategies to achieve a dynamic culture, pushing employees to apply discretionary effort to achieve company goals. Utilize communication to bring employees together and understand how they individually contribute to the success of the whole.
• Compensation and Benefits - Effectively implement Steel Partners benefits and performance management processes. Communicate compensation and incentive programs to achieve transparency. Assess and communicate to Steel Partners the competitiveness of total rewards programs and practices to drive recruiting and retention.
• Talent and Organizational Development - Effectively implement the Steel Partners performance management system. Identify and promote high potential employees, and ensure key positions have successor candidates. Encourage employees to make use of all
  
  

development tools, including learning management system and tuition reimbursement.

• Employee Relations - Deliver effective employee relations strategies to support the culture/values and ensure business success. Establish relationships with employees. Provide coaching and act as adviser to employees, management, and senior leaders.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Actively promote the organization’s efforts to encourage diversity and foster an inclusive environment. Ensure HR practices, policies, programs, and guidelines support diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
• HR Operations - Maximize the use of HR systems, and recommend new tools as necessary,
  
  

to support achievement of HR strategies and company goals. Encourage employee self-service to drive efficiency and transparency.

• EHS - Ensure EHS program complies with regulatory requirements and reporting. Support EHS team to implement necessary programs in Operations to achieve safe work, even if at odds at times with production goals. Promote health and wellness through leading EHS and HR programs and tools.
• KPIs - Identify metrics annually for HR and EHS that allow progress against goals to be tracked regularly. Adjust action plans as necessary to ensure goals are met, implementing countermeasures for missed targets.