Plant HR Manager

Plant HR Manager

Eaton's Electrical Sector - PDCA division is currently seeking a Plant HR Manager for our Avery Creek manufacturing facility in Asheville, NC. This onsite leadership opportunity is ideal for an experienced HR professional who thrives in a manufacturing environment and is passionate about shaping culture, strengthening organizational capability, and driving business performance through people. Relocation assistance is available for candidates currently residing in the U.S.

Reporting directly to the Plant Manager and functionally to the HR Director, you will serve as the senior HR leader for the site, supporting approximately 320 production employees and 30 salaried employees. As a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the plant leadership team, you will translate business priorities into impactful people strategies that attract, develop, engage, motivate, and retain talent. You will lead critical initiatives across employee and labor relations, staffing, culture and engagement, talent development, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness, helping create a high-performance organization positioned to achieve both immediate plant objectives and long-term business goals.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $113,000 - $165,000 a year. Please note the salary information shown is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You'll Do:

• Serves as a strategic HR Partner and advisor to the operations leadership team.
• Drive HR functional excellence, ensuring standardization, scalability, and alignment to division and corporate HR frameworks.
• Develop, implement and maintain compliant HR policies, practices, records, and operating review processes.
• Oversee staffing, talent management, succession planning, organizational effectiveness, and employee development.
• Leads various employee relations activities such as management coaching, conducting investigations, and supporting the performance management process.
• Administer compensation practices and generate reports for regulatory, budgeting and auditing purposes.
• Build organizational capability by supporting the Eaton talent management and organizational effectiveness initiatives in areas such as succession planning, organizational capability reviews, mentorship program, leadership development training, and performance management.
• Coach and influence leadership regarding policies, practices, laws and regulations to ensure all human resource policies and programs follow local and governmental regulatory requirements and are driving an engaged culture.
• Facilitates and participates in company-wide committees in support of the overall Eaton goals, such as wellness, community involvement, and inclusion & diversity initiatives.
• Facilitates the end employment process for both voluntary and involuntary separations.
• Effectively deploy communication plans and utilize assessment tools (e.g. employee listening programs) to determine organizational issues and action plans.
• Provide leadership guidance, mentoring and change management expertise to lead through cycles of improvement, ensuring alignment of key programs and initiatives.

Qualifications:

Basic (required) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration or related field from an accredited institution.
• Five (5) years of progressive human resources experience supporting a manufacturing operation or similar industrial environment.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in human resources, labor or industrial relations from an accredited institution.
• Strong employee relations skills with the proven ability to successfully drive change and leadership, ownership, accountability.
• Previous experience as a manager of people.