Director of HR

Job Description

Job Description

What began over 30 years ago as a local landscaping company has grown into something much more, a passion rooted in our values and driven by delivering an extraordinary experience to our teams, clients, and the communities we serve.

Schill Landscape Collective is proud to partner with leaders in their markets, bringing together strong local businesses aligned in values and purpose. With these partners, we are ranked #25 in landscape companies. With over 30 locations, we service customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada.

Come join our team as the Director of Human Resources!

The Director of Human Resources leads the human resources function across a multi-state and cross-border commercial landscape operation, providing direction and oversight for HR programs, policies, and practices. This role partners closely with regional leadership to align HR strategy with business goals, while directly managing a team of Regional HR Generalists across the platform. The Director is responsible for building and optimizing consistent, scalable HR practices across all regions while accommodating local labor law requirements in the US and Canada.

This role requires a leader who can balance strategic, company-wide initiatives with hands-on coaching of a distributed HR team, and who is comfortable in an industry characterized by seasonal staffing fluctuations, a largely field-based workforce, and a strong safety culture.

Reports to: Chief People Officer

As a Director of Huma Resources, you must be able to perform the following essential functions of the job:

1. Partner with regional and executive leadership to ensure HR strategies and initiatives support business goals.
2. Serve as a trusted advisor to senior management on organization design, workforce planning and culture.
3. Directly manage, coach and develop the regional HR generalists. Set clear performance expectations and metric. Conduct regular one-on-ones and performance reviews.
4. Build a cohesive HR team that operates consistently and equitably while remaining responsive to regional needs.
5. Identify training and development opportunities to strengthen the HR Generalist capabilities in employee relations, retention, and compliance.
6. Ensure HR policies, employment practices, and documentation comply with applicable federal, state, and provincial employment laws, including US federal las (FLSA, FMLA, ADA, OSHA, etc.) and Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, Human Rights Code, and Occupational Health and Safety Act.
7. Stay current on regulatory changes across all geographies.
8. Provide guidance to HR generalist on complex investigations, disciplinary actions, terminations and lawsuits. Reinforce consistent employee relations practices.
9. Champion initiatives that strengthen employee engagement, retention, career progression and company culture.
10. Collaborate with operations leadership to reinforce a strong safety culture including coordination of return to work programs, reporting, and policy adherence.
11. Provide leadership on KPIs like turnover, retention, staffing models, headcount, and other key workforce indicators.
12. Advance a culture of data integrity and continuous improvement. Leverage technology and automation to reduce redundancy and improve accuracy.
13. Follow all company policies and procedures.
14. Perform any other duties as assigned.

JOB SKILLS AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Excellent skills in employee relations, conflict resolution and complex investigations.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate HR strategy into measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail.
• Process improvement mindset.
• Proficiency with HCM platformed and HR analytics/reporting.
• Interpersonal and leadership skills to deliver extraordinary experiences to employees and lead through influence.
• Current knowledge of HR, payroll, benefits, and compensation regulations, best practices, and forward-looking trends.
• Ability to succeed in a deadline driven, fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• High degree of comfort with ambiguity.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration or related field required; Master’s degree preferred or equivalent experience

8-10 years of progressive HR experience required, including at least 3 years in an HR leadership role managing multi-site/multi-state HR team. Prior experience managing HR compliance in the US and Canada preferred.

Experience in commercial landscaping, construction, facilities services, or another field-based, seasonal industry strongly preferred.

Position can be based in any of our regional locations with ability to travel to other locations as needed. Expect up to 25% travel.

WORK CONDITIONS

Employees in this position should be able and willing to travel to branch locations as needed. Primarily an office environment with regular travel to field location. Some exposure to seasonal weather conditions and physical work environments common to the landscape industry should be expected during site vis