HR Business Partner

ABB•Senatobia, MS

8d•Onsite

About The Position

ABB is seeking an accomplished HR Business Partner for the Senatobia Manufacturing Site belonging to Electrification Smart Power Division. This role will provide strategic and operational HR expertise and guidance in the areas of HR & business strategy, culture change, organization design, leadership coaching, succession/pipeline planning, talent assessment / engagement. You will establish credibility as a strategic partner, playing a consultative role to employees, managers, and leaders to manage growth. This position reports directly to the Manufacturing Unit Manager (Plant Manager) for the Senatobia facility, with dotted line reporting to HR Leadership. This role will need to be able to work an in-person schedule out of our Senatobia, MS manufacturing facility.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, Psychology, Business or related field from an accredited university or college; Master's degree preferred.
Minimum of 12 years of progressive HR business partnership experience, with at least 5 years of experience supporting a manufacturing facility.
Solid knowledge of US employment law
Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong interpersonal relationships at all levels of the organization
Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner and ability to gather and analyze information objectively and skillfully
Strong planning and organizational skills
Strong judgment, decision making and influencing skills.
Intermediate to advanced skill set in Microsoft office applications.
Candidates must possess authorization to work for ABB in the US.

Nice To Haves

Proven experience supporting an organization through transformation, including comfort with ambiguity and techniques to support change management
Ability or potential to understand the business and think strategically about people, organizational & cultural needs
Willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and engage at all levels including HR systems and data analytics
Proven ability to balance business partnership with employee advocacy
Experience providing coaching and feedback to leaders and employees at all levels of the organization

Responsibilities

Providing expertise and guidance in all areas of organization support, including: Strategic HR partnership with the Business Leaders and their direct reports to develop and execute both long-term and short-term HR strategies that directly support and enable business objectives.
Provide timely, effective and direct coaching to client group people leaders, assisting in the development of world class, contemporary leadership skills.
Working with leaders and employees to establish and maintain a positive & diverse work environment; act as an employee advocate; help drive various business initiatives.
Hands-on HR systems transactions, audit & reporting, ultimately with a focus on strategically leveraging data to drive insights & decisions in Workday.
Lead and manage HR projects & initiatives; provide outstanding customer service to client groups including HR.
Lead HR processes including but not limited to: annual Performance Development Appraisal (PDA), People Review Session (PRS), annual salary review, etc.
Partnering with leaders, managers and talent partners on workforce planning, hiring, and headcount management. Specific focus on diversity, consistent with ABB’s commitments to expand our diversity footprint.
Facilitating performance management process; when necessary conduct investigations, conflict resolution, employee communications and management coaching within client group.

Benefits

Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
Vision benefit
Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Assistance Program
Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
Employee discount program
401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.