Human Resources Director

Professional Packaging Systems•Grand Prairie, TX

21h•$120,000 - $160,000

About The Position

The HR Director provides strategic and operational leadership for Human Resources and Safety across the Company. The role supports professional, technical, sales, finance, and multi-site contract packaging operations, including approximately 300 employees and 1,000 temporary workers across seven U.S. locations. The HR Director aligns people strategy with business objectives, ensures workforce compliance and safety, strengthens engagement and retention, and builds a scalable, high-performing HR function. The role leads a team responsible for talent strategy and development, recruiting, onboarding, benefits administration, performance management, employee relations, engagement programming, safety oversight, and HR systems. The position partners with executive leadership on workforce strategy, planning, compensation, retention, succession, and organizational design. It oversees recruiting, onboarding, performance management, employee relations, benefits, wellness, leave administration, occupational health, workers’ compensation, and company-wide safety. The HR Director also oversees engagement programs, HR systems and reporting, multistate compliance, staffing-agency co-employment risk, HR team development, and the annual departmental budget. The role is based in Grand Prairie, Texas, and supports operations in Texas, Kansas, and North Carolina. Travel is required. The position reports to the SVP Operations and is classified as exempt. The stated pay range is $120,000–$160,000, based on experience.

Responsibilities

Partner with executive leadership to align workforce strategy with business growth, operational demands, and customer requirements.
Lead workforce planning for professional, technical, hourly, and temporary employee populations; anticipate talent gaps, succession risks, and organizational capability needs.
Develop compensation and retention strategies aligned with market conditions and site-level workforce dynamics.
Ensure scalable and effective performance management systems across leadership and staff.
Provide direction and leadership to the recruiting team; establish recruiting strategies, workforce targets, and conversion plans.
Ensure consistent onboarding processes for employees and temporary workers across all sites.
Oversee retention strategies and workforce stability initiatives.
Align and optimize HR systems, including ADP, with operational systems, including WMS onboarding coordination.
Oversee performance evaluation systems, including leadership-level review frameworks.
Provide executive-level guidance and oversight on employee relations matters, complaints, claims, and investigations.
Ensure consistent, fair, and compliant handling of disciplinary actions and terminations.
Advise leadership on organizational design, reporting structures, and compensation alignment.
Oversee benefits strategy and administration, employee wellness programs, and leave administration, including FMLA and ADA programs.
Ensure effective management of occupational health processes, workers’ compensation, and return-to-work programs.
Provide oversight of the company-wide Safety program and hold the Safety Manager accountable for measurable outcomes.
Ensure compliance with OSHA and applicable safety regulations; support Sedex and related labor and safety audits; and improve safety culture and performance.
Define and reinforce cultural expectations and lead engagement and retention strategy across multi-site operations.
Oversee engagement initiatives, including Company Family Day, the Annual Tenure Awards Dinner, and holiday meal partnerships with staffing agencies at sites.
Ensure consistent communication and execution of engagement programming across locations; identify burnout, disengagement, and development trends and work with leadership to address them.
Own and optimize ADP HRIS functionality and reporting capabilities.
Provide senior leadership with accurate, timely workforce reporting, including turnover, hiring, compensation, and labor-cost trends.
Maintain multistate labor-law compliance and oversee co-employment risk management with staffing agencies.
Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing HR team, including the Safety Manager, recruiting team, HR Coordinator, Generalist, and Benefits Coordinator.
Establish accountability, priorities, and performance standards across HR program areas and maintain leadership presence and accessibility across sites.
Execute executive- and senior leadership-directed initiatives with discipline and follow-through.
Develop and manage the annual HR departmental budget; monitor spending and partner with Finance to ensure accountability and adherence to approved budgets.
Deliver assigned initiatives on time and with quality, proactively identify workforce, compliance, and safety risks, develop internal HR capability and succession readiness, maintain credibility and trust, and demonstrate sound judgment, professionalism, and fiscal responsibility.