Human Resources Manager

Kodiak Gas•The Woodlands, TX

About The Position

The Human Resources Manager is a trusted advisor to business and operational leaders, translating workforce priorities into practical people strategies that strengthen safety, performance, engagement, and retention. This hands-on leader delivers consistent HR support across assigned functions or regions, coaches leaders through complex employee matters, and uses workforce insights to improve organizational effectiveness and the employee experience. The role serves Power leaders and employees across field, plant, project, and corporate support teams, supporting workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, performance, talent development, compliance, benefits and leave administration, training, HR operations, analytics, and continuous improvement. The manager partners with operational leaders and HR teams to provide consistent, compliant, data-informed solutions as the Power business expands.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Five or more years of progressive, broad-based HR experience supporting leaders and employees.
Demonstrated experience in employee relations, investigations, performance management, recruiting, workforce planning, talent development, compensation, leave administration, and employment compliance.
Working knowledge of federal and state employment laws and HR best practices.
Experience using Workday or a comparable HRIS and translating people data into actionable business insights.
People-focused, approachable, and credible, with the courage to address difficult issues directly and respectfully.
Strong business acumen and ability to balance employee advocacy, operational priorities, consistency, and risk.
Excellent coaching, facilitation, active-listening, conflict-resolution, negotiation, written, and verbal communication skills.
Analytical mindset with the ability to identify patterns, communicate a clear point of view, and measure outcomes.
Learning agility, adaptability, discretion, and resilience in a fast-paced, changing environment.
Ability to build trust across all organizational levels and collaborate effectively in a matrixed HR model.

Nice To Haves

Professional certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR.
Experience supporting field, operations, or multi-site workforces.
DOT-regulated workforce experience.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary HR partner to Power leaders and employees across field, plant, project, and corporate support teams.
Develop workforce plans for new sites, customer projects, technologies, and regions, including staffing models, critical-role pipelines, mobilization, and organizational readiness.
Partner with operations and recruiting leaders to attract, select, onboard, and retain power-generation talent.
Assess rotation and shift schedules, relief coverage, travel demands, and project requirements, and recommend sustainable workforce solutions.
Use retention, engagement, staffing, overtime, vacancy, and workforce-movement data to identify risks and lead targeted action plans.
Coordinate career paths, succession plans, leadership development, and technical-training priorities.
Support integration and change initiatives by aligning policies, programs, systems, communications, and leader practices.
Partner with Safety, Legal, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Training, and operational leaders to deliver consistent, compliant HR solutions.
Translate business priorities into workforce, organization-design, talent, and change plans; anticipate workforce needs and recommend practical, data-informed solutions.
Lead change-management and communication plans that build understanding, adoption, and accountability, and reinforce an inclusive culture grounded in the Kodiak Greenprint.
Serve as an accessible resource for employees and coach leaders on performance, attendance, conduct, conflict resolution, and policy application.
Conduct timely, impartial workplace investigations, document findings, and guide consistent, legally compliant outcomes.
Manage performance-improvement and corrective-action processes; support goal setting, check-ins, talent reviews, and performance calibration.
Identify employee-experience and retention opportunities through listening, engagement, stay, and exit insights, and partner with leaders on action plans.
Partner with leaders on workforce plans, position design, job descriptions, selection criteria, internal mobility, and recruitment for priority roles.
Improve candidate quality, hiring speed, and the candidate and onboarding experience.
Collaborate with Compensation on offers, promotions, job changes, merit, incentives, and off-cycle pay decisions.
Facilitate talent reviews, succession planning, and development planning, and coach leaders to create growth opportunities.
Ensure compliance with company policy and applicable employment, leave, wage-and-hour, equal employment opportunity, DOT, drug-testing, and safety requirements.
Partner with Legal, Safety, Payroll, Benefits, and operational leaders to assess risk and resolve complex matters; support audits and regulatory reporting.
Maintain complete, confidential records and strong data integrity in Workday and related systems.
Guide employees and leaders through benefit, accommodation, and life-event questions; coordinate FMLA, disability, military, and other leave cases and support return-to-work and accommodation processes.
Partner with Training & Development to assess capability gaps and deliver manager, leadership, and workforce development solutions; facilitate sessions as needed and reinforce required quarterly and annual training.
Track and interpret workforce indicators, turn data and employee feedback into insights and action plans, and deliver accurate, timely employee transactions while protecting confidentiality.
Simplify and standardize HR processes, improve self-service, promote effective use of Workday and other people systems, and contribute to cross-functional HR projects and continuous improvement.