Human Resources Manager

NOVARES • Genoa Charter Township, MI

14d • Onsite

About The Position

Novares is seeking a hands-on Human Resources Manager for its Howell facility. The role supports day-to-day site HR operations and partners with employees, supervisors, and operations leaders on workforce needs, employee relations, staffing, performance, engagement, and HR processes. It is suitable for an experienced HR generalist ready to broaden their leadership scope or an early-career HR manager.

The position provides employee support and advises management on team matters, including responding to employee and union representative requests and helping maintain a positive working climate. It supports HR planning by preparing indicators and presentations, validating headcount and working-hours needs with managers, coordinating recruiting, identifying skills and development needs, and preparing training plans. The role also supports organizational effectiveness, performance and reward actions, and implementation of company values, ethics, HR policies, and labor-law requirements.

Additional responsibilities include supporting payroll consistency with the Payroll and Admin Assistant, preparing contracts and other HR documentation, maintaining reliable HR records, and improving site HR tools, processes, and employee experience. The role is based at Novares’s Howell manufacturing facility; required travel is listed as N/A.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Industrial Relations, or a related field.
• Approximately 4 or more years of progressive HR generalist experience.
• Working knowledge of employee relations, recruiting, performance management, HR administration, and US labor practices.
• Ability to coach supervisors, handle sensitive matters with discretion, and communicate clearly with employees at all levels.
• Comfort using HR data and systems to identify issues, organize priorities, and drive timely follow-up.
• Practical, approachable, solutions-oriented style and confidence working independently and escalating matters when appropriate.

Nice To Haves

• Prior lead, supervisor, or manager experience is helpful but not required.
• Experience supporting a manufacturing, automotive, or other fast-paced operational environment is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with operations leaders and supervisors to address workforce needs, improve communication, and support HR and people metrics.
• Coordinate recruiting, onboarding, retention, performance management, and employee development activities for hourly and salaried employees.
• Guide leaders on attendance, performance, coaching, corrective action, workplace concerns, organizational changes, and separations.
• Listen to employee concerns, conduct appropriate fact-finding, document issues, and help resolve employee-relations matters consistently and respectfully.
• Review turnover, staffing, absenteeism, engagement, and other workforce information; identify trends and recommend focused actions.
• Maintain HR records and processes and support compliance with company policies and applicable US labor requirements.
• Improve HR tools, standard work, digital processes, and follow-through across the site.
• Promote Novares behaviors, including accountability, teamwork, transparency, and positive employee engagement.
• Provide employees with support on policies, payroll, training, and development questions.
• Advise management on effective approaches to managing teams and respond to local union representatives while supporting a good working climate.
• Prepare HR indicators and presentations as required by the Site HR Manager.
• Define and validate headcount and working-hours needs with managers in line with local activity plans and schedules.
• Liaise with recruiting to support an efficient selection process.
• Identify key skills and prepare development plans; identify key contributors for reward proposals and low performers for action plans.
• Accompany management in defining effective organizational structures and prepare training plans with managers.
• Implement Group values and ethics standards and train employees and managers; monitor HR policy and labor-law implementation and train managers.
• Define salary package requests, including annual and promotion-related requests, in line with applicable policies, and participate in preparing new policies.
• Check variable payroll elements and payroll consistency with the Payroll and Admin Assistant.
• Prepare contracts, notice letters, and other necessary HR documentation.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level