Senior HR Business Partner

Allen Control Systems•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior HR Business Partner is the day-to-day HR partner for employees, with a primary focus on the manufacturing organization. The role owns employee relations, onboarding, and workforce planning, and serves as the first point of contact for questions about compensation, benefits, and payroll. This is a hands-on role on a small team at a fast-growing company, requiring movement between the production floor and corporate functions, independent problem-solving, and building processes as ACS scales. The role is the accessible front door for manufacturing employees and works alongside HR Operations and other People team members who provide specialist support. It is hybrid, requiring three days per week onsite at ACS’s Long Vista manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas.

Requirements

4 to 7 years of HR experience with a strong employee relations and generalist background.
Experience supporting an hourly, shift-based, or production workforce.
Working knowledge of wage and hour rules, timekeeping, shift differentials, and OSHA requirements.
Demonstrated employee relations skills, including workplace investigations, difficult conversations, performance management, and coaching frontline leaders.
Working knowledge of compensation, benefits, and payroll sufficient to answer employee questions and identify when to escalate.
Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of independently solving operational HR problems in a fast-moving environment.
Collaborative, no-ego approach and willingness to handle a range of HR work, including tasks outside the job description.
Comfort serving as a visible, accessible first point of contact for employees, including on the production floor and across shifts.

Nice To Haves

Background in a startup, defense, engineering, or advanced manufacturing environment.
Experience supporting both a corporate population and a production floor, adapting approach between the two.
Experience supporting shift-based or 24/7 operations, or a multi-site workforce.
Hands-on experience with an HRIS such as Rippling, including onboarding workflows, benefits administration, or reporting.
Experience building HR processes from scratch.
Experience as a solo or lead HR partner coordinating with specialists such as HR Operations, benefits, and payroll.

Responsibilities

Serve as the embedded HR partner to manufacturing leadership, advising on staffing, performance, retention, and supervisor coaching for an hourly, shift-based workforce.
Support workforce planning and headcount forecasting against operational demand.
Own employee relations end to end, including concerns, grievances, workplace investigations, performance management, progressive discipline, stay interviews, and conflict resolution.
Lead new-hire onboarding, including facility orientation, safety onboarding, and coordination of role-specific training.
Partner with safety and compliance on OSHA requirements, incident documentation, and wage and hour compliance.
Answer employee questions about compensation, benefits, and payroll; support open enrollment, pay equity reviews, and internal alignment, and partner with HR Operations on systems-related issues.
Build documentation, templates, and workflows for a scaling People function, and take on work outside the role’s usual scope when needed.