VP HR, Americas Welding

Lincoln Electric•Euclid, OH

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

This role serves as the senior HR leader for Global Welding Operations across the Americas, acting as a trusted business partner to the President of Welding and the broader leadership team. The position carries full strategic and operational HR accountability for a complex, multi-country manufacturing and commercial footprint, with direct responsibility for HR delivery across operations, commercial functions, and supporting businesses in regions across the US and Latin America. The Global Welding HR Leader plays a critical role in driving organizational effectiveness, strengthening leadership capability, modernizing the workforce, and ensuring consistent, high-quality HR execution across geographies—while balancing local labor realities with enterprise strategy.

Requirements

Senior HR leader with experience supporting large, complex manufacturing organizations.
Proven ability to operate as a credible executive business partner.
Strong background in multi-country HR leadership across the Americas.
Experience with labor relations, workforce transformation, and leadership development.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, scale, and transformation.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary HR advisor to the President of Welding and U.S. leadership.
Partner closely on organizational design and operating model evolution, change management and transformation initiatives, leadership coaching and effectiveness, and succession planning and talent pipeline development.
Set clear direction and expectations for regional HR leaders.
Coach and develop HR managers to elevate capability and maturity across geographies.
Remove barriers to execution and ensure consistent HR delivery.
Drive alignment while respecting local labor, cultural, and regulatory realities.
Support enterprise and business-critical priorities, including safety transformation (Human & Organizational Performance – HOP), next phase focus on quality, upgrading leadership capability across operations, stabilizing frontline workforce in the U.S. and Mexico, revitalizing product management as a future general management pipeline, and supporting sales role clarity, structure, and compensation redesign.
Act as the “final mile” owner for COE initiatives, ensuring programs translate effectively to the field.
Provide real-time workforce insight to COEs on feasibility, adoption, and employee impact.
Ensure consistent execution of talent, compensation, learning, and HR systems initiatives.
Address significant talent gaps across operations leadership, engineering and R&D, product management, and sales.
Move the organization from reactive staffing to proactive workforce planning.
Manage labor relations across diverse environments: Canada (Unionized plant with upcoming negotiations), Mexico & Brazil (Union presence with lower adversarial risk), U.S. (Predominantly non-union with escalation risk).
Ensure compliance with employment laws, immigration requirements, and occupational health standards.
Partner with business leaders to identify where automation can offset labor shortages, modernize operations and workforce models, and build workforce capability to adopt new technologies.
Collaborate closely with the Automation business to align talent strategy with future operating needs.