Job Description

Job Summary
As a strategic business partner, the Regional HR Manager will lead the HR agenda across North American operations to support a high-performing, innovative, and inclusive workplace. This role is both strategic and hands-on, responsible for delivering integrated human capital solutions aligned with business priorities. The successful candidate will foster a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and talent development, while ensuring tactical HR compliance and employee engagement.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & HR Partnership: Serve as a strategic advisor to business leaders on workforce planning organization design and culture transformation. Translates business strategy into HR initiatives that drive performance, employee experience and operational outcomes. Champion data-driven decision making and provide insights through people analytics.
• Recruiting & selection: Overall responsibility for the recruiting and selection process, in coordination with, and assistance from, HR Shared Services. Assist management in evaluating open positions, defining requirements for current and future needs. Carry out selection interviews in coordination with local management for staff positions. Promote inclusive hiring practices strong MTI branding.
• Compensation & benefits: Ensure the standard work for application of the MTI Compensation Philosophy and Processes are applied, including compensation for new hires, promotions, and annual compensation planning. Request appropriate approvals on pay decisions and benefit program improvements that are consistent and within the Global Total Compensation Framework.
• Labor relations (where applicable): Work with senior management to develop labor relations strategies for all locations where a union or works council is present, and work with local management to implement these strategies. With local management take an active role in all union negotiations, with particular focus on pay negotiations and any changes to benefit programs.
• Employee relations: Responsible for oversight of the "employee experience" at MTI. Foster a positive work environment through proactive employee relations and issue resolution. Monitor the overall employee-employer relationship and work with management to ensure a positive relationship to keep employees motivated and highly productive. Champion the MTI Values, with particular focus on Diversity, growing and engaging a diverse workforce.
• Compliance: Manage and ensure compliance with country, state and local requirements. Ensure that communications internally or externally regarding any significant changes such as reorganization / restructuring are transparent, timely and authorized by senior management. Ensure that any grievances raised are responded to in a timely manner.
• Performance Management: Oversee the performance review process and monitor it for completion and effectiveness. Provide on-going coaching in performance management to managers and supervisors. Assist in addressing performance issues and developing corrective action plans. Assist in identifying and delivering employee development activities.
• Organization Development: Act as a consultant in identifying organization development activities to support the strategic intent of the business. Proactively propose solutions on matters relating to organization assessment, structure and operating effectiveness. Provide leadership and guidance in the development and continuous improvement of high performance work systems (HPWS).
• Talent Management: Assist in identifying key talent to support overall business and strategic intent. Assist with management level succession planning. Oversee the development and monitoring of Individual Development Plans for talent development.
• Operational Excellence: Proactively apply continuous improvement processes to HR delivery such as 5S, Kaizen, Daily Management Control, Standard Work, Hoshin Kanri and participation in the MTI suggestion system. Act as Champion for OE, providing guidance to BU and RU colleagues.
  Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements

• 3+ years of progressive HR experience with at least 5 years in an HR generalist role, preferably in a manufacturing enterprise; Experience supporting Canadian operations a plus
• Bachelor's degree in HR or other business-related field; Master's business degree desirable.
• Track record in coaching and influencing senior leaders.
• Ability to communicate at various levels of the organization (written and verbal).
• Organizational savvy; possesses the ability to understand the culture in which one operates, and able to effectively influence and drive change.
• Comfortable working within a matrix organization.
• Highly motivated self-starter and able to perform at multiple levels (strategic, tactical, administrative).
• Track record in leading, motivating and developing a team.
• Able to simplify and clarify situations and processes; delivers operational value through intelligent application of processes.
• Excellent IT skills - MS Office and good HRIS understanding
• Able to travel up to 50%
• Experience with High Performance Work Systems a plus
• Proficient with software including but not limited to Power BI, Visio, Excel, Word and other Microsoft Office applications

Working Conditions : While performing the duties of this job, the employee is typically required to regularly conduct work in a controlled office environment, moving around the office as needed, sitting at a desk, using office equipment, including but not limited to a personal computer, scanner, copier and telephone, read, write, listen, speak, and understand English, have the ability to work independently, be dependable and maintain confidential information, integrity and composure at all times.

Constant contact with individuals internal and external to the organization at all levels occurs via various methods of communication, typically including face-to-face discussions, electronic mail, phone calls, written letters and/or faxes.

The employee is expected to be self-directed, take initiative and be persistent when appropriate to accomplish necessary duties and keep busy without prompting. Additionally, the employee is expected to be adaptable/flexible to changing work assignments, analytical, organized and detail-oriented, perform multiple tasks at once, compose correspondence and other documentation in a professional manner, express ideas constructively, actively listen to others, manage time effectively and efficiently to meet deadlines, learn and memorize procedures, display a cooperative demeanor, read, understand and follow all company, job specific and safety policies/procedures, and attend/use all required training.

Work Hours: Must have ability to work the shift/number of hours in which duties need to be accomplished, including overtime, holidays and weekends, as necessary.

Safety Training: A new employee hired to perform the duties of this position is required to be provided New Employee Training by a qualified individual or through the online training system. Additionally, an employee must be provided further training if a job duty/task has changes that will affect the health and safety aspects of that employee's position.

Additional refresher safety training will be required as management deems appropriate or as dictated by government regulations.

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