HR Lead

Role Purpose

The Plant HR Lead partners with the Plant HR Manager to ensure that his/her plant has the right number and type of talent to execute plant strategy and achieve desired business results; ensures plant establishes and maintains a positive work environment and operates as “One Corning” in support of Corning’s values; assists in successful implementation of global HR business processes within the plant; and ensures plant compliance with HR-related legal and regulatory guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures plant has the right number and type of talent required to execute plant strategy and achieve desired business results

• Ensures plant realizes required levels of employee productivity and performance excellence required to execute plant strategy and achieve desired business results.

• Ensures plant establishes and maintains a positive work environment and operates as “One Company” in support of Company’s Values.

• Ensures the successful implementation of global HR business processes within the plant.

• Ensures plant compliance with HR-related legal and regulatory guidelines.

• Establishes HR infrastructure for brownfield manufacturing site in alignment with Company policies/procedures/culture

• Establishes and maintains a presence on the plant floor to keep a read on the pulse of the organization

• Proactively identifies and resolves employee relations issues in a fair and consistent manner that protects the needs of the plant to operate in an effective and efficient manner

• Manages and mitigates employee grievances by ensuring supervisors and leadership are creating an open forum for discussion and resolution of plant issues

• Demonstration of leadership and management practices required to establish and maintain a positive work environment

• Takes ownership for specific HR initiatives that support the effective operations of the organization by developing and/or delivering HR programs.

• Identifies employee value proposition issues affecting turnover and works with Plant HR Manager to identify actions for improvement

• Administration of contract labor management and government apprenticeship program.

• Experiences/Education - Desired

• Full time MBA or Post gradation in HR.

• 12-15 years work experience in a manufacturing organization in India.

• Strong interpersonal skills – able to build trust quickly with employees at multiple levels in the organization

• Solid technical understanding of HR and ER.

• Track record of delivering tangible business impact.

• Strong business acumen – an interest in and ability to learn the business, understand business drivers, etc.

• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, presentations)

• Strong influence skills, experience influencing stakeholders with competing and/or diverging priorities, able to manage in a matrix organization

• Experience with problem solving and conflict resolution in unionized and Non-unionized work environment.