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SR HR Business Partner – Manufacturing Plant | On site| Iași
Location: Iași (On-site)
Contact: andra.ghevrec@ibdromania.com
Phone: +40 732 472 744
Position Overview
The HR Manager is responsible for workforce effectiveness, labor cost control, leadership capability, and people-related risk management at plant level.
This is a hands-on, site-based leadership role, embedded within the Plant Leadership Team, ensuring that workforce decisions directly support operational performance, margin protection, and future business growth.
Reporting Structure
Key Responsibilities
1. Workforce Strategy & Cost Control
2. Operational HR Business Partner
3. Leadership & Capability Development
4. Employee Relations & Labour Risk Management
Personally manage:
5. Talent Acquisition
6. HR Governance & Continuous Improvement
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Required Experience
Professional Experience
Profile & Competencies
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
Education & Languages
Location: Iași (On-site)
Contact: andra.ghevrec@ibdromania.com
Phone: +40 732 472 744
Position Overview
The HR Manager is responsible for workforce effectiveness, labor cost control, leadership capability, and people-related risk management at plant level.
This is a hands-on, site-based leadership role, embedded within the Plant Leadership Team, ensuring that workforce decisions directly support operational performance, margin protection, and future business growth.
- Member of the Plant Leadership Team
- Reports directly to the Site General Manager
- Functional reporting line to the Divisional HR Director
- Full-time, on-site position based in Iași
1. Workforce Strategy & Cost Control
- Manage workforce structure (headcount, shift organization, skills mix) according to production requirements.
- Monitor and optimize:
- Labour cost evolution
- Overtime
- Absenteeism
- Attrition in critical roles
- Challenge hiring requests and propose cost-effective workforce solutions.
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Finance and Quality teams.
- Translate operational challenges into workforce and capability solutions.
- Ensure people decisions are timely, consistent and data-driven.
- Build succession plans for key operational and leadership positions.
- Support leadership effectiveness through:
- Performance management
- Consequence management
- Individual development initiatives
- Ensure training programs support quality, productivity and production ramp-up requirements.
Personally manage:
- Disciplinary procedures
- Employee investigations
- Grievances
- Terminations
- Organizational restructurings
- Ensure compliance with Romanian labour legislation and internal policies.
- Anticipate and mitigate employee-related risks.
- Maintain a constructive employee relations climate.
- Define hiring profiles based on operational needs.
- Ensure recruitment quality and speed in a competitive labour market.
- Focus on reducing time-to-productivity, not only time-to-hire.
- Ensure HR processes are efficient, pragmatic and business-oriented.
- Eliminate low-value administrative activities.
- Represent HR as a strategic business function within the leadership team.
- Workforce cost vs. budget
- Overtime levels
- Absenteeism rate
- Voluntary turnover (overall and critical positions)
- Time-to-productivity for new hires
- Internal promotion and succession coverage
- Reduction of people-related escalations to the Site General Manager
Professional Experience
- 8–12+ years of progressive HR experience.
- Strong experience within manufacturing or industrial environments.
- Experience supporting sites of approximately 200–500 employees.
- Experience in regulated industries such as:
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Pharmaceuticals
- Energy (preferred)
- Payroll and HR administration
- Labour cost analysis
- HR budgeting and forecasting
- Workforce planning
- Cost optimization initiatives
- Employee and management relations
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Strong business acumen
- Financial and cost awareness
- Ability to constructively challenge operational leaders
- Calm, resilient and solution-oriented approach
- Strong decision-making capability
- Hands-on leadership style
- Builder mindset, focused on designing sustainable HR systems rather than simply executing requests
- Pragmatic, trusted advisor with excellent interpersonal skills
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Law, Psychology, Business Administration or related field.
- Fluent Romanian.
- Professional working proficiency in English.