Human Resources Manager

Job Description

HR Manager | Schneider Electric

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Schneider Electric, located in Fairfield, supporting both Fairfield and West Chester facilities. Schneider Electric designs and builds solutions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization, aiming to turn sustainability ambitions into actions. This position is crucial for partnering with local management to lead essential HR processes, ensuring talent development, employee engagement, and operational efficiency directly contribute to the business’s success. The role supports manufacturing environments by leading people strategy transformations and driving engagement.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – Fairfield
• Pay: $142400–$213600 yearly
• Mission: Leads HR processes, including total rewards, talent management, and employee relations, to support manufacturing facilities and drive strategic business goals.
• Tech Stack: Excel, digital tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• BUSINESS ADVISOR: Coach the leadership team, provide advice, and support on all related people matters, adapting resource planning and organizational design to changing business needs.
• HR OPERATIONAL FACILITATOR: Facilitate people processes like performance management and development planning in close partnership with local site leadership, ensuring consistent implementation of HR policies.
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Drive the implementation of multiple initiatives to achieve strategic business and operational objectives at local and/or GSC NAM level.
• TALENT BUILDER: Champion Schneider Electric’s talent management philosophy and strategy, supporting talent identification, building agile and diverse teams, and leading learning initiatives across the site.
• HOURLY RECRUITMENT: Own and lead all hourly recruitment at the site, including sourcing, coordinating interviews, hiring, and onboarding.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Management, or other related disciplines, working as an HR Manager.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years as an HR Generalist, demonstrating the ability to understand company business performance and identify critical HR success factors across organization development, learning, compensation, rewards, talent management, and industrial relations. Minimum 2 years of experience in a manufacturing, distribution center, and/or operations environment partnering with line and unit managers.
• Skills: Strong leadership skills including collaboration, communication, influence, drive for results, effective planning and prioritization, and project management; strong verbal and written communication skills for a manufacturing setting; proficiency in Excel and ability to manage digital systems for data analysis.
• Bonus: An interest to learn, stretch yourself, be creative, and solution-oriented with your work and support to the business.