# Manufacturing HR Business Partner

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you will serve as a critical strategic partner and hands-on HR leader, deeply embedded within our automotive manufacturing plants and parts depots. You will support the hourly and salaried workforce, collaborate closely with leadership to drive business objectives through a comprehensive HR lens. Your responsibilities will include fostering a positive and productive work environment, managing all aspects of the employee lifecycle, ensuring compliance, and championing talent development, employee engagement, and effective labor relations directly on the production floor.

Key responsibilities include:

- Strategic Business Partnership & Business Acumen: Serve as a trusted advisor to plant leadership, translating business strategy into impactful HR initiatives that optimize organizational effectiveness and elevate the employee experience.

- Talent Management & Workforce Transformation: Design and execute advanced talent management strategies, encompassing performance optimization, leadership development, robust succession planning, strategic compensation, and integrated talent acquisition.

- Data Storytelling and Workforce Planning: Champion a data-first approach, leveraging HR analytics platforms to extract critical insights, predict workforce trends, and inform strategic decision-making at the operational leadership level.

- Culture Development & Employee Advocacy: Champion a high-performance, inclusive culture, fostering open communication, trust, and mutual respect in alignment with our 7 Proactive Leadership Standards.

- External Relations & Community Stewardship: Orchestrate strategic interactions with local governmental agencies and lead impactful charitable initiatives, significantly strengthening the plant's community engagement and enhancing its positive external brand reputation.

- Labor Relations Expertise: Lead strategic engagement with labor unions and employee representatives, fostering a proactive and high-trust partnership essential for operational stability and continuous improvement.

- Grievance Management & Dispute Resolution: Master the resolution of complex, high-volume union grievances, arbitrations, and disciplinary actions, serving as a critical architect of fair, consistent, and timely outcomes central to our operational environment.

- Ethical Practices and Contractual Compliance and Interpretation: Demonstrate expert command of local and national collective bargaining agreements, ensuring precise interpretation and application across all operational facets.

- HR Operations: Lead comprehensive HR compliance and risk management, proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal, reputational, and operational exposures across all employment laws and company policies.

## Skills

### Required
- Strategic Partnership
- Data Storytelling
- Talent Management
- Workforce Planning
- Culture Development
- Employee Advocacy
- Labor Relations
- Grievance Management
- Dispute Resolution
- Ethical Practices
- Contractual Compliance

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