# Manufacturing, HR Business Partner

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Automotive
**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.

- 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.

- 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.

To succeed in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Organizational Development, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience.

- Minimum 1-3 years of relevant HR and labor work experience with a bachelor’s degree, preferably in a manufacturing setting.

- PHR or SHRM-CP certification is even better.

## Skills

### Required
- Strategic Partnership
- Data Storytelling
- Talent Management
- Employee Lifecycle Expertise
- Business and Operational Acumen
- Positive Employee and Labor Relations
- Risk Management
- Change Management