🚀 Are you ready to grow and lead with purpose - shaping a strong inclusive culture and empowering people to thrive at one of Alleima’s key USA production units ?
We are proud to be a global actor in producing and supplying high-quality tubular products for cutting-edge industries like High Pressure, Aerospace, Medical, and Hydrogen. Our innovative solutions, crafted from corrosion-resistant alloys such as stainless steel, nickel, and titanium, are setting new standards in these exciting markets and are trusted by the aerospace and space industries for excellent, precision and reliability!
We’re seeking for an experienced and hands-on Human Resources Manager to lead the People function and to foster a high-performance culture at our production unit in Kennewick (WA - around 135 employees) specializing in producing the high precision titanium tube products for very demanding markets like Aerospace.
Your Role
As a key member of the Production Unit Management Team, you lead the Human Resources function - managing a team of two HR and Training professionals - and serve as both a strategic partner to leadership and a trusted advocate for employees. You play a central role in shaping a culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, and empowerment - recognizing that our people are our greatest competitive advantage. This role is actively involved in driving and implementing strategic people initiatives to support operational excellence and long-term growth.
Your key responsibilities include:
Safety First: Champion a strong safety culture by aligning HR practices with site safety goals, supporting safety leadership initiatives, and promoting employee well-being as a shared responsibility and core value.
HR Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop the HR team ensuring strong delivery of HR services and employee development programs,
Strategic HR Leadership: drive strategic HR management by partnering closely with site leaders to align people priorities with operational and business goals, ensuring that HR practices enable sustainable growth and continuous improvement. You are responsible for translating business needs into practical, scalable talent strategies that help the organization perform at its best.
Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning: Develop staffing strategies that meet operational demands while planning for future talent needs. Drive recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning.
Employee & Labor Relations : Maintain a positive and productive employee relations environment, manage union interactions, and ensure full compliance with labor laws, collective agreements and internal group HR processes and policies.
Performance & Compensation Management : Oversee the performance management process and coach leaders on feedback and development planning. Ensure fair and competitive compensation practices.
Employee Experience: Support a seamless and positive employee experience throughout the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding and internal mobility. And ensure that employees feel supported, valued, and informed at every stage of their journey.
Learning & Development: Lead training strategy and development initiatives for the site to build workforce capability. Collaborate with the Training Coordinator to deliver effective programs tailored to production needs.
Culture & Engagement: Drive site-level initiatives to support an engaged, inclusive, and empowered workplace culture that motivates and retains employees.
Compliance & HR Operations: Oversee HR operations, ensuring administrative processes such as payroll interface, timekeeping, and personnel records are executed accurately and efficiently. Maintain data integrity within HRIS systems (Workday & Dayforce) and ensure that HR documentation is always up to date and compliant with policies & data privacy standards.
You’ll be joining a collaborative and forward-looking team, where your voice matters and your contributions drive our success. As part of a global company, you’ll work locally in Kennewick while being connected to an international network—blending people focus, psychological safety, and operational excellence.
About you
You bring a successful and strong experience in human resources, ideally in a manufacturing, industrial, or unionized environment where you've had hands-on exposure to both strategic HR leadership and day-to-day support. You’ve successfully led People initiatives across areas such as talent management, organizational development, and employee relations, and you're confident navigating labor law and union matters.
You have a strong business mindset, with the ability to align HR strategy with operational needs, and you're comfortable working in a fast-paced, production-driven setting. Your interpersonal and communication skills make you a credible advisor to leadership, a trusted partner to employees, and an effective change agent in times of growth or transformation.
You have experience using HR systems and workforce analytics to guide decision-making, and you're comfortable working within a matrixed, global organization. You hold a Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Industrial Relations, or a related field, and you're fluent in English.
Advanced IT and Microsoft skills are essential to support the facility’s digitalization journey, enabling the implementation of modern technologies to enhance HR efficiency, streamline HR processes, and drive data-driven decision-making.
The position expects to be able to travel in USA and in Europe sometime.
What You Can Expect From Us
The anticipated salary range for this position is $95,000.00 to $125,000.00 annual depending background and experience with a 15% annual bonus opportunity and annual merit eligibility.
Additional elements of the compensation package include medical, dental, vision insurance as well as company paid disability and life insurance. We offer paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year and a 401(K)-retirement savings plan that has a 5% company contribution with company match of 50% for the first 6% you invest. We offer a generous Tuition Reimbursement Program, and provide opportunities for professional competences development and training, as well as opportunities for career advancement within the company.
Additional Information
At Alleima, our mission is much more than delivering high-quality products, technology, and processes - working together to develop solutions based on our customers’ needs and thus achieving our business goals is a better way to describe our daily work. With curious employees and safety as our priority, we create a work environment where you can develop both personally and professionally.
With a clear direction for our journey ahead, utilizing our position as a technology leader, progressive customer partner, and sustainability driver, we aim to become an even stronger company in our industry.
Are you ready to take on this challenge together with us? Join us on our journey! www.alleima.com