Job Description
HR Manager – Manufacturing
Location: southwest side of Indianapolis, IN | 100% Onsite
Schedule: Monday–Friday, approximately 7:00 AM–4:00 PM
Compensation: $80,000-$120,000 base, depending on experience, plus discretionary annual bonus and benefits
About the Company
Our client is a growing, family-owned manufacturer with a strong reputation for going above and beyond for its customers. The company has grown significantly over the past several years and is committed to long-term family ownership. It is investing in an experienced leadership team to support its next stage of growth.
The culture is outgoing, collaborative, and people-focused. Employee retention has historically been strong, and leadership puts real time and money into morale through monthly team lunches, company competitions, sporting events, and other team-building activities.
The Opportunity
This is a hands-on HR leadership role for someone who wants to be visible, involved, and part of the business. You'll spend time on the production floor, build relationships with hourly employees, and work closely with shop and operations leadership every day.
You will be the company's primary HR leader and a member of a leadership group of about 6–9 managers. Many HR processes and documents are already in place, and leadership fully supports this person organizing, formalizing, and improving them. You'll have room to make a real impact and shape how the HR function grows.
What You'll Do
- Employee Relations: Serve as a trusted, approachable resource for employees and leaders. Spot small issues early, listen to employees, and help keep the workplace steady and positive.
- Operations Partnership: Work closely with shop leadership on attendance, timekeeping, performance, communication, and other day-to-day workforce issues in a production environment.
- Onboarding: Build a more consistent onboarding experience that goes beyond first-day paperwork and helps new employees get off to a successful start.
- Training & Development: Lead and coordinate ongoing employee training and development programs.
- Processes & SOPs: Gather, organize, and formalize existing HR processes and documentation. Make sure processes are applied consistently across the organization.
- Compliance: Oversee employment-law compliance and HR best practices.
- HR Technology: Use ADP to its full potential and find ways to make HR processes more efficient. Help modernize manual or paper-based processes as needed.
- Recruiting: Manage relationships with staffing partners and support hiring across the organization.
- Benefits & Payroll: Oversee benefits administration and partner with Accounting on payroll-related matters.
- Culture & Engagement: Lead employee engagement efforts and company events alongside leadership.
What You'll Bring
- Progressive HR experience, including experience as a primary or lead HR resource
- HR experience in a manufacturing environment (required)
- Proven employee-relations experience supporting hourly and production employees
- Strong working knowledge of employment law and HR compliance
- Experience building or improving onboarding, training programs, and HR processes
- High emotional intelligence and the ability to build credibility with front-line employees and leadership
- A proactive, hands-on approach and comfort working on the production floor
- Experience with ADP or a similar HRIS
- Strong organizational, communication, and follow-through skills
Nice to Have
- Experience moving manual or paper-based processes into automated systems
- Payroll knowledge
- Experience managing staffing agency relationships
- Experience in a privately held or family-owned company
Why This Role
- Long-term stability with a family-owned company that has no plans to sell
- A direct seat at the leadership table and visible impact on the business
- Room to shape and strengthen the HR function
- A positive, people-first culture with strong employee retention
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Benefits, HSA with employer contribution, Retirement Plan + match, 3 weeks PTO, 11 paid holidays
By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.
EEO Notice
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact
HR@vaco.com
.Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
Representation Notice
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
For residents of Ontario, Canada: Based on Highspring’s discussions with its Client, Highspring’s understanding is that this position for employment is a current vacancy (either through Highspring as a contractor or with the client directly).
Privacy Notice
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“we,” “our,” or “Vaco by Highspring”) respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco by Highspring HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
- Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
- Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
- Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Indianapolis, IN |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 2,500 to 4,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | http://www.vaco.com/ |
About Company
Vaco provides expert consulting, permanent placement, executive search and strategic staffing for companies around the world, in the areas of accounting, finance, technology, healthcare, operations, administration and more. As a premier talent solutions firm, Vaco connects people to their dream jobs and helps leading companies find talent to grow their business. Since its founding in 2002, Vaco has grown to more than 35 offices across the globe, 700+ employees, more than 3,000 consultants and $450M in revenue. Vaco has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies for past 11 years and is dedicated to developing long-term relationships, life-long careers and creative client solutions.
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