Bilingual Human Resources Director
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- 1703050 Requisition #
Trinity Industries, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a diversified industrial company that owns market-leading businesses which provide products and services to the energy, transportation, chemical, and construction sectors. Trinity reports its financial results in five principal business segments: the Rail Group, the Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, the Inland Barge Group, the Construction Products Group and the Energy Equipment Group. Trinity’s businesses provide industrial products and services ranging from railcars, barges, storage containers, and aggregates to highway products, structural wind towers, railcar parts, and railcar leasing and management services.
Trinity’s vision is to be a premier, diversified industrial company that owns market-leading businesses which provide superior products and services to customers while generating high-quality earnings and returns for shareholders.
TrinityRail, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trinity Industries, Inc., is searching for a Director, Human Resources in our Dallas, TX location. Reporting into the VP-HR-Trinity Rail, this position will maintain a sustainable and flexible Human Resources strategy that is aligned with the needs of the business while focusing on the development of talent, organizational effectiveness and communications. The Director, Human Resources will have responsibility and oversight for corporate and plant employees in the domestic United States and will function as a business partner to certain TrintyRail senior leadership teams.
Responsibilities:
- Effectively and diplomatically translates TrinityRail business strategy and objectives into goals, plans, and tactics that are aligned with business imperatives, while ensuring compatibility with enterprise values, ethics, and policy
- Attract, place, retain and motivate top industry talent through development of premier compensation programs, improved onboarding, employee training/coaching and succession planning
- Oversee and improve the performance management process: job specs/requirements, review process, staff ranking, individual development plans, compensation, promotions and recognition
- Identify and integrate Human Resources team members to oversee and implement premier business practices
- Recognize basic employee relations at a plant level while overseeing HR policy, practices and procedures to maintain a healthy infrastructure
- Counsel or coach business leaders regarding employee relation issues, including performance management, facilitation of formal/informal complaints to resolution, discipline, and/or terminations in line with local culture and the business legal environment
- Work with business leaders to develop union avoidance campaigns and programs
- Maintain a risk analysis to backstop supplier labor stoppages, contract disputes and other acts that could interrupt the flow of production
- Work with all applicable business line executives to design, develop and implement leadership and/or departmental training programs
- Work with operations leaders to grow employee confidence and morale by offering improved onboarding, in addition to continuous improvement training and development opportunities
- Work closely with the operations leadership teams to understand personnel needs from a short, medium and long-term perspective
- Improve reporting structure fluidity and line of communications to maintain an environment of "informed employees"
Required Experience
- Bachelors Degree in Human Resources or related
- Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience in Human Resources
- Experience functioning as a key member of a senior management team, contributing to the strategy and direction of the business unit
- Must be fully fluent in Spanish-both oral and written
- Experience supporting Human Resource operation with non-exempt employees in a union and/or non-union environment
- Experience with labor relations, supporting grievances and negotiating contracts
- Experience in the industrial manufacturing sector preferred
- Ability to build strong relationships and report at all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated track record of being a decisive leader with the objective of maintaining alignment with the operating division
- Possess superior written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to analyze complex problems quickly, develop and implement solutions
- Ability to assess risk and develop Human Resource plans and programs to mitigate liability and ensure operational success
- Successful track record building proactive programs for union avoidance, retention and salary and incentive planning
- Demonstrated ability to bring process, structure and clarity without instituting bureaucracy or slowing the organization's momentum or adversely affecting an entrepreneurial culture
- Highly motivated team player with a "can do" attitude
- Ability to exercise sound judgement
- Experience driving improvements and growth in a demanding, high volume business environment
- Willing to travel (up to 25%) to plant locations within the domestic United States •
- Superior Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Mexico Labor Relations experience highly preferred
- PHR or SPHR highly desired
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Why Join Trinity?
Trinity Industries offers a comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees are offered Trinity’s standard company benefits package, which includes paid time off, tuition reimbursement, paid holidays, 401(k) with match and additional retirement contributions, medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance. Little known fact about Trinity Industries: Once people come to work here, they tend to stay. Trinity is employee-focused and involved in our communities, which is probably why working for Trinity feels more like family than a large corporation. Add in the industry leading industrial products we build, and you can see why our employees are proud to call Trinity home. What legacy will you build?
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