Vice President HR&EHS

Description

Vice President HR/EHS

OMG is part of the Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (“Steel Partners”) Diversified Industrial Group. Steel Partners is a diversified global holding company that engages in multiple businesses through consolidated subsidiaries, associated companies and other interests. It owns and operates businesses and has significant interests in leading companies in various industries, including diversified industrial products, energy, defense, supply chain management and logistics, banking and youth sports.

Position

Our first priorities at OMG are Safety and People — the keys to our success. Our goal is to offer employees a safe environment in which to grow and improve the quality of their lives and the lives of their families. The Vice President of Human Resources and Environmental Health & Safety (VP HR/EHS) has ultimate responsibility for executing strategies that deliver a culture that is safe, healthy, supportive, inclusive, open and creative.

The VP HR/EHS ensures that we recruit and retain a highly qualified team that represents our core values and deliver results. This resource ensures our ability to retain employees by helping them clearly understand their roles, impact on customers and how they bring value to our organization. Key to success will be the ability to communicate company objectives and performance regularly so employees feel connected and able to make better decisions at work.

Reporting to the President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the VP HR/EHS works with the senior management team to plan and execute business strategies and evaluate how to support these with strong Safety and People management. The VP HR/EHS consistently evaluates the current state of our HR/EHS structure, programs and processes and utilizes the continuous improvement tools to drive any improvement needed to support our people and business goals.

We require a commercially oriented HR/EHS business partner who can build relationships at all levels and maintain an exceptional culture and employee experience. The VP HR/EHS will develop and maintain a team that delivers guidance and credible solutions on Safety- and People-related challenges and objectives. The successful candidate will be an outstanding performance partner for the business: agile, connected, globally savvy and accountable for strategic delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organization Development or Business Administration.
Master’s degree preferred; SPHR and/or CEBS certifications highly preferred.
5-10 years of senior-level HR/EHS leadership/support as Business Partner. Demonstrated success required with organizational effectiveness, talent acquisition and management, and culture and change management.
10-plus years operating in a global and highly complex, customer-focused business. Experience in a manufacturing environment with multiple operations is ideal.
Passion for brands and consumers. Demonstrated understanding and curiosity for the front end of the business and ability to support commercial strategies with strong Safety and People programs.
Evident ease and familiarity with hourly workers through corporate executive suite.
Demonstrated success and resiliency operating in an industry and/or organization facing rapid change.
Experience supporting M&A activity, with success integrating new businesses into the company.
Demonstrated success building rapport and earning broad-based support for initiatives, negotiating with a genuine give-and-take approach.
Initiates and engages with senior business leaders as a peer, confidante and coach. Develops trust and credibility that leads to improved organizational effectiveness.
Contributes to business mindset, needs, and thinking of own function or other functions. Adds significant value beyond his/her own functional area.
Highly motivated, energetic, personable, comfortable working closely with a diverse and global leadership team.
Highly self-aware