Regional Operations HR Leader, Americas

POSITION PURPOSE
The Regional Operations HR Leader – Americas is a critical member of the BAC Americas HR and Operations leadership teams.

This role is responsible for leading, aligning, and elevating HR support across multiple manufacturing facilities in the U.S.

and Mexico, ensuring HR strategies directly enable regional
operations priorities.

Serving as the primary HR business partner to the Regional Vice President of Operations – Americas, this leader drives people strategies that support safe operations, strong frontline leadership, operational excellence, and a high performance culture.

The role provides oversight, coaching, and direction to site HR Managers while ensuring consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement across the region.

This role requires a strong manufacturing mindset, deep understanding of frontline operations, and credibility to partner effectively with senior operations leaders.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Regional HR & Operations Partnership


* Serve as the trusted HR business partner to the Regional VP of Operations – Americas and their staff, providing strategic and practical guidance on workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness, talent, and labor matters.


* Translate regional operations objectives into clear people and talent strategies that support productivity, safety, quality, cost, and delivery.


* Provide input and leadership on organizational design, span of control, workforce planning, and succession planning across all sites.

Leadership of Site HR Managers


* Directly lead and develop site Human Resources Managers across U.S.

and Mexico manufacturing facilities.


* Establish clear roles, expectations, priorities, and performance accountability for site HR leaders.


* Build regional capability by strengthening HR business partnership, investigation quality, labor relations skills, and frontline leader support.

Employee & Labor Relations


* Act as the regional escalation point for complex employee relations, investigations, corrective action, and terminations.


* Ensure consistent, fair, and legally compliant application of policies and practices.


* Maintain strong working knowledge of U.S.

employment law and Mexican labor requirements, partnering closely with Legal and local resources.


* Proactively identify and mitigate employee relations and labor risks.

Frontline & Leadership Capability


* Partner with Operations leadership to strengthen frontline leader effectiveness, including onboarding, capability development, and accountability.


* Support plant and regional leadership development efforts aligned to BAC leadership expectations and culture – to include our focus on a frontline obsession mindset. 


* Champion employee engagement practices that reinforce that team members have a voice and feel supported at BAC.

Change Management & Continuous Improvement


* Lead HR aspects of operational change initiatives, including ...