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Regional Resource HR Manager

Sterling Engineering, Inc.

  • Bolingbrook, IL
  • 1 day ago
  • $140,000–$145,000 Per Year

Highlights

This is a highly visible leadership role supporting a complex, multi-location workforce and partnering closely with Operations, Finance, Safety, Legal, project leadership, and Global HR. The Regional HR Manager will oversee employee and labor relations, payroll governance, benefits and retirement programs, compliance, HR operations, workforce planning, HR systems, and team development.

Numbers & Facts

LocationBolingbrook, IL
IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
Salary$140,000–$145,000 Per Year
Company Size500 to 999 employees
Year Founded1969
Websitehttp://www.sterling-engineering.com

Description

Regional Human Resources Manager
Location: Bolingbrook, IL
Compensation: $140,000 - $145,000 base salary
Bonus: 15% annual bonus
Travel: Travel throughout the U.S. and Canada as needed

Sterling Engineering is partnering with a global organization to hire a Regional Human Resources Manager to lead HR strategy and operations across the United States and Canada. This is a highly visible leadership role supporting a complex, multi-location workforce and partnering closely with Operations, Finance, Safety, Legal, project leadership, and Global HR. 

The Regional HR Manager will oversee employee and labor relations, payroll governance, benefits and retirement programs, compliance, HR operations, workforce planning, HR systems, and team development.

What You’ll Do
  • Lead regional HR strategy and day-to-day HR operations across the U.S. and Canada.
  • Serve as the escalation point for complex employee relations matters, investigations, disciplinary actions, performance issues, and terminations.
  • Lead and develop the HR team supporting payroll, benefits, retirement plans, recruiting, and labor relations.
  • Oversee U.S. and Canadian payroll controls, tax compliance, reconciliations, audits, and vendor relationships.
  • Provide oversight of U.S. health and welfare benefits, 401(k), Canadian benefits, and Canadian pension programs.
  • Lead annual benefit renewals and open-enrollment strategy and implementation. 
  • Support union and field employees, including certified payroll, prevailing wages, fringe benefits, union remittances, and audit requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with federal, state, provincial, and local employment requirements across the U.S. and Canada.
  • Lead HR/payroll system implementations, enhancements, integrations, and process improvements.
  • Partner with leadership on workforce planning, organizational design, compensation, succession planning, and organizational change.
  • Manage relationships with payroll providers, benefit consultants, brokers, retirement-plan providers, auditors, legal counsel, and HR technology vendors.
What We’re Looking For
  • 7+ years of progressively responsible Human Resources experience.
  • 3+ years of HR management, supervisory, or functional leadership experience.
  • Experience supporting employees and business operations in both the United States and Canada.
  • Strong knowledge of employee relations, HR operations, employment compliance, payroll, benefits, and retirement plans.
  • Experience handling complex investigations, disciplinary actions, terminations, and other sensitive employee relations matters.
  • Experience overseeing payroll controls, tax compliance, reconciliations, audits, and payroll vendors.
  • Knowledge of U.S. health and welfare plans, 401(k), Canadian benefit plans, and Canadian pension programs.
  • Experience leading benefit renewals and open enrollment.
  • Experience supporting union labor, certified payroll, prevailing-wage requirements, fringe benefits, union remittances, or union audits.
  • Experience leading teams and implementing or improving HR and payroll systems.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, communication, judgment, and decision-making skills. 
Preferred Background
Experience within construction, infrastructure, manufacturing, engineering, or another multi-location field environment is highly desirable. Experience supporting both union and nonunion workforces, multi-state/multi-province operations, or a global organization is also preferred. 


Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

About Company

Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:

 

  • Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.

 

  • Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.

 

Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.

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