Sr. HR Business Partner (Southwest Region)

Overview

The Sr. HRBP – Southwest Region is a leadership role responsible for overseeing all aspects of human resources practices strategies and processes. This role supports business needs and ensures the proper implementation of company strategy and objectives.

In this role you would serve as primary point of contact for local leaders promoting Thermon's core values (Care, Commit, Collaborate), enabling business success through human resources management, including performance management, change management, restructuring, project management, training and development, employment cycle changes, talent management, recruitment and employee's customer services. You will influence and guide leaders and employees of all levels in a matrix organization. This is not an employee relations, HR policy role, but is instead a leadership role requiring strong understanding of productivity, overtime, safety, quality, KPIs and throughput. You will be an extension of the plant leadership team with the ability to influence all layers of management.

This position will report directly to the HR Leader, Western Hemisphere and dotted line report to Director of Operations.

You Are A Great Fit If You Excel At:

• Connecting people decisions to operational outcomes
• Influencing multiple leaders on organizational decisions.
• Designing and planning company wide projects
• Using business metrics and KPIs (productivity, turnover, safety) to help leaders make personnel decisions (vs policy)

Location

You will be working onsite (Monday- Friday) full-time. The work base for this role will be our San Marcos, Texas Campus Manufacturing Facility located at 100 Thermon Dr. San Marcos, Texas 78666. This role will have a path to senior leadership and therefore you will need to be flexible to travel up to 40% potentially between San Marcos, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Knoxville, and Salt Lake City as needed.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Partnership with Leadership

• Build business relationships and trust with leaders and key stakeholders, using strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively influence outcomes and advance strategic priorities
• Thoughtfully balance competing priorities, making informed tradeoffs that support both business objectives and positive employee outcomes.
• Lead and coordinate projects from planning through execution, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time, aligned with business needs, and effectively communicated to stakeholders.

People Management

• Leads a team of 2+ direct reports (HR Generalists, Administrative Assistants).
• Manage, hire, train HR staff, fostering team cohesion and monitoring performance to ensure optimal productivity.
• Foster seamless collaboration and communication with employees and management.

Performance Management:

• Develop, Implement and Manage performance management process.
• Conduct performance reviews and provide feedback to employees.
• Identify training and development needs and coordinate training programs.

Compliance and Legal:

• Ensure compliance with labor laws and regulations.
• Maintain employee records and ensure data accuracy.
• Handle sensitive employee information with confidentiality.
• Conduct investigations following company's policy and procedure.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Develop and analyze compensation job evaluations.
• Analyze and benchmark pay data and provides guidance.
• Provides employees support in regard to benefits programs, including health insurance and retirement plans.
• Participates in employee's welfare events.

HR Planning:

• Collaborate with management to develop HR planning aligned with business goals.
• Manages HR Service Level Agreements within the location of responsibility.
• Analyze HR Service Level Agreements (metrics), provide insights and supports decision-making.
• Participates in HR projects and initiatives to improve organizational effectiveness and continuous improvement.
• Other activities and projects as assigned by management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Human Resources or a related field required.
• At least 10 years' of combined work experience as HR Generalist and HR Manager required.
• Experience leading and designing organizational restructuring (from proposal, design, communication, implementation etc).
• Experience with capacity planning, hiring optimization, labor trends
• Strong business acumen, attention to detail, responsive, follow-up skills, and ability to influence and work with management and employees of all levels in a matrix organization.
• Strong organizational, leadership skills, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong knowledge of labor laws and HR best practices.
• Proficiency in HR software and Microsoft Office Suite.
• HR certification (e.g., SHRM-CP, PHR) is a plus.

Working Conditions

• Must be able to traverse across the San Marcos, TX campus by walking.
• Regularly stand/walk/seat for periods of time across the office/manufacturing facility.
• Willing, available and able to frequent travel between San Marcos Campus (Manufacturing Facility) and Austin corporate office.
• Available and able to travel 40% (US)

Who We Are

Thermon, a CECO environmental brand, is a diversified technology company and a global leader in industrial process heating, temperature maintenance, environmental monitoring and temporary power distribution solutions. We deliver engineered solutions that enhance operational awareness, safety, reliability and efficiency to deliver the lowest total cost of ownership.

Thermon offers over 250 products, software and services across multiple brands, providing a range of offerings from boilers, transportation heaters, and liquid load banks to tubing bundles and heat trace. We are the silent guardians of critical infrastructure. From the relentless demands of chemical plants and the intricate networks of rail and transit to the vital pulse of power generation, we innovate solutions that ensure optimal operation, protect critical assets, and maximize efficiency.

We care deeply about the success of our customers, the well-being of our people, and the reliability of every product we design. This drives our unwavering commitment to safety and integrity in everything we do. Through collaboration, we unite a rich legacy of expertise with a trusted global team, partnering side-by-side with our customers. We transfer the warmth needed to make life work.