HR Manager

HR Manager (m/f/x)

Would you like to work for a global player that values ethics, inclusion, diversity, and people?

Our site in Gilching, Germany, is an agile hub for our aerospace expertise. As part of the Aerospace Group’s Fluid and Electrical Distribution Division, our Gilching location plays a key role in delivering customer-focused innovations and solutions for commercial and military aerospace manufacturers worldwide. The HR Manager is a core member of the Site Leadership Team and combines strategic HR business partnering with hands-on execution in a regulated aerospace manufacturing environment. The role shapes organization capability, constructive employee relations, leadership effectiveness and an inclusive, high-accountability culture while ensuring robust HR operations and compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Plant Manager and Site Leadership Team to define the people strategy for growth, organizational change, capacity expansion and capability building.
• Convert business plans into workforce plans, organization designs, skill matrices, recruiting priorities, development actions and succession plans.
• Lead site-specific HR and organizational projects, including restructuring, transfers, integration activities and general communication internally and externally, in line with the relevant Eaton HR teams.
• Use people data and operational insights to identify risks, trends and opportunities; establish clear actions, owners and follow-up routines.
• Embed the Eaton Culture Model in leadership routines, hiring, onboarding, goal setting, feedback, recognition, development and change management.
• Coach leaders to Think Big by staying curious and considering customer and enterprise impact
• Build and maintain a professional, trust-based relationship with the local works council and other staff representatives.
• Ensure employment decisions are consistent, documented and compliant with applicable law, Eaton policies, and agreements.
• Coordinate external partners such as payroll, pensions, benefits and labor-law advisers as required.
• Ensure compliance with German occupational health and safety requirements applicable to people and workplaces, in partnership with the Plant Manager, MESH/EHS lead, and other relevant parties.
• Accept and execute formally assigned EHS responsibilities and complete required training.

Qualifications:

• University degree in HR, business administration, law, psychology or a comparable field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of professional HR experience in a matrix organization.
• Fluent German and strong English, written and spoken.

Skills:

• Experience advising senior leaders through growth, organizational change and complex employee relations.
• Practical command of German individual and collective labor law, co-determination and works-council collaboration.
• Progressive HR generalist / HR business partner experience in Germany, preferably in a multinational industrial, manufacturing or regulated environment.
• Experience with Oracle/HRMS, digital workflow tools, people analytics and responsible use of AI in HR.

We Offer:

• Flexible working hours arrangements
• Company social benefits
• Training and development opportunities
• Varied and responsible tasks
• Egym Wellpass program
• Wellness events
• Fruit, coffee, and water

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