Sr. Human Resources Manager - Rochester, NH

Senior Human Resources Manager - ASC

Albany Safran Composites (ASC), a joint venture between Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) and Safran, is seeking a Senior Human Resources Manager. Reporting to the enterprise HR organization, the Senior HR Manager will serve as the senior HR leader for the location and is accountable for shaping and executing the site's people strategy in alignment with AEC's enterprise priorities and joint venture expectations. This position partners closely with the General Manager, site leadership team, enterprise HR, and JV counterparts to ensure the site has the talent, culture, and organizational capacity required to meet customer, quality, rate readiness, and cost objectives.

Candidates must demonstrate mastery in HR leadership within complex manufacturing environments, with experience driving workforce stability, leadership capability, organizational effectiveness, and cultural health. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional judgment, and the ability to influence and coach leaders in a dynamic aerospace production setting. If you thrive in a fast paced, high accountability environment and are excited by the opportunity to shape the workforce and culture of a critical aerospace manufacturing site, this is an excellent opportunity for you.

Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) is a rapidly growing supplier of highly engineered composite parts for the aerospace industry. ASC supports major commercial aerospace programs operating in a high-rate production environment that demands exceptional leadership, workforce capability, and operational discipline.

Responsibilities & Key Areas

In performing their duties, all employees are expected to embody Albany's core values: Albany wins together, count on each other, own your actions, care about each other, and share your enthusiasm.

• Lead the development and execution of the site's multiyear people strategy, ensuring alignment with AEC's enterprise HR roadmap and joint venture requirements.
• Serve as the senior HR voice for the location, advising the General Manager and site leadership on organizational design, workforce planning, and long-range capability needs.
• Anticipate workforce risks and design proactive strategies related to talent availability, leadership gaps, skill progression, and cultural health.
• Represent the location in enterprise HR forums, influencing policy, process, and program decisions that impact manufacturing sites.
• Own workforce planning strategy, ensuring staffing, skills, and leadership capacity align with production rate increases, customer demand, and operational transformation.
• Lead organizational assessments and partner with operations, engineering, and training to ensure the site has the technical and leadership capability required for rate readiness and quality performance.
• Drive structural improvements that enhance accountability, decision making, and cross functional alignment.
• Build a strong leadership bench by driving succession planning, leadership assessments, and targeted development for supervisors, leads, and managers.
• Partner with enterprise HR to shape technical career paths and talent pipelines for critical roles.
• Shape and sustain a culture of safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead sitewide engagement strategies, communication rhythms, and recognition programs that reinforce trust, transparency, and performance.
• Serve as a visible, influential presence on the production floor, ensuring employee voice is integrated into decision making.
• Lead change management for site level and enterprise initiatives, ensuring adoption, alignment, and sustained impact.
• Oversee complex employee relations matters, ensuring fairness, consistency, and risk mitigation across all levels of the organization.
• Coach leaders to handle issues at the right level and build long term capability in conflict resolution and accountability.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local laws, as well as JV and AEC policies, audits, and customer requirements.
• Serve as the escalation point for ER cases and sensitive leadership matters.
• Lead HR operational excellence, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and discipline across performance management, compensation, job architecture, and data integrity.
• Use HR analytics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, providing insights that shape site and enterprise decisions.
• Oversee high volume recruiting strategies and retention initiatives to ensure workforce stability and skill progression.
• Partner with enterprise HRIS and analytics teams to strengthen data capability and reporting accuracy.
• Serve as the location's senior HR liaison to JV HR and operations, ensuring alignment on workforce expectations, training, compliance, and JV governance.
• Navigate dual stakeholder environments with maturity, diplomacy, and strategic clarity.

Preferred Experience / Characteristics / Competencies & Education

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field required; Master's degree or advanced HR certification (SPHR, SHRMSCP) preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant leadership responsibility in manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or other regulated production environments.
• Demonstrated success leading HR strategy at a site or business unit level.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change, workforce planning, and leadership development across functional groups.
• Proven ability to influence leaders, challenge assumptions, and drive alignment.
• Demonstrated success coaching leaders, building leadership capability, and shaping culture.
• High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate complex workforce dynamics with discretion and professionalism.
• Deep understanding of manufacturing workforce dynamics, including attendance, retention, training, and skill progression.
• Ability to build trust and credibility with hourly employees and frontline leaders through visible, consistent presence.
• Experience shaping culture in environments focused on safety, quality, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency with HRIS platforms and strong Excel/data analysis capability.
• Ability to create clear, presentations, reports, and workforce insights.

Remuneration & Benefits / Other

• Location: Rochester, NH, fulltime on site. full-time in office, 9/80 schedule:
  Week 1: 9 hours Mon-Thu, 8 hours Friday. Week 2: Work 9 hours Mon-Thu, Friday off
• Compensation: Will be structured to attract and retain the best possible candidate.
• Please Note: Due to the restricted nature of work, only US Citizens and US Persons (permanent residents) will be considered for this role. We are unable to sponsor employment visas (e.g., H1B visa status) at this time.

Working Conditions

Office environment, duties performed indoors, moderate to quiet noise and comfortable temperatures. Not substantially exposed to adverse environmental condition levels. Ability to work 24/7 schedule and be available as business situations require. Some may be able to do part of their work remotely. Travel may be required.

Physical requirements

Occasionally positions self to move an office item >10 lbs.

Frequently move about the production floor and office area to attend meetings or trainings

Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 75% of the time

Frequently operates a computer, enters data into systems, verifies information, etc...