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HR Manager Client Support

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Meet the Recruiter: Jenny Willhoit

Job Summary:

Panasonic Energy is seeking an HR Leader to join our team as an HR Manager, reporting to the Senior HRM. The Human Resources Manager is a strategic HR leader responsible for supporting Directors, GMs, and Executives across multiple business groups while helping the organization mature its people practices. This role partners closely with HR Centers of Excellence and cross‑functional leaders to build scalable processes, strengthen culture, and drive organizational effectiveness. Operating in a fast‑growing, start‑up‑like environment, the HR Manager must be comfortable with ambiguity, able to create structure where it doesn’t yet exist, and skilled at anticipating how decisions impact other departments and sites. This role plays a critical part in shaping PECNA’s evolving HR function, elevating HR capability, and ensuring a consistent, high‑performance employee experience across the enterprise.

Strategic HR Leadership

• Build and implement HR strategies that support a scaling, constantly evolving business.
• Lead cross-functional HR initiatives that create structure, consistency, and scalability across the enterprise.
• Partner closely with HR COEs (Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, Total Rewards, L&D, Legal) to design and roll out new processes, programs, and policies.
• Ensure HR decisions consider downstream impacts on other departments, business groups, and sites.
• Evolve HR policies and frameworks as the organization matures.

Organizational Development

• Guide leaders through organizational design.
• Build leadership capability frameworks, career paths, and succession plans from the ground up.
• Mentor HRBPs and HR team members to elevate HR capability and consistency.

Culture & Engagement

• Champion PECNA culture.
• Design and implement engagement strategies that scale with the business.
• Facilitate business reviews with Directors and GMs using workforce insights to support long-term planning.

Employee Relations Leadership

• Provide oversight for complex employee relations matters and investigations.
• Build trust through transparent communication and sound judgment.

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop HRBPs.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements:

• To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employee’s, wearing PPE is a requirement for some roles at PECNA and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator.

The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.

Requirements - Required and/or Preferred

Education:

• Basic/Required: Bachelor’s degree in business, HR, or related field

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
• 6+ years of progressive HR experience, including leadership responsibility.
• Experience building HR processes, programs, or policies in a fast-paced or evolving environment.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and drive strategic HR initiatives.
• Strength in workforce analytics, organizational design, and change management.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to build trust across all levels.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, shifting priorities, and rapid change.
• Ability to think enterprise-wide and anticipate cross-functional and cross-site impacts.
• Alignment with Panasonic’s core principles.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in manufacturing or production environments.
• Advanced HR certification (SPHR, SHRM-SCP).
• Experience in both union and non-union environments.

Physical Demands:

Physical Activities: (Percentage of time (equaling 100%) during the normal workday the employee is required to)

• Sit: 40%
• Walk: 30%
• Stand: 20%
• Lift: 10%

Required Lifting and Carrying: (Required frequency is: Not required (0%), Occasional (1-33%), Frequent (34-66%, Continuous (67-100%)

• Up to 10 lbs.: Occasional
• Up to 20 lbs.: Occasional
• Up to 35 lbs.: Occasional
• Team-lift only (over 35 lbs.): Not Required

Benefits & Perks - What's In It For You:

Panasonic Energy prioritizes total well-being and offers comprehensive benefits options to support physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health:

• Health Benefits – Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Voluntary Benefits – Life, accident, critical illness, disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
• Panasonic Retirement Savings & Investment Plan (PRSIP) – 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Paid Time-Off Benefits – Vacation, holidays, personal days, sick leave, volunteer, and parental & caregiver leave.
• Educational Assistance – Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses after six months of service.
• Health Management and Wellbeing Programs –Lifestyle Spending Account, EAP, virtual health management, chronic condition, neurodiversity, tobacco cessation, substance abuse support, and life stage and fertility resources. Available to eligible employees starting the first day of the month following your start date. Eligibility for each benefit may vary based on employment status, location, and length of service.
• Employee Recognition Program - High5 employee recognition and awards platform, quarterly and annual employee recognition
• Annual Bonus Program - Opportunity for an annual performance-based bonus.
• On-site Food Options: Several on-site cafes, plentiful snack and beverage kitchens, revolving on-site vendor visits and employee events
• Free Shuttle: Rides to and from work!

Where You'll Be:

For our onsite roles, Panasonic Energy is committed to fostering an ideal working environment that goes beyond the conventional. We understand the significance of moments that matter in your onsite experience, and we prioritize creating a workspace that not only promotes productivity but also ensures a fulfilling and positive work atmosphere. Join us at Panasonic Energy, where your onsite presence is valued, and we strive to make each moment count in your professional journey.

Who We Are:

Meet Panasonic Energy! At Panasonic Energy, you'll do work that matters as we are dedicated to transforming the world through the acceleration of sustainable energy. By producing safe, high-quality lithium-ion batteries, you become part of a team that plays a crucial role in creating technologies that move us.

Our journey began in 2017, and now, as the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory, we are expanding operations to De Soto, Kansas, providing you with the opportunity to experience career growth in more ways than one.

As an innovative thinker, you'll thrive here, as we continually push the boundaries of lithium-ion battery technology and production capabilities to enhance efficiency and performance in EVs.

Being part of Panasonic Energy means positively contributing to society, aligning with our commitment to building a better world through sustainable energy solutions.

We care about what you care about, fostering an environment where your contributions make a meaningful impact on the future of energy and transportation. Join us and be part of a team that values your work, encourages innovation, and actively contributes to a positive societal impact.

In addition to an environment that is as innovative as our products, we offer competitive salaries and benefits.

We Take Opportunity Seriously:

At Panasonic Energy, we are committed to a workplace that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. Fairness and Honesty have been part of our core values for more than 100 years and we are proud of our diverse culture as an equal opportunity employer.

We understand that your career search may look different than others and embrace the professional, personal, educational, and volunteer opportunities through which people gain experience. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, submit your application!

Supplemental Information:

Pre-employment drug testing is required.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. without restriction.

Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Energy Corporation of North America.

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