At Trane Technologies and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

The Human Resource Business Partner has responsibility for, employee relations, workforce management activities, driving continuous improvement, employee engagement, and communications, with total factory workforce at approximately 1,000 employees.

This is an Onsite role at our La Crosse, WI location

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, it’s our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what’s possible for a sustainable world.

If this sounds exciting to you, read on to learn more about who we are and what we believe in:

We uplift others – we believe in providing an opportunity for all and building a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and respectful. We lift each other up and care about the success and well-being of others.

We make an impact – we believe that what we do has the potential to change the world. We succeed together by striving daily to create a lasting, positive impact on the planet.

We thrive at work and at home – we are supported by meaningful benefits, compensation, learning and development solutions, and opportunities for rewarding careers. We are firmly committed to the well-being and safety of our people.

As an HR Business Partner, you will be responsible for a focused factory team within the business with responsibility for employee relations, workforce management activities, driving continuous improvement, talent management, employee engagement, and communications. This role will be highly focused on labor relations in addition to supporting strategic HR initiatives and programs.

This role has been designated as On-Site at our La Crosse, WI campus

What you will do:

· Function as a strategic business partner to members within the La Crosse Operations Team.

· Provide leadership, guidance, and counsel on matters related to talent, organizational change and human capital.

· Promote and deliver on initiatives to drive positive culture and workforce climates, positive employee relations, open lines of communication and effective labor relations.

· Conduct investigations related to workplace violations of policy, work rules and EHS rules including harassment, ethics or discrimination complaints within the focused factory team.

· Address employee relations issues, such as allegations, complaints, or other concerns brought up from employees.

· Work with focused factory leadership in delivering to the local communication plan establishing consistent messages and improving employee communications processes. Facilitate two-way communications between focused factory leadership, production leaders, salaried employees and production employees.

· Conduct HR training as required, including annual compliance training.

· Develop and execute an HR plan aligned with business objectives, to include organizational design, succession planning, talent management, goal alignment, and communications.

· Drive a culture of standard work and operational excellence across the business both in the plant and across the various business processes.

· Various HR related administrative takes including reporting, auditing, and employee movement.

· Partner on tasks within the recruitment process and new employee onboarding.

· Champion Trane Technologies business strategy and culture change – lead the transformation for the businesses.

· Organizational Transformation: Lead the transformation efforts required to build organizational capability to achieve business goals

· Functional Expert: Deliver maximum HR services at most efficient cost

What you will bring:

The successful candidate will have demonstrated “world-class” competencies in a human resources role preferably in a diversified industrial or operational environment. He or she must have exceptional leadership skills in organizational strategy, experience with in dept investigations and documentation, identifying and developing organizational capability, and change management. The ideal candidate will have meaningful experience in both manufacturing and of lean methodologies. This key leader will have cross functional HR leadership experience across all areas of Human Resources.

What we expect of you:

· Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred.

· 5+ years’ experience in Human Resource function; labor relations experience in a union environment preferred.

· Knowledge of and experience in a manufacturing operations environment preferred

Ideally, you would also be familiar with one or more of the following:

· Drive and enable cultural transformation to support a Progressive, Diverse, and Inclusive environment.

· Provide guidance in establishing and leading a sustainable strategic workforce plan for the focused factory team, including appropriate interpretation and administration of applicable contractual provisions.

· Collaborate with local HR business partners to share best practices, critical needs issues, and local site and sector initiatives.

· Create positive change through coaching, counseling, and influencing skills.

· Monitor employee climate to identify issues/trends; counsel focused factory leadership on identifying issues and implementing corrective actions, while also identifying opportunities to increase engagement.

· Provide leadership, guidance and support in creating an employee engagement strategy that facilitates organizational performance and enables successful organizational change.

· Facilitate talent stewardship through communication and training on HR practices and processes.

· Regularly participate and provide guidance in business discussions and decisions with focused factory leadership.

· Act as employee advocate through effective labor and employee relations.

· Facilitate conflict resolution activities and assist supervisors and focused factory leadership through conflict resolution.

Base Compensation Range is $80-$100K

This will also include an incentive. 

Disclaimer: This base salary range is based on US national averages. Actual base pay could be a result of seniority, merit, geographic location where the work is performed

We are committed to achieving workforce diversity reflective of our communities. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status