Senior People Partner, Manufacturing

The role

This senior individual contributor role supports hourly employees, salaried employees, and contractors across three Portland-area worksites. You will partner with manufacturing leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, manager coaching, and sensitive employee matters.

What you will do

• Spend time on the production floor at three sites.
• Keep information moving between sites and HQ.
• Partner with manufacturing leaders on team structure, leadership capacity, and role clarity.
• Help leaders plan for hiring, moving people, using contractors, or reorganizing.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on hiring and lead the people side of site expansions.
• Build manufacturing job families, levels, and career paths.
• Coach managers to set expectations, give feedback, and develop people.
• Handle complex employee matters including conflict, accommodations, investigations, and exits.
• Give direct advice and help people reach workable decisions.
• Bring organizational patterns and risks to the Vice President of Talent and People Operations.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in HR or People Partner roles, including substantial independent partnership with senior leaders.
• Experience supporting hourly employees, salaried employees, and contractors across multiple worksites.
• Experience helping a fast-growing or changing organization make decisions about structure, workforce needs, and leadership capacity.
• Strong manager-coaching skills.
• Sound judgment on complex employee matters and employment law.
• Demonstrated ability to earn trust and influence decisions without reporting authority.
• Clear communication, discretion, and steady judgment under pressure.
• Comfort working through ambiguity without a fully built process.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting manufacturing or another technically complex, shift-based organization, ideally including opening or expanding a worksite.
• Experience in a high-growth startup where you helped build the organization and adapted your approach as it grew.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Health insurance (company pays 100% of gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
• Dental insurance (company pays 100% for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
• Vision insurance (company pays 100% for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
• Disability insurance (company pays 100% for a policy to provide long-term financial support)
• Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
• Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed)

About the company

Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. It is a public benefit corporation focused on capturing renewable energy from oceans.