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Senior HR Business Partner

Today Oradea, Romania

Unlock Your Potential at Eaton: Where Diversity Drives Innovation. No matter where you come from, your aspirations matter to us. We believe in the power of different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to ignite innovation and drive success. We're in the business of empowering people, and that includes you. Your journey here is not just about a job; it's about a shared vision for a brighter, more sustainable future.

Eaton's footprint in Romania is well-placed to help our customers across a wide range of power-intensive industries navigate the transition to a zero-carbon future.
We are undergoing the most significant transformation in our 110-year history and our site in Sârbi, Romania makes no exception! The Eaton Sârbi plant was recognized as a Model Plant for four years in a row.

For our Power Management Control Components production site in Sârbi, we are looking for a Senior HR Business Partner.

As an integral part of the site leadership team, in this role you will identify, develop and deploy business-driven HR strategies designed to attract, manage, develop, motivate and retain key people while creating a high-performance, sustainable organization capable of achieving the business objectives and action plans.

Location: Sârbi, Maramureș county, Romania

Hybrid working solutions are available

Responsibilities:

  • Culture and Organization Effectiveness: Understand the business strategy and identify opportunities to improve organizational capability and drive culture change to align the organization with the strategy. Must have the ability to diagnose gaps between current and desired organization performance and deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organization redesign, process change, coaching and training. Ensure organization practices align with Eaton Strategy.
  • Performance Management: Through the performance management system, ensure that annual employee job performance assessments are conducted. This includes the annual goal-setting process, the annual assessment process, and periodic feedback sessions that strive to raise the performance bar in the organization. Provide coaching and consulting to business leadership on effective performance management interventions.
  • Employee Communication: Advocate employee communications processes that inform employees and ensure two-way communication between employees and leadership.
  • Coaching, Consulting and Facilitating: Provide guidance and direction to business leadership on human resource management policies, processes, and systems.
  • Training and Development: Manage these processes to facilitate employee development.
  • Legal Compliance: Ensure that the business has in place processes that comply with country legal requirements in the areas of employment and employment administration.
  • Compensation: Administer compensation programs to ensure competitive pay practices through systems that strive to reward superior employee performance.
  • Employee & Labor Relations: Promote positive employee relations and employee engagement.
  • Talent Management and Retention: Develop talent acquisition plans that anticipate short- and long-term business needs. Coach others on how to engage and retain key talent, identify when there is a retention risk, and differentiate between wanted and unwanted turnover.
  • Support best practice sharing and internal and external benchmarking.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.
  • At least 7 years of professional experience in a similar role.
  • Strategic agility and capability to partner with the business. Capable of working in matrix organizations.
  • Proven experience in developing and implementing HR strategies in a manufacturing environment.
  • Involvement in HR strategy, leadership quality, and workforce planning and implementation to improve organizational effectiveness.
  • Strong change management skills and practical experience in managing change initiatives.
  • Strong facilitation and analytical skills.
  • Fluent level of English language.

What we offer:

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
  • Flexible working solutions (remote, flexible working hours, compressed week, part time etc.)
  • We make your aspirations matter - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
  • We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
  • We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies.
  • We make your wellbeing matter - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen

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Client-provided location(s): Oradea, Romania
Job ID: Eaton-50486Sarbi
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-09-10T18:38:38

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • On-Site Gym
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Adoption Assistance Program
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Summer Fridays
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Internship Program
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)