Role Purpose To serve as the strategic HR partner for Skyroot Aerospace’s plant operations, driving workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, employee relations, workforce productivity, talent development, and a high-performance culture.

The role requires a strong blend of strategic HR business partnering and hands-on plant HR management, including extensive experience managing blue-collar workforces, frontline supervisors, technicians, and manufacturing employees. The incumbent will partner closely with manufacturing leadership to build a scalable, disciplined, safe, and performance-driven workforce aligned with the company’s aerospace manufacturing and production goals.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic HR Business Partnering

- Partner with manufacturing, production, quality, supply chain, and operations leaders to align people strategies with business objectives.
- Translate manufacturing plans, production schedules, and capacity requirements into workforce and people plans.
- Advise business leaders on organization structure, manpower deployment, spans of control, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness.
- Drive change management, workforce transformation, and HR initiatives to support business growth and operational excellence.
- Use people analytics and workforce metrics to identify risks, improve productivity, and support data-driven decision-making.

2. Plant HR & Blue-Collar Workforce Management

- Own end-to-end HR management for plant operations, covering technicians, operators, contract workers, supervisors, and other frontline employees.
- Drive manpower planning, shift-wise deployment, attendance, overtime management, absenteeism control, and workforce utilization.
- Partner with production leaders to ensure adequate staffing against production targets, operational priorities, and changing capacity requirements.
- Establish effective shop-floor communication mechanisms, employee connect initiatives, grievance redressal systems, and workforce engagement practices.
- Build strong relationships with frontline employees and supervisors to foster discipline, accountability, collaboration, and operational continuity.

3. Employee Relations & Industrial Relations

- Manage employee relations, disciplinary matters, grievance resolution, workplace conflicts, and investigations with fairness and consistency.
- Handle industrial relations, labour law compliance, statutory requirements, inspections, and liaison with relevant authorities, as applicable.
- Oversee contract labour management in partnership with Administration, Procurement, and relevant business teams.
- Ensure compliance with applicable employment legislation, wage and working-hour requirements, social security provisions, and workplace policies.




- Identify emerging employee relations risks and proactively implement measures to maintain a stable and productive workplace.

4. Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning

- Partner with Talent Acquisition to develop hiring plans for technicians, operators, supervisors, and manufacturing leadership roles.
- Forecast workforce demand based on production capacity, project milestones, shift requirements, and future expansion.
- Drive timely hiring, onboarding, deployment, and integration of manufacturing employees.
- Develop workforce sourcing strategies, including ITIs, diploma institutions, apprenticeships, and other relevant talent pipelines.
- Monitor hiring effectiveness, time-to-fill, workforce availability, attrition, and hiring costs.

5. Performance Management & Productivity

- Drive performance management for manufacturing teams, ensuring clear goals, measurable KPIs, periodic reviews, and accountability.
- Partner with functional leaders to establish performance measures relating to productivity, quality, attendance, safety, and operational efficiency.
- Identify performance gaps and implement improvement plans in collaboration with managers and supervisors.
- Support incentive and recognition programs aligned with productivity, quality, safety, and business outcomes.
- Monitor overtime, absenteeism, attrition, and manpower cost trends and recommend corrective actions.

6. Learning, Capability Development & Succession Planning

- Identify capability gaps across technicians, operators, supervisors, and manufacturing managers.
- Partner with technical and functional teams to develop training plans covering technical skills, quality standards, safety, process discipline, and leadership capabilities.
- Strengthen frontline leadership through supervisor development, people-management training, and coaching.
- Drive cross-skilling, multi-skilling, internal mobility, and career progression for shop-floor employees.
- Develop succession plans for critical plant positions and build a sustainable pipeline of skilled talent.

7. Employee Engagement, Culture & Retention

- Drive employee engagement, workforce communication, recognition, and retention initiatives across manufacturing operations.
- Conduct employee connect sessions, pulse surveys, focus groups, and exit interviews to understand workforce concerns.
- Develop targeted retention strategies for critical skills and hard-to-replace manufacturing talent.
- Foster a culture of ownership, teamwork, continuous improvement, inclusion, and accountability.




- Partner with leaders to strengthen employee morale during periods of growth, change, and increased production demand.

8. Compensation, Benefits & HR Operations

- Partner with Compensation & Benefits teams on salary structures, wage revisions, incentives, benefits, and internal pay equity.
- Ensure accurate and timely management of HR processes related to attendance, leave, payroll inputs, employee records, and workforce reporting.
- Support workforce budgeting, manpower cost forecasting, and periodic cost optimization initiatives.
- Ensure effective administration of employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, transfers, promotions, disciplinary actions, and separations.
- Maintain accurate HR data, documentation, policies, and audit-ready records.

9. Safety, Compliance & Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner with EHS, Quality, Security, Administration, and Operations teams to strengthen workplace safety, discipline, and compliance.
- Promote a safety-conscious culture and ensure HR processes support mandatory training, appropriate conduct, and adherence to site requirements.
- Support workforce readiness for audits, operational reviews, and applicable statutory inspections.
- Participate in cross-functional initiatives to improve shop-floor effectiveness, employee experience, and operational reliability.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Industrial Relations, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of progressive HR experience, with substantial experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Mandatory hands-on experience managing plant HR and blue-collar workforces, including technicians, operators, contract workers, and frontline supervisors.
- Strong working knowledge of labour laws, industrial relations, statutory compliance, and contract labour management.
- Experience in workforce planning, performance management, employee engagement, talent acquisition, and HR operations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with plant leadership and translate operational priorities into effective HR solutions.
- Experience in aerospace, automotive, precision engineering, electronics, heavy engineering, or other complex manufacturing environments will be an advantage.

Key Competencies

- Strong business acumen and strategic HR partnering.
- Hands-on plant HR and blue-collar workforce management.
- Employee relations, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management.
- Analytical thinking and data-driven decision-making.
- Workforce productivity and cost optimization.
- Change management and organizational effectiveness.
- Strong communication, influencing, and leadership skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a rapid-paced, high-growth manufacturing environment.

📌 Lead - HR Business Partner - Plant (Hyderabad)
🏢 Skyroot Aerospace Private
📍 Hyderabad