The role strengthens the people-management capability of Operations by embedding HR partnership directly into the IC Design Engineering environment. The HR Business Partner (HRBP) ensures that operational leaders—whose focus is largely technical and project-driven—receive strategic and hands-on support in talent management, performance, engagement, and organizational development. The position exists to elevate leadership effectiveness, build a healthy talent pipeline, and ensure that people practices are consistently applied across engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Partnership

• Partner closely with Operations Managers to translate business goals, project demands, and engineering workforce realities into actionable HR and OD strategies.

• Provide data-driven insights on talent risks, workforce planning, and organizational health to support decision-making.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders on people issues, team dynamics, and organizational effectiveness.

Performance & Career Development

• Drive the full performance management cycle within Operations, ensuring quality goal-setting, coaching, mid-year reviews, and year-end evaluations.

• Coach managers on conducting effective 1:1s, feedback conversations, and performance improvement interventions.

• Facilitate career pathing discussions for IC design engineers, ensuring alignment with technical ladders, competencies, and growth expectations.

Talent Management & Succession

• Lead talent review processes for Operations, identifying high potentials, successors, and development gaps.

• Partner with leaders to create and monitor individual development plans (IDPs) and succession plans.

• Support readiness-building initiatives such as mentoring, stretch assignments, and technical capability development.

Learning & Development

• Assess skills gaps within engineering teams and recommend targeted training programs.

• Collaborate with L&D to design or source technical, leadership, and behavioral training aligned with business needs.

• Track and evaluate the effectiveness of development interventions.

Employee Engagement & Culture Building

• Monitor team morale, engagement drivers, and organizational climate within Operations.

• Partner with leaders to design and implement engagement initiatives tailored to engineering teams.

• Facilitate team effectiveness sessions, conflict resolution, and interventions that strengthen collaboration and psychological safety.

Employee Relations & Policy Compliance

• Provide guidance on employee relations issues, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant handling of concerns.

• Coach managers on proper documentation, corrective action, and conflict management.

• Ensure adherence to company policies, labor laws, and ethical standards.

Workforce Planning & Organizational Design

• Support Operations in forecasting manpower needs based on project pipelines, client demands, and technical requirements.

• Recommend organizational structure improvements to optimize workload distribution, role clarity, and team efficiency.

• Participate in hiring calibration, competency alignment, and onboarding for engineering roles.

HR Operations & Analytics

• Use HR metrics (attrition, performance distribution, engagement scores, talent movement) to identify trends and recommend interventions.

• Ensure timely completion of HR processes such as onboarding, probationary reviews, contract renewals, and regularization.

• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence (Compensation, L&D, Talent Acquisition) to deliver integrated HR solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Human Resources, Business, or related field; Masters degree or CHRP is a plus

• 10 + years of progressive HR business partnership experience, preferably in a technology, engineering, or project-based environment.

• Strong background in performance management, talent development, and organizational development.

• Proven ability to coach leaders and influence decision-making.

• Comfortable working with technical teams and fast-paced project environments.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.

• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into action.