Ascendperformancematerials

Ascendperformancematerials

Sr. Human Resources Manager

Alvin, TX · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 31 days ago
Supply ChainProcess ImprovementRecruitingHRPerformance ManagementEmployee RelationsCustomer SuccessMedical DevicesLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingMentoring

About the role

  • Strengthen leadership capability, accountability, and execution discipline across frontline and mid-level leadership teams through effective coaching, performance management, and partnership with site leadership.
  • Improve employee engagement, organizational communication, and workforce effectiveness through leadership visibility, employee feedback mechanisms, and targeted action planning.

Responsibilities

  • Drive workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, and leadership effectiveness initiatives.
  • Maintain strong visibility across the site to build credibility and strengthen employee and leadership engagement.
  • Lead workforce stabilization strategies, including retention planning, labor market actions, staffing strategies, and critical role recruiting.
  • Lead performance and talent management processes that reinforce accountability, measurable outcomes, leadership effectiveness, and continuous feedback.
  • Partner with leaders to build high-performing teams and strengthen leadership pipelines and organizational capability.
  • Support employee development and career growth initiatives aligned with operational and business needs.
  • Lead HR support for organizational transformation, restructuring, and workforce change initiatives.

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years of progressive HR leadership experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, or chemical operations.
  • Proven ability to influence and coach senior leaders in a matrixed environment.
  • Experience supporting workforce transformations, restructuring efforts, or significant business change.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, organizational development, or related field
  • master's degree preferred.
  • Professional HR certification (PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP) and Lean/Six Sigma experience preferred.

Skills

  • Strong business and operational acumen with the ability to align people strategies to organizational priorities.
  • Strong leadership, coaching, and employee relations capabilities, including conflict resolution and performance management.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
  • Ability to effectively navigate ambiguity, organizational change, and competing priorities in a dynamic environment.

Company info

  • Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high quality chemicals, fibers and plastics. With world scale integrated manufacturing facilities we are able to develop new products from our core technologies, and provide flexibility to respond to the expanding needs of customers. Ascend has global sales and distribution facilities across the globe and six manufacturing facilities globally. As a privately-held company, our people do big things and make big decisions, often much earlier in their careers than at larger companies. Ascend Performance Materials offers team members the opportunity to contribute in big, meaningful ways-all within a stable and growing business.
  • Why work at Ascend?
  • Our vision is to be the recognized leader in the nylon 6,6 value chain, creating new possibilities with PA66 for everyone, everywhere, every day. We achieve that through living our Ascend values.
  • We care. We operate safely with high integrity for our employees, our customers and our communities. Our people are our greatest assets, and our Total Rewards Program extends beyond traditional benefits to include access to on-site medical clinics at our U.S. facilities, a global wellness rewards program and Performance Matters, an employee-driven recognition plan. Our Commitment to Zero demonstrates our belief that is it possible to operate with zero personal injuries, zero process safety incidents and zero environmental releases. And the Ascend Cares Foundation, led by Ascend employees, supports Ascend families in times of need, provides inspiring opportunities ​​for community engagement and facilitates community leadership.
  • We exist for our customers; they drive our actions.
  • Their success is our success.
  • Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high quality chemicals, fibers and plastics.
  • With world scale integrated manufacturing facilities we are able to develop new products from our core technologies, and provide flexibility to respond to the expanding needs of customers.
  • Ascend has global sales and distribution facilities across the globe and six manufacturing facilities globally.
  • As a privately-held company, our people do big things and make big decisions, often much earlier in their careers than at larger companies.
  • Ascend Performance Materials offers team members the opportunity to contribute in big, meaningful ways-all within a stable and growing business.
  • Our vision is to be the recognized leader in the nylon 6,6 value chain, creating new possibilities with PA66 for everyone, everywhere, every day.
  • We achieve that through living our Ascend values.
  • We operate safely with high integrity for our employees, our customers and our communities.
  • Our people are our greatest assets, and our Total Rewards Program extends beyond traditional benefits to include access to on-site medical clinics at our U.S. facilities, a global wellness rewards program and Performance Matters, an employee-driven recognition plan.
  • Our Commitment to Zero demonstrates our belief that is it possible to operate with zero personal injuries, zero process safety incidents and zero environmental releases.
  • And the Ascend Cares Foundation, led by Ascend employees, supports Ascend families in times of need, provides inspiring opportunities ​​for community engagement and facilitates community leadership.
  • Customer-focused.
  • Our plastics and chemicals are building blocks that help make everyday essentials safer and more sustainable, and we constantly strive to develop new and innovative products to meet the future needs of our customers.
  • And that customer focus doesn't only apply to the marketplace - it also applies to how we treat our colleagues and our fellow community members.
  • Better every day.
  • We invest in our people and our processes to improve every day.
  • A2E, our continuous improvement program, guides the way we do business.
  • And this way of problem solving applies not only to our manufacturing practices but also to our commitment to developing our people.
  • You'll see it during your career at Ascend in our leadership development, skills training and mentoring programs
  • We think broadly and lead proactively in a constantly evolving organization and industry.
  • Agility doesn't mean simply working quickly - it means critical thinking, creative problem solving and novel approaches to everyday challenges.
  • All together, with a common set of goals and an eye toward the future.
  • We don't accept silos.
  • We look for ways to share across departments, sites and geography.

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