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Act as a strategic HR partner for Manufacturing operations in Pindamonhangaba, providing strong support to production, maintenance, logistics, quality, and EHS teams. This role requires deep experience in industrial environments, hands-on presence in the shopfloor, and solid knowledge of Brazilian labor legislation. The HRBP ensures consistent HR processes, employee experience, compliance, and development initiatives that enable operational excellence.Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Manufacturing-Focused Responsibilities
• Serve as HR partner for production and operational areas, ensuring full understanding of manufacturing dynamics, shift routines, workforce needs, and operational challenges.
• Lead HR processes for plant workforce: employee relations, disciplinary actions, absenteeism, turnover, workforce stability, and engagement.
• Guide supervisors and coordinators in people management practices, labor compliance, conflict management, and team development.
• Conduct recruitment and onboarding for operational and administrative roles, ensuring fast turnaround and alignment with manufacturing requirements.
• Ensure strict compliance with Brazilian labor law (CLT), collective agreements, working hours, overtime, shift work, leave management, and safety obligations.
• Partner with EHS to support accident investigations, preventive actions, safety culture and regulatory compliance.
• Monitor HR manufacturing KPIs: turnover, absenteeism, occupational health indicators, training compliance, disciplinary trends, and headcount.
• Support and implement performance cycles, calibration, development and succession planning across manufacturing teams.
• Maintain accurate control of working hours, timesheets, overtime, vacation planning, and workforce cost impacts.
• Actively participate in continuous improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives, contributing from the HR perspective.
• Execute training and development programs for operators, supervisors, and technical staff.
• Support labor audits, internal audits, and corporate compliance requirements.
• Work closely with leaders to maintain a stable, safe, and high‑performance environment aligned with Neogen’s values.
General Organizational Responsibilities
Quality Management System (QMS)
• Maintain updated HR documentation required under QMS.
• Act on findings, indicators, and non-conformities within defined timelines.
• Support continuous improvement, organization, hygiene, and discipline in the plant environment (5S standards).
Skills and Competencies
Manufacturing & Labor Law Expertise
• Strong knowledge of industrial operations, shopfloor dynamics, production processes, and workforce management.
• Solid understanding of CLT, labor jurisprudence, CCT/union rules, shift structures, overtime regulations, and compliance routines in Brazil.
Consultative Leadership
• Build trusted relationships with plant leaders, offering guidance and data-driven insights.
• Facilitate communication between HR, supervisors, and employees.
Data-Driven Decision Making
• Use people analytics to identify trends and propose effective actions.
Change Management
• Support organizational transitions while maintaining operational stability.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Psychology, Law, Engineering, or Human Resources.
• Minimum 3 years of HR experience in a manufacturing or industrial plant environment.
• Strong knowledge of Brazilian labor law (CLT) and collective bargaining rules.
• Advanced English proficiency.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Excellent communication skills.
Desirable
• Experience with lean manufacturing / 5S / TPM.
• Intermediate Spanish.
Work Environment
Neogen offers an ethical, inclusive, and collaborative work environment guided by the pillars of Trust, Openness, Honesty, Credibility, Respect, and Service. At Pindamonhangaba, this translates into disciplined operations, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
From inside the farm gate to our dinner plates, Neogen protects the world’s food supply. Through a variety of animal healthcare products, to food safety solutions for dangerous bacteria, allergens, toxins, drug residues and much more, Neogen is there — and you can be too.
Top Skills
What We Do
NEOGEN Corporation develops and markets products dedicated to food and animal safety. The company’s Food Safety Division markets dehydrated culture media and diagnostic test kits to detect foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, genetic modifications, food allergens, drug residues, plant diseases and sanitation concerns. NEOGEN’s Animal Safety Division markets a complete line of diagnostics, veterinary instruments, veterinary pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplements, disinfectants and rodenticides.
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