Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Partnership: Rapidly build trust and credibility with business leaders, becoming a go-to advisor on people strategy. Understand business priorities and translate them into scalable, sustainable HR solutions.
- Program Leadership: Independently lead and execute end-to-end HR initiatives (e.g., talent management, organizational design, change management) with agility and accountability.
- Customer-Centric Execution: Act with urgency and empathy to deliver HR services that meet the evolving needs of employees and leaders. Ensure timely closure and resolution of key HR matters.
- Data-Driven Insights: Leverage analytics and workforce data to generate actionable insights, challenge assumptions, and guide strategic decisions.
- Influence & Challenge: Confidently challenge the status quo and influence senior stakeholders to adopt progressive people practices that drive performance and engagement.
- Scalability & Sustainability: Design and implement HR solutions that are not only effective today but scalable for future growth, keeping long-term business context in mind.
- Continuous Learning & Adaptability: Quickly scale up in new environments, stay ahead of HR trends, and adapt strategies to meet changing business needs.
- Operation Excellence: Partner with HR COE's in support of HR programs, projects and activities. Manage benefits & compensation, company policies and practices are in compliance with local laws.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in related fields with a minimum of 8 years of experience as an HR Generalist/Business Partner, or an equivalent mix of education and experience
- Strong communication skills with the ability to persuade stakeholders, peers and management
- Demonstrated business acumen and analytical skills
- Solid HR Generalist skills
- Knowledge of HRIS systems, Workday preferred
- Good command of English both speaking and writing
Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to various export control regulations. Applicants for these positions may be limited (by, for example, their countries of citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status) where required by law or governmental contact, and/or employment made contingent upon the issuance of appropriate governmental licensing.
MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.
MKS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact us at: [email protected] .
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent education and experience
- At least 8 years of experience as an HR Generalist or HR Business Partner
- Strong communication and stakeholder persuasion skills
- Business acumen and analytical skills
- Solid HR generalist knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of HRIS systems
- Workday experience
- Good command of spoken and written English
MKS Instruments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about MKS Instruments and has not been reviewed or approved by MKS Instruments.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits coverage is often characterized as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision along with company-paid life and disability coverage. Wellness support is also present via programs such as diabetes management.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer match, a Roth option, and an employee stock purchase plan that supports longer-term saving and ownership. Profit-sharing is also described as available after meeting eligibility/vesting timelines.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Variable pay elements such as bonuses and performance-tied incentives are positioned as a consistent component of total rewards. Total compensation is frequently framed as including base pay plus bonus and, for some roles, equity-related components.
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What We Do
MKS Instruments enables technologies that transform our world. We deliver foundational technology solutions to leading edge semiconductor manufacturing, electronics and packaging, and specialty industrial applications. We apply our broad science and engineering capabilities to create instruments, subsystems, systems, process control solutions and specialty chemicals technology that improve process performance, optimize productivity and enable unique innovations for many of the world’s leading technology and industrial companies. Our solutions are critical to addressing the challenges of miniaturization and complexity in advanced device manufacturing by enabling increased power, speed, feature enhancement, and optimized connectivity. Our solutions are also critical to addressing ever-increasing performance requirements across a wide array of specialty industrial applications. Additional information can be found at www.mks.com








