This position is a temporary (contract) position with no specific time period but could be extended or shortened as needed. Contractors are employed by Segula Technologies and placed on assignment to Airbus in America.



In this role you will be a strategic HR Business Partner for the Business. Prepare and support the execution of business plans by translating the needs of the business into appropriate HR solutions, contributing actively to the optimization of the Business performance.

Meet the Team: Working in our Human Resources department, it’s our mission to help support Airbus’ greatest assets: our team members. Our team works cross-departmentally as well as with our global counterparts to ensure we are making a positive impact on all aspects of our employee experience.

Your Working Environment: The Airbus Aerosystems Kinston facility sits at the forefront of aerospace manufacturing, specializing in the production of large, advanced composite aerostructures. Our team builds critical components for the state-of-the-art Airbus A350 XWB, including the composite center fuselage and wing spar.

Your Challenges:

Act as a strategic business partner: 30%

• Anticipate and influence HR related needs by maintaining a comprehensive understanding of business objectives, strategies, challenges.
• Provide optimal balance of support and advocacy to business and employees.
• Identify potential risk areas/future issues and deescalates conflict whenever possible.
• Actively engages and suggests improvements to initiatives that help promote a positive corporate culture.
• Ensure full compliance with relevant legal matters protecting the interests of the business and employees.
• Explain HR policies, processes and push for standard solutions, while taking into consideration specific needs.
• Provide optimal balance of support and advocacy to business and employees.

Delivering high quality, customer-focused service: 25%

• Champion and demonstrate a high level of personal integrity and ethics.
• Lead meaningful career coaching, including following through with professional development goals
• Advise and support on internal mobility opportunities.
• Apply consequential management guidelines when appropriate.
• Actively engage and listen to employees, responding appropriately and in a timely manner projects, planning and programs.

Implementing Region Wide HR projects, programs and processes: 25%

• Understand, drive, promote and monitor the implementation of HR policies and related processes in line with the strategy.
• Simplify the complex process and procedures to reduce administrative actions.
• Promote, master and apply new information technology tools to HR work & share best practices within HR.
• Lead specialist process improvements and projects as identified.
• Facilitate training in order to effectively communicate new processes and procedures.
• Participates in cross functional and divisional initiatives within the HR community to ensure communications and collaboration on projects, planning and programs.

Change Management 15%

• Lead innovation and creative problem solving to champion change management initiatives.
• Anticipate potential resistances to change taking the work culture and business environment into consideration.
• Create connections between people to get feedback and generate buy in.

Other duties as assigned 5%