Manager - Human Resources (Pantnagar-Uttarakhand)

About the role

Contract labour management and compliance

• Manage contract labour operations, workforce deployment, contractor relationships, onboarding, documentation, and readiness.
• Partner with production and supply chain teams to ensure manpower availability for manufacturing plans.
• Ensure compliance with labour laws, contract labour regulations, and principal employer obligations.
• Drive compliance with contractor licences, PF, ESIC, wages, overtime, labour welfare, and associated documentation.
• Maintain master rolls, statutory records, compliance trackers, audit documentation, and contractor governance mechanisms.
• Manage contractor performance, reviews, corrective actions, training compliance, inspections, audits, and statutory assessments.

Factory HR partnering

• Support workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, and employee lifecycle processes for factory employees.
• Execute performance management, probation reviews, and people development processes.
• Drive employee engagement, welfare initiatives, and employee listening mechanisms; support apprenticeship programs and related compliance.
• Partner with factory leadership to address people-related challenges and improve workforce effectiveness.
• Maintain HR systems, workforce data, reporting, and people analytics to support decision-making.

Must-have experience and expertise

• Hands-on experience managing manpower contractors and vendor partners.
• Strong understanding of contractual workforce operations in manufacturing, industrial, warehouse, or FMCG environments.
• Demonstrated experience handling contractor onboarding, workforce administration, and deployment management.
• Strong practical knowledge of contract labour regulations, labour compliance, working-hour and overtime rules, contractor licensing, statutory registers, documentation, audit readiness, and governance.

Preferred profile

• 4–8 years of HR experience preferred.
• MBA/PGDM in Human Resources or a related discipline preferred.
• Factory HR, manufacturing HR, industrial relations, workforce administration, or contract labour management experience is preferred; FMCG manufacturing experience is particularly preferred.
• Ability to independently manage contractor relationships and workforce compliance matters.
• Experience supporting both blue-collar and white-collar employee populations.

Location

• The description lists Pantnagar, Uttarakhand as the role location.