XL Construction · 6 hours ago
Human Resources Director
Milpitas, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$179K/yr - $224K/yrXL Construction is seeking a Human Resources Director who will provide strategic direction and operational oversight across core HR, Talent, and People Operations functions. This role focuses on aligning talent strategies with business objectives, enhancing employee engagement, and ensuring effective leadership development.
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Responsibilities
Partner with business leaders and the Talent Acquisition Director to define short- and long-term talent needs aligned to growth plans, backlog, and project pipelines
Translate business strategy into actionable workforce plans including succession depth, critical role coverage, and bench strength for leadership, technical, and project-critical roles
Anticipate talent risks and capacity constraints and proactively develop mitigation strategies to support operational readiness
Own and govern the succession planning framework for leadership and mission-critical roles
Facilitate annual and mid-year succession reviews with executive leadership, ensuring clear ready-now and ready-later pipelines
Identify high-potential talent and develop mitigation plans for single-incumbent and flight-risk roles to reduce continuity risk
Design and govern the performance management philosophy, cadence, and tools, including coaching frameworks such as XCelerate Coaching
Ensure performance processes drive accountability, development, and meaningful differentiation of talent
Coach leaders on performance conversations, calibration, corrective action, and employee relations matters, ensuring outcomes inform pay, promotion, and development decisions in a consistent and compliant manner
Define criteria and governance for high-potential and key talent identification
Monitor equity, consistency, and bias in talent decisions
Ensure development investments are focused on roles and talent segments that most directly impact business performance and future readiness
Partner closely with the Learning and Development Director to ensure leadership and technical programs align with identified capability gaps, operational readiness needs, and future skill requirements
Sponsor leadership development for frontline leaders, project executives, and senior leaders, ensuring learning is practical, applied, and measurable
Define and evolve career frameworks for leadership, technical, and professional tracks in partnership with the broader enterprise
Establish internal mobility processes that provide transparency around growth opportunities, readiness expectations, and decision-making criteria, strengthening retention and engagement
Lead division- and business unit-level talent review and calibration cycles to ensure consistency, fairness, and clear outcomes
Translate talent data into actionable decisions including role moves, development actions, and risk mitigation plans
Own key talent metrics such as bench strength, high-potential retention, performance distribution, and engagement metrics, using insights to challenge leaders and connect talent outcomes to business performance
Hold leaders accountable for developing their people, making timely and effective talent decisions, and addressing underperformance
Act as a thought partner and coach to senior leaders, shifting talent discussions from compliance and process to enterprise impact, risk management, and long-term value creation
Provide strategic oversight of People Operations to ensure consistent, scalable, and employee-centered processes across the organization, including employee lifecycle operations, HR service delivery, HR systems and data governance, compliance and risk management, and policy and SOP development
This role is expected to model and reinforce XL Industries’ core competencies, including We Not Me through enterprise-first decision making and collaboration, Go Beyond by anticipating talent risks and driving continuous improvement, and Be True by leading with integrity, transparency, and consistency in all people decisions
Qualification
Required
Strategic direction and operational oversight across core HR, Talent, and People Operations functions
Ability to partner with business leaders to define short- and long-term talent needs
Experience in translating business strategy into actionable workforce plans
Governance of the succession planning framework for leadership and mission-critical roles
Facilitation of annual and mid-year succession reviews with executive leadership
Identification of high-potential talent and development of mitigation plans for continuity risk
Design and governance of performance management philosophy, cadence, and tools
Coaching leaders on performance conversations, calibration, corrective action, and employee relations matters
Definition of criteria and governance for high-potential and key talent identification
Monitoring equity, consistency, and bias in talent decisions
Partnership with Learning and Development Director to align programs with capability gaps
Sponsorship of leadership development for frontline leaders, project executives, and senior leaders
Definition and evolution of career frameworks for leadership, technical, and professional tracks
Establishment of internal mobility processes for transparency around growth opportunities
Leadership of division- and business unit-level talent review and calibration cycles
Translation of talent data into actionable decisions
Ownership of key talent metrics such as bench strength and engagement metrics
Accountability of leaders for developing their people and making effective talent decisions
Strategic oversight of People Operations for consistent and employee-centered processes
Modeling and reinforcing XL Industries' core competencies
Company
XL Construction
XL Construction is a construction firm that uses Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Lean processes in construction project work.
Founded in 1992
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2025-03-04Acquired
Leadership Team
T
Tom Humbert
Chief Financial Officer / Chief Administrative Officer
John Boneso
Chief Operating Officer
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