Human Resources Manager (Manufacturing)
Bright Machines
People & HR
Kentucky, USA
Posted on Dec 20, 2025
RETHINK MANUFACTURING
The only way to ignite change is to build the best team. At Bright Machines®, we’re innovators and experts in our craft who have joined together to create a new category of manufacturing that will help transform the industry. We believe software and data are the answer, thoughtfully applied to solve our customers’ unique challenges. Through intelligent automation, we give factories newfound flexibility, scalability, and resilience. We deliver products to meet the demands of today while building a platform to take advantage of what comes next.
Working with us means you’ll have the opportunity to make lasting, impactful changes for our company and our customers. If you’re ready to apply your exceptional skills to create the factory of the future, we’d love to speak with you.
ABOUT US
Bright Machines is on a mission to transform how electronics are made—bringing intelligence, scalability, and flexibility to the factory floor. We combine the best of automation, machine learning, and software to modernize manufacturing from the ground up. We are looking for an Industrial Engineer to join our team.
We’re looking for an experienced and hands-on HR Manager to support our new manufacturing operations in the CVG area, embedded on-site with our customer. This is a unique opportunity to build and shape the HR function locally from the ground up, creating the foundation for a strong, compliant, and engaging workplace. You’ll be the primary HR point of contact for all employees and managers at the site, responsible for ensuring that our people practices support a high-performance culture and align with Bright Machines’ values.
If you thrive in a dynamic setting, are equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves as you are advising leaders and enjoy being part of a company that’s redefining manufacturing with technology and automation, we’d love to meet you.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
- Serve as the on-site HR lead for the manufacturing operations, supporting all employees, contractors and managers locally.
- Develop and implement HR policies and procedures aligned with company standards and local labor law. Lead the onboarding, and training of new hires as the site scales.
- Work with the recruitment team and local staffing firms to ensure hiring at a timely manner to meet company goals
- Support employee relations, ensuring fair, consistent, and timely resolution of workplace issues, overseeing performance management, discipline and terminations. Manage HR administration including employment contracts, I9’s, documentation, benefits enrollment, and attendance records.
- Partner with managers to coach and develop teams, providing guidance on performance, feedback, and engagement. Coaching and counseling management on policies and procedures. Design and deploy a performance and appraisal process suitable for a manufacturing environment. Support compliance and audit readiness, including safety, OSHA requirements, labor law, and internal policies.
- Be the local advocate of the Bright Machines culture and values, driving engagement and communication initiatives on site.
- Collaborate with the global HR teams to ensure alignment across locations.
WHAT WE WANT TO SEE
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 6 – 10 years of progressive HR experience in a manufacturing or production environment, including employee relations and HR operations.
- Strong understanding of local labor law, regulations, and HR best practices.
- Experience establishing or supporting new site or plant operations preferred.
- Experience with designing and executing training and appraisal programs
- Proven ability to balance strategic partnership with hands-on execution.
- Proven ability to build effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a collaborative and pragmatic approach. Comfortable working autonomously, making sound judgments, and handling confidential information.
- Proficiency with HR systems and tools
- Fluent in English (both written and spoken).
- Can do attitude
IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU HAD
- Previous experience creating and maintaining and HR global budget
- Experience with stock administration process
BE EMPOWERED TO CHANGE AN INDUSTRY
Bright Machines is a next-generation, AI-enabled manufacturer focused on data center infrastructure assembly operations. Bright Machines uses its proprietary AI-based robotics and software to assemble AI infrastructure hardware products (i.e., data center servers) for hyperscalers and leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). With its new AI factory, Bright Machines addresses increasing market demands for computing power due to the surge of AI and the U.S. national mandate to reshore manufacturing by building data center infrastructure at scale with higher quality and shorter time-to-market.
Bright Machines is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an integration center in Guadalajara, Mexico. The company has been recognized as one of Forbes’ AI 50, awarded “Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing” by AI Breakthrough, named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and highlighted by several other leading technology and innovation organizations.