Director, Human Resources - Houston - The Friedkin Group

Description

Living Our Values
All associates are guided by Our Values. Our Values are the unifying foundation of our companies. We strive to ensure that every decision we make and every action we take demonstrates Our Values. We believe that putting Our Values into practice creates lasting benefits for all of our associates, shareholders, and the communities in which we live.
Why Join Us?

• Career Growth: Advance your career with opportunities for leadership and personal development.
• Culture of Excellence: Be part of a supportive team that values your input and encourages innovation.
• Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that looks after both your professional and personal needs.

Total Rewards
Our Total Rewards package underscores our commitment to recognizing your contributions. We offer a competitive and fair compensation structure that includes base pay and performance-based rewards. Compensation is based on skill set, experience, qualifications, and job-related requirements. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, wellness programs, retirement plans, and generous paid leave. Discover more about what we offer by visiting ourBenefitspage.
A Day In The Life
The Director of Human Resources partners closely with GST executive leadership to align talent strategies with business goals while fostering a people-centered, collaborative, and high-trust culture. This role serves as a dynamic and approachable strategic advisor, providing hands-on HR consultation, coaching, and employee relations support across corporate and field teams. The Director leads with empathy and adaptability, driving organizational effectiveness through strong communication, collaboration, and continuous improvement across talent acquisition, associate development, performance management, engagement, rewards, and change initiatives. In partnership with Shared Services, this role ensures responsive, supportive HR service delivery while championing an inclusive environment that empowers leaders.
As a Dir., Human Resources you will:

• Partner with Executive leadership to develop and execute an HR strategy aligned with GST's business objectives.
• Provide strategic guidance to support organizational growth and align workforce with company vision
• Lead and develop the GST-HR team, fostering a high-performance, results-driven culture.
• Direct the delivery of HR services, including talent acquisition, associate relations, training, performance management, and development planning.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and leadership effectiveness.
• Develop and implement communication strategies to drive associate engagement and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Monitor and align HR performance metrics with team and business unit goals, drive improvements in execution and service delivery.
• Coach leaders at all levels on talent development, people decisions, performance management, and team effectiveness.
• Guide managers on employee relations issues, internal investigations, adverse actions, and legal proceedings (e.g., EEOC, DOL).
• Lead the evolution of performance management, goal alignment, and feedback systems to drive clarity, accountability, and results.
• Promote cross-functional communication, collaboration, and teamwork across the organization.
• Drive employee engagement, retention, and change management initiatives during periods of growth and organizational change.
• Partner closely with Legal and Compliance to ensure HR practices align with employment law, regulatory requirements, and risk management standards
• Supervise and manage HR staff, including hiring, training, performance evaluation, and employee relations in compliance with company policies and applicable laws.

What We Need From You

• Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university, required.
• Master's Degree preferred.
• 10+ years practical human resources or related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
• 7-9 years leadership experience in a Human Resources, required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.
• Ability to maximize partnerships by successfully leveraging other departments as necessary.
• Demonstrates drive for results, strong business acumen and customer focus.
• Excellent critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of budget control methods, policies, and procedures.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Ability to develop and implement human resources programs, policies and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of federal and state leave related regulations including FMLA, ADA (including the interactive process), PDA and wage and hour compliance.
• Knowledge at advanced level of Federal/State/Local regulations affecting employment and human capital management.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and influence at all levels.
• Provides direct coaching and consultation to key business partners and overall employee population to build and develop greater organizational capability.
• Familiarity with change management methodologies and experience driving effective change management and implementation plans including communications plans.
• Must have strong knowledge of HR practices including performance management, total Compensation, benefits management, employee relations, recruiting, change management, problem resolution, training and organizational development.
• PHR or SHRM-CP Upon Hire, preferred.
• SPHR or SHRM-SCP Upon Hire, preferred.

Physical Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly and repeatedly required to talk; hear; stand; walk; stoop; kneel/squat, climb, use hands and fingers, to handle, grip/squeeze and/or feel; push/pull and reach with hands and arms. The associate will be frequently required to balance; crouch, or crawl; reach over-head and taste or smell. The associate must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, night vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Travel Requirements

• 20% Minimal travel is required for this position (up to 20% of the time and on a domestic basis)

Join Us
The Friedkin Group and its affiliates are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates.
We are seeking candidates legally authorized to work in the United States, without Sponsorship.

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