Human Resources Manager

Southworth International Group, Inc. (SIGI) is seeking an experienced Human Resources Manager. This role is responsible for both the strategic and operational deployment of HR initiatives at our Falmouth, ME headquarters, partnering closely with site leaders and regional HR team members to support business outcomes. The HR Manager provides leadership across employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, and change management, while ensuring compliance with labor laws and company policies. This role proactively identifies people risks and opportunities, drives leadership capability, and fosters a high-performance culture aligned with organizational goals.

SIGI is the world’s largest manufacturer of ergonomic material handling equipment for vertical lifting and work positioning. Our products are designed to improve worker productivity while reducing the potential for worker injuries. Anywhere where workers are lifting and positioning items, handling pallets, working with parts in containers or transporting loads in a factory or warehouse, SIGI has a product to make the job faster, safer, and easier.

Reporting to the HR Director, the HR Manager drives both site-specific and enterprise HR initiatives, ensuring consistent and scalable process execution, in alignment with the broader SIGI HR portfolio. This role provides site leadership for payroll administration and accuracy, ensuring compliance with wage and hour regulations, and company policies. The HR Manager supports compensation analysis and partners closely with site leaders and the People Operations Sr. HR Generalist to ensure timely and accurate payroll processing, resolve payroll-related issues, and support audits and reporting requirements.

This role is responsible for translating SIGI’s enterprise talent and workforce strategies into effective site-level execution, while elevating site insights and workforce assessments. The HR Manager plays a critical role in shaping organizational culture, strengthening leadership capability, managing and developing talent, and driving strategic HR initiatives that support business growth and operational excellence.

This position requires an experienced HR expert who thinks critically and acts strategically while ensuring disciplined operational execution. The HR Manager leads corporate-focused people strategies aligned to business objectives, workforce capacity planning, succession planning, and payroll governance, in partnership with the AMS HR team, while contributing to AMS-wide HR strategies and continuous improvement initiatives.

This onsite position is based at SIGI headquarters in Falmouth, ME

Duties and ResponsibilitiesStrategic Business Partnership

• Serves as the onsite HR leader and trusted people strategy partnerfor the SIGI headquarters site, partnering with frontline and senior leadership