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Overview

Element is seeking a **Senior HR Business Partner** to support our Aerospace & Energy Americas Business Unit. As a trusted advisor to senior leaders in the Material Testing West Division, you will drive the people agenda aligned to business priorities, partnering across Talent Acquisition, Reward, and Talent Management to deliver scalable HR solutions.

This role blends hands-on execution with strategic leaderships, shaping decisions that impact performance, customer delivery, and workforce capability. You will help build a culture of trust, accountability, and internal mobility to ensure the organization is positioned for sustained success.

The role to be based in Huntington Beach, CA location.

Salary: $135,000- $160,000 (plus bonus)

Responsibilities

+ Act as a strategic business partner to the VP, General Managers and their management team, to shape talent strategies that drive business performance and engagement

+ Design and lead progressive programs that strengthen leadership capability, talent development, succession, and performance differentiation

+ Coach leaders to develop, retain, and progress top talent while addressing underperformance with accountability

+ Lead workforce planning, organizational design and act as a change agent—planning and deploying effective change management, communication, and training strategies to support business transformation

+ Leverage people analytics and workforce data to identify risks and opportunities, inform leadership decisions, and translate insights into targeted, measurable actions

+ Apply labor law expertise and sound judgment to resolve complex employee relations matters, partnering with leaders and legal counsel to balance compliance, risk, and employee experience

+ Partner with leaders to embed DE&I and engagement strategies into the business, fostering a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing culture

+ Collaborate across HR functions to deliver integrated, scalable people solutions, continuously improving processes and programs to support growth and operational excellence

Skills / Qualifications

+ 5+ years of progressive experience as an HR Business Partner, partnering with senior leaders in complex, multi-site environments

+ Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Business or a related field

+ Proven ability to design and execute people and workforce strategies aligned to business priorities and organizational growth.

+ Strong communicator with executive presence, able to influence and engage effectively at all levels of the organization

+ Highly organized, analytical, and solutions-oriented, with the agility to prioritize, problem-solve, and deliver results in a fast-paced, evolving environment

+ Data and systems proficiency, including advanced use of HR systems, Excel, and Microsoft Office.

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Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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**Job Locations** _US-CA-Huntington Beach | US-CA-Rancho Dominguez | US-CA-Duarte_

**ID** _2026-18195_