HR Manager

Donaldson is committed to solving the world’s most complex filtration challenges. We are a technology and innovation leader, continuously evolving to meet changing filtration needs worldwide. Join a culture of collaboration and innovation that matters. This role provides a pivotal HR leadership opportunity across three locations—Ostiglia, Porto Mantovano, Opera—serving as a strategic partner to the Plant Director and the global HR leadership team.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the Plant Director on all people-related topics.
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws and employment regulations, providing expert guidance to leaders and proactively managing employee relations to mitigate legal and people-related risks.
• Drive and implement HR policies, processes, and tools aligned with business goals.
• Lead, coach, and develop the local HR team, fostering continuous growth and high performance.
• Strengthen talent management and succession planning, introducing a proactive development mindset within leadership.
• Support organizational development, culture initiatives, and employer branding efforts.
• Collaborate with regional and global HR teams to implement programs across performance management, learning, and total rewards.
• Travel within Italy twice a month to Porto Mantovano, occasionally to Opera, and within Europe for training or leadership meetings.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Social Sciences, Law, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of generalist HR management experience, ideally in an international and manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience managing and developing a team.
• Strong knowledge of local employment law.
• Fluency in both Italian and English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively.
• Ability to translate business priorities into actionable people and talent strategies.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Performance-based bonus
• Meal vouchers
• Access to extensive training and development programs
• Opportunity to work within an international, collaborative environment

Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law.