Federal Signal Corporation

Corporate HR Manager

Federal Signal Corporation$100K — $125K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in HR, business administration, or related field required.
  • 5+ years of HR experience in a multi-site environment.
  • Strong expertise in talent development, people analytics, and compensation.
  • Exceptional communication skills essential for collaboration and influence.
  • Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

  • Support talent development initiatives like leadership programs and succession planning.
  • Identify capability gaps with business leaders and create development strategies.
  • Oversee performance management processes for accountability and growth.
  • Improve people analytics and HR reporting for data-driven decision-making.
  • Develop dashboards to track workforce trends and risks.
  • Design competitive compensation programs aligned with company objectives.
  • Build relationships with leaders to contribute to HR strategy.

Benefits

  • Annual bonus potential.
  • Comprehensive insurance options including life, medical, dental, and vision.
  • Paid holidays and paid vacation time.
  • 401(k) plan with matching contributions.
  • Tuition reimbursement for professional development.
Full Job Description
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Talent Development & Organizational Capability
  1. Support enterprise talent development initiatives, including leadership development, succession planning, and high-potential programs.
  2. Partner with business leaders to identify capability gaps and design targeted development strategies.
  3. Oversee performance management processes that drive accountability, growth, and alignment with organizational values.
  4. Support change management efforts for enterprise initiatives.

People Analytics & Workforce Insights
  1. Support the organization's people analytics and HR reporting capability, enabling data-driven decision-making at all levels.
  2. Develop dashboards and predictive analytics to identify workforce trends, risks, and opportunities.
  3. Provide strategic insights to leadership on organizational health, talent pipelines, turnover, and workforce planning.
  4. Ensure HR data integrity and ensure optimization of HR systems and tools.

Compensation Strategy & Governance
  1. Support the design, implementation, and governance of competitive compensation programs across all corporate and field locations that support the attraction and retention of talent and that are aligned with company objectives.
  2. Support processes and provide oversight of salary structures, market benchmarking, and annual compensation cycles and processes.
  3. Partner with Finance and Legal to ensure compliance with applicable compensation regulations, disclosure requirements and governance standards.
  4. Support processes for annual compensation cycles partnering with HR teams to ensure effective delivery during each stage of the cycle.
  5. Support the development of short- and long-term incentive plan design work in partnership with business and HR leaders.
  6. Support the development of compensation strategies and structures related to acquisitions.
  7. Partner with the Director of Health & Welfare on key total rewards strategies, projects and analysis.

Leadership & Collaboration
  1. Build strong relationships with cross-functional leaders across a multi-site enterprise.
  2. Serve as a trusted partner to the senior HR leadership team, contributing to long-term HR strategy and organizational planning.
  3. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence within HR.
  4. Perform other duties, assignments and special projects as assigned.

Position Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or related field required.
  • Recognized HR designation (e.g., SHRM-SCP, SPHR) preferred.
  • 5+ years of progressive corporate/generalist HR experience within a multi-site or multi-state enterprise environment.
  • Demonstrated expertise in talent development, people analytics and compensation.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
  • Proven experience supporting enterprise-level HR initiatives.
  • Exceptional communication skills.
  • Experience supporting or playing a leading role in managing complex, cross-functional projects.

Success Profile

The ideal candidate is:
  • A trusted HR professional with generalist experience who enjoys being a hands-on contributor on multiple HR projects and initiatives.
  • Highly collaborative, with the ability to influence without authority.
  • Comfortable navigating complexity in a fast-paced, multi-site environment.
  • Passionate about building and supporting scalable HR programs that elevate organizational performance.
  • A proactive leader who brings both rigor and creativity to HR strategy.

Target salary range: $100,000 - $125,000

Benefits of Employment

In addition to excellent career growth opportunities, Federal Signal Corporation offers a wide array of benefits including: annual bonus potential, insurance (life, medical, dental, vision), paid holidays, paid vacation, 401(k) with matching contributions and tuition reimbursement. We provide our employees with a smoke-free, drug-free workplace.

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About Federal Signal Corporation

Federal Signal Corporation is a global corporation with about 3200 employees located in Oak Brook, Illinois. Federal Signal designs, develops, and manufactures security systems, fire rescue products, street sweepers, and industrial vacuums. The company operates in two segments: Environmental Solutions Group and Safety and Security Systems Group. The Environmental Solutions Group segment manufactures and supplies a range of street sweepers, vacuum trucks, and other specialty vehicles. The Safety and Security Systems Group segment offers systems and products for campus and community alerting, emergency vehicles, first responder interoperable communications, and industrial communications.
Learn more about Federal Signal Corporation
Size
3,900 employees
Market Cap
$2.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$96.2 million
Founded
1901
5 Year Trend
+11.4%
Revenue
$1.1 billion
NASDAQ

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