Regional HR Business Partner

Description

As Tencarva continues to grow through acquisitions and expansion, strong leadership and effective people practices are increasingly important to the business. The Regional HR Business Partner will serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across a multi-state region, helping them navigate complex employee matters, strengthen leadership capabilities, and address workforce and organizational challenges while supporting the company's continued growth.

This is a highly visible, field-facing role within a geographically dispersed sales and service organization. Working closely with the HRBP Manager, you'll partner directly with business leaders across the region to provide practical HR guidance, support organizational change, and strengthen people practices while respecting the autonomy and entrepreneurial culture that have contributed to Tencarva's success. The role supports locations throughout the Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia, and surrounding areas, with regular travel to branch locations.

Key Priorities

• Serve as a Trusted Advisor to the Business: Build credibility and strong working relationships with business leaders and employees across a geographically dispersed organization. Understand the operational realities facing Tencarva's sales, service, and technical teams, and provide practical guidance that balances employee needs, business objectives, and sound judgment. Become a trusted partner who helps leaders navigate challenges, make informed decisions, and strengthen business performance.
• Support Change & Operational Adoption: Partner with HR and business leaders to implement people-related improvements across the organization. Help leaders understand, communicate, and adopt new processes, tools, and expectations while providing feedback on what works in the field. Support greater consistency and effectiveness without creating unnecessary complexity or disrupting established operating practices.
• Help the Business Scale Through Growth & Integration: Partner with business leaders on acquisitions and integration activities, helping address employee concerns, leadership transitions, retention risks, and workforce challenges. Work with the broader HR team to support a smooth transition for employees and leaders while maintaining operational accountability, respecting established cultures, and preserving the entrepreneurial mindset that has contributed to Tencarva's success.
• Build Stronger Leaders: Coach leaders through performance challenges, complex employee relations matters, investigations, organizational changes, and difficult personnel decisions. Exercise independent judgment, take ownership of employee relations matters within the assigned region, and help managers build the confidence and capability to address issues effectively.
• Strengthen Talent Pipelines & Workforce Readiness: Partner with business leaders and Talent Acquisition to identify critical talent gaps, anticipate workforce needs, assess internal bench strength, and support practical development and succession planning for leadership and technical roles. Support relationships with vocational and technical training organizations where they can strengthen long-term talent pipelines.

About Us

Founded in 1978, Tencarva is a private equity-backed distributor, engineering and design partner, and OEM-authorized repair network within the process equipment and flow control market. With 37 locations across 17 states, our footprint spans the Southeast, Mid-South, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic regions.

We serve more than 18,000 active customers across a broad range of industries, including industrial manufacturing, municipal water/wastewater, power generation, oil and gas, mining and aggregates, and automotive. Our service offerings include system analysis and design, applications engineering, custom fabrication of equipment packages, automation and controls, equipment repair, and thermal hard coatings.

Why Tencarva

• High-visibility role supporting leaders across a growing, acquisition-driven business
• Opportunity to partner with the Manager, HRBP in building and shaping Tencarva's regional HRBP model as the organization continues to grow 
• Direct partnership with regional and local business leaders, with exposure to executive leadership and acquisition integration 
• Stable, growing company with a long-term ownership mindset and no history of layoffs
• Annual incentive opportunity
• Profit Sharing via 401(k)
• Employee Ownership Opportunities
• Paid Time Off, including 10 holidays
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance

Requirements

What We're Looking For

• Credibility & Influence: Able to quickly build trust and credibility with employees, managers, and senior leaders alike. Comfortable influencing decisions, navigating difficult conversations, and serving as a trusted advisor across a variety of business situations.
• Business & Operational Mindset: Understands the realities of running a business and approaches people challenges with operational priorities, employee considerations, and business objectives in mind.
• Adaptability & Judgment: Comfortable operating in dynamic environments where priorities shift, information is incomplete, and situations are rarely black and white. Demonstrates sound judgment, professionalism, and consistency when navigating ambiguity and sensitive matters.
• Ownership & Accountability: Takes ownership of outcomes, follows through on commitments, and operates effectively with a high degree of autonomy. Proactively identifies issues, drives resolution, and helps move the business forward.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of HR experience in business-facing roles, including experience supporting managers and employees across multiple locations
• Demonstrated experience independently managing complex employee relations matters, performance challenges, and sensitive employee situations while coaching managers toward effective resolutions 
• Demonstrated ability to build credibility, influence leaders, and navigate challenging employee and organizational situations
• Strong communication, relationship-building, conflict resolution, and business judgment skills
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly throughout the assigned region; valid driver's license

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an HR Business Partner, Senior HR Generalist, HR Manager, Employee Relations Manager, or similar business-facing HR role
• Experience supporting decentralized, multi-location organizations where operational leaders retain significant decision-making authority 
• Experience supporting industrial distribution, manufacturing, field service, construction, transportation, logistics, or other operationally intensive environments
• Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, organizational change, or rapid-growth environments
• Experience partnering across HR functions and with business leadership to address workforce challenges, implement changes, and improve organizational effectiveness 
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
• PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP certification is a plus

What Success Looks Like

• Business leaders view you as a trusted advisor and seek your counsel on difficult people decisions, organizational challenges, and leadership matters
• You understand the businesses you support, anticipate emerging workforce and organizational challenges, and help leaders address issues before they become larger problems
• Employee relations matters are addressed proactively, consistently, and with sound judgment
• Managers are better equipped to manage performance, develop employees, navigate organizational change, and make sound people decisions
• Workforce planning and succession discussions help identify critical talent gaps, strengthen leadership readiness, and inform practical development decisions
• Leaders and employees navigate acquisitions, integrations, and organizational changes with clarity, confidence, and appropriate support
• HR programs, tools, and initiatives are adopted across the region in ways that improve effectiveness while respecting established operating practices
• You can comfortably move between a service center, branch office, fabrication shop, leadership meeting, acquisition integration discussion, or executive conversation and quickly establish credibility in each environment

Key Skills

HR Business Partner, Regional HR Business Partner, HR Generalist, Employee Relations, Manager Coaching, Performance Management, Workforce Planning, Succession Planning, Organizational Development, Organizational Change, Change Management, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Talent Strategy, Multi-Site HR, Field HR, Decentralized Operations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Post-Acquisition Integration, Industrial HR, Skilled Trades Workforce, Employee Engagement, Conflict Resolution, Business Acumen, Stakeholder Management, Human Resources Management 

The duties, responsibilities, and activities described above are not exhaustive and may be subject to change. Additionally, please note that the job title for this posting is designed to be descriptive and may not reflect the official title used internally for job classification purposes.

Tencarva Machinery Company, LLC, is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.