The posting
The Role
T1 Energy is looking to hire a Senior Director to lead the HR function for our G1 solar module facility in Wilmer, TX. This is a senior leadership role for someone who knows how to run HR for a large, fast-moving manufacturing site; a strong executor who can build and enhance the people infrastructure, lead the team, and keep thousands of details right across a 24/7 workforce, all while fostering employee engagement and excellence.
G1 is one of the largest solar module manufacturing facilities in the United States, with a large and diverse hourly and salaried workforce operating around the clock. The person in this role owns everything people at the site: workforce planning, employee relations, compensation and benefit delivery, compliance training, engagement and culture. You'll be the person who makes sure G1 is not just productive, but a place people want to work, and you'll build the systems and team to sustain that a we scale. If you've led HR at a large manufacturing or industrial site and you want real ownership of a facility's people function, this role was built for you.
What You'll Do
HR Leadership & Strategy
- Own the full HR function for the G1 facility, serving as the senior people leader and trusted partner to the General Manager and site leadership team.
- Build, lead, and develop the site HR team across business partnering, employee relations, talent, and HR operations.
- Partner with corporate, HR, recruiting, and total rewards functions to align site practices with company-wide strategy and standards.
Workforce Planning & Readiness
- Develop and maintain workforce plans aligned with the annual manufacturing plan. Partner with Talent Acquisition to ensure hiring supports approved plans.
- Establish workforce readiness schedules and monitor staffing gaps and provide regular readiness updates and risk assessments to GM and the leadership team.
Compensation, Benefits & HR Operations
- Work with the G1 leadership team to use compensation and benefits as important tools to attract and retain key talent, rewards performance excellence and ensure workforce stability, while making overall labor costs.
- Oversee HR operations to ensure accurate and timely processing of employee changes, including onboarding, promotions, transfers, and terminations.
- Leverage data driven HR insights to identify trends, develop solutions, and improve overall workforce effectiveness, and ensure HRIS accuracy for the facility with clean data, reliable reporting, and efficient people processes.
- Track and act on HR metrics, attrition, retention, time-to-fill, engagement, and workforce cost, to drive decisions and continuous improvement.
- Manage HR budgets and headcount planning in partnership with site and finance leadership.
Compliance & Safety Partnership
- Ensure full compliance with federal, state, and local employment law, including wage and hour, leave, EEO, and worker classification requirements.
- Maintain HR policies, employee handbooks, and controlled HR documentation, keeping them current and and consistently applied.
- Partner closely with EHS and operations leadership to reinforce a strong safety culture and support a safe, compliant working environment.
- Manage workers' compensation, accommodations, investigations, and sensitive personnel matters with discretion and sound judgement.
Who You Are
- A seasoned HR leader who has managed the full HR function at a large manufacturing, industrial, or high-volume operational site and thrived an that enviornment.
- A strong leader who builds and develops high performing HR teams and earns credibility with both the floor and the leadership team.
- Deeply knowledgeable across the full HR stack: employee relations, talent, compensation and benefits, compliance, HR operations, and organizational development.
- Hands-on and operationally rigorous: you believe good systems and clean data make culture stronger, and you're wiling to get into the details.
- A builder who would rather design the right process than inherit someone else's and who can scale a people function as the site grows.
- Low ego, high standards, and genuinely invested in the people behind the production numbers.
About T1 Energy
At T1 Energy (NYSE: TE), we build energy. We are an American solar manufacturer building the future of energy abundance. From our headquarters in Austin, Texas, we’re pioneering a domestic solar supply chain with one mission: to invigorate America with scalable, reliable, and low-cost energy.
We started with G1_Dallas, one of the most advanced solar manufacturing facilities in the world. The 5GW facility is located in Wilmer, Texas. It has the capacity to produce more than 20,000 solar modules a day for solar farms that power American homes, businesses, and keep our energy grids resilient.
Next is G2_Austin: Our new solar cell fab in Rockdale, Texas. Its first 2.1GW phase is designed to produce next-generation TOPCon cells beginning in 2027. As the fab grows, it’s expected to support up to 1,800 manufacturing jobs. Modules assembled at G1 can run on cells from G2.
What comes after G2? Come join us and help figure that out. And then build it. The sun has always shone on America. Now you can turn it into abundant electricity.
The T1 Way
We’re all in on the mission, and we pursue it as one team. We move fast, own our results, and treat each other with respect. Egos stay at the door: no one is too senior to roll up their sleeves, and no idea is too small to share. Be sharp, be honest, be human. If you can hold the line and keep a sense of humor, you’ll fit right in.
T1 Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristics.
