At Lummus Technology, innovation thrives, and excellence is a shared pursuit. When you join Lummus, you are empowered to make an impact and be part of a dynamic team that celebrates creativity, encourages professional development, and fosters collaboration.
From our technology portfolio to our global workforce, Lummus is growing at a rapid pace, and we hope that you will grow with us during this exciting time.
Lummus Technology is looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to join our HR team in Houston, TX. This role will serve as a trusted partner to leaders Chief Business Officer and the CBO leadership team. This role will translate business priorities into integrated workforce, organization, leadership and talent strategies that strengthen execution and enable growth. The HR Business Partner will combine strong commercial acumen, data-driven insight and trusted executive partnership with disciplined delivery across organizational effectiveness, succession, workforce planning, performance, employee relations and change leadership.
The successful candidate will operate both strategically and hands-on: shaping the people agenda with senior leaders, identifying organizational risks and opportunities, and ensuring that actions are implemented through strong partnership with Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Management, HR Operations and other specialist teams.
Strategic Mandate
Act as the principal HR thought partner to the Chief Business Officer, bringing an enterprise perspective to business planning, operating decisions and leadership priorities.
Build and execute an annual people and organization plan aligned with the CBO organization’s growth objectives, customer commitments, operating model and financial priorities.
Use workforce data and business insight to anticipate capability gaps, organizational risks, leadership needs and talent constraints before they affect execution.
Challenge and coach senior leaders constructively, balancing business performance, employee experience, organizational health and risk management.
Connect enterprise HR strategy to the CBO organization while ensuring locally relevant, practical and measurable implementation.
Key Responsibilities
Executive Partnership and Business Strategy
Participate in leadership discussions as the people and organization advisor, translating business strategy into workforce, capability and organization priorities.
Advise the Chief Business Officer and leadership team on organization design, spans and layers, decision rights, leadership effectiveness and operating model evolution.
Provide fact-based recommendations using workforce trends, talent data, succession strength, attrition indicators and external market insight.
Partner with Finance and business leaders on workforce planning, resource trade-offs, labor cost considerations and critical-role investments.
Talent, Succession and Leadership
Lead talent reviews, succession planning and leadership capability discussions for the CBO organization, with clear actions, owners and follow-through.
Identify pivotal roles and high-impact talent; build practical retention, development and readiness plans for critical positions.
Coach senior leaders on performance differentiation, team effectiveness, leadership transitions and development priorities.
Partner with Talent Acquisition on strategic hiring plans, executive and critical-role searches, talent pipelines and workforce market intelligence.
Organization Effectiveness and Change
Lead the people workstream for reorganizations, integrations, growth initiatives and transformation programs, including stakeholder planning and change adoption.
Assess organizational health and recommend interventions that improve accountability, collaboration, decision speed and execution.
Facilitate leadership alignment sessions, talent calibrations and organization planning discussions that result in clear decisions and actions.
Identify cultural and engagement themes and…