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HR Operations & Shared Services Specialist
Wichita - Kansas, USA | Hybrid (3 Days Onsite per Week)
About Ontic
At Ontic, we're specialists in keeping critical aircraft flying. Our work supports civil and military aviation around the world, giving established aircraft products the long-term support they need to remain safe, reliable and available.
We're a growing, global aerospace business where our teams work together to solve complex challenges, improve how we operate and support the people who make our success possible.
The opportunity
As an HR Operations & Shared Services Specialist at Ontic, you'll play an important role in delivering responsive, accurate and people-focused HR support to employees and managers across our US locations. Based in Wichita, Kansas, you'll combine hands-on site support with broader HR shared services responsibilities, helping ensure employees receive timely assistance and a consistent experience.
You'll support a wide range of HR activities, including onboarding, employee records, benefits and leave administration, HR reporting and day-to-day employee inquiries. Working with Workday and our HR ticketing platform, you'll help maintain accurate information, coordinate HR processes and ensure requests are handled efficiently and appropriately.
This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys helping people, staying organized and improving processes. You'll work closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Payroll and other HR teams while supporting the integration of Aero-Mach into Ontic and helping strengthen HR services across our growing US business.
What you'll be doing
- Provide first-line HR support to employees and managers through the HR ticketing system, email and onsite interactions, resolving routine inquiries and escalating more complex matters to the appropriate teams.
- Coordinate new-hire onboarding activities, including required documentation, background-check follow-up, orientation materials, onsite orientation and employee communications.
- Maintain accurate and confidential employee records while processing authorized Workday transactions, including new hires, employee changes and terminations.
- Support routine benefits and leave administration, including enrollment updates, open enrollment coordination, leave tracking and employee communications, escalating complex eligibility or policy questions as needed.
- Maintain HR documentation and support compliance with established policies, procedures and applicable employment requirements while ensuring records remain accurate and audit-ready.
- Prepare and validate HR reports and service metrics, monitor ticket activity and onboarding completion, and identify opportunities to improve workflows, standardize processes and enhance service delivery. Collaborate with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Payroll and other stakeholders to support employee inquiries, HR initiatives, cross-training and acquisition integration activities.
What you'll bring
- Strong customer service skills, professional communication and the ability to handle sensitive employee information with discretion and confidentiality.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word, along with the ability to learn new HR systems, processes and ticketing platforms.
- Ability to follow established HR procedures, recognize exceptions and escalate complex questions or decisions appropriately.
- Desirable: Associate or bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. HR certification is advantageous but not required.
- Desirable: Experience in HR coordination, shared services or employee-facing operational support, including Workday HCM, HR ticketing systems or service-level reporting.
- Desirable: Experience supporting a multi-site US organization, process improvement initiatives, HR standardization or acquisition integration activities.
Work Arrangement: This is a hybrid position requiring three days per week onsite in Wichita, Kansas. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of the site. Relocation assistance is not available.
Why Ontic?
At Ontic, we're specialists in keeping critical aircraft flying. Our work supports civil and military aviation around the world, giving established aircraft products the long-term support they need to remain safe, reliable and available.
But it's our people who make that possible. We're a growing, global team where you're trusted to take ownership, encouraged to challenge how things have always been done and supported to develop your career as our business grows.
We believe in embracing the challenge - working together to solve complex problems and create opportunities for our customers, our business and each other.
Benefits at Ontic
At Ontic, we're committed to supporting our people to thrive - at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development and financial security, while giving everyone the opportunity to share in our success.
- Goal Share bonus program - everyone at Ontic is automatically enrolled, giving us all the opportunity to share in our success
- Paid volunteering time - giving you time to support a cause or community that matters to you
- 24/7 wellbeing support - confidential support available through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee discounts - access to discounts and offers across a range of retailers and services
- Learning and development - opportunities to build your skills, develop your career and grow with Ontic
- Employee referral program - rewarding you for introducing great people to Team Ontic
- Comprehensive medical insurance
- Competitive PTO, holiday pay and sick leave
- 401(k) plan - with up to 4% company match
- 9/80 work schedule - where applicable
Ready to embrace the challenge?
If this sounds like the kind of opportunity where you could make an impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and see where a career with Team Ontic could take you.
#LI-Hybrid .
Compensation Pay Range
$26 hour
Ontic Engineering and Manufacturing Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran
Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person ” as defined by 22. C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee.
We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!
HR Operations & Shared Services Specialist
Wichita - Kansas, USA | Hybrid (3 Days Onsite per Week)
About Ontic
At Ontic, we're specialists in keeping critical aircraft flying. Our work supports civil and military aviation around the world, giving established aircraft products the long-term support they need to remain safe, reliable and available.
We're a growing, global aerospace business where our teams work together to solve complex challenges, improve how we operate and support the people who make our success possible.
The opportunity
As an HR Operations & Shared Services Specialist at Ontic, you'll play an important role in delivering responsive, accurate and people-focused HR support to employees and managers across our US locations. Based in Wichita, Kansas, you'll combine hands-on site support with broader HR shared services responsibilities, helping ensure employees receive timely assistance and a consistent experience.
You'll support a wide range of HR activities, including onboarding, employee records, benefits and leave administration, HR reporting and day-to-day employee inquiries. Working with Workday and our HR ticketing platform, you'll help maintain accurate information, coordinate HR processes and ensure requests are handled efficiently and appropriately.
This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys helping people, staying organized and improving processes. You'll work closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Payroll and other HR teams while supporting the integration of Aero-Mach into Ontic and helping strengthen HR services across our growing US business.
What you'll be doing
- Provide first-line HR support to employees and managers through the HR ticketing system, email and onsite interactions, resolving routine inquiries and escalating more complex matters to the appropriate teams.
- Coordinate new-hire onboarding activities, including required documentation, background-check follow-up, orientation materials, onsite orientation and employee communications.
- Maintain accurate and confidential employee records while processing authorized Workday transactions, including new hires, employee changes and terminations.
- Support routine benefits and leave administration, including enrollment updates, open enrollment coordination, leave tracking and employee communications, escalating complex eligibility or policy questions as needed.
- Maintain HR documentation and support compliance with established policies, procedures and applicable employment requirements while ensuring records remain accurate and audit-ready.
- Prepare and validate HR reports and service metrics, monitor ticket activity and onboarding completion, and identify opportunities to improve workflows, standardize processes and enhance service delivery. Collaborate with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Payroll and other stakeholders to support employee inquiries, HR initiatives, cross-training and acquisition integration activities.
What you'll bring
- Strong customer service skills, professional communication and the ability to handle sensitive employee information with discretion and confidentiality.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word, along with the ability to learn new HR systems, processes and ticketing platforms.
- Ability to follow established HR procedures, recognize exceptions and escalate complex questions or decisions appropriately.
- Desirable: Associate or bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. HR certification is advantageous but not required.
- Desirable: Experience in HR coordination, shared services or employee-facing operational support, including Workday HCM, HR ticketing systems or service-level reporting.
- Desirable: Experience supporting a multi-site US organization, process improvement initiatives, HR standardization or acquisition integration activities.
Work Arrangement: This is a hybrid position requiring three days per week onsite in Wichita, Kansas. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of the site. Relocation assistance is not available.
Why Ontic?
At Ontic, we're specialists in keeping critical aircraft flying. Our work supports civil and military aviation around the world, giving established aircraft products the long-term support they need to remain safe, reliable and available.
But it's our people who make that possible. We're a growing, global team where you're trusted to take ownership, encouraged to challenge how things have always been done and supported to develop your career as our business grows.
We believe in embracing the challenge - working together to solve complex problems and create opportunities for our customers, our business and each other.
Benefits at Ontic
At Ontic, we're committed to supporting our people to thrive - at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development and financial security, while giving everyone the opportunity to share in our success.
- Goal Share bonus program - everyone at Ontic is automatically enrolled, giving us all the opportunity to share in our success
- Paid volunteering time - giving you time to support a cause or community that matters to you
- 24/7 wellbeing support - confidential support available through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee discounts - access to discounts and offers across a range of retailers and services
- Learning and development - opportunities to build your skills, develop your career and grow with Ontic
- Employee referral program - rewarding you for introducing great people to Team Ontic
- Comprehensive medical insurance
- Competitive PTO, holiday pay and sick leave
- 401(k) plan - with up to 4% company match
- 9/80 work schedule - where applicable
Ready to embrace the challenge?
If this sounds like the kind of opportunity where you could make an impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and see where a career with Team Ontic could take you.
#LI-Hybrid .
Compensation Pay Range
$26 hour
Ontic Engineering and Manufacturing Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran
Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person ” as defined by 22. C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of human resources operations jobs.
- 7 or more years of progressive HR experience including at least 2 in a leadership role
- Demonstrated experience managing HRIS platforms such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or Oracle HCM
- Proven ability to design and oversee HR processes including onboarding, performance, and compliance
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a closely related field
- SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or equivalent senior HR certification
- Experience supporting multi-state or multi-site workforces and navigating varying employment laws
Tips for Your Director of Human Resources Operations Job Search
Quantify your HR operations impact
Hiring managers for this role expect metrics, not just responsibilities. Document reductions in time-to-fill, turnover rates, or cost-per-hire your initiatives produced. Numbers on your resume signal you manage HR as a business function, not just a support service.
Highlight your HRIS implementation experience
Many postings prioritize candidates who have led or managed a major HRIS migration or implementation. If you've owned one, name the system and the scope. If you've only administered an existing system, be precise about what you configured or optimized.
Target postings by organizational complexity
A director of human resources operations at a 200-person company and one at a 5,000-person company are different jobs. Filter for employer size and multi-site or multi-state scope early so your applications land where your experience actually fits.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of human resources operations openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for an operations case in interviews
Expect at least one scenario question asking how you'd redesign a process, reduce administrative overhead, or build an HR reporting structure. Practice walking through your reasoning out loud, since interviewers are evaluating your systems thinking as much as your HR knowledge.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
When an offer arrives, clarify reporting structure, headcount you'll manage, and budget authority before accepting. Directors of human resources operations in companies mid-transformation often find the role expands significantly within six months, so confirming scope protects both sides.
Director of Human Resources Operations Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of human resources operationss?
Orkin, UNFI, and Jobot are hiring the most director of human resources operationss right now, with openings concentrated in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, large manufacturers, and financial services firms tend to post the most openings at this level.
How many director of human resources operations jobs are remote?
About 68% of director of human resources operations openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote work most common in HR technology, compliance-focused roles, and shared-services environments. Roles that require on-site employee relations management or multi-site oversight are more likely to require a physical presence at headquarters or a regional office.
How do you become a director of human resources operations?
Most directors of human resources operations build toward the role by moving through HR generalist, HR manager, and senior HR business partner positions over several years. Earning a senior HR certification such as the SPHR or SHRM-SCP strengthens your candidacy. Leading a cross-functional project, an HRIS implementation, or a significant process redesign gives you the operational portfolio the role demands.
Can you get hired as a director of human resources operations without prior director-level experience?
Yes, but you'll need to demonstrate that your current scope is functionally equivalent to a director role even if the title hasn't matched yet. Candidates who have managed HR teams, owned a full HR function for a business unit, or led enterprise-wide initiatives often make the jump without a prior director title. Smaller organizations and high-growth companies are most open to this.
What does the director of human resources operations interview process look like?
The process typically runs three to four rounds. An initial screen with a recruiter or HR leader is followed by a deeper competency interview with the CHRO or a VP of HR. Finalists usually present to a panel that may include finance, legal, or operations stakeholders. Expect at least one scenario or case question about designing a process, managing a compliance issue, or leading an HR transformation.
Where can I find and apply to director of human resources operations jobs?
You can find and apply to director of human resources operations jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and apply directly to each one that fits your background and target scope.
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