Husk is one of the world’s leading distributed utilities. Founded in 2008, the company provides reliable power to rural communities and businesses, entirely from renewable energy sources – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – at a price they can afford. It offers customers a flexible “pay-as-you-go” energy service, using a mobile-enabled smart metering ...
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Design, implement, and continuously refine compensation frameworks, pay structures, and benefits programs to attract and retain high-performing talent.
Conduct annual and ad-hoc market benchmarking using compensation surveys and analytics tools.
Manage salary reviews, incentive programs, and variable pay structures in line with business objectives.
Ensure salaries and benefits comply with the current legislation about human rights and pay equity
Keep track of prevailing pay rates and make sure we offer competitive compensation plans
Provides advice on job levelling and classification analysis, serving as a trusted resource for internal customers, specifically People/HR partners
Participate in the annual market benchmark reviews, in collaboration with external partners.
Develop and manage salary structures, pay grades, and scales that align with the company financial goals and business objectives.
Perform regular market analysis and benchmarking to ensure that the company & compensation packages are competitive within the industry and local job markets.
Design, implement, and oversee variable pay programs such as bonuses, sales commissions, and long-term incentive plans.
Evaluate job positions to determine classification and salary levels based on responsibilities, required skills, and market rates.
Manage annual compensation planning processes, including merit increases and bonus programs.
Pull, organize, and analyze data from HRIS -- build reports and interactive documents to support union negotiations strategy.
Lead or support special projects such as pay equity analysis, job architecture, and comp/payroll system implementations. Oversee administration of health insurance, retirement plans, and flexible benefits programs.
Evaluate vendors and negotiate cost-effective benefit solutions while enhancing employee satisfaction.
Collaborate across HR, Payroll, Accounting, and Legal to ensure consistency and compliance in compensation and benefits administration.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of and ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local compensation and benefits laws and regulations.
Represent Payroll and Benefits functions on M&A, system conversions, policy changes, and Total Rewards alignment/harmonization initiatives.
Prepare proposals, reports, and budgets: Work with finance and senior leadership to forecast and manage budgets for all compensation and benefits programs. Analyze benefit utilization, cost trends, and claim data to guide leadership decisions. Present quarterly benefits dashboards with insights on participation, risk exposure, and ROI. Collaborate on financial forecasting and budgeting for benefit programs
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
12+ years of progressive experience in Compensation & Benefits, HR Compliance, or Total Rewards roles.
Expert-level understanding of payroll, health, retirement, and leave program administration
Exceptional verbal/written communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Business acumen: Understanding how compensation and benefits strategies affect an organization's finances and business goals is critical.
Negotiation skills: Strong negotiation skills are needed to work with external vendors and partners.
Experience overseeing compensation and benefits in a manufacturing or multi-location setting.
Manage the project organization in terms of processes and people to build an organization that can manage over 600 projects being executed globally in a year
Maintain and manage working relationships with discoms dealing with electricity transmission & distribution for regulatory approvals
Development of tools and systems to effectively and efficiently manage the projects
Organization of resources (men, material and machines) to ensure delivery as per plan
Build digital systems that can help scale project management and provide real time feedback of status on ground.
Monitor & follow-up the project cost and productivity to achieve / exceed target profitability
Support cash-flow by ensuring timely delivery and proper invoicing
Deliver project as per man-month schedule and milestones
Build partnerships with contract management for EPC for scaling projects to the tune of 30-50 site per month.
Preparation of project plan in accordance with the budget
Coordinate with engineering to develop preliminary design budget and final execution designs for zero deviation at site
Create project budget based upon quotes and bids as also track project costs
Monitoring site progress and clearly bringing out the risks involved, and support required
Develop strong cross functional teams that can manage cross functional conflicts
ROW (concocted and real) Issues Management
Brainstorming sessions with the project, design and inventory Team to give product improvement
feedback and align compliance
Organize on the job training for technical manpower to build a competitive and quality driven team
Regular interaction with Project/Finance/Inventory/Logistics Team at HO to ensure that the requisite
support and resources are in place and the Site EPC Heads don’t have to look over their shoulders
Ensure own manpower and other workers on site strictly follow safety protocols and always wear PPE
Ensure right quality the very first time to avoid/reduce the cost of rework
Standardize storage and handling for sensitive and critical equipment
Qualifications
Experience and understanding of distributed generation solar projects
PV Installation professional certification preferred
Solid understanding of project management process
High degree of problem solving and system architecting capabilities.
Tech savvy and focus on scalability rather than conventional methods of project monitoring.
Good record keeping and organizational skills.
10-14 years’ experience in the energy sector, particularly in solar Industry with previous similar management assignments.
B.Tech / M. Tech - Any Specialization (Electrical /Mechanical/Civil/ Electronics Engineering).
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