Europe HR Projects Leader
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Job Summary
This is a 9-12 Month FTC.
This is a high impact opportunity to lead strategic cross-country People & Culture projects and transformation initiatives across Charts European region.
Working closely with the VP HR Chart Europe regional leaders P&C colleagues and functional stakeholders you will turn key people priorities into well-governed programmes that deliver measurable outcomes. Your portfolio will span organisational transformation people strategy operational excellence acquisition integration employee experience and change adoption.
You will bring structure to complex work connect stakeholders across countries and functions and ensure initiatives are delivered with pace clarity and alignment to business needs.
Chart Industries is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment serving clean energy and industrial gas applications. Recognised for its innovative edge and broad portfolio Chart holds leadership positions across process technologies supporting hydrogen carbon capture energy recovery nuclear water treatment mining and LNG.
In 2023 Chart acquired Howden a global engineering business with a heritage dating back to 1854. Howden provides mission-critical air and gas handling products including highly engineered compressors blowers fans steam turbines and rotary heat exchangers.
Together Chart and Howden are expanding solutions across the Nexus of Clean: clean power clean water clean food and clean industrials. You will join a business with a clear purpose helping customers improve efficiency decarbonise operations and address some of the worlds most pressing challenges.
In July 2026 Chart Industries became part of Baker Hughes marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter for our business. We are currently progressing through the integration bringing together complementary technologies capabilities and expertise across energy and industrial markets. This creates a unique opportunity to join the organisation during a significant period of transformation helping shape how we work together and supporting the delivery of greater value for our customers.
The acquisition completed on 16 July 2026 and Chart now operates as a business segment within Baker Hughes while the integration continues.
- Lead and deliver regional People & Culture projects across Europe translating business priorities into clear plans and success measures.
- Drive organisational transformation programmes including organisation design restructuring workforce optimisation and change management.
- Coordinate cross-functional and geographically dispersed stakeholders creating alignment across countries businesses and functions.
- Support acquisition and integration activity through effective due diligence planning execution and stakeholder engagement.
- Use people analytics and business insight to inform decisions monitor outcomes and demonstrate benefits realisation.
- Develop communication engagement and adoption plans while providing clear progress reporting and facilitating leadership workshops and decision-making.
- Significant experience leading complex HR or P&C projects transformation programmes and organisational change in a multinational environment.
- A strong track record of delivering large-scale multi-country people initiatives involving senior leaders and varied stakeholder groups.
- Excellent project management capability across planning governance resource management risk budgets interdependencies and benefits tracking.
- Broad understanding of people processes with experience of areas such as organisational development strategic workforce planning talent reward engagement or HR operating-model improvement.
- Confident influencing challenging and engaging senior stakeholders in a complex matrixed organisation including facilitating workshops and leadership sessions.
- Strong change management analytical and communication skills with fluent written and verbal English and the ability to travel across Europe when required.
Weve put together some criteria that we think are important for this role but dont worry if your experience and expertise are not an exact match. If you feel you can add value to this opportunity and to Howden more broadly we would welcome your application and be eager to learn more about you.
- A flexible hybrid working environment
- Generous holiday entitlement package totalling 33 days annual leave
- Howden Pension Plan with a maximum employer contribution of 7%
- Company electric vehicle scheme through salary sacrifice
- Enhanced Maternity Paternity shared parental and adoption leave pay
- Free onsite parking
- Healthcare cash plan
- Group Life Assurance plan at 3x salary
- Group Income Protection plan
- Access to My Howden Benefits & Wellbeing Portal - Cycle2Work programme range of discounts across various retailers employee assistance programme wealth of information to support health & wellbeing
- Dedicated Spark Service - free counselling physiotherapy financial support medical second opinion remote GP personal training nutrition consultations etc
- Financial planning & mortgage support
- Opportunity to be involved in our ESG Bright Future initiatives - STEM ambassador & volunteering
About Company
Chart Industries (NYSE: GTLS) provides services and equipment for cryogenic liquefaction of gases such as Hydrogen, LNG, Argon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen.
