SVP and Chief Human Resource Officer

Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC) seeks an accomplished, people-first, innovative, and business-oriented executive to serve as its next Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Reporting directly to the President and CEO, the CHRO is OPC’s human resources executive and a strategic advisor to the CEO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors. The position leads enterprise people strategy, workforce planning, talent management, organizational effectiveness, culture, employee relations, HR operations, and leadership development through two direct reports including a Director of Workforce Planning and Development and a Director of Human Resources Operations. In total, the CHRO directs seven employees with current expansion planned in the department. Ideal candidates will demonstrate:

• Significant senior HR leadership experience across multiple disciplines, including workforce planning, talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, total rewards, leadership development, succession, employee engagement, organizational effectiveness, and HR operations.
• Experience supporting a growing, technically complex and operationally intensive organization; energy, utility, manufacturing, engineering, industrial, infrastructure, or other safety-sensitive experience is particularly
• Demonstrated development of multiyear workforce strategies addressing growth, retirement exposure, critical skills, recruiting, succession, knowledge transfer, and leadership capacity.
• Success advancing recruitment and talent assessment, including structured interviewing, selection standards, talent pipelines, and hiring quality.
• Strong experience with leadership development, technical training, career pathways and succession
• The ability to preserve a positive employee culture while strengthening performance management, accountability and managerial effectiveness.
• Exceptional executive partnership skills and the judgment to become a trusted, candid advisor to the CEO, executive team, and Board.
• Strong capabilities with workforce analytics, HR technology, dashboards, automation, and emerging applications of artificial intelligence.
• Experience leading meaningful organizational change while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy and keeping HR focused on enabling the business.
• Financial and business acumen encompassing compensation, workforce costs, HR budgets, vendors, compliance, governance, and risk.
• A visible, approachable leadership style and willingness to spend meaningful time with employees and leaders at OPC’s generating facilities.
• Champions a culture of safety, accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous