HR Manager (remote)

The AML Story

AML has 52 years of experience designing and building oceanographic instrumentation and we have clocked consistent year‑on‑year growth of greater than 15%. We have customers on all seven continents. We have a 70+ person team of employees that care deeply about customer outcomes. 1) Going to the ends of the earth to make our customers successful; To drive the success of Union Park’s marine technology thesis. AML is the operating foundation of that thesis, and our focus is on growing the core business while carefully extending our solution set via acquisition. At AML, we do things a bit differently. If you are familiar with these concepts - or they are of interest to you - then you might be a fit for AML. A 70-person team distributed across Victoria, Halifax, Ontario, the UK, and remote. Active acquisition pipeline that will keep adding people and complexity. AML’s HR function is built to raise individual and collective performance — which calls for high standards, honest feedback, and a willingness to coach through difficult conversations. Owns A-Player Recruiting Pipeline:

Can every people‑manager run ABC well?

Owns the recruiting funnel from open req to onboarded. Manages sourcing, candidate experience, hiring‑manager partnership.

Comp framework refresh with market data, individual comp decisions admin, benefits enrollment campaigns.

Owns employee handbook and HR policies across BC, NS, ON, UK, US. Handles employee complaints, escalations, investigations, performance plans, exit conversations.

Employee survey, action planning, culture‑pulse cadence. Perception of fit and capability under social signal. Trust, framing, and persuasion as the primary tools of the function.

The foundation under every other competency.

Bachelor’s required in HR, business, or related field. MBA or HR master’s a plus. 7+ years HR leadership including 3+ years at Director or senior manager level. Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating a performance assessment system from the ground up — not just administering one inherited. Growth‑stage experience preferred. Comfortable as the one‑person HR function with executive presence to handle hard conversations across every level of the company. Travel expected between Victoria and Halifax, as well as to acquisition targets.

and 3) name your personal core values, along with relevant examples of how you’ve applied each value to guide high‑stakes professional decisions.

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