Director, Human Resources

As the site HR Director, you will serve as a strategic HR Business Partner (HRBP) and the Employee Relations leader for your site. This is a high-impact role that balances long-term organizational strategy with hands-on execution, fostering performance culture with focus on Winning Behaviours.

You will act as a trusted advisor to VP & Site Head and Site Leadership Team (SLT) while being highly visible on a shop floor, ensuring a positive, productive, and compliant employee experience.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership position that is not only supporting change, but working collaboratively in a matrix environment actively driving all phases of people-related projects and initiatives, encompassing planning, consultation, strategic development, and key decision-making. The role is required to work closely with HR centres of excellence to ensure optimal outcome of all people initiatives.

• Partner with site leadership to align people strategies with business objectives. Oversee performance management, succession planning, and talent development cycles at the site level in line with global program parameters.
• With tight collaboration with SLT, develop strategic workforce plan to support site’s long-term strategy, identify current and future skills requirements, and develop organization capabilities.
• Drive GPTW plans and actions, stay informed of employee opinions, monitor the effect of business decisions on people, advise and make recommendations to Leadership on possible solutions.
• Develop excellent ongoing relationships with site employee representatives and work closely with them to ensure continuous two-way dialogue and partnership between employees and management. Highly visible with all employees and stays on top of employee pulse at all times.
• Ensures excellent employee communication site strategy at all times, including site townhalls, executive fireside chats and all other communication means are utilized fully to support continuous employee engagement.
• Act as the bridge between the site and HR COEs (Total Rewards, Talent & Culture) to ensure corporate programs are effectively rolled out and tailored to site needs.
• Analyze HR metrics (attrition, engagement, absenteeism) to identify trends, propose and lead proactive solutions.
• Design and lead the site’s Positive Employee Relations (PER) strategy, ensuring a culture of transparency and mutual respect. Manage employee relations matters, serving as the escalation point for site-level grievances.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the SLT team on workplace trends and vulnerability gaps that could impact the direct-relationship model. Develop and execute plan to enhance capabilities of frontline supervisors, focusing on active listening, empathy, and fair treatment. Ensure total consistency in the application of policies to prevent perceptions of inequity or favoritism.
• Ensure all site operations adhere to various employment and labour laws, working closely with the Senior Director of Canada Employee Relations for alignment on policy interpretation.
• Participate and lead performance conversations with employees, including monthly one on ones, to connect on performance; check in on employee’s progress toward achieving objectives, offer support and remove barriers; and, communicate and revisit performance expectations to reinforce and encourage high performance culture and a safe working environment for all employees.
• Utilize open, honest, two way communication to build trust-based relationships with employees, business partners and direct leader while continuously improving leadership capabilities by personally seeking feedback and development.
• Create a culture which values trust and provides the opportunity for Employee development and growth in pursuit of our purpose and demonstrating our core Values - Integrity, Teamwork, Courage and Innovation.
• Utilize your networks to attract and hire talent in a comprehensive, differentiated and consistent manner essential to our continued growth; then, onboard new employees by providing a consistent experience that reflects the values and commitments made to candidates during the hiring process.
• Ensure adherence of team members (direct reports) with all compliance programs and company policies and procedures. Works closely with site leadership to ennausre overall site workforce compliance with all policies, procedures and quality and safety standards.
• Provide mentorship and career guidance to direct reports, fostering their growth and ensuring high-quality HR service delivery.
• All other duties as assigned.

• Manufacturing industry experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience in unionized environment in medium and large size companies is required.
• Experience managing Labour Relations is strongly preferred.
• Public company experience is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience of partnering with all levels of employees including senior leaders and executives.
• Employee focused, proven experience connecting and partnering with shop floor employees and employee representatives building effective ties between employees and management.
• Highly visible on the shop floor, excellent communicator and culture champion.
• Excellent relationship builder, demonstrated experience being a trusted advisor to all levels of employees, including senior leadership.
• Highly collaborative, able to work and communicate effectively cross functionally. Eliminates functional silos.
• Extensive experience in aligning and prioritizing human resources and positive employee relations strategies with the organizational business plan.
• Expertise of managing cross-functional projects. Flexibility in adapting to a rapidly changing high paced environment to work with others in a professional and effective way.
• Experience in leading change management to drive positive culture and employee engagement.
• High energy, self-starting professional with strong strategic thinking and exceptional ethics and integrity.
• Display professional maturity and responsiveness in dealing with complex people related items
• Take ownership of the people agenda and be a change agent
• Be tenacious to drive through complex situations with sensitivity
• Possess organizational savvy and bring strong relationship skills to build consensus or take tough decisions

Education

• University degree in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Business or Law strongly preferred. CHRP/CHRL designation is highly preferred.

Experience

• 15+ years of progressive HR, Labor Relations and Employee Relations experience, with at least 5 years in a senior HRBP (senior manager or director level) capacity, leading HR and Employee Relations within a labour intensive manufacturing or industrial environment.

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