Hr Business Partner

Join Land O'Lakes, Inc., and help us bring food from farmer to fork. We're a global, Fortune 250 company and a farmer-owned cooperative. While benefits can vary by location and role, most offer:
• Medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D; short- and long-term disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan and profit-sharing plan, both with company match
• Paid time off and paid holidays, plus paid benefits for maternity and parental leaves
HR Business Partner
We're looking for a passionate HR Business Partner! In this position, you will drive positive labor and employee relations in a complex union + manufacturing plant.
The Human Resources Business Partner will partner with the HR Manager and Plant Leadership to drive a culture of delivering results through a focus on positive employee relations. This position provides human resources support to hourly union and salaried employees at the Spencer Dairy facility.
This position leads human resource initiatives, employee relations, and labor relations at plant location.
Job Description:

• Proactively recommend ideas and solutions to effectively address the needs of the organization.
• Ability to effectively teach, coach, and influence others to motivate and gain appropriate buy-in to drive results.
• Educate leaders to ensure consistent application of policies, union contract language, while promoting positive employee relations.
• Conduct investigations and make corrective action recommendations, with appropriate level of management intervention
• Partners with EHS and plant leadership as needed to ensure consistent application of leave of absence policies, procedures and requirements (ADA, FMLA, Workers' Compensation and Disability)
• Work with the HR Leader to ensure compliance, and claim response in coordination with Legal for EEOC, FMLA, Code of Conduct, Discrimination, Harassment, and other legal/policy issues.

Experience + Education:

• Undergraduate degree in human resources or related field, or equivalent combination of education + experience (required)
• Master's Degree in human resources or related field (preferred)
• 2-4 years of experience in Human Resources Generalist role.
• Experience working in a union environment

Competencies-Skills (Required):

• Inspire trust and respect, bring people together, and get the most important things done.
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead and drive change in a manufacturing environment.
• Communicates and administers HR related policies/procedures fairly and consistently.
• Handles all HR matters confidentially and with great tact and professionalism.
• Handles multiple demands and balances competing priorities, with a sense of urgency.

Hours: This is a three-shift manufacturing plant; the incumbent will need to be flexible to work off-shifts from time to time or switch shifts as needed for communication purposes.
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including pre- and post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
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