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Your Opportunity
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We're in pursuit of an experienced HR Business Partner to join our passionate, collaborative, and results-driven team. As part of our Client Services (HRCS) team, the HR Business Partner will be supporting leaders and employees for multiple business centers/business lines in the region.
You will need to wear several hats, be a trusted advisor, strategist, consultant, analyst, change agent and coach. Sit alongside and collaborate with business leaders to develop and implement strategies that support people and organizational needs in addition to facilitating the deployment of our HR Strategic Plan. Every day you will engage in business conversations, influence, and equip people leaders to lead their teams and foster a highly engaged, inspiring, and inclusive workplace.
We are looking for someone who is resilient, pragmatic, adaptable, and a team player. Your counsel should be logical, analytical, and strategic. Your passion to make a difference will contribute to the success of our internal clients in creating better outcomes for our Stantec clients and the various communities we serve.
This opportunity is truly career changing and an opportunity to take your career to the next level.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Quickly establishes and maintains effective working relationships with internal client groups, including employees, managers, and senior leaders.
- Proactively partner with clients to identify strategic issues, workforce planning or organizational design challenges and provide advice and expertise to help develop creative solutions.
- Provides strategic guidance and effectively scale the application of the HR generalist disciplines including employee engagement, retention and talent development, succession planning, change, conflict and exit management, employment legislation, employee relations, performance management, investigations, job evaluation, compensation management, internal communication, coaching, data analytics, workforce planning, policy interpretation, career coaching, facilitation, and inclusion & diversity to positively impact Stantec's culture of performance and safety.
- Serves as a workforce champion and promotes a positive work environment and employee experience.
- Facilitates trainings as needed, enables performance management and planning sessions with managers and employees.
- Practices effective relationship management to elevate working relationships with internal client groups, including managers, senior leaders, and employees along with our global HR specialists.
- Develops and implements HR-related projects and participates as a team member on special projects as needed.
- Fosters a continuous improvement mindset and continually look for opportunities to increase the return on investment of Human Resources programs for employees and leaders.
- Collaborates within the Global HR to communicate, facilitate, and/or present HR programs and initiatives to client groups.
- Works with human resource service representative(s) to ensure accurate completion of ad-hoc employee changes.
- Assists with relevant HR administrative tasks as required.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Demonstrated experience operating independently to resolve routine HR issues in a large and changing environment.
- Ability to quickly establish and build effective working relationships.
- Proven influencer and collaborator, with the ability to provide guidance and support to business clients.
- Developed skills in coaching managers, facilitation, conflict resolution and relationship management.
- Valued for your agility and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and having a focus for action-orientation on results.
- Respected for balancing strategic and operational tasks with strong organizational and time management skills.
- Distinguished as a Business Partner who learns the business and takes an active interest in continually enhancing your business acumen.
- Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of the core HR competencies including but not limited to compensation, benefits, employment law, organizational development, talent development and training, mentoring/coaching/facilitation, recruitment and workforce planning and an overall understanding of HR policies and programs and other terms and conditions of employment, along with an understanding of HR best practices.
- Adaptability to rapidly changing demands.
- Prior experience successfully operating in a geographically dispersed team is a plus.
- Regarded as an exceptional communicator and able to influence a broad and diverse range of stakeholders through effective relationships, verbal, and written communication.
- Recognized for your learning mindset, initiative, and ability to understand the business and challenges, and new and innovative approaches that result in improvements in team engagement, productivity, and organizational performance.
- Distinguished for an interest in continual personal development and keeping current in human resource best practices through external resources and building a strong HR network.
- Ability to travel to other Stantec offices as needed.
- Proficient MS Office Suite skills preferred.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Human Resources, Business, or related field.
- Three to five years' related work experience.
- SHRM or HRCI certification is preferred.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Travel may be required between local offices and throughout the region.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.
