Business Partner and Labor Relations Representative ( Level 6)

Key Responsibilities:

Core HR activities
- Create a high touch/personal HR experience by supporting salary and hourly employees with questions, concerns, and general engagement.
- Partner with employees and management to communicate various human resource policies, procedures, laws, standards, and other government regulations and provide guidance when appropriate.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Work closely with employees, HR Manager, and functional managers to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention.
- Support People Involvement and implementation of our Global Manufacturing System (GMS).
- Support, as a consultant, programs that contribute to the work environment and/or development, such as WoC, DEI, development programs, MFG University, recognition, etc.
- Support Onboarding in conjunction with People Leaders and Onboarding Buddies.
- Conduct exit interviews, analyze attrition data, and partner with HR Manager to develop recommendations for corrective action and continuous improvement.

Business Partner
- Partner with HR Managers related to Talent Management and Development matters providing data and support on implementation of actions.
- Provide Talent and performance management guidance to leaders (i.e., coaching, consulting, corrective actions, and crisis relations).
- Partner with Policy & Investigation COE to support complex employee relations issues and investigations.
- Identify individual leadership coaching needs and perform necessary coaching to employees.
- Collaborate with colleagues and consult with people leaders on individual employee compensation matters to ensure alignment to pay for performance and employee recognition programs.
- Identify areas of opportunity for continuous improvement and partner with COEs to build effective working relationships and provide constructive field perspective to influence common processes and procedures.

Labor
- Maintain working relationship with union and adhere to terms of labor contract by monitoring day-to-day working conditions, including investigating, answering, and settling grievances, maintaining labor stability.
- Administer hourly and other represented compensation consistent with union and collective agreements.