Senior HR Business Partner
About The Position
The Massachusetts Port Authority is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to join their dynamic organization. This role involves serving as a strategic and trusted HR partner, building strong relationships, and influencing leaders with confidence, tact, and integrity. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of business operations and workforce dynamics, balancing organizational priorities, employee experience, and operational needs within a complex and often unionized environment. This position requires collaboration, resilience, and a solutions-oriented approach, with the ability to navigate sensitive situations with fairness and discretion, coach leaders, and use data to drive thoughtful decisions that strengthen workforce effectiveness and organizational performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Labor Relations, Organizational Development, or a related field required.
- 10+ years of progressive HR Business Partner or HR generalist experience, including senior-level support of complex, operational, unionized, highly regulated, or large enterprise organizations.
- Strong expertise in employee relations, performance management, workplace investigations, employment law, labor principles, policy interpretation, and collective bargaining environments.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships, influence leaders at all levels, communicate complex issues effectively, and align people strategies with operational and business objectives.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree and/or HR certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a strategic and trusted advisor to Aviation leaders, aligning workforce strategies with business objectives and delivering integrated HR solutions that support operational effectiveness, organizational performance, and long-term talent sustainability.
- Builds strong partnerships and influences decision-making through credibility, sound judgment, and business acumen, helping leaders navigate complex workforce, organizational, and people-related challenges with confidence and clarity.
- Provides thoughtful guidance on employee and labor relations matters, fostering fair, consistent, and compliant outcomes while strengthening accountability, employee engagement, workplace effectiveness, and leadership capability.
- Leverages data, insights, and strategic thinking to anticipate workforce needs, identify emerging trends, and develop proactive solutions that enhance talent pipelines, organizational readiness, workforce capability, and overall business success.
Benefits
- Work/life balance
- A supportive and inclusive culture
- Opportunities for growth
- Providing safe, healthy, and secure work environment
- Supporting the people and businesses of New England
- Achieving results and having positive impact
- Being good neighbors in the communities we serve
- Protecting the environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
