Senior HR Business Partner

Stantec Inc.•Portland, OR

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About The Position

At Stantec, we have some of the world's leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we're building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day. Your Opportunity An exciting opportunity exists for a highly motivated and experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join our passionate, collaborative, and results-driven team. As part of our US West HR Client Services (HRCS) team, the Senior 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.

Requirements

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.
Noted for your ability to identify and anticipate strategic and operational business and human capital challenges, then providing and executing innovative solutions with attention to critical details.
Distinguished as a business partner who learns the business and takes an active interest in continually enhancing your business acumen.
Regarded as an exceptional communicator and able to influence a broad and diverse range of stakeholders through effective relationships, verbal, and written communication.
Valued as a consummate professional, exercising confidentiality, discretion, sound judgment as well as possessing critical thinking in ambiguous situations.
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.
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.
Ability to travel to different Stantec offices.
Strong MS Office Suite skills preferred.
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field.
Minimum of 8 years of related work experience.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience successfully operating within a matrix global organization and within a geographically dispersed team is an asset.
SHRM certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Proactively partner with clients to identify strategic issues, workforce planning or organizational design challenges and provide advice and expertise to help develop creative solutions.
Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders by presenting multiple perspectives and challenging the status quo.
Practice effective relationship management to elevate working relationships with internal client groups, including managers, senior leaders, and employees along with our HR centers of excellence.
Demonstrate 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.
Serve as a workforce champion and promote a positive work environment and employee experience.
Facilitate trainings as needed including planning and delivering sessions with managers and employees.
Foster a continuous improvement mindset and continually look for opportunities to increase the return on investment of human resources programs for employees and leaders.
Collaborate within a geographically dispersed team to communicate, facilitate, and/or present HR programs and initiatives to client groups.
Work collaboratively with functions such as an HR service representative for accurate completion of employee transactions, talent acquisition for recruitment, etc.
Have some fun!

Benefits

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave.
Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

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