HR Business Partner

About The Role

Reporting to the Director, Human Resources, the Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) plays a critical role in partnering with leadership, supporting strategic HR initiatives, and ensuring the seamless execution of HR functions. This role focuses on driving operational and service excellence, fostering positive employee relations, and ensuring that HR practices align with organizational needs and goals. The HRBP will also serve as a strategic partner to leadership, providing guidance across recruitment, total rewards, employee relations, and HRIS reporting. Additionally, the HRBP will support the Director, Human Resources, in bargaining, human rights complaints, and other related labour relations processes. This position is also accountable for various HR projects involving labour relations, compensation, HRIS, recruitment, and employee engagement. The incumbent will mentor and coach HR Coordinators, fostering strong generalist skill sets and ensuring consistency in HR practices across the team. The HRBP must be confident, experienced, and a change champion, continually driving improvements and fostering a positive organizational culture while ensuring compliance with legislation, regulations, collective agreements and supporting the development of talent and workforce strategies.

What You Will Do

Recruitment

Recruitment Education: Provide education and training to leaders on HR processes, best practices, and recruitment strategies to ensure alignment with organizational goals and policies.

End-to-End Recruitment: Oversee the full recruitment process for assigned positions, including recruitment strategy development, application review, pre-screens, interviews, reference checks, and offer management.

Workforce Strategy & Vacancy Fulfillment: Collaborate with leadership to develop workforce strategies, address staffing gaps, and ensure timely and effective recruitment of candidates across various departments.

Interview Guides & Best Practices: Develop and implement interview guides that reflect best practices, collective agreements, organizational policies, and recruitment strategies.

Recruitment Projects: Work with leaders to drive recruitment initiatives such as Summer Students, BCF Grants, and other position establishment requests, ensuring the effective execution of these projects.

Job Description Management: Collaborate with hiring managers to ensure job descriptions are current, accurate, and aligned with organizational needs.

Total Rewards & Leave of Absence Management

Employee Attendance Management

Oversee the employee attendance management program to ensure compliance with attendance policies and support the effective management of employee attendance.

Workplace Accommodation

Support both medical and non-medical workplace accommodation processes, ensuring compliance with legal and organizational requirements.

Performance Management

Assist leadership with employee performance management, including coaching and mentoring managers on feedback, development practices, and improving performance.

Zero Casual Program

Lead and manage the end-to-end process for the zero Casual program, ensuring accurate tracking and timely processing in line with policy.

Employee & Labour Relations

Workplace Investigations

Oversee and manage the end-to-end process for workplace investigations, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and maintaining confidentiality.

Grievance Stewarding

Steward grievances, including recording and tracking, ensuring all issues are documented, addressed, and resolved in a timely manner.

Employee & Labour Relations Education

Develop and deliver educational sessions on employee, labour, and human rights in alignment with the collective agreement, organizational policies, and relevant legislation.

Grievance & Investigation Reporting

Maintain and complete grievance and investigation tracker reports, ensuring all cases are handled promptly and documented correctly.

HRIS & Reporting

People & Workforce Data Analysis

Prepare and present reports on workforce data, providing leadership with key insights into trends, performance, and areas of concern.

Seniority & Union Reporting

Ensure accurate and timely seniority and union reporting, keeping all records up to date in accordance with collective agreements and organizational policies.

Ticketing Assignments

Oversee and manage ticketing assignments, ensuring that requests and HR-related issues are tracked and resolved efficiently.

What You Bring

A minimum of a post-secondary degree in human resources, business administration or related area. CPHR Designation (asset). Three (3) to 5 (five) years’ experience in HR advisor/consultant or generalist position. Labour Relations (union) exp