Human Resources Manager

**Location**: Calgary, AB
**Reports to**: Director of Corporate Services
**Job Posting#**: 17-2025
**Application Deadline**: December 31, 2024

Reporting to the Director of Corporate Services, the **Human Resources Manager** is responsible for the planning and oversight of all activities related to recruitment, training, development, retention, management, and dismissal of employees at Primary. They manage the financial, strategic, and operational health of the HR team as it executes on various functions including, though not limited to:
Leadership over HR suite of services
- Setting strategic goals and objectives for the HR department,
- Managing departmental budgets and costs,
- Building relationships with managers,
- Accountability for HR service delivery excellence,
- Enhancing & improving HRIS functions to improve integration and automation of HR transactions,
- Developing and maintaining corporate policies relating to Human Resources,
- HR Governance and reporting,
- Ensuring that Primary’s HR practices conform to all applicable local laws and regulations,
- Supporting disciplinary and termination procedures,
- Any other duties as required.

Leadership and accountability for HR team members who manage
- Recruiting activities, including internship and coop experience,
- Onboarding and probationary experience,
- Employee workplace concerns (HR Liaison),
- Payroll and benefits administration,
- Administering Employee Recognition Programs,
- Administration and ongoing improvement of the HRIS system.

Employee Development Programming leadership, which involves
- Career planning,
- Training & development planning,
- Experience targets,
- Mentorship programming,
- Succession planning,

Total Reward strategy & programming
- Strategic compensation planning,
- Benefits offerings,
- Time away from work programs and offerings.

Facilitating employee-led committees and groups such as
- DEIB Committee,
- Women+ ERG,
- Otter Committee (First Nations Engagement).

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- CHRP Designation.
- Minimum 7-10 years of HR experience, demonstrating progressing responsibility including leadership or management experience.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent conflict resolution skills.
- Demonstrated proficiency with Office 365 suite.
- Experience within the engineering industry would be an asset.
- Working knowledge of Ceridian-Dayforce or other comparable HRIS suites would be a considerable asset.

Primary offers a highly competitive compensation package including, competitive salaries, bonuses, Health & Dental benefits, Health Care Spending Account, flexible work schedules, paid vacation, Company Matching RRSP, flex days, and several career and professional development opportunities.

**ABOUT US****:
Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

Primary is the proud recipient of **EHRC's Workplace Culture Innovator Award**, recognizing our commitment to fostering a health, inclusive, and positive work environment.

**GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress****:
Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit.

We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.

**HEALTH & SAFETY****:
The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal.

Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a safety standard as high as our own.