Director Labour and Employee Relations

  • Full-time
  • Salaried Position Job Grade/Poste salarié Grade de poste: Job Grade 8/Niveau d'emploi 8

Company Description

WHO ARE WE?
We've been serving Canadian clients for over 75 years. The companies that began independently and now form Dexterra Group have an outstanding record of supporting the infrastructure and built assets that play a vital role in our society and helping our clients achieve higher performance and productivity. Powered by passionate people, we bring the right teams with the right skills together – offering both experience and regional expertise so companies can operate their day to day, confidently and successfully.

Job Description

WHAT'STHE JOB?

Reporting to the Chief Human Resources Officer,  you are is a senior member of the Human Resources leadership team.  You will drive programs, policies, processes and systems designed to ensure organizational leaders are enabled and equipped to manage employee and labour relations in a self-service delivery environment. 

You are is a strategic leader responsible to develop and promote a stable and constructive employee and labour relations strategy to ensure alignment with organizational goals, enhance communication, ensure consistency with priorities and to mitigate risks, costs and decision guidance. The role is responsible for compliance with legislation matters and employment security in all operating provinces and territories and sectors. Develop and implement strategies and programs aligned with High Performance Organization characteristics designed to ensure the capability for top performance. 

  • Executes and delivers on HR objectives and strategic priorities in the achievement of organizational performance
  • Provides expert advice and guidance to colleague HR Business Partners and organizational leaders in the negotiation, administration and interpretation of collective agreements.  Act as chief negotiator, as required
  • Ensures compliance in all employment matters related to legislation and employment security. Leads in implementing change to ensure organizational requirements are met
  • Ensures effective and efficient process and compliance related to matters involving third parties such as Ministry of Labour and Human Rights Tribunal
  • Ensures success in all facets of performance against key performance indicators
  • Designs, develops and implements  strategies and processes that align to business and HR strategies and priorities, with the goal of equipping and enabling leaders to drive organizational performance
  • Designs, develops and implements learning segments for leadership development
  • Contributes content to the bid teams to ensure best-in-class practices are profiled
  • Defines and implements forward-thinking  strategies and solutions to meet the Company’s  demands
  • Executes and delivers on HR’s business plan and strategic priorities in the achievement of company growth
  • Acts a strong coach and mentor and provides guidance to departmental HR practitioner team
  • Acts a steward for governance, protocols and processes associated with all activities.

Qualifications

    WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

    • Post-secondary education in a relevant area of study
    • Certified Human Resources professional designation, or HR profession-specific certification
    • 5 or more years of in-depth experience in labour relations with emphasis on conflict resolution, workplace investigations, grievance and arbitration process, collective bargaining
    • 2-3 plus years professional experience in a leadership role building and leading a team with regards to employee development, coaching, and employment- related practices within complex business environments.
    • Proven track record of developing plans and strategies related to employee and labour relations and matters of compliance to legislation and employment-related security

    Additional Information

    WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

    • Ability to work from home a portion of the time
    • Market leading compensation and RRSP matching program
    • Benefits start on day one
    • Great employee perqs like Healthcare spending account, additional days off, subisidzed child university educaton...

    Dexterra Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans’ status, Indigenous status, or any other legally protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the hiring selection process are available upon request.

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