Sr HR Specialist

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Position Title: Sr HR Specialist
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Burley
Grade: Grade 05
Requisition : 37439

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer‑first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

The Sr. HR Specialist provides HR oversight in support of the Winning Culture Strategy. This role recommends process improvements, provides project leadership, and metrics oversight that allows for monitoring trends against key HR measures and market labor conditions. The Sr. HR Specialist provides expert support in four main areas leveraging knowledge of local / regional / cultural people practices:

• Elevated employee relations, engagement activities & initiatives
• Provide guidance and solutions for HR operational issues
• Handles complex and escalated employee / labour relations matters, and supports compliance, policy and procedures
• Liaison, partner with and collaborate with HR service center, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Compensation to drive employee solutions

In addition to these four main areas of support, the Sr. HR Specialist plays a key role in supporting all HR activities, programs, and projects.

• Provides executional support to HRBP and Plant Leadership Team to deliver shared business goals and HR initiatives that align to the Winning Culture Strategy
• Works in partnership with HR Business Partner and people leaders to drive a continuous improvement mindset to enable the everyday engagement of their teams
• Oversee and advise people leaders and employees with complex employment and labour relations issues, including overseeing the corrective action and attendance management processes
• Collaborate with the leadership team to support improvement in turnover and retention
• Working in collaboration with HRBP and TA resources to manage talent and succession with a strong focus on attracting, recruiting, and effectively onboarding diverse talent
• Working in collaboration with the HRBP’s and our leaders to be an ambassador of driving diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Support regional implementation of CoE-driven processes, policies, and initiatives
• Participate in the execution of learning and development initiatives such as Great People Leaders and related programs from local and global COE
• Analyzes the data available through our McCain Systems, to identify trends and take insight driven actions while striving to continually improve
• Review and support the development of our HR Procedures, to ensure compliance with legislative updates and best practice changes while playing a key role in the coordination of the HR aspects in Audits
• Ensure effective verbal and written employee communication
• Provide leadership and guidance to HR Specialist
• Support HR Specialist with the core areas of employee relations, labour relations, high volume recruitment, and in‑scope LOA processes as needed

• 2‑4 years of experience as a HR Specialist or related progressive HR experience
• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related field preferred
• Professional Human Resources certification an asset
• Prior experience with Labor Relations

Reporting to the HR Business Partner, the Sr. HR Specialist is an individual contributor to the department while maintaining a strong cross‑functional relationship with business stakeholders, leaders, and personnel.

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