HR Business Partner

Your Opportunity

We are in pursuit of an experienced HR Business Partner to join our passionate, collaborative, and results-driven team. As part of our HR Client Services (HRCS) team, the HR Business Partner will be supporting leaders and employees throughout our various business lines.

The successful candidate will wear many hats – 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 and inspiring 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.

• Quickly establish effective working relationships with internal client groups, including employees, managers, and senior leaders, along with our HR colleagues.

• 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.

• Provide strategic guidance and effectively scale the application of HR 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, and career coaching to positively impact Stantec’s culture.

• 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 other HR functions, such as an HR service centre for accurate completion of employee transactions.

• Enjoy being part of a high performing team that values collaboration, celebrates successes, and knows how to have fun.

• 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, and sound judgment, as well as possessing critical thinking in ambiguous situations.

• Recognised 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…