Human Resources Business Partner

Overview

Simpson Strong-Tie is a leader in engineered structural connectors, software, and solutions for the building industry. We maintain a reputation as a trusted manufacturer, partner, and corporate citizen committed to our customers and employees.

Our founder, Barc Simpson established 9 Principles of Business we live out as company values and have made Simpson Strong-Tie an inspiring place to work since 1956. Our team of talented people are dedicated to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures.

Learn about our company culture directly from our team.

As an HR Business Partner (HRBP) for the 3 Canadian branches, you will align HR initiatives with business goals, acting as a strategic advisor to leadership and an advocate for employees. You will drive talent management, employee relations, performance management, and compliance, while fostering a positive workplace culture. By bridging HR and business needs, you will support change management, process improvements, and workforce success.

Attract, hire and engage a no-equal workforce (40%)

• Assist leadership in organizational structure design, modification and change to meet current and future business objectives.
• Assist in the evaluation of spans of control, levels of management, and planning for communication of organizational changes to employees.
• Identify material shifts in talent needs required to meet future business demands and create a realistic plan to deliver these capabilities at the right time.
• Influence Managers in the development and maintenance of job matrices (level cutters) to ensure employees know the skill levels required by the organization for promotions and effectiveness in the role.
• Communicate with Director of Total Rewards regarding upcoming organizational changes impacting compensation framework, manager feedback and opportunities for improvement.

• Work with leaders and talent acquisition to ensure time to fill and quality of hire goals are met.
• Monitor Talent Acquisition process and leadership effectiveness and develop, drive and/or oversee improvements at the branch as necessary. Communicate with manager of talent acquisition hiring needs, significant changes, and manager feedback and identified opportunities for improvement.
• Participate in the interview process as necessary.
• Drive a high-impact onboarding process to quickly engage new employees and ensure their success and retention. Closely monitor results of onboarding surveys, analyze results and suggest program modifications.
• Communicate with leader of L&OD manager feedback and identified opportunities for onboarding program improvement.

• Ensure branch/department leadership is aware of current employee engagement level and morale collected and assessed through various sources including focus groups, company culture and leadership survey, etc. Engage department/branch leadership to create action plans, develop processes and programs to address opportunities to improve employee engagement and morale.

• Drive and Support a Values-Based Culture
  • Be a trusted Advisor and Coach who drives and supports the organization’s culture.
  • Work with leaders to ensure business operations, decisions and processes are consistent with the stated culture. Where the “walk fails to match the talk”, take decisive action to reconcile the two.
  • Appropriately challenge the way work gets done and propose new processes, structures and people better able to capitalize on future business opportunities.
  • Anticipate the needs of the workforce and ensure these needs are adequately addressed relative to the SST culture and business strategy.

• In partnership with L&OD, ensure the success of the Strong Leaders and Emerging Leaders programs. Drive participation and engagement to ensure program is successful and results in an increase in leadership skills and effectiveness.
• Prepare presentations and/or deliver prepared HR/Leadership related content to the organizations that you support as needed.
• Assist leaders in creating high-quality development plans to meet…