Senior HR Business Partner

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

An exciting opportunity exists for a highly motivated and experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join our passionate, collaborative, and results‑driven team. As part of our US West HR Client Services (HRCS) team, the Senior HR Business Partner will be supporting leaders and employees for multiple business centers/business lines in the region. You will need to wear several hats, be a 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, inspiring, and inclusive 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.

This opportunity is truly career changing and an opportunity to take your career to the next level.

• 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.
• Practice effective relationship management to elevate working relationships with internal client groups, including managers, senior leaders, and employees along with our HR Talent Services teams.
• Demonstrate and effectively scale the application of the HR generalist 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, and policy interpretation 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 functions such as an HR service representative for accurate completion of employee transactions, talent acquisition for recruitment, etc.
• Have some 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…