Our client is a well established motor coil manufacturing facility located in Brockville.
This long standing, community centric company was recently acquired by a Canadian based motor manufacturing company who is a trusted partner with long standing clients in the Fortune 500 market around the world, and poised for significant growth over the next decade!
We are looking for an experienced Human Resources Business Partner to join their thriving team.
Position Objectives:
- Cultural Integration and Trust-Building: Within 12 months, embed IEC’s core values and culture through consistent communication, visible leadership behaviours, and site-wide engagement initiatives.
- Great Place to Work Launch and Engagement: Achieve at least 90% participation and a minimum 10% improvement over baseline survey.
- Leadership Partnership and Accountability: Implement a clear accountability framework and tools for leaders to manage attendance, corrective actions, and performance independently—with HR coaching and support.
- HR Process Implementation and Leverage: Within six months, fully implement IEC’s core HR processes—recruitment, onboarding, performance development, and recognition—and ensure they are consistently used and owned by site leaders.
- Union Relationship and Compliance: Within three months, establish constructive, trust-based relationships with union representatives and ensure all HR practices fully align with the collective agreement, fostering collaborative problem-solving and proactive issue resolution.
- Leadership Communication and Recognition: Within 12 months, activate and embed recognition programs, ensuring they are actively used by both leaders and employees, with measurable engagement reflected in participation rates and employee feedback.
About You/Competencies:
- HR Generalist Experience - 3+ years in a union environment.
- Trusted Advisor – Builds credibility quickly with leaders and employees; offers balanced, practical, and principle-based guidance.
- Culture Champion – Embodies IEC’s values and actively models them; reinforces culture through daily interactions and decisions.
- Influence and Coaching – Confidently influences site leaders to adopt ownership for people and performance; uses coaching techniques to build leadership maturity.
- Change Management – Guides teams through integration and cultural change with empathy and structure; helps employees adapt to company values.
- Collaboration and Union Relations – Maintains productive relationships across all levels, including union leadership, promoting mutual trust and problem-solving.
- Execution and Follow-Through – Delivers on commitments, operationalizes plans, and ensures processes are embedded, not just announced.
- Analytical and Process Orientation – Uses data, trends, and metrics to inform decision-making and improve workforce outcomes.
- Relevant Industry Experience – Demonstrated experience in manufacturing or unionized environments, with understanding of operational workflows, labor agreements, and employee relations in similar settings.
What's in it for you?
- Join an organization in continued growth mode with a unique value proposition and massive growth potential.
- You will work directly with a leadership team who aims to remove all obstacles so you can win, and empower you to be as successful as possible.
- You will collaborate with coworkers that will inspire you and be part of an environment you will actually look forward to working in everyday!
- Thrive in an environment that places utmost value on transparency, collaboration and authenticity where everyone’s door is always open.
Compensation: $80-85k base salary + 10% bonus + health/medical benefits.
Interested candidates, please note: our team checks for new applicants every day and while we would love to be able to engage with each of you personally, given the high volume of applicants we receive we are only able to contact candidates that are best suited for this role.
