Senior Director, Labor Relations

Job Title: Director, Labor Relations

This role oversees the development and implementation of labor relations strategies to promote maximum workforce productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and advise field leadership and HR colleagues on labor relations issues of strategic importance, including operational changes.
• Determine and develop short and long-term business strategy relative to labor relations impacts in bargain and non-bargain locations.
• Implement operating flexibilities to promote maximum workforce productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Provide direct support to all collective bargaining, representing the company as a spokesperson in labor negotiations.
• Oversee the daily administration of collective bargaining agreements at assigned locations.
• Actively support local HR, managers, and supervisors in investigating grievances and resolving them internally.
• Educate and guide local HR, managers, and supervisors through the grievance process and partner with the Labor & Employment legal team on contract interpretation.
• Develop and maintain lists of management initiatives and proposals for future collective bargaining.
• Conduct union contract training and deliver general labor relations training for local HR, managers, and supervisors.
• Lead union election campaigns and prevention training.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the National Labor Relations Act and experience in collective bargaining.
• Experience in managing a union election campaign to completion is required.
• Strong understanding of the National Labor Relations Act and any relevant state laws.
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear, concise, organized, persuasive manner.
• Tactful and flexible.
• Ability to function in a fast-paced work environment, exhibiting agility and sense of urgency, managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines.