HR Employee Relations Professional

Job Title: HR Employee Relations Professional

Location: Reston, VA 20190

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Hybrid

Pay Rate: $55.00 - 65.00/HR.

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of their people and their relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, they align their capabilities to their customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, they helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• As an Employee Relations (ER) Specialist at client, you will play a key role in upholding our Vision, Values, and Commitments (VV&Cs) and maintaining a fair and respectful work environment for all client's colleagues.
• The client’s ER Partners conduct thorough investigations into workplace issues, resolve escalated employee concerns, and provide expert guidance on ER matters to both leaders and staff.
• While you will primarily manage ER activities within your assigned geographic region, your expertise may also be called upon to support and coordinate efforts cross-regionally.

Major Responsibilities:

• Manage complex employment-related investigations, end-to-end, including conducting intake meetings, background research, investigative interviews, report-writing, corrective actions, and debrief meetings, across the client's project and office locations.
• Investigate complaints involving violations of Company policy, including allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, bullying, and other inappropriate behavior.
• Coach and advise all levels of management through employee relations matters (e.g., interpersonal conflicts, communication of employment decisions, advice on policy application, performance management, mental health concerns, workforce reductions, etc.).
• Partner closely with global cross-functional partners within the ER Communities of Expertise, Legal, Human Resources, Ethics and Compliance, Security, Industrial/Labor Relations, and business units.
• Facilitate ER training for managers and supervisors and participate in projects led by the ER team.
• Partner closely with the ER Communities of Expertise colleagues to leverage ER data to proactively identify opportunities to enhance the employee experience.
• Deliver workforce reduction processes as initiated by Project HR and Project Management.
• Other duties as required.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Level 1

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience​.

Level 2

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience​.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Formal training and/or certification in investigations is preferred.
• Proven track record of conducting workplace investigations that will withstand legal scrutiny.
• Strong understanding of employment law, compliance, and ER best practices.
• Experience presenting findings and recommendations to all levels of leadership, including those with dissenting opinions.
• High level of discretion and ethical judgment.
• Proficiency in electronic case management applications.
• Able to work effectively across geographical and cultural boundaries.
• Able to demonstrate a high degree of empathy balanced against an ability to provide direct feedback and engage in difficult and sensitive conversations.
• Proficiency in analyzing ER data to generate comprehensive reports, identify trends, and derive actionable insights for business and project leaders.
• Ability to travel as required.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.