Director, HR Business Partners - Nuclear

About Ameren Services (B&CS)

Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long-term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.

- Medical coverage on date of hire

- 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan

- 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire

- Long Term Incentive Plan

- Option to enroll in Deferred Compensation

- Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays

- Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave

Visit our Benefits & Perks Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full-time employees.

The Director, HR Business Partners– Nuclear for the Callaway Energy Center plays a pivotal role in ensuring the successful execution of workforce strategies and processes to enable station and company performance and to shape an engaging work environment. This role resides at the Callaway Energy Center in Fulton, Missouri and partners closely with senior leaders at the Callaway Energy Center. In addition, this role is a member of the Corporate HR Strategy Team and reports to the Vice President, Human Resources. This position is hybrid and will work on-site 3-5 days per week to allow for collaboration with the leadership team. Periodic travel to Ameren's Headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri and Nuclear Industry events will be required.

- Lead a small team of HR professionals on-site at the Callaway Energy Center and partner closely with members of the broader HR team and Callaway leadership team to deliver on Callaway's most important workforce needs.

- Ensure a strong understanding of both the Nuclear Industry's standards, Ameren's workforce programs and processes, and the current/future needs of the Station to continuously identify and execute on the most important workforce priorities.

- Chair the People Health Committee meetings (a monthly engagement between Callaway and HR leadership designed to ensure ongoing alignment around Callaway's workforce priorities and to ensure mutual accountability for the execution of those priorities).

- This role will focus the majority of its time on strategic workforce priorities (ensuring strong execution of talent processes including succession planning, partnering with station leadership to address top priority talent needs or challenges, ensuring an optimized and effective organization structure, serving as a liaison with the HR function, etc.)

- Effectively communicate (both verbally and in writing) the alignment between Callaway's strategic priorities and workforce-related priorities (including key focus areas and outcomes) to a wide-range of stakeholders (which may include senior executives, the Board of Directors, Industry leaders, Regulators, etc.)

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant business-related discipline (business, human resources, etc.) required. An advanced degree in business or another relevant field preferred.

- Ten or more years of progressively responsible human resources experience is required.

- Five or more years of experience leading people or projects is required. Direct people leadership experience, senior-level HR Business Partner experience and/or senior-level talent management experience is preferred.

- Experience leading talent management processes (succession planning, performance management, leadership and team development, etc.) is preferred.

- HR (or similar) experience in the nuclear, energy, or a related industry is preferred.

In addition to the above qualifications, the successful candidate will possess the following capabilities:

- Strong relationship builder and collaborator, with the ability to quickly build rapport and trust and to maintain this over time through the demonstration of values and integrity. Ability to work effectively in a matrixed structure.

- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and translate strategy into a tangible plan. Strong organization and structuring skills.

- Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively verbally, in written form, and interpersonally with senior leaders and external partners. Strong ability to effectively simplify and synthesize complex information with the end-user in mind.

- Strong problem-solving orientation, with the ability to quickly understand complex information and assess/identify pragmatic solutions.

- Strong learning orientation, with the ability to quickly make sense of, simplify and integrate complex information to enable productive solutions.

- A proactive and continuous improvement mindset, including a focus on leveraging technology, automation, and analytics to facilitate strong operational performance.

Additional Information:

Ameren’s selection process will include a series of interviews, including a behavioral interview. In addition, a formal leadership assessment will be conducted as a component of the final selection process. Specific details will be provided to qualified candidates.

$135,500.00 - $210,000.00

At Ameren, base salary is one component of a competitive compensation package for employees. Our pay ranges are broad to allow for movement within our organization and to accommodate different skill sets and levels of expertise. We take into consideration a variety of factors including, but not limited to, skills, abilities, experience, education, credentials, and internal equity when determining the base salary offered. Roles are eligible for additional rewards including annual incentive payments based on individual and company performance. Director and above positions also include a Long-Term Incentive Plan and the option to enroll in a Deferred Compensation Plan.

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