HRBP - Labor relations

Company Description

American Iron & Metal (AIM) is a family-owned, Canadian-based company founded in 1936 in Montreal, Quebec. Recognized as one of North America’s most sophisticated metal recyclers, AIM has evolved into a successful and multifaceted company with a global footprint. With over 90 locations around the world and 3000+ employees, our unwavering entrepreneurial spirit commitment to operational excellence and focus on our people is at the core of everything we do. We are growing and looking for new team members who are motivated to grow with us and play a key role in our expansion.

The Senior HR Business Partner will also act as the go-to expert for employee relations, supporting leaders in managing workplace issues with professionalism, fairness, and consistency.

Strategic Business partnering:

You will demonstrate an understanding and translation capability of our business challenges into practical and pro-active HR support. You will support the Management teams on HR initiatives, ensuring we can help them reaching their business strategic objectives and design their most adapted organisations to support growth and success.

Employee Relations

You will act as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for managers on all employee relations matters. You will support them in handling sensitive workplace situations with professionalism, fairness, and alignment with company values and HR policies. Your role will include providing guidance on performance concerns, disciplinary processes, conflict resolution, and workplace investigations, ensuring decisions are made in compliance with employment standards and best practices. You will proactively help build a positive and respectful work environment, where employee engagement, well-being, and collaboration are actively fostered.

Talent Management:

Senior HR Business partner will be a key actor and reference in best practices development and deployment on Talent Management, ensuring right and innovative standards and practices are set across the scope. You will provide with guidance and expertise to business leads regarding employee’s motivation and engagement and how we can grow and sustain our employee’s retention. You will support Group initiatives around succession planning to ensure right pipe identification and appropriate development planning of our successor to critical positions short-mid-term.

Performance Management:

As part of the employee’s performance cycle, you will start by promoting and developing a new Performance Management scheme, supporting on change management, before animating and driving the process on respective areas (SMART objectives coaching, mid & end year review animation, development planning).

Qualifications

- University degree in industrial relations or human resources management.

- Minimum five (5) years of relevant experience in a similar position

- HR Certification is a +, such as Org development and Coaching skills.

- Team player, good management animation, capability to grow its team

- Influential leadership, analytical skills, and objectivity in carrying out its activities.

- Ability to influence key stakeholders

- Must be results, detail and customer oriented with problem solving skills.

- Possesses strong communication skills as well as strong sense of organisation and autonomy.

- Bilingualism (French/English) required