HR Business Partner

Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We also develop custom, turnkey solutions to help reach the desired outcomes. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada's infrastructure and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal.

WE BUILD FOR LIFE.

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork and we are committed to ensuring that our teams have everything they need to succeed. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and, as a result, our award-winning safety culture has a record that's well above industry standards.

At Modern Niagara, you will work alongside values-driven, safety-conscious, and high-impact teams in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Here, your knowledge, skills, and excellent service will help ensure that the buildings that make up Canada's infrastructure fulfill the needs they were set out to meet.

Modern Niagara is one of Canada's Best Managed Companies and is a recipient of SMACNA's Safety Excellence Award Program (SSEAP) - Canada and the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) Magazine's Gold Winner for Canada's Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category and Excellence Winner for Canada's Best Health + Safety Culture Award as well as Canada's Best Health + Safety Leader Award.

We currently have fantastic opportunity for an HR Business Partner with a strong Employee Relations background to join a progressive and dynamic organization and a growing HR team in Vaughan. Reporting to the Manager of People and Culture Operations, responsibilities will include the full spectrum of best practices in the areas of employee relations, performance management, succession planning, and policies. Key focus will be building positive relationships across the business and partnering with the business leaders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the business leaders to build and maintain a thorough understanding of the business and leverage these gained business insights to develop, shape and implement HR solutions
• Provide advice and support on a wide range of HR issues to employees and leaders, in keeping with Modern Niagara's HR practices and culture
• Provide related administrative support in the areas of organizational changes, and business operations related to HR
• Regular communication with internal stakeholders in Human Resources policies, procedures, laws, standards and regulations
• Provide support to the compensation planning and salary administration programs
• Deliver support for onboarding, off boarding, promotions, and other staff movement
• Remain current with best practices, legislative changes and industry standards
• Perform other related duties as required

Qualifications and Job Requirements:

• Believe in and live the Modern Niagara Core Values-Teamwork, Initiative, Dedication, Professionalism, Passion
• Post-secondary education in Human Resources Management or a related field preferred
• 5+ years of relevant HR experience
• Strong working knowledge of current provincial employment laws, standards and regulations, including human rights legislation
• Experience with conflict resolution and negotiations
• Experience with recruiting and retention of high performing employees
• Strong communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with frontline employees, peers, and executives
• Strong interpersonal skills and organizational skills
• Experience with driving positive cultural change in both processes and systems
• Experience in a unionized environment an asset
• Experience implementing and managing a cloud based HRIS or UltiPro strongly desirable
• Resourceful, problem-solver that is energetic and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Modern Niagara, we recognize the value of fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and are committed to eliminating barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and new immigrants) in the construction industry. Our DEI vision is to build an organization where everyone has access to the same opportunities, experience equitable outcomes, and can thrive and reach their full potential.

We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Modern Niagara is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise us so that suitable accommodations can be made. We can be reached at careers@modernniagara.com.