Specialist Employee Partnering

Objetive of Job:

• The Employee Partner is responsible for maintaining and improving employee relations on-site at the assigned locations. The Employee Partner is the face-to-face contact person for employees, supports them in resolving individual issues, such as complaints and wellbeing matters, and ensures transparent communication between management and workforce.

Principle Activities:

• Support employees (especially direct employees on-site in the plant) in the event of concerns, e.g. frequent and long term absence, grievances, investigations, etc.
• Act as Leadership Partner for shopfloor leaders: Support in daily leadership business and advise in people-related topics along the employee lifecycle, taking into account relevant legal and corporate guidelines
• Advise employees in individual (non-transactional) matters based on policies, guidelines and (legal) regulations
• Review and resolve complex individual (non-transactional) employee matters, cooperate with and coordinate between internal (e.g. Leadership Partner, CoEs, legal department) and external stakeholders (e.g. company health care provider), taking into account relevant legal and corporate guidelines
• Ensure involvement of Leadership Partner if the employee matter concerns a leadership topic
• Investigate and analyze concerns/challenges of employees, identify patterns and trends and derive fields of action
• Make Leadership Partner / leaders aware of identified fields of action and support in deriving appropriate actions in collaboration with Leadership Partner and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. leaders, CoEs, employees’ representatives)
• Ensure compliance with internal work regulations, collective bargaining agreements, and the Federal Labor Law.
• Support the establishment, implementation, and maintenance of the environmental management system at all applicable levels of the organization and report incidents and opportunities for improvement to the on-site environmental manager.
• Maintain and control documentation that may be useful to labor authorities.
• Prepare administrative reports and apply sanctions within the legal framework, as well as mediate in labor dispute situations.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor´s Degree in Human Resources, Organizational Developement or equivalent required.
• Experience in Learning or PD role < 2 years.
• Experienced in adult learning methodology and effective application of concepts in data gathering 2 - 3 years.
• Training and education experience in leadership programs 2 - 3 years.
• Knowleadge in Office package and SAP Systems.
• Advanced level in English.
• Experince working in automotive manufacturing preferred.
• Knowlendge in labor legislation and Payroll & Comp and Ben Administration.