Place of Business:
Teacher Retirement System of Texas

Location:
Austin, Texas

Position Description:

The Employee Relations Specialist sits in a central role to support the internal foundation of relationships that connects employees to each other. We are looking for a dynamic, supportive human resources professional to oversee employee relations throughout our agency.

This position is being posted at two levels. The applicant selected will be offered the role that aligns with their education and experience

Employee Relations Specialist - $67,000 - $96,000

Sr. Employee Relations Specialist - $81,000 - $107,000

Employee Relations:

• Provides support to management and employees on employee relations policies, procedures, and programs.
• Advises managers on employee relations matters to include assessing root causes, determining appropriate strategies for addressing problems, and coaching and supporting managers through execution of identified actions, including corrective actions as appropriate.
• Recognizes potential statute violations in the workplace and leads or participates in investigations of such matters.
• Conducts objective and thorough climate assessments and internal investigations of grievances and complaints, as directed.
• Interprets historical, current, and projected data to identify problems, causes, and areas for which procedural or system changes to positively influence agency culture are indicated.
• Advises management and employees on TRS policy.
• Creates and conducts engaging training related to agency policies, federal/state laws, rules and regulations.
• As needed, receives, reviews, and processes unemployment claims and participates in unemployment hearings.

Employee Relations Support:

• Prepares or assists in the preparation of human resources reports to include gathering, compiling, and analyzing data.
• Assists with and prepares/presents information related to employee relations matters.
• Prepares and presents information related to employee relations matters. (Sr.)
• Maintains employee relations files and ensures that the TRS records retentions standards are met.
• Conducts exit interviews and maintains reporting related to information received from exit interviews.
• Assists in planning, developing, reviewing, revising, and implementing human resources processes and activities related to employee relations activities.
• Provides back-up support to department staff.

Performs related work as assigned.

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Human Resources or closely related field.
• High school diploma or equivalent and additional full-time directly related human resources generalist experience may be substituted on an equivalent year-for-year basis.

Required Experience:

• Three (3) years of full-time directly related, progressively responsible experience in coordinating employee relations activities, providing advice and consultation to all levels of management on employee relations issues.
• Five (5) years of full time directly related, progressively responsible experience in coordinating employee relations activities, providing advice and consultation to all levels of management on employee relations issues. (Sr.)
• Experience conducting internal employee relations investigations, which includes writing investigation reports.

Place of Business:
McLane Company

Location:
Temple, TX

Position Description:

McLane is one of the largest and most stable supply chain services leaders in the United States. We’ve been at the forefront of delivering retail and restaurant solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants for over 125 years. Our vision is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns

The Policy & Employee Relations Manager supports the Senior Director of Teammate Relations and partners with McLane Business Unit Leadership, Human Resource Managers, and other leaders in the execution of a broad, well-balanced and effective labor/teammate relations strategy. Work as a liaison between teammates and management to resolve conflict and/or conduct investigations with responsibility for oversight and management of investigations that come into the Home Office via Open Door Policy, and any other avenues (manager, Human Resources, teammates, etc.).

This position will require the candidate to report and work from the office five days a week. Therefore, interested candidates should be within a 50-minute radius from Temple, TX.

BENEFITS:

- Day 1 Benefits available: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA and company-paid life insurance.

- Paid holidays, earn vacation time, and sick leave accrual from day one.

- 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 90 days.

- Additional benefits: pet insurance, maternity/paternity leave, employee assistance programs, discount programs, tuition reimbursement program, and more!

- Oversee and manage investigations, to include project management, and conduct investigations for Open Doors, Ethics Hotline, or other contacts.

- Train and assist Human Resource Managers and the Teammate Relations HR Investigators in doing investigations, writing investigation reports, and providing advice.

- Support labor/teammate relations with research and analysis by performing research for markets, changes in laws, NLRB decisions (seeking legal advice as needed), monitoring daily/weekly labor articles, contract analysis, or other related items.

- Proactively monitor labor risks by collecting, analyzing and reporting on labor data (internal and external).

- Work on complex labor/teammate relations projects and activities to support, analyze, develop and/or improve individual engagement tools utilized by McLane (team member surveys, Connectivity Program, focus groups).

- Develop materials to support the labor/teammate relations’ strategies by creating, maintaining, and updating presentations and other materials for use proactively and reactively.

- Produce labor/teammate relations reports and updates for leadership.

- Provide labor/teammate relations, coaching, and education to leadership, as required.

- Identify, source, and utilize internal business partners and third-party vendor support for specialized projects that require unique expertise or resources that are not readily available.

- Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in labor relations, Human Resources Management, or related field.

- Three or more years labor/employee relations experience.

- Work experience conducting investigations with exposure to best practices. Certification a plus.

- Project management experience preferred.

- Experience managing direct reports.

- Effective communication and interpersonal relationship skills.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Willingness to be continually available to teammates and leadership to discuss workplace issues.

- Ability to manage and maintain online resources.

- Knowledge of current trends in labor relations.

- Ability to provide effective teammate relations support to HR and Operations personnel.

- Ability to identify labor/teammate relations best practices that will improve workplace environments.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

- Office and/or warehouse environment.

- Some travel required.

- Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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