Human Resources Business Partner

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being an HR business partner to an office or multiple offices, providing support and guidance to the business in all areas of Human Resources and may include talent management, employee relations, benefits, compensation, and HR data analytics and reporting. This position serves as the primary point of contact for the business unit leaders and employees, providing expertise in HR policies, procedures, and best practices to drive business performance.

This is an office position and is located at our Columbus, Ohio office.

What You’ll Do:

• Partners with business leaders to understand their needs and align HR strategies and solutions with their goals. Develops positive working relationships and business partnerships in the designated offices and throughout the company.
• Provides guidance and support to business units on HR policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Partners with the HR departments to implement, administer, educate, and deliver on HR services, programs, training, and policies and/or practices that support the business units and HR objectives. Provides guidance and support to managers on performance management and coaching.
• Manages employee relations including investigation and developing solutions that result in fair and timely conflict resolution.
• Supports talent management initiatives, including workforce planning, succession planning, and leadership development. Collaborates with office leadership teams to identify employee development and training needs, creating, and implementing a plan to address those needs.
• Partners with the business to routinely analyze compensation and provide guidance to maintain or support external competitiveness and internal equity.
• Ensures compliance with HR-related legal requirements, including labor laws and regulations.
• Analyzes HR data and metrics to identify trends and opportunities for improvement. Regularly evaluates data and provides analytics to assigned groups.
• Conducts exit interviews, analyzes turnover trends, and works with leadership to develop strategies to increase engagement and retention.
• Evaluates current HR practices, recognizing and recommending enhancements. Participates in the development and implementation of HR programs and initiatives.
• Provides regular status updates to HR leadership on the HR Business Partner’s progress and impact on the business units.
• Performs other duties as assigned.​

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Business or relevant field and 8 years of relevant human resources experience

What You'll Bring:

• Has an expert understanding of the HR function and how to integrate that expertise to add value to the business. Serve as a key advisor who makes recommendations which help shape how work gets done.
• Understands financial performance metrics and the levers that impact and influence the overall financial performance of the organization.
• Leads talent discussions with business leaders to identify critical skills gaps and future hiring needs (e.g., draft board).
• Recommend succession strategies; predict talent needs and drive talent flow through development – experience, education, exposure.
• Builds compelling narratives using data and visualizations to convey findings that help stakeholders understand people related business issues. Use analytics trends to identify root cause and develop/implement proactive solutions.
• Applies systems thinking – addresses challenges comprehensively through analysis of inter-related data and can simplify for understanding/action.
• Disambiguates complex problems and identify root causes through effective stakeholder communications. Approaches problem solving systematically and make timely, well thought out solutions or areas of improvement.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates potential risk to business decisions and situations before they arise. Partners and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to address potential or existing risk to provide the most appropriate solution.
• Collaborates and directs work and business requests to appropriate channels within HR (e.g., appropriately leveraging COEs as needed).
• Challenges the status quo, focused on continuous improvement, is organization savvy.
• Knowledgeable about the Office & Division goals in context to the firm’s approaches when piloting new things.
• Demonstrates ability and willingness to continually learn, grow and use new strategies to solve increasingly complex business problems.
• Must have the ability to travel up to 30% of the time

What We Prefer:

• 8 years of HR Business Partner experience consulting with leaders on HR strategy and administration of programs.

Additional Information

Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards

Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Columbus, OH

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The approximate pay range for Ohio is $110,384.86 - $172,653.25. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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