HNTB

Human Resources Business Partner

HNTB • $121K — $189K *
Chicago, IL 60629In-Person
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or relevant field
  • 8 years of relevant HR experience
  • Expert understanding of HR function integration
  • Knowledge of financial performance metrics
  • Proficient in using HR analytics for decision-making

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business leaders to align HR strategies with business goals
  • Guide business units on HR policies and best practices
  • Implement and administer HR services and programs
  • Manage employee relations and conflict resolution
  • Support talent management initiatives and workforce planning
  • Analyze HR data and identify trends for improvement
  • Provide regular updates on progress and impact to HR leadership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Flexible work options
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Travel reimbursement
Full Job Description
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 can be located at either our Chicago or Milwaukee office locations.

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

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:
Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI (East Wisconsin Avenue)

The approximate pay range for Illinois is $121,423.35 - $189,918.58. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position 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.

The approximate nation wide pay range for this position is $110,384.86 - $215,816.57. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position 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.

NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

About HNTB

HNTB Corporation is an American infrastructure design firm that was founded in 1914. The firm has designed many bridges, roadways, airports, and other infrastructure projects throughout the United States. HNTB has worked on many high-profile projects, including the Hoover Dam Bypass, the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement, and the new terminal at Kansas City International Airport. The firm has over 60 offices throughout the United States and employs over 5,000 people.
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Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Real Estate & Construction
* Ladders Estimates

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