Ford Motor Company

Manager, Employee Relations

Ford Motor Company$115K — $218K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of HR experience
  • Leadership experience in a manufacturing plant
  • Experience in union contract negotiations
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Bachelor's degree required

Responsibilities

  • Administer provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement across various job security aspects
  • Interpret contract provisions to resolve employment movement issues
  • Investigate Job Security concerns for the Company
  • Lead Company representative in discussions with the UAW on Job Security
  • Streamline processes related to employee movement and hiring
  • Ensure compliance with laws affecting the US hourly workforce
  • Collaborate across multiple departments, including HR and Operations leadership

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service
  • Generous holiday schedule, including holiday shutdown week
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

The Manager, Employee Relations, Job Security, US Union Affairs is accountable for hourly employee movement and related contractual provisions. The role ensures the resolution of employee movement and hiring issues with Operations and the UAW. The role closely partners with HR leadership, Operations leadership, Finance and the UAW, as well as collaborates with other functions and departments. The role also supervises the maintenance of accurate documentation and tracking of hourly workforce planning, implementation of Collective Bargaining Agreement commitments, effective communication strategies, and investigation of escalated concerns. The role has expertise in interpreting and administering labor agreements, analyzing trends, and providing guidance on contract language and Company policies.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Administer all provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement in Volume I, Articles VIII and IX, and Appendices K, M, N, O and P, and related Letters of Understanding associated with job security, hourly hiring and transfers, hourly employee movement, conversion of Temporary employees, and product investments and associated hourly job sourcing.
  • Interpret and administer contract provisions of the Job Security provisions to resolve issues or concerns that could impact employee movement, placement or hiring, including seniority dates, weeks worked and wage rates.
  • Investigate Job Security concerns on behalf of the Company.
  • Serve as lead Company representative for discussions with the UAW related to all Job Security matters.
  • Modernize and streamline all Job Security processes associated with employee movement and hiring.
  • Ensure compliance with all statutory and federal laws impacting the US hourly workforce.
  • Collaborate with HR personnel, Executive Leadership, and Operations management across all locations, as well as the Union, regarding hourly employee movement, placement and hiring.
  • Serve as the Labor Affairs, Job Security liaison with HRLO, IT, Operations, Employee Payments, GDIA, Finance, Benefits and OGC, covering all aspects of hourly employee movement, placement, hiring and associated personnel matters.
  • Write and review local and national contract provisions when necessary during negotiations, and update administrative letters throughout the CBA period.
  • Lead the negotiation subcommittee for Job Security/Sourcing.
  • Create and generate various data reports in HCM and Excel, including hiring data and analysis, hourly evaluation review and analysis, and various headcount reports for all US locations for senior leadership and negotiations; partner with the HCM reporting team to initiate requests for new reports and validate data prior to launch.
  • Serve as owner of the JSP Joint Programs SharePoint site.
  • Serve as the Ford Executive Program Director of JSP UAW-Ford Joint Trusts


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • 5+ years' experience in Human Resources
  • Previous manufacturing plant experience, preferably at a leadership level
  • Previous union contract negotiations experience
  • Ability to analyze data and use technology to identify and diagnose business needs
  • Ability to lead others to deliver cross-functional objectives and assignments
  • Self-starter with strong time management skills and a keen eye for detail
  • Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
  • Strong interpersonal, negotiation and persuasion skills
  • Presence to successfully influence and interface with peers and UAW working partners
  • Confident communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Conflict management skills
  • Team-oriented with a strong drive for results
  • Bachelor's degree required

Even better you'll have...

Master's degree

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid#LI-MN1

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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