Ford Motor Company

Senior Specialist, Employee Relations

Ford Motor Company$86K — $144K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in human resources, Organizational Development, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 2-3 years of relevant HR and labor experience
  • Experience in a manufacturing facility (preferred)
  • SPHR or SHRM-SCP certification (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Build strong relationships with Site Leadership and Operations to support HR initiatives
  • Track people metrics to identify and address workforce gaps
  • Execute talent management processes including performance management and recruitment
  • Collaborate with union representatives to address grievances and apply collective bargaining agreements
  • Conduct investigations on disciplinary issues, ensuring thorough and timely resolution
  • Support payroll processes and track attendance-related actions
  • Foster employee engagement through initiatives based on survey feedback

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility treatment reimbursement
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Generous paid holiday schedule including the week between Christmas and New Year's
  • Paid time off and options to purchase additional vacation time
  • Paid time off for community service initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

This HR Business Partner role strategically aligns HR functions with business objectives, enhancing employee experience and driving success through expertise in labor relations and employee engagement. Working closely with Site Leadership, Operations, and union representatives, you will deliver advanced HR solutions, support talent management, and ensure compliance in an on-site distribution setting. This role requires strong communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills to foster a high-performing, empowered workforce and a positive work environment.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Business Acumen: Builds strong relationships and develops a deep understanding of operations to make informed decisions, provides valuable consulting to leadership, and offers strategic guidance on HR matters that drive sustainable cultural change and supports the achievement of business objectives
  • Tracks People metrics, collaborating with the HR Manager and Operations Leadership to identify and address gaps
  • Talent Management: Assists customer group with the execution of talent management responsibilities, including performance management, talent development, succession planning, PDC activities, compensation planning, recruitment, and other personnel actions. Conducts new hire onboarding and orientation activities.
  • Employee Relations: Collaborates closely with Operations Leadership and union representatives to ensure correct implementation and accurate interpretation of the collective bargaining agreement, addressing inquiries, grievances, and other union-related issues for consistent application
  • Union Relations: Assists in resolving union issues such as conflicts, disputes, and disciplinary matters, ensuring fairness and consistency in a timely manner. Participates in collective bargaining process and negotiations where support is needed. Ensures rep comp is completed accurately and timely within the constraints of the contractual agreement
  • Investigations: Conducts investigations within their assigned customer group, ensuring that all disciplinary issues, grievances, and arbitration matters are handled in a timely and effective manner. Assesses the severity of each case and escalates significant concerns to the Manager, HR Generalist as required. Escalates all types of discrimination charges and complaints in partnership with legal counsel. Leverages conflict resolution and critical thinking skills to conduct investigations.
  • Payroll, Time and Attendance: Supports payroll and attendance tracking processes including attendance hearings, issuing 10-day quit letters, updating system codes, vacation usage, and running necessary reports. Applies knowledge of leaves of absences policies, rules and regulations including the Family and Medical Leave Act and its interaction with worker's compensation and Americans with Disabilities Act to administer and track in relevant HRIS systems.
  • Manpower Administration: Assists with the talent management process for hourly employees within their customer group including: TFT /TPT placement and tracking, support skill trades hiring / apprenticeship program administration, outside contracting, internal and external hourly hiring processes, reskilling, transferring, retirement separation packages, tracking and processing, team leader 30/60/90-day review processes, and manpower reporting.
  • Employee Engagement: Fosters a positive and inclusive hourly and salary employee experience through proactive initiatives based on feedback through employee opinion surveys, suggestions, and open-door policies and DEI initiatives, to boost engagement and address areas for improvement. Participates in employee recognition events, planning, etc. Conducts daily floor walks in designated customer area to build positive relationships with employees and ensure HR availability.
  • Lean Methodology: Apply lean methodologies and tools with progressive HR practices to guide decision-making, problem-solving, root cause analysis, and drive operations to best in class levels.
  • Employee Communication: Partners with local communications staff to implement and execute relevant communications to foster an informed employee population and 2-way communication across all shifts.
  • Compliance: Ensures compliance with employment laws, regulations, and company policies.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree in human resources, Organizational Development, or any other related discipline or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
  • Minimum 2-3 years of relevant HR and labor work experience


Even better, you may have...
  • Experience working in a manufacturing facility
  • SPHR or SHRM-SCP certification


Work Requirements...

Involves occasional (defined as one-third or less of the time) lifting of no more than 10 pounds at a time. Work is performed primarily in a seated position and entails no significant stooping, standing, climbing, walking, etc. Many sedentary jobs require good use of the hands and fingers for repetitive hand-finger actions. Working conditions occur within low to moderate noise levels related to the use of standard office or classroom equipment.

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 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 childcare 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
  • 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.

Paid time off for individual and team community service

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600 - $144,900

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: New Hire Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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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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