HR Business Partner

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Your Opportunity

We are in pursuit of an experienced HR Business Partner to join our passionate, collaborative, and results-driven team. As part of our HR Client Services (HRCS) team, the HR Business Partner will be supporting leaders and employees throughout our various business lines. We are excited to have this person ideally located in our Calgary or Edmonton office. This position offers a flexible hybrid work arrangement (average of at least 3 days per week in office).

The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor, strategist, consultant, analyst, change agent, and coach. The individual will sit alongside and collaborate with business leaders to develop and implement strategies that support people and organizational needs in addition to facilitating the deployment of our HR Strategic Plan. Every day you will engage in business conversations, influence, and equip people leaders to lead their teams and foster a highly engaged and inspiring workplace. 

We are looking for someone who is resilient, pragmatic, adaptable, and a team player. Your counsel will be logical, analytical, and strategic. Your passion to make a difference will contribute to the success of our internal clients in creating better outcomes for our Stantec clients and the various communities we serve.

This opportunity is truly career-changing and will allow you to take your career to the next level.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Quickly establish effective working relationships with internal client groups, including employees, managers, and senior leaders, along with our HR colleagues.

• Proactively partner with clients to identify strategic issues, workforce planning or organizational design challenges and provide advice and expertise to help develop creative solutions.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders by presenting multiple perspectives and challenging the status quo.

• Provide strategic guidance and effectively scale the application of the HR generalist disciplines including employee engagement, retention and talent development, succession planning, change, conflict and exit management, employment legislation, employee relations, performance management, investigations, job evaluation, compensation management, internal communication, coaching, data analytics, workforce planning, policy interpretation, career coaching, and facilitation to positively impact Stantec’s culture.

• Serve as a workforce champion and promote a positive work environment and employee experience.

• Facilitate training as needed including planning and delivering sessions with managers and employees.

• Foster a continuous improvement mindset and continually look for opportunities to increase the return on investment of human resources programs for employees and leaders.

• Collaborate within a geographically dispersed team to communicate, facilitate, and/or present HR programs and initiatives to client groups. 

• Work collaboratively with other HR functions, such as an HR service representative for accurate completion of employee transactions.

• Enjoy being part of a high performing team that values collaboration, celebrates successes, and knows how to have fun.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Proven influencer and collaborator, with the ability to provide guidance and support to business clients.

• Developed skills in coaching managers, facilitation, conflict resolution and relationship management.

• Valued for your agility and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and having a focus for action-orientation on results.

• Respected for balancing strategic and operational tasks with strong organizational and time management skills.

• Noted for your ability to identify and anticipate strategic and operational business and human capital challenges, then providing and executing innovative solutions with attention to critical details.

• Distinguished as a business partner who learns the business and takes an active interest in continually enhancing your business acumen.

• Regarded as an exceptional communicator and able to influence a broad and diverse range of stakeholders through effective relationships, verbal, and written communication.

• Valued as a consummate professional, exercising confidentiality, discretion, and sound judgment, as well as possessing critical thinking in ambiguous situations.

• Recognized for your learning mindset, initiative, and ability to understand the business and challenges, and new and innovative approaches that result in improvements in team engagement, productivity and organizational performance.

• Distinguished for your interest in continual personal development and for keeping current in human resource best practices through external resources.

• Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of the core HR competencies including but not limited to compensation, benefits, employment law, organizational development, talent development and training, mentoring/coaching/facilitation, recruitment and workforce planning and an overall understanding of HR policies and programs and other terms and conditions of employment, along with an understanding of HR best practices.

• Adaptability to rapidly changing demands.

• Prior experience successfully operating within a matrix global organization and within a geographically dispersed team is an asset.

• Ability to travel to other Stantec offices as needed.

• Strong MS Office Suite skills preferred.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.

• Minimum of 6 years of related work experience. An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.

• HR certifications such as CPHR preferred.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.