Air Liquide

HRBP, West Canada (Mat Leave Coverage)

Edmonton, AB - 118 Ave. - Sales Full time

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

We are in pursuit of an experienced HR Business Partner to join our passionate, collaborative, and results-driven team. In this role, you will partner with leaders and our employees within Western Canada.

You will be a trusted advisor, consultant, analyst, and coach. Everyday, you will engage in business conversations, and equip people leaders to lead their teams and foster a highly engaged workplace.

We are looking for someone who is resilient, pragmatic, adaptable, and collaborative. Your counsel should 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 Edmonton based role is a term role to cover for an upcoming parental leave. We anticipate this term being up to 16 months.

Air Liquide offers innovative solutions - gas, equipment and services - in a wide variety of sectors, from oil and gas, mining, healthcare, automotive, aeronautics, metallurgy, metal fabrication to chemical and agri-food industries. Air Liquide Canada is the number one Canadian producer and distributor of gases derived from air.

At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

Recruiter:  Deepika Chawla / deepika.chawla@airliquide.com / 780-239-7391

This Edmonton based role is a term role to cover for an upcoming parental leave. We anticipate this term being up to 16 months.

Strategy & Partnership

  • Develop and maintain a trusted advisor relationship with client groups, including employees and managers along with our HR colleagues by presenting multiple perspectives and challenging the status quo.

  • Provide counsel that upholds our culture, vision, and values.

  • Collaborate with partners across our HR team to harness the collective knowledge and work of our expert teams.

  • Lead investigations, uphold the collective agreements of 5 different active unions and provide reporting for the leadership group.

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

  • Provide reporting and analysis from our HRIS system (Workday) as required.

People Activities

  • Participate in identifying and implementing people-related strategic initiatives.

  • Partner with leaders to ensure alignment to our compensation philosophy.

  • Manage the rollout and results for talent management strategies.

  • Drive engagement & culture initiatives to foster a positive and inclusive work environment.

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

  • Influence excellence and results across all HR programs through effective and easy programs and strategies.

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

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Are you a MATCH?

  • Proven collaborator, with the ability to provide guidance and support to business clients from employees to managers.

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

  • Prior experience partnering and providing HR support to the field.

  • 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 attention to detail 

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

  • Comprehensive understanding of core HR competencies.

  • 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 AirLiquide locations in Western Canada as needed.

  • Strong Google Suite (sheets, docs, slides, google drive)  skills preferred.
     

Education and Experience

  • Post Secondary education in human resources, business, or a related field.

  • Minimum of 4 years of related HR business partner experience.

  • Experience with handling grievances and supporting leaders in upholding the terms of the negotiated CBAs.

  • Proven capability in leading investigations, from initial reporting of an issue to provisioning a report to leadership.

Our Differences make our Performance


At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.