Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description:

Safran Cabin Inc. is part of Safran, a global high-technology group operating in the aviation market. Safran Cabin specializes in designing and manufacturing aircraft interior products. The company focuses on trust, safety, quality, and innovation. Safran Cabin values collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence in a fast-paced, highly regulated industry. Team members join a global organization with opportunities to contribute to meaningful projects that directly support the aerospace sector.

Role Description - Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Santa Maria, CA (on-site)

This Senior Human Resources Business Partner is a full-time, on-site role based in Santa Maria, California.

As a Sr. Human Resources Business Partner (Sr. HRBP), you work closely with designated site senior leaders and departments managers to align people strategies with business goals and deliver HR services that support the company, driving employee engagement, within a very fast-paced and dynamic environment.  This position reports to the site Human Resources Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

HR Partner & Trusted Advisor:

• Proactively builds relationships with assigned clients, through regular engagement, to identify areas of improvement in support of business objectives.
• Partner with business leaders on workforce planning and organizational design.
• Identify organizational risks and opportunities related to talent.
• Annual HR Rhythm of the business deliverables achieved on-time: driver of annual performance reviews, goal settings, people development reviews, and mid-year reviews.
• Proactively identifies areas for improvement in all aspects of site’s employee experience.
• Lead change management initiatives during growth, restructuring, or transformation.

Employee Relations:

• Proactively and timely addresses employee relations issues and advises managers on best practices to encourage maximum productivity and workplace cohesiveness.
• Knows when to seek further assistance from HR Leader or legal counsel; being attentive to legal risks and appropriately addressing those risks through escalation to the HR Leader, training, or other methods.
• Participates in timely investigations, keeps records, recommends solutions for approval and implements action plans.
• Facilitates worker off-boarding by completing appropriate paperwork and providing guidance to the departing employee and their manager.
• Conducts exit interviews to analyze any trends and works with HR leader and management on any identified opportunities for improvement.

Employee Development:

• Helps identify development opportunities for employees and works with managers to create progression paths for employees to learn, grow and increase their knowledge.
• Advise on talent strategy, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Coach leaders on performance, engagement, and team effectiveness.
• Coach managers on effective performance feedback and employee development initiatives.
• Supports leaders on required training for their employees to ensure KPI’s are achieved and compliance is maintained.

Leaves & Accommodations:

• Owns employee leaves of absence with employees, manager and third parties like CA State & Metlife.
• Owns the employee accommodation and interactive process including providing guidance and following procedures for employees seeking medical or other legally defined accommodations. Ensures that applicable laws, policies, and procedures are being followed while empathy for the employee is demonstrated. 
• Acts as a subject matter expert on employee medical issues and laws (FMLA, PFML, ADA, etc.)
• Helps employees navigate the various leave options and ensures that policies and procedures are followed. Examine state/federal/policy requirements as well as payroll and benefit impact, retain and track leave request forms and medical paperwork, and monitor situation ongoing for any action required.

Other Contributions:

• Use workforce data and analytics to guide decision-making.
• Create and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Supports HR reporting at all levels of the business, Division and Group level.
• Partners with HSE (Health Safety Environment) colleagues to support site safety compliance and implementation of safety processes and procedures.
• Leads or contributes to special projects and initiatives as requested.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field, preferred.

Experience: A minimum 7 years’ experience as a Human Resources Generalist; minimum of 10 years HR experience total/overall.

Skills :

• Knowledge of both California and Federal Labor Laws.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of HR concepts, best practices, and procedures.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate, drive initiatives and give constructive feedback.
• Must be highly organized with ability to track multiple projects.
• Advanced level skills with Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel.
• Bilingual English/Spanish, needed.
• HR Certification, preferred.

Salary scale for the job: $74,080 - $125,370.

If you would like to work for a multinational company that values accountability and collaboration, in an environment of trust and recognition, this is the job for you.

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Sr. HR Business Partner M/F - United States, Santa Maria - 181149 | Safran