HR Business Partner IV

This position is ideally suited for the HR professional looking provide full-scope HR leadership a past-faced, rapidly growing organization with a unique combination of both professionals and skilled trades at our primary office and manufacturing site in Chesapeake, VA and shipyards around the country. We are seeking an experienced and strategic leader who is eager to roll up their sleeves and partner with leaders and front-line employees. This role will partner with business leaders to develop and execute HR strategies focused on talent management, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, and employee engagement.

• Serves as a trusted business partner for the Vice President, senior leadership team, and leaders at all levels of the organization.

• Partner with leaders to understand business objectives and develop solutions that enable leaders to maximize the capability of their team members.

• Coach leaders on how they can be more effective in communicating priorities, setting expectations, providing resources, removing barriers to success, giving feedback, recognizing great performance, and holding employees accountable when their performance is not meeting expectations.

• Provide guidance and coaching to managers and employees with regards to employee engagement, performance management, career development, talent assessment and retention.

• Serve as an employee advocate; proactively identify opportunities and develop solutions to improve the employee experience.

• Conduct investigations as required to address employee complaints, violations of policies, or concerns.

• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) in the planning and execution of various HR programs.

• Partner with leaders to develop and implement strategies to drive positive employee relations and effective, 2-way communication.

• Lead the annual succession planning, talent review, and compensation planning processes.

• Assist with the transformational change and communication efforts by providing consultative support to leaders to develop and execute business strategies.

• Partner with department leadership to determine staffing requirements; partner with Talent Acquisition to manage the staffing process for both full-time and temporary resources.

• Be a consistent and visible presence with the workforce in order to build trust, maintain a pulse on the organization, and provide feedback and recommendations to leadership. May require flexible hours to ensure coverage of all shifts. 

• Travel to local shipyards regularly and sites around the country quarterly to meet with employees, read the pulse of the workforce, assess needs, and recommend/develop solutions.

• Serve as coach and mentor to more junior local HR and Talent Acquisition team members.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Business, Human Resources, Industrial/Labor Relations, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or other relevant degree.

• Minimum 12 years’ experience in roles of increasing responsibility as an HR Business Partner / Generalist.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience providing HR business partner support in a production, manufacturing, and/or field environment.
• Demonstrated experience and success translating business objectives into actionable HR strategies and measuring progress/success.
• Thorough understanding of state and federal labor laws and regulations.
• Thorough understanding of HR principles, concepts, practices and standards.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET security clearance.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics (Optional)

• Masters Degree in Business Administration or a Human Resources discipline preferred.

• PHR/SPHR certification.

• Prefer minimum 10 year’s experience in HR Business Partner / Generalist roles in a company with more than 10,000 employees. 

• Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and facilitation skills.

• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written.

• Demonstrated knowledge of employment and labor laws and regulations.

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.