Senior Employee Relations Specialist- REMOTE

At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 65,000+ associates work across the globe at more than 15 unique operating companies within three platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next.

You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to: 

• Play a critical role in creating and supporting an equitable workplace culture where associates can be at their most productive and focus on growing their careers, championing our standard processes and policies across our OpCos, and ensuring compliance and employee relations best practices.
• Advise and coach OpCo HR team members on core labor and employee relations matters including Human Resources and Employee Relations investigations, individual separations for performance, misconduct, or the like; employee-medical and religious accommodations, including leaves of absence; performance management, including performance-improvement plans, and other disciplinary action; and reductions-in-force, restructuring based separations, and other group terminations, etc. 
• Conduct and manage non-routine workplace investigations of associate complaints and grievances with systematic approach to address root causes, develop and recommend actions and countermeasures, and effectively conclude investigation by facilitating a review of the decision with appropriate stakeholders and close out of actions and countermeasures.
• Help build and implement Standard Work and best practice tools, policies and trainings, and ensure Standard Work and best practice tools are consistently adopted.
• Liaise with OpCo HR team members to share learnings, develop skills and competency within the HR function, and ensure cases are handled effectively and efficiently with SLAs.
• Draft non-routine documents and templates in connection with the four core pillars.

The essential requirements of the job include:  

• University degree required (BA or BS); Master’s Degree preferred
• Has at least 5+ years or labor and employee relations experience in the U.S. with substantial responsibility in handling a variety of complex LER issues to conclusion, including in a remote work environment, in our four key pillars of Human Resources and Employee Relations investigations; individual separations for performance, misconduct, or the like; employee-medical accommodations, including leaves of absence; performance management, including performance-improvement plans, and other disciplinary action; and reductions-in-force, restructuring based separations, and other group terminations, etc.
• Significant experience in owning, handling and executing Human Resources and Employee relations investigations and preparation of appropriate documentation, including remote investigations.
• Experiences that suggest an ability to function independently and optimally in a sophisticated, matrixed organization.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel domestically as needed, approximately 15% of the time
• Physical Demands: Include considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, monitor); May occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping; May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20 lbs; Physical activity associated with business travel.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in: 

• Labor and employee relations experience in Canada and/or Puerto Rico, particularly in the areas of Human Resources and Employee Relations investigations, employee separations, employee medical or religious accommodations, performance management and disciplinary actions.
• Data analytics
• Conducting workplace training

At Danaher we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Danaher can provide.

The salary range OR the hourly range for this role is $97,000-$130,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. 

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at [email protected] to request accommodation.