Human Resources Business Partner

WalterFedy; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WalterFedy is seeking an HR Business Partner to align people strategies with growth targets. You will advise across HR life cycle, partner with senior leaders, and ensure compliant, high-performance practices.

This role acts as a trusted advisor supporting the Director, HR on strategic initiatives. You will drive workforce planning, change management, and talent development while partnering with centers of excellence in rewards, learning and acquisition.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Admin, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years as HRBP, preferably in engineering, architecture or construction.
• Professional HR certification (CHRP).
• Demonstrated knowledge in workforce planning and change models.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to develop HR plans delivering business outcomes.
• Oversee recruitment planning, onboarding, performance development, and leadership development.
• Advise on employee relations, investigations, and risk assessments for an inclusive culture.
• Drive engagement, culture initiatives, and retention using HR metrics.
• Lead organizational change initiatives and input to systems needs for AI.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws and internal policies.

Skills

HR principles & employment law

Stakeholder management

Business acumen / financial awareness

Coaching and change leadership

Risk assessment & investigations

HR metrics & data analysis

Project management & change management

Microsoft Office / MS Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business Administration

CHRP certification

Tools

HRIS systems

Job description

Role at a Glance

The HR Business Partner is the first point of support with all levels in the organization to align people strategies with organizational goals. This role provides strategic and operational HR advice/recommendations/plans for process and best practice and adherence information for policy in all functions of the HR Life cycle. The HRBP is a trusted advisor, influencing required changes as the HR function evolves to meet growth targets. This role learns and supports the Director, HR and partners across the HR functions to provide input on key performance metrics and changes required that further enable strategic and operational best practice delivery.

You’ll Love This Role If

• You are ambitious in your pursuit to be the best
• You get the importance of paying attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture
• You embrace progressive change, out-of-the-box thinking, and working in a high-energy environment

What You Will Do

• Leadership and Change Influence
• Partner with business leaders to understand workforce needs and lead the development of HR plans to deliver the right business outcomes, including partnering to develop the people change plans required.
• Effectively partner on talent attraction and retention processes including recruitment planning, hiring and onboarding, performance development reviews, and leadership development, in alignment with the workforce plan actions.
• Effective advice and influence required changes for people leaders on employee relations matters, performance issues, coaching, and conflict resolution, including handling investigations and resolution, with proper risk assessments completed to maintain a culture of inclusion and transparency for all.
• Utilizing client feedback and HR metrics, partner with the HR team and key change influencers to drive employee engagement, culture initiatives, and retention strategies.
• Compliance, Policies, Processes and Systems excellence
• Lead and effectively partner on organizational change initiatives, restructures, and transformation projects, including providing inputs to systems requirements for automation and AI.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws, internal policies, and HR best practices for processes.
• Partner with centers of excellence in total rewards, learning and development, and talent acquisition in alignment with ensuring policies, processes and best practice support a culture of high performance.
• Contribute to policy development, process improvement, and HR projects across the business in alignment with the HR Operations Manager.
• Financial delivery:
• Ensure alignment with FP&A in workforce plan budgets.
• Ensure projects, including change plans, are appropriately budget

What You Bring To The Table

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources management, Business Administration, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as an HRBP, preferably in an Engineering, Architecture or Construction environment
• Professional HR certification (CHRP)
• Demonstrated working knowledge in Workforce planning and change models

Skills Required

• Strong working knowledge of HR principles, employment law, and employee relations practices
• Demonstrated success building and maintaining trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong business acumen, including understanding financial reporting for HR metrics, budgets and actuals review on workforce plans
• Excellent engagement, influencing, and coaching skills to drive a culture of high performance, inclusion and transparency
• Strong working knowledge of risk assessment approaches to problem-solving, investigations and conflict-resolution
• Analytical skills to interpret HR metrics and data with a continuous improvement mindset
• Ability to manage sensitive matters with discretion and professionalism
• Demonstrated working knowledge creating and managing project management and change management plans, including providing cost estimates for inclusion in annual budgets
• Ability to balance risk to make recommendations with changes required to deliver optimized outcomes
• Ability to learn from Director, HR and develop own skills to support back up of Director, HR on operational issues
• Demonstrated experience creating and presenting, utilizing Microsoft tools

Life at WalterFedy

As a national, innovative, multi-discipline design and construction collective, our ambition goes beyond great design – we are here to enhance the world around us. We need a team of agile, ambitious, and big-picture thinkers who share our drive to harness our collective talents to do something bigger. Our team is made up of the industry's best. We share a common commitment to questioning the ordinary, infusing everything we do with creativity, and challenging our industry to redefine what’s possible.

WalterFedy strives to create a culture of inclusivity and diversity. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including those from groups traditionally underrepresented in the workforce. We are committed to equal opportunity hiring practice and will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, creed, national origin, citizenship, status, age, sex, gender identity/expression, marital or domestic partnership status, or disability.

Should you require an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact [e-mail] or call 519-576-2150.

Thank you for your interest in WalterFedy!

Please note that we utilize AI-powered tools to enhance our recruitment process. These tools assist us in managing applications efficiently and ensuring a fair evaluation of all candidates. Rest assured, every application is reviewed by our recruitment team, and AI is used to support, not replace, our human decision-making.