Senior Director, HR Operations & Strategy

New Mexico Gas Co - Peoples Gas - Tampa Electric; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Savings plan w/ company matching

Pension plan

Paid time off

Medical, Prescription Drug, & Dental

Tuition Assistance Program

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness Programs

Job summary

TECO Energy and its TECO Energy companies, including Tampa Electric, are seeking a Senior HR Partner to advise executives and lead the HR Business Partner function. You will provide strategic counsel on workforce, leadership, employee and labor matters, partnering with business leaders to drive people initiatives.

The role focuses on talent planning, performance management, engagement, organizational change, and operational excellence, with responsibility for employee relations, labor relations,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field.
• Master’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior HR advisor to officers and business leaders, providing practical counsel on workforce, organizational, leadership, employee, and labor matters.
• Lead the HR Business Partner function and establish clear expectations for proactive consultation, consistent service delivery, leader support, and business alignment.
• Partner with functional leaders to identify workforce and organizational challenges and develop practical solutions aligned with business priorities.
• Provide business insight to HR centers of expertise to ensure enterprise programs address operating needs and workforce risks.
• Lead business-unit execution through HR Business Partners and HR Operations, ensuring leaders understand expectations, complete required actions, and apply enterprise practices consistently.
• Support leaders in translating workforce plans and talent planning outcomes into practical actions, including staffing priorities, capability building, development actions, and organizational changes.
• Equip leaders to execute performance management practices effectively, including goal setting, coaching, development planning, and performance improvement.
• Provide structured feedback to the talent team regarding business needs, adoption barriers, leader capability, and opportunities to improve program design or execution.
• Lead employee relations activities, including workplace investigations, performance and conduct matters, policy interpretation, conflict resolution, corrective action, and employment decision support.
• Lead labor relations strategy and execution, including collective bargaining, grievance administration, arbitration preparation, and maintenance of constructive labor-management relationships.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate workforce-related risk in partnership with Legal, Compliance, Safety, and business leaders.
• Ensure employment practices and decisions are legally compliant, appropriately documented, and consistently applied across the organization.
• Oversee the Employee Status Review process and other governance mechanisms supporting fair, timely, and well-informed employment decisions.
• Lead HR Operations and ensure efficient, responsive, and compliant administration of HR processes, policies, procedures, and operational controls.
• Partner with Total Rewards and enterprise functions supporting compensation, benefits, payroll, retirement, and employee administration to resolve issues and provide an integrated leader and employee experience.
• Identify opportunities to simplify HR processes, clarify service ownership, strengthen controls, and improve the leader and employee experience.
• Manage external consultants, contractors, and vendors supporting HR Operations, employee relations, and labor relations activities.
• Lead business-unit implementation of employee engagement strategies and action planning in partnership with the leaders and the Talent COE.
• Reinforce leader accountability for engagement follow-through, employee experience, and sustained improvement.
• Support implementation of organizational design, workforce transition, and change initiatives developed with the talent team.
• Ensure people impacts, leader readiness, employee communications, stakeholder needs, and adoption risks are addressed during organizational change.
• Collaborate with Communications and other internal partners on rollout of HR programs, policies, organizational changes, and employee communications.
• Partner with the talent team to be a People & Culture champion.
• Lead, coach, and develop HR Business Partners and HR Operations team members.
• Establish priorities, service expectations, resource plans, budgets, and operating accountabilities for the function.
• Build team capability in strategic consultation, employee and labor relations, talent process execution, change support, and operational excellence.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, customer-focused team environment and develop future HR leaders.
• Maintain current knowledge of employment and labor laws, regulations, HR practices, and utility-industry workforce trends.

Skills

Strategic partnership

HR advisory

Employee relations

Labor relations

Change management

Leadership coaching

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business

Master's degree preferred

Job description

TECO Energy and its TECO Energy companies, including Tampa Electric, are seeking a Senior HR Partner to advise executives and lead the HR Business Partner function. You will provide strategic counsel on workforce, leadership, employee and labor matters, partnering with business leaders to drive people initiatives.

The role focuses on talent planning, performance management, engagement, organizational change, and operational excellence, with responsibility for employee relations, labor relations,