Overview

Build Your Future at M.C. Dean

We're seeking people driven to excellence and inspired by the way engineering and innovation improves lives, enhances customer outcomes, and changes the world for the better. As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with more than 5,100 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability. We are seeking a Employee Relations Staff member to join team members at our Tyson's, VA location.

Responsibilities

Employee Relations Staff

Responsibilities:

1. This position will be located on a construction job site

2. Act as a liaison between employees and management

3. Investigate complaints, provide counseling and work toward conflict resolution while keeping supervisors apprised

4. Recommend corrective actions and support supervisors with discipline and the separation process

5. Periodically walk around the project sites and interact with employees to answer questions, address concerns and assess the work environment

6. Identify issues that need to be escalated to corporate HR

7. Stay abreast of labor laws and advise supervisors on their application

8. Clarify company policies and procedures

9. Coach supervisors on compliance with HR-related policies and procedures

10. Facilitate the annual performance review process in conjunction with corporate HR

11. Participate in face-to-face evaluations, when practical

12. Arrange training for employees and supervisors as needed

13. Be familiar with the new hire orientation

14. Listen and respond to inquiries from employees

15. Educate employees on benefits throughout the year and during open enrollment

16. Ensure labor law posters and other company-required posters are up-to-date and in clear view

17. Conduct exit interviews and determine root causes for voluntary terminations

18. Suggest and implement retention strategies

19. Recommend new approaches, policies, and procedures for continual improvements to the employee experience

Qualifications

Minimum Prerequisites include the following:

1. 2+ years' relevant experience in employee relations or related field, preferably in the construction or engineering industry

2. Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

3. Fluency in English and Spanish required

4. This position will require 25% travel.

Additional Job Requirements:

1. Independently assess situations, exercise good judgment and solve problems

2. Understand and respect sensitive nature of confidential information

3. Possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and strong organizational skills

4. Exercise attention to detail

5. Be responsive, self-motivated, a team player and task-oriented

6. Motivate and persuade others

7. Possess energy, enthusiasm, and a passion for engaging employees

8. Thrive in a fast-paced work environment

Abilities:

1. Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.

2. Sitting for extended periods of time.

3. Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.

4. Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.

5. Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

6. Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

7. Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

8. Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

9. Identify and understand the speech of another person.

10. Proficiency at using personal computer, tablet and smart phone and various applications, including but not limited to, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams, and Outlook

11. Fluency in English and Spanish is required