Employee Relations Specialist at Maersk

Key Responsibilities

• Support in establishing a positive and engaging workplace culture by effectively facilitating and resolving employee relations matters.
• Provide day-to-day advice and counsel to managers on a wide range of employee relations issues including progressive counselling, performance management, company policies and procedures.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Managers and HR team, consult, advise, coach, educate and provide decision making support to the business on a variety of employee relations issues.
• Identify and recommend strategies to address current and future employee relations and retention needs.
• Mitigate risk by ensuring compliance with APM Terminals policies & local labor laws.
• Evaluate and review employee related decisions in response to employee concerns.
• Identify, analyse and implement resolutions to complex and sensitive issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Lead and conduct investigations regarding potential misconduct and policy violations.
• Support the outcome of cases throughout partnership with the business.
• Support the organization with legislatively compliant implementation of initiatives.
• Use metrics to highlight trends and develop strategies to foster positive employee relations.
• Make recommendations based on assessment of trend and root cause analysis.
• Assist in executing certain collective bargaining and/or union activities, including agreements.
• Mediate any issues of conflict that may have been escalated due to differences between management; union and employees.
• Track and ensure compliance against labor legislative requirements and conditions of employment.
• Maintain a database of key contacts, important to the work of employee relations.
• Observe social, economic and political trends that might ultimately have an effect upon the organization, and make recommendations to enhance the company’s image based on those trends.
• Act as a liaison for senior management on community issues and affairs, advising them of sensitive and/or important issues for the community, and recommending plans of action, when appropriate.
• Manage relationship with external labor providers ensuring that such providers are legislatively compliant.
• Avoid labor disputes through the establishment of good relationships between all stakeholders.

Requirements
We are looking for:

• Require a University Degree in Human Resources Management or related discipline.
• 4-6 years Human Resources/Employee Relations experience.
• Experience working in a Union environment as a spokesperson for negotiations, grievance    proceedings and proactive in day to day labor relations management.
• Knowledge of Compensation and Reward Philosophies.
• Ability to anticipate issues/needs and to work proactively to address them.
• Comprehensive knowledge in employment, employee relations practices and principles, and current laws impacting human resources.
• Sound analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving and negotiating skills, with the ability to understand broad HR issues and to resolve conflict situations.
• Thorough understanding of investigative methods and principles.
• Thoroughly knowledgeable in various international labor relations standards.
• Demonstrate leadership and management skills.
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively with all levels of employees.
• Possess strong negotiation and analytical skills.
• Demonstrate ability to exercise discretion and good judgment, and to understand the effect of decisions overall in the company.
• Ability to handle confidential company and employee information with complete discretion.
• Require advanced verbal and written communications skills in English, in addition to effective interpersonal skills.

We Offer

• We offer you exciting career opportunities with an international reach to further expand your experience through our diversity-focused and award-winning talent development initiatives.
• Energizing and pioneering, this is also an environment that keeps you motivated. You’ll be joining a values-led, genuinely diverse, and talented team that is passionate about being there for employees, and for each other. We strive to deliver the right environment for the right people while fostering a culture of fairness, mutual respect, responsibility, and care for our business and our customers.
• We have a competitive compensation and benefits package for full-time employees. Our talent policies are recognized world-wide as one of the best in the industry and we continue to look for new ways to invest in our people through ongoing personal and professional development initiatives.
• We value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job. We’re proud of that and we see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.