Senior HR Business Partner - Element Materials Technology

Element has an opportunity for a Senior HR Business Partner to partner with the leadership teams and HR Director.  In this role you will provide strategic and tactical HR counsel and support. 

This position plays a key support role in ensuring that HR policies, procedures, tactics and methods in support of Element's overall HR strategy are communicated and implemented properly and consistently throughout the assigned organization and at all stages of the employee life cycle.  Role to be based in Huntington Beach, California.  

Salary: up to 135K plus bonus 

Responsibilities:

• Proactively supports the delivery of HR Processes within the business unit including performance management, people development, recruitment and Employee relations activity
• Educates and develops People Managers in all aspects of people management to ensure consistent and effective practices are in place and to enhance the employee experience
• Builds a strong business partnership relationship within the business unit leadership
• Drives succession planning for key talent and key strategic roles
• Assesses the organizational structure of the sector and facilitates change
• Supports merger and acquisition activity, including people due diligence and integration
• Willingness to travel up to 20% to other Aerospace & Energy laboratories including Duarte, Los Angeles, Rancho Dominguez, San Bernardino, and Tempe, AZ  

• Minimum undergraduate degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or an equivalent education 
• Minimum 5 years demonstrated experience in an HR professional/generalist/manager role
• PHR/SPHR designation preferred
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local Human Resources related regulations
• Management experience
• Experience designing and delivering people initiatives to drive continuous improvements
• Coaching and mentoring experience
• Experience dealing with re-structuring and employee consultations
• Fluent in Spanish is a huge plus 

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Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) 

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