Overview
The Specialist, Employee Relations North America, will play a crucial role in addressing workplace issues, ensuring compliance with labor laws, and promoting employee satisfaction. This position involves acting as a mediator, conducting investigations, providing advisory support, and encouraging open communication between employees and management.
This is a hybrid role with 3 days a week onsite at our Milford, MA headquarters.
Responsibilities
- Conflict Resolution: Act as a mediator to resolve disputes between employees or between employees and management, ensuring fair and consistent outcomes.
- Complaint Investigation: Conduct thorough investigations into employee complaints, such as harassment or discrimination, and recommend appropriate actions.
- Advisory Role: Provide guidance to management on handling Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs), disciplinary actions, terminations, and other employee-related matters while ensuring compliance with employment laws.
- Compliance: Ensure the organization adheres to local, state, and federal labor laws and regulations.
- Communication: Act as a liaison between employees and management to address concerns and foster open communication.
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Qualifications
- Proven experience in employee relations, including conflict resolution and complaint investigation.
- Strong knowledge of local, state, and federal labor laws and regulations.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to provide sound advice and guidance to management on employee-related matters.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively with HR Business Partners and other stakeholders.
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.