Our client is a well-established and growing Canadian industrial services organization seeking a strategic and hands-on Human Resources Manager – Canada to lead its national HR function. Supporting a unionized workforce across multiple sites, business units, and jurisdictions, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership while remaining closely connected to field operations and the realities of industrial project work. You will work closely with executive leadership, operations teams, project managers, union representatives, and HR staff to ensure consistent, practical, and legally compliant HR support across the organization. Key Responsibilities include:

• Leads the HR function, ensuring programs, policies, and practices align with operational requirements and business objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executives, operational leaders, project teams, and key stakeholders.
• Provide practical and timely HR guidance in a fast-paced, client-driven environment.
• Support workforce planning, organizational changes, performance management, employee relations matters, and complex people decisions.
• Provide leadership and guidance within a complex unionized environment.
• Interpret collective agreements and advise on grievances, discipline, labour relations strategy, and workforce deployment.
• Maintain a strong understanding of industrial operations and project-based workforce requirements.
• Lead workplace investigations involving harassment, discrimination, policy violations, conduct concerns, and other employee relations issues.
• Coach leaders on performance management, conflict resolution, documentation, corrective action, and difficult conversations.
• Ensure compliance with Canadian employment standards, labour legislation, human rights legislation, privacy requirements, occupational health and safety obligations, and company policies.
• Provide guidance, prioritization, mentorship, and professional development support.
• Strengthen HR capabilities, service delivery, and process consistency across the business.
• Foster a collaborative, responsive, and solutions-focused HR culture.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and operations leaders to support high-volume staffing requirements across projects, shutdowns, maintenance work, and client-driven demand.
• Provide oversight of recruitment, onboarding, retention, and workforce planning initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency across a complex multi-site organization.

Working Conditions

• Office-based role with regular interaction with operational leaders and project teams.
• Regular travel throughout Canada to support business operations, workforce initiatives, investigations, and site visits.
• Exposure to industrial, field, yard, and shop environments as required.

Our client offers the opportunity to play a critical leadership role in a growing and highly respected industrial services organization. This position provides broad HR accountability, significant executive exposure, and the ability to directly influence business performance, workforce strategy, and organizational culture across Canada. Apply today!

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Labour Relations, or a related discipline.
• 8–10+ years of progressive HR experience, including leadership responsibility within a complex operational environment.
• Significant experience supporting unionized workforces.
• Extensive experience managing employee relations matters, investigations, grievances, discipline, and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to advise and influence senior leaders on complex people matters.
• Strong knowledge of Canadian employment standards, labour legislation, human rights legislation, workplace investigations, privacy requirements, and HR best practices.
• Proven success leading, coaching, and developing HR professionals.

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