Director, Human Resources
Role Overview
The employer is a growing infrastructure and construction organization with more than 500 employees across multiple divisions.
The Director of Human Resources will lead the evolution of the HR function and serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders.
The role will build and lead a scalable, commercially focused HR function supporting growth, leadership capability, workforce performance, and organizational discipline.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
The employer is a growing infrastructure and construction organization with more than 500 employees across multiple divisions.
The Director of Human Resources will lead the evolution of the HR function and serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders.
The role will build and lead a scalable, commercially focused HR function supporting growth, leadership capability, workforce performance, and organizational discipline.
Workplace
- The role is based at the organization's head office in Vaughan, Ontario, with a strong expectation of being on-site.
HR Strategy and Organization
- Develop and execute multi-year HR strategy and annual priorities aligned with corporate objectives and growth plans.
- Establish HR standards, systems, governance, organization design, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent-gap assessments.
- Support organizational change, restructuring, and implementation of new systems and processes.
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Lead HR workstreams for acquisitions, investments, and business combinations with senior leadership, Finance, Legal, and operating leaders.
- Conduct HR due diligence covering structure, leadership, talent, compensation, benefits, employment arrangements, systems, costs, and employee matters.
- Develop integration plans covering organization design, staffing, communications, onboarding, culture, policies, systems, payroll, benefits, and employee data.
Talent and Employee Experience
- Build recruitment, performance management, talent assessment, leadership development, career development, onboarding, and orientation programs.
- Lead employee relations, workplace investigations, complaint resolution, employee communication, engagement, recognition, wellness, and workplace programs.
- Provide leadership for compensation and benefits programs, including pay equity, market competitiveness, compliance, and cost effectiveness.
HR Operations and Leadership
- Use HR technology, AI, automation, metrics, dashboards, and reporting to improve HR processes and executive decision-making.
- Maintain HR records, data governance, controls, employment-law compliance, and HR governance requirements.
- Build and lead a high-performing HR team and manage external legal counsel and specialized advisors as required.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 12 or more years of progressive HR experience, including 5 to 7 years in a senior HR leadership role.
- Experience supporting a multi-site, multi-business, or similarly complex organization.
- Broad HR leadership experience across organizational design, workforce planning, succession, talent, performance, rewards, employee relations, operations, and compliance.
- Strong understanding of HR technology, HRIS, data analytics, AI, and automation.
- Demonstrated change-management experience and strong communication, leadership, coaching, influencing, planning, judgment, diplomacy, and emotional intelligence.
- Construction, industrial, or another operationally intensive environment is strongly preferred.
- HR due diligence and post-acquisition integration experience and a CHRL designation are assets.
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