HR Business Partner

Columbus, GA, US, 31901

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business, and as an employee team.

At Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.

Purpose

The HR Business Partner administers day-to-day Human Resources activities including policy and program management, recruitment, compensation, communication, and employee relations in efforts to establish a business partnership with internal and external clients. The HR Business Partner acts as an employee engagement champion and change agent. Formulates partnerships across the organization to deliver value-added HR services to management and employees that reflects the business objectives. Human Resources individual contributor who supports and collaborates with the organization's management team. The HR Business Partner is tasked with ensuring alignment between the business operations and the HR practices and objectives. Keen understanding of the business’s strategy, providing dynamic solutions using experience, data analyses, and organizational agility to guide decision making. The HR Business Partner provides consulting and coaching to departmental leaders and managers in order to support the business’s vision, mission, and overall objectives. Responsible for delivering a comprehensive and customer centric driven people service, aligning both people management and business strategies. Experienced contributor who supports and collaborates with the organization's leadership team.

Accountabilities

Compliance and Administration:

Actively works with the department heads as coach and advisor. Serves as an escalation point for employee relations issues. Investigates, assesses, and counsels management for effective and consistent resolution within company policies and mandated regulations while abiding by local, state and federal mandates.

Local HR Ops:

• Serves as an escalation point for employee relations issues. Advises management in appropriate resolution of employee relations.

• Contributes and participates in engagement survey action planning, succession planning, workforce planning and organizational change management.

• Supports and coaches local assignments in roll out of new HR programs and initiatives to ensure clients adopt to Liberty Way

Recruitment, Selection and Onboarding:

• Active team member for interviewing of candidates for open positions. Aligns with Talent Acquisition in the selection process and offer process.

• Administers salary administration program to ensure compliance and equity within organization.

• Point of contact in conjunction with Employee Service Team for all new hire onboarding. Ensure all background checks, I-9 verification and post offer drug test is complete and in compliance with Federal and State laws.

HR Program Support:

• Assist with communication of compensation, merit and bonus processes, short and long term incentive plans, and communicating annual objectives definition process.

• Assists with performance review program to ensure effectiveness, compliance, and equity within organization.

• Assists in providing coaching and mentoring to other HR Business Partners.

Education and Experience

• University or equivalent

• 5 years of experience

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is a growing renewable energy and utility company with over $15 billion of assets across North America and internationally.

For more than 30 years, Algonquin has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to delivering clean energy and water solutions. Our rapid growth has led both our regulated utility services and renewable energy business groups into different geographies and commodities, but our purpose remains unchanged – Sustaining Energy and Water for Life.

Through our operating business (Liberty), we provide regulated electricity, water, and natural gas utility services to over 1 million customer connections, primarily in North America. And, our growing portfolio of clean, renewable wind, solar, hydro and thermal power generation facilities represent over 3 GW of renewable generation capacity in operation and under construction.

With our robust, diversified, and growing presence in communities across North America and internationally, we are continually demonstrating our “Think Global, Act Local” business model.

What we offer

Company funded Pension program

401k with Company match

Full insurance benefits (health/dental/vision/life)

Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy

Share purchase/match plan

Defined Contribution savings plan

Top Talent Program

Volunteer paid days off

Employee Assistance Program

Achievement fund

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not certain you meet the all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to further investigate the opportunity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person’s unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents. Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all of our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.