# Senior Specialist, Employee Relations

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Romulus, MI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Senior Specialist, Employee Relations serves as a critical strategic partner and hands-on HR leader, deeply embedded within Ford's automotive manufacturing plants and parts depots.

This role is responsible for supporting the hourly and salaried workforce, collaborating closely with leadership to drive business objectives through a comprehensive HR lens.

The HRBP will foster a positive and productive work environment, manage all aspects of the employee lifecycle, ensure compliance, and champion talent development, employee engagement, and effective labor relations directly on the production floor.

**Responsibilities**

**HR Business Partnership**

- Serve as a trusted advisor to plant leadership, translating business strategy into impactful HR initiatives that optimize organizational effectiveness and elevate the employee experience.

- Leverage deep operational acumen, gained through immersive Gemba walks and direct engagement with leadership, to proactively identify and address human capital needs within lean manufacturing and logistics environments.

- Design and execute advanced talent management strategies, encompassing performance optimization, leadership development, robust succession planning, strategic compensation, and integrated talent acquisition.

- Champion a data-first approach, leveraging HR analytics platforms to extract critical insights, predict workforce trends, and inform strategic decision-making at the operational leadership level.

- Foster a high-performance, inclusive culture, promoting open communication, trust, and mutual respect in alignment with Ford's 7 Proactive Leadership Standards.

**Labor Relations Expertise**

- Lead strategic engagement with labor unions and employee representatives, fostering a proactive and high-trust partnership essential for operational stability and continuous improvement.

- Master the resolution of complex, high-volume union grievances, arbitrations, and disciplinary actions, serving as a critical architect of fair, consistent, and timely outcomes.

- Demonstrate expert command of local and national collective bargaining agreements, ensuring precise interpretation and application across all operational facets.

**HR Operations**

- Lead comprehensive HR compliance and risk management, proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal, reputational, and operational exposures across all employment laws and company policies.

- Optimize critical HR operational processes, including payroll, attendance management, and vacation tracking, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and seamless efficiency.

- Drive initiatives with safety and occupational health leaders to foster a proactive culture of employee well-being, supporting strategic safety audits and promoting innovative wellness programs.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Organizational Development, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience required.

- Minimum 8 years of relevant HR and labor work experience with a bachelor’s degree, preferably in a manufacturing setting.

**Benefits**

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- Strategic Partnership
- Data Storytelling
- Talent Management
- Employee Lifecycle Expertise
- Business and Operational Acumen
- Positive Employee and Labor Relations
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Ethical practice
- Labor Relations and Negotiation
- Contractual Compliance and Interpretation
- Grievance Management
- Workforce Planning

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in human resources, Organizational Development, or any other related discipline
- PHR or SHRM-CP certification
- Certified Labor Relations Professional (CLRP)

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