# Specialist, Employee Relations, Ford Energy **Company**: Ford Energy **Location**: Glendale, KY **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $86,600-$144,900 **Category**: HR **Industry**: Automotive **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70105?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c0574212-299 ## Description Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS). As a Specialist, Employee Relations, Ford Energy, you will balance curiosity with a strong sense of accountability to navigate ambiguous inquiries, partner across teams to resolve systemic process bottlenecks, and deliver high-quality support to employees and leaders. **Responsibilities** ### HR Consultation & Frontline Advisory - Guide and coach frontline leaders through the end-to-end performance management process, including coaching conversations, performance documentation, and performance improvement plans (PIPs). - Address and resolve standard employee inquiries, complaints, and conflict resolution on the shop floor. Partner with the Senior ER Specialist to support larger, high-risk investigations. - Provide proactive coaching to supervisors and team leaders on employee morale, retention strategies, and building a positive work culture. - Support HR Business Partners (HRBPs) in executing local workforce planning, annual people processes, and key moments across the employee life cycle. ### HR Operations & Technical Support - Intake, investigate, and strategically resolve elevated HR inquiries (e.g., payroll/paycheck discrepancies, position changes, benefits escalations) that require cross-functional coordination. - Proactively identify "friction points" in the employee experience. Partner with centralized teams (Payroll, HR Tech, Recruiting) to implement practical, sustainable solutions. - Maintain high HCM data integrity within HR systems (Oracle, WorkDay). Perform standard data analysis to identify local workforce trends (absenteeism, turnover) that drive HR decision-making. - Support organizational design changes, job architecture updates, and position management audits. ### Compliance & Standard Work - Ensure local operations adhere to federal, state, and local labor laws, including FMLA, ADA, FLSA, and OSHA record-keeping. - Develop and update standard work instructions for local HR processes to ensure consistency as the site scales. **Capabilities for Success** - An emotionally intelligent professional who balances empathy for employees with a strong sense of accountability to business objectives. - A proven ability to build trust and partner effectively across departments (Operations, Payroll, Recruiting) to resolve systemic issues. - Skilled at navigating moderately ambiguous situations, utilizing data and policy to move from identifying a problem to implementing a solution. - Ability to manage multiple administrative and consultative priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. **Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Management, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). - 3–5 years of progressive HR experience, demonstrating solid growth in an HR Generalist, HR Specialist, or HR Generalist-adjacent role. - Practical, working knowledge of federal and Kentucky state labor laws and HR regulatory requirements. - Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., v-lookups, pivot tables, data sorting) and experience working within HR Information Systems (e.g., Oracle, Workday, SAP, or Visier). - Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to connect effectively with shop-floor team members and salaried leadership alike. **Benefits** - Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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 - HR - Employee Relations - Performance Management - Microsoft Excel - Oracle - Workday ### Nice to have - Professional HR certification (PHR or SHRM-CP) - Prior HR experience in a manufacturing, logistics, or high-growth industrial startup environment - Direct experience managing position data, reporting, or organizational changes within Oracle HCM --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70105?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)