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Stantec

HR Business Partner

Stantec

HR Business Partner at Stantec supporting leaders and employees to achieve organizational strategies. Engaging in business conversations to foster an inspiring workplace culture.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeEdmonton • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Quickly establish effective working relationships with internal client groups, including employees, managers, and senior leaders, along with our HR colleagues.
  • Proactively partner with clients to identify strategic issues, workforce planning or organizational design challenges and provide advice and expertise to help develop creative solutions.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders by presenting multiple perspectives and challenging the status quo.
  • Provide strategic guidance and effectively scale the application of HR disciplines including employee engagement, retention and talent development, succession planning, change, conflict and exit management, employment legislation, employee relations, performance management, investigations, job evaluation, compensation management, internal communication, coaching, data analytics, workforce planning, policy interpretation, and career coaching to positively impact Stantec’s culture.
  • Serve as a workforce champion and promote a positive work environment and employee experience.
  • Facilitate trainings as needed including planning and delivering sessions with managers and employees.
  • Foster a continuous improvement mindset and continually look for opportunities to increase the return on investment of human resources programs for employees and leaders.
  • Collaborate within a geographically dispersed team to communicate, facilitate, and/or present HR programs and initiatives to client groups.
  • Work collaboratively with other HR functions, such as an HR service centre for accurate completion of employee transactions.
  • Enjoy being part of a high performing team that values collaboration, celebrates successes, and knows how to have fun.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Proven influencer and collaborator, with the ability to provide guidance and support to business clients.
  • Developed skills in coaching managers, facilitation, conflict resolution and relationship management.
  • Valued for your agility and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and having a focus for action-orientation on results.
  • Respected for balancing strategic and operational tasks with strong organizational and time management skills.
  • Noted for your ability to identify and anticipate strategic and operational business and human capital challenges, then providing and executing innovative solutions with attention to critical details.
  • Distinguished as a business partner who learns the business and takes an active interest in continually enhancing your business acumen.
  • Regarded as an exceptional communicator and able to influence a broad and diverse range of stakeholders through effective relationships, verbal, and written communication.
  • Valued as a consummate professional, exercising confidentiality, discretion, and sound judgment, as well as possessing critical thinking in ambiguous situations.
  • Recognised for your learning mindset, initiative, and ability to understand the business and challenges, and new and innovative approaches that result in improvements in team engagement, productivity and organizational performance.
  • Distinguished for your interest in continual personal development and for keeping current in human resource best practices through external resources.
  • Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of the core HR competencies including but not limited to compensation, benefits, employment law, organizational development, talent development and training, mentoring/coaching/facilitation, recruitment and workforce planning and an overall understanding of HR policies and programs and other terms and conditions of employment, along with an understanding of HR best practices.
  • Adaptability to rapidly changing demands.
  • Prior experience successfully operating within a matrix global organization and within a geographically dispersed team is an asset.
  • Ability to travel to other Stantec offices as needed.
  • Strong MS Office Suite skills preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans
  • wellness program
  • health care spending account
  • wellness spending account
  • group registered retirement savings plan
  • employee stock purchase program
  • group tax-free savings account
  • life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
  • short-term/long-term disability plans
  • emergency travel benefits
  • tuition reimbursement
  • professional membership fee coverage
  • paid time off
  • Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

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Hard Skills & Tools
employee engagementretentiontalent developmentsuccession planningchange managementconflict managementperformance managementdata analyticsworkforce planningcoaching
Soft Skills
influencingcollaborationcoachingfacilitationrelationship managementorganizational skillstime managementcommunicationcritical thinkingadaptability