Senior HR Business Partner

Stantec

Senior HR Business Partner supporting leaders and employees in various business lines across Ontario and Atlantic Canada at Stantec. Developing and implementing strategic HR practices in a collaborative environment.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeOttawa • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$95,400 - CA$143,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Quickly establish and practice 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 activities 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, career coaching, and facilitation 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.
Develop and implement HR-related projects and participate as a team member on special projects as needed. May also lead local or regional initiatives and projects.
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 functions such as an HR service representative for accurate completion of employee transactions, talent acquisition for recruitment, etc.

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 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, sound judgment as well as possessing critical thinking in ambiguous situations.
Recognized 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 an interest in continual personal development and keeping current in human resource best practices through external resources and building a strong HR network.
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 matrixed global organization and within a geographically dispersed team is an asset.
Ability to travel to other Stantec offices in the region 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
a 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
group tax-free savings account

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Hard Skills & Tools

Compensation ManagementWorkforce PlanningOrganizational DevelopmentEmployment LawData AnalyticsJob EvaluationPolicy InterpretationFacilitationTraining DevelopmentHR Best Practices

Soft Skills

InfluencingCollaborationCommunicationAgilityCritical Thinking