Employee Relations Specialist (Experienced)

Posting Duration

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Salary Range

$73,900 - $142,300
*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like

Are you passionate about employee relations? If so, Organization 3003, Employee and Labor Relations, is currently seeking an Employee Relations Specialist to join their team!
The selected candidate will advise all levels of management on employee-management issues such as performance improvement and discipline procedures.
On any given day, one may be called upon to:

• Provide full-cycle consultation and recommendations for corrective action to management regarding appropriate disciplinary and performance improvement actions to address performance and behavior issues and investigatory findings
• Coordinate with corporate investigatory bodies, including corporate investigations, Equal Employment Opportunity, ethics, and counterintelligence departments, to implement appropriate management actions in response to their findings
• Facilitate and support Sandia's discipline corporate review committee (CRC) that reviews employee conduct and performance issues
• Administer Sandia's clearance exception process for employees with suspended U.S. Department of Energy security clearances
• Create and maintain policies that pertain to employee relations processes and procedures and maintain employee handbooks
• Oversee unemployment claims and represent the company at unemployment appeal hearings

Qualifications We Require

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, plus 5 years in Employee and Labor Relations or a related human resources field; or a Master's degree in a relevant field, plus 1 year in Employee and Labor Relations or a related human resources field
• The ability to acquire and maintain a DOE L-level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire

• Knowledge of legal requirements affecting employee and labor relations administration
• The ability to influence, facilitate, present, communicate, develop processes, and analyze and solve problems
• Experience advising all levels of management
• Experience with non-represented and union represented employees
• Experience in process improvement and change management
• Experience and proven skills in conducting research, investigating alternative solutions, and recommending solutions to problems
• Experience handling unemployment claims
• Certification(s) in Human Resources
• The ability to acquire and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance

About Our Team

The Employee and Labor Relations (ELR) Department serves as a corporate resource in the analysis, development, and administration of employee relations policies (discipline, dispute resolution, action plans for improved performance, loss of security clearances, etc.) in conformance with employment law, DOE regulations, and Sandia policies and processes. ELR represents Sandia in all matters related to negotiating and administering the collective bargaining agreements with the three bargaining units (MTC, OPEIU, SPA) representing employees performing work at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. ELR also manages all hiring actions for represented employees, and manages the job accommodation process for the laboratories.

About Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov
*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE L-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by the DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.