Senior Employee Relations Specialist

Business Unit:
Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:
When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

Job Details:
Job Summary:
The Employee Relations Specialist is responsible for promoting a consistent and fair approach to all employee relation matters within their designated region. Case management of employee relations matters including but not limited to leave of absence, disciplinary and grievances, performance improvement, investigations, and reasonable accommodations. Responsible for maintaining employee relations records and supporting analytics. This position works under the supervision and direction of the HR Director but will regularly exercise discretion and decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Coach and guide managers on all matters relating to employee relations, and general guidance on HR policies and procedures. Encourage and enable the use of self-service tools.
- Effective case management of people related issues such as disciplinary, performance management, grievance, and absence management (may vary by region). Consult with stakeholder on appropriate corrective action through to conclusion. This work may be carried out independently or in support of cases led by the HRBP (HR Business Partnering), Legal, H&S or compliance teams.
- Develops strong working relationship with the HR functional COE’s to enable effective HR service delivery. Maybe required to lead or participate in HR functional projects.
- Undertake investigations, prepare reports and documentation in support of cases in compliance with local law and regulations. May be required to support legal cases preparation.
- Maintain employee relations records both written and held on the HRIS system. Responsible for ensuring compliance with data privacy regulation and other record keeping compliance.
- Monitor trends, collate and analyze data, prepare presentations to enable business insights.
- Promote a positive employee relations culture within the business, through enabling a fair and consistent approach to policies and procedures. May provide training to both employee and managers in support.
- Reviews employee status changes in HRIS in relation to employee relation matters e.g. leave of absence, terminations.
- May be required to run employee data reports, support audits, assist with managing employee changes in collaboration with the HRIS team.
- Participates in new hire orientation and other employee engagement activities as directed.
- Conduct exit interviews and provide actionable insight.
- May be required to support regional change programs and special projects as directed.
- May manage a small client group
- Participates in other employee relations activities as dictated by the geographical market.
- Participates in the wellbeing committee and initiatives arising from the committee.
- Completes additional special projects in accordance with assigned deadlines.

Minimum Job Requirements:

- The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need._

Worker Type:
Employee