Employee Relations Specialist

at  Medtronic

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Be the main point of contact for employee relations for the Orange County Campus (Operations). You will work closely with site leadership to drive employee relations using your expertise to minimize risk, align work to meet business needs and improve employee morale and culture, while building manager skill sets, providing advice and coaching employees and managers.
Work with leaders, managers and employees to provide advice and coach both parties on all employee relations issues. Provide strong partnership on performance management, disciplinary processes, restructuring activity, legal issues, investigations, conflict management, etc. Your work involves assessing and resolving complex employee relations matters ensuring consistency across client groups and alignment with Medtronic practices. You will help to ensure a fair and consistent approach to Medtronic’s policies and procedures promoting a positive culture within the business, while minimizing risks. Provide a single point of contact for employee relations issues to ensure clear communication and efficiency in resolving matters.
This position will reside in our Irvine, CA office and will work per the local hybrid guidelines.
A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Counsels and provides partnership to employees and all levels of management across the full spectrum of employee relations matters in alignment with our practices, policies, and local labor legislation.
• This work includes proactive workplace initiatives and strategies; workplace investigations and internal reviews; performance improvement and discipline processes; end of employment/restructuring; labor relations; crisis management; and, general employee relations coaching and conflict resolution.
• Develops and leads proactive employee and labor relations strategies to contribute to a positive work environment by leveraging data, addressing areas of opportunity and minimizing risk.
• Plays key leadership role in restructuring initiatives, resulting in employee transitions.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree with 2+ years of Employee Relations experience, or an advanced degree

Nice to Have

• PHR Certification
• Experience supporting multiple locations
• Demonstrated knowledge of employment law
• Demonstrated knowledge of ER procedures and processes
• Demonstrated ability to provide strategic, proactive partnership to leaders
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc)
• Experience in project management
• Experience in program/process design, as well as process improvement skill set
• Experience supporting various functions at all levels of the organization

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$68,800.00 - $103,200.00
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity
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It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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• Counsels and provides partnership to employees and all levels of management across the full spectrum of employee relations matters in alignment with our practices, policies, and local labor legislation.
• This work includes proactive workplace initiatives and strategies; workplace investigations and internal reviews; performance improvement and discipline processes; end of employment/restructuring; labor relations; crisis management; and, general employee relations coaching and conflict resolution.
• Develops and leads proactive employee and labor relations strategies to contribute to a positive work environment by leveraging data, addressing areas of opportunity and minimizing risk.
• Plays key leadership role in restructuring initiatives, resulting in employee transitions