The HR Business Partner serves as a key partner for plant leadership, driving HR strategies, enhancing employee engagement, and ensuring compliance while fostering a safe and productive workplace. This role involves managing HR functions, coaching leadership, and supporting staffing and employee relations.
Position Title: HR Business Partner Contract
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 06
Requisition ID: 40318
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role .
The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) serves as the primary people and culture partner for the site, working closely with plant leadership to drive business results through effective talent, leadership, and workforce practices. This role provides trusted partnership, sound judgment, and hands-on support to leaders while fostering a safe, engaged, and high-performing workplace.
The HRBP balances strategic partnership with operational execution, ensuring HR programs and practices are aligned with business priorities while delivering a consistent and positive employee experience. Safety is foundational to everything we do, and the HRBP plays a key role in reinforcing safe behaviours, accountability, and a respectful workplace culture.
This role will be supporting a fixed term, contract of 18 months based on site in our Coaldale, Alberta facility.
What you'll be doing.
What you'll need to be successful.
About McCain .
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles .
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Compensation Package : $97,500.00 - $130,000.00 . CAD annual base salary equivalency, paid in alignment to contract term
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Should this role hold a duration 12 months or longer, you will be eligible for our full benefits suite. This includes the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know , and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree that this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Human Resources
Location(s): CA - Canada : Alberta : Coaldale
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 06
Requisition ID: 40318
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role .
The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) serves as the primary people and culture partner for the site, working closely with plant leadership to drive business results through effective talent, leadership, and workforce practices. This role provides trusted partnership, sound judgment, and hands-on support to leaders while fostering a safe, engaged, and high-performing workplace.
The HRBP balances strategic partnership with operational execution, ensuring HR programs and practices are aligned with business priorities while delivering a consistent and positive employee experience. Safety is foundational to everything we do, and the HRBP plays a key role in reinforcing safe behaviours, accountability, and a respectful workplace culture.
This role will be supporting a fixed term, contract of 18 months based on site in our Coaldale, Alberta facility.
What you'll be doing.
- Member of the Plant Leadership Team, collaborating to deliver shared business goals, plant, business, and HR strategies. Provides strategic and operational support to the business and acts as an advisor to the leadership team
- Lead and develop site HR team members to deliver consistent, high-impact HR solutions in collaboration with operations. Set objectives, conduct performance reviews, and development planning for direct report(s)
- Work with the leadership team and employees to improve engagement, build morale, and increase productivity and retention in our e ff orts to becoming the manufacturing employer of choice
- Lead the employee engagement survey cycle and activities, partnering with plant leadership to develop and implement engagement action plans at the site
- Provide guidance and input on human resource aspects of plant operations, strategic workforce planning, performance management, change management, rewards, recognition, communications, organizational e ff ectiveness, succession planning, inclusion & belonging, organizational design and development
- Partner with Safety team to deliver on safety, health, and wellness initiatives to improve McCain's safety culture
- Handle escalated employee relations issues, cases, and code of conduct complaints
- Ensure legal, regulatory compliance, and HR related audits
- Ensure compliance with applicable provincial employment standards, human rights legislation, occupational health and safety requirements, and company policies.
- Coaching and capability building for plant team members. Advise, coach and support people leaders within client groups to develop e ff ective management and leadership behaviors
- Responsible for sta ffi ng strategy, in partnership with plant leadership. Partner with Talent Acquisition team on salaried recruitment, and oversee execution of high-volume recruitment process
- Lead and manage employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent, and timely resolution while exercising sound judgment and managing risk appropriately.
- Analyze trends and metrics in partnership with the Manufacturing team to propose solutions and programs
- Lead annual processes including performance management, talent management, performance, and compensation cycle, ensuring connection to plant and corporate strategies
- Support regional implementation of COE-driven processes, policies, and initiatives and champion our Thriving Community pillar through volunteerism
- Refer employees to the Employee Experience Centre or the appropriate service channel to resolve inquiries / transaction requests and provide self- service coaching, as appropriate
What you'll need to be successful.
- 5-7 years of progressive HR experience, ideally in a manufacturing or operational environment
- Bachelor's degree in human resources or a related field highly preferred
- Advanced degree in HR and/or Professional Human Resources certification / designation would be an asset
- Strong working knowledge of Canadian and Alberta employment legislation, employee relations, and HR best practices
- Experience supporting organizational change, leadership development, and engagement initiatives
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex environment effectively
- Ability to partner with stakeholders across different levels, identify organizational needs and design appropriate solutions
- Ability to drive results in a fast paced, agile manner
- Ability to influence and adapt style to collaborate with stakeholders, with a strong orientation towards solutions
- Strong orientation and skillset in leveraging data to draw insights and inform decisions
About McCain .
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles .
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Compensation Package : $97,500.00 - $130,000.00 . CAD annual base salary equivalency, paid in alignment to contract term
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Should this role hold a duration 12 months or longer, you will be eligible for our full benefits suite. This includes the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know , and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree that this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Human Resources
Location(s): CA - Canada : Alberta : Coaldale
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
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