Employee Relations Specialist

Your Job

You will ensure compliance with Koch policies and legal requirements, conduct investigations, analyze trends, and recommend solutions to employee relations issues.

Our Team

As an Employee Relations Specialist (Investigations), you will work closely with the business HR and legal teams to handle employee relations cases and provide guidance and direction to leaders, managers, and employees on various employee relations matters. You will also ensure compliance with Koch policies and legal requirements, conduct investigations, analyze trends, and recommend solutions to employee relations issues.

What You Will Do

• Conducting investigations regarding potential misconduct, policy violations and employee issues
• Identifying, analyzing, and providing recommendations to employee relations situations
• Advising and influencing all levels of management regarding employee relations decisions (performance management, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, termination, restructuring, fraud, confidential information protection, HR policies)
• Preparing comprehensive investigation summaries to include findings, evaluation of any process gaps or practices that create risk (including legal risk) to mitigate the organization’s liability
• Ensuring all misconducts are investigated in accordance with the Involuntary Termination Guidelines and that specific to workmen, the comprehensive domestic enquiry process is adhered to
• Counseling managers and employees consistent with company policies/practices, legal considerations, etc.
• Reviewing case notes/ statements in matters that are litigated based on the outcome of the investigations
• Analyzing metrics to determine trends and developing proactive strategies to share with business partners
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of employee relations and/or investigations including domestic enquiry procedures in manufacturing and/or service entities
• Clear, thorough and accurate drafting/writing skills to develop various letters, notices, statements, enquiry reports, etc.
• Experience in a fast-paced work environment in which you had to manage multiple, often competing, priorities
• Experience building collaborative relationships in a remote environment
• Proficiency in English (both written and oral)
• Bachelors’/Master’s Degree in Law or HR OR a professional qualification as Company Secretary/ Cost Accountant/ Chartered Accountant may be preferred
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Working knowledge of local, state, and central employment laws, regulations and HR strategic practices
• Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and objectively drawing valid conclusions
• Experience with investigations and bringing closure to complex HR issues through the domestic enquiry process
• Experience with coaching and counseling at all levels of the organization
• Experience collaborating across teams and varying levels of the organization and building relationships while in a business-related role (HR, Legal & Compliance, Financial/ Internal Audit)
• Bi/poly-lingual – Kannada & Hindi is preferable
• Experience in a manufacturing and service environment
  
  
  

Who We Are

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

As a Koch company, Koch Global Services (KGS) provides consulting and transactional services for Koch companies in the areas of human resources, information technology, finance, accounting as well as project, facilities, and property management. Our think tank of problem-solvers and idea-makers transform work life for 122,000 employees around the globe.At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

"Koch is proud to be a equal opportunity workplace."