Regional Employee & Relations Specialist

Job Locations: Brecksville, Ohio, Wickliffe, Ohio or Deer Park, Texas

Job Type: Full-Time

Type of Role: Hybrid

About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Regional Employee & Labor Relations Specialist!

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

As a Labor and Employee Relations Specialist, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, responsible for supporting in the development and implementation of the employee and labor relations global strategy and translating the strategy into actions that tie to clear business outcomes and measures. You will lead and manage employee relations investigations from start to finish, primarily in North America with support on global investigations. You will assess situations to determine risk, consult on mitigation, and escalate to appropriate stakeholders. Document, track, and close out all matters in centralized system to reporting standards while maintaining confidentiality. Provide consultation and guidance to various HR and business stakeholders on employee and labor relations matters. You may be called upon to assist with an array of labor-related activities as well including supporting negotiations with unions and works councils, and assisting in the successful execution of performance, and governance of the end-to-end Labor Relations processes in accordance with the Global strategy.

You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. You will directly interact with Lubrizol Operations leadership, country people leaders, the global HR team, and Legal Advisors.

• Independently investigate highly sensitive employee relations issues, including conducting complainant, witness, and subject interviews; analyzing data from various internal systems; collaborating with appropriate stakeholders; case management and adjudication; proposing remedial action based on investigation findings; and producing completed investigation documentation.
• Analyze aggregate case data to identify issue trends and opportunities for proactive issue mitigation; make strategic recommendations to HR and business stakeholders at all levels in the organization to proactively address systemic issues.

• Utilizes a practical, creative, and proactive problem-solving approach to efficiently close issues while advising business leaders on acceptable risk.
• Contribute to policies, standards, and business procedures designed to foster compliance with various employment laws and regulations, and to ensure our work environments embody trust, fairness, and inclusion for our employees. Maintain governance and ensure effective and compliant management over process documentation.
• Support local / regional / country / site leaders and HR in labor negotiations and counsel on enterprise-wide labor-management relations, negotiations, union-avoidance strategy, and contract administration activities in region.
• Maintains current knowledge of employee and labor relations trends in the US, legal decisions, and statutory changes.

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, labor relations, law, or business-related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with employee relations investigation casework.
• Labor relations experience with unions, collective bargaining, and negotiations preferred.
• Ability to recognize and define problems; gather sophisticated data and analyze it; establish facts; and draw valid conclusions.
• Deep labor and employee relations experience in a global environment.
• Bi-lingual applicants are highly regarded. (French, German, Spanish, Dutch)

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.

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