HR Business Partner

Vicinity Energy is North America’s largest provider of district energy solutions, offering low carbon energy to most of the iconic buildings you see in the skylines of Boston, Cambridge, Philadelphia, Baltimore and many other cities in the US. As a member of the communities we serve, all of us at Vicinity understand the critical role we play in reducing the impacts of climate change and being a leader in decarbonization. We are committed to net zero and eliminating our reliance on fossil fuels, but we need the best and the brightest minds on our team to help us reach our goal, not only for us as a company, but for our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Summary

The HR Business Partner is responsible for the development, implementation, and coordination of the organization’s human resource strategies within a multi-state region. The HRBP aligns human resource objectives with employees and management at the Vicinity corporate level. The HRBP anticipates, manages, and delivers value-added services that impact the organization’s goals in the areas of recruitment, training and development, performance management, employee relations, compliance, and career development. This position will collaborate with the Leadership Team, recruiting partner, labor relations, talent management and payroll/HRIS team to deliver exceptional customer service to the business. This is a full-time exempt position located in Boston, MA. The HR Business Partner reports to the SVP of HR. The compensation is $130-160K plus 20% bonus target.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the HR subject matter expert to managers and employees and establishes HR as a credible and trustworthy business resource.
• Ensure HR is providing customer-oriented service to the business including talent management and organizational effectiveness.
• Manage programs, policies, and procedures to support the organizational culture.
• Foster a positive, diverse, and inclusive culture through education, communication, and initiatives.
• Coach managers and others to achieve maximum potential.
• Facilitate performance management through coaching, systems, and processes.
• Develop and coordinate learning and development plans to transfer knowledge and provide career growth for employees across the business.
• Conduct assessments to identify issues and partners with managers to implement solutions Communicates and applies policy and procedures across organization and recommends changes to support business needs.
• Partner with Manager, Labor Relations to conduct investigations of workplace policy violations and mediates difficult employee relations issues.
• Serves as a team leader for organizational initiatives and implements change management as needed to support initiatives.
• Gathers and reports HR metrics including key performance indicators to assess and improve HR service.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum eight years’ experience in human resources function.

• Minimum two years’ experience with two of the following: succession planning, talent development, or developing training programs.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum three years’ strategic HR experience supporting a multi-state matrixed organization.      
• Master’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum two years’ experience working closely with site and corporate leadership teams.

Physical Requirements 

• Must submit to a company provided drug screening as part of pre-employment process.
• Travel expected up to 25% of the time.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY POLICY STATEMENT Vicinity Energy is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.