Senior HR Specialist

Senior HR Specialist

FTXT-Canada is committed to developing world class hydrogen fuel cell products. FTXT has a global multicultural team with offices in Vancouver (Canada), Shanghai (China), and Baoding (China). This position is reporting to the Vancouver office in BC at FTXT’s fuel cell stack center of excellence. FTXT offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package with a culture of innovation.

FTXT-Canada is seeking a Senior HR Specialist to play a key role in recruitment, performance management, employee enagement, employee compensations & benefits, and China expats HR management. The successful candidate will report to the Managing Director in Vancouver and the HR Director in China to support the grow of 35-person team in 2023 to 60-person team in 2025.

We are looking for someone who can quickly understand the human capital needs to support our objectives and trajectory, not only what skills and experience we need, but also the values, behaviours and mindsets that align. It is important for us to not only match “what” a person bring to us, but also “how” they work. The successful candidate knows our labour market well and creates custom sourcing strategies for our department and roles, using best in class techniques to attract and select our most important asset, people. In addition, the successful candidate needs to

Key responsibilities include:

• Conducting full-cycle recruitment including: establishing requirements; building applicant pools; developing sourcing strategies; short listing candidates; evaluating candidates; managing candidates throughout the recruitment cycle; and negotiating offers.
• Coaching managers on recruitment and selection issues.
• Supporting the co-op student recruitment portfolio; this includes building relationships with post-secondary institution co-op offices, career centres and faculty representatives
• Managing payroll and benefits related activities.
• Coordinating goal settings and performance management process with functional managers.
• Ensuring employee enagement at FTXT-Canada.
• Managing all China expats need in Vancouver.
• Assisting in the development and implementation of recruitment strategies.
• Participating in other projects, within HR and corporate-wide, as required.

What you will be doing:

Talent Acquisition

• Work closely with FTXT-China HR team to set and/or implement HR employee policies, procedures, compensation packages, and communication system to meet the Canadian fuel cell industry standards.
• Develop employee recruitment plan and onboarding package, write job descriptions, screen canadiates, interview canadiates and select successful canadiates and proposed compensation packages details.
• Full cycle recruitment for FTXT-Canada and Oversea recruiting for FTXT-China.

Payroll, Benefits and Pensions

• Support FTXT-China on Canadian payroll related issues with ADP.
• Respond to all employee benefits and pension inquiries, and assists to resolution
• Completes benefits onboarding and offboarding activities for all employees
• Maintains current information on provider websites for all employee benefit changes.
• Coordinates, promotes, and facilitates benefits presentations, educational sessions and tools for employees, including delivery of new employee orientations.
• Provides analytics, insights and recommendations on enhancements to benefit program design, policy, philosophy, strategy and technology.
• Keep apprised of all pertinent federal and provincial regulations, filing and compliance requirements affecting employee benefit programs to ensure company compliance.
• Manages benefit broker and vendor relationships; work with benefits advisors to improve FTXT-Canada benefit plan to help FTXT-Canada to be more competitive with the other fuel cell company in term of talents retention.
• Oversee the benefits renewal and approval process, including coordinating discussions between benefit broker, HR, and management.

HR Administration & Support

• Main point of contact for employees and managers for any benefits disability or leave inquiries.
• Manage disability claims and administers leaves.
• Maintain and update employee files, databases and employee records.
• Works with managing director on employee departures and other HR administrative functions as required.
• Participates in HR projects as required.
• Support goal setting and performance review process for all FTXT-Canada employees.
• Manage all China expats HR related activities.

Candidates should have:

• A minimuim of three years’ experience in recruitment, preferably in a corporate environment, with a proven ability to build and maintain talent pools and pipelines.
• A bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration or a related field (concentration in Human Resource Management is a plus); or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Effective at communicating complex topics with an unfamiliar audience
• Experience working across all layers of the organization, particularly with cross-functional teams, in a fast-paced environment
• Awareness of the current Vancouver labour market and demonstrated skills at developing recruitment strategies that support business requirements
• General knowledge of Canada Labour Code and regulations, and BC Employment Law.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams)
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills
• Thrives in a multi-tasking, fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
• Self-motivated with good judgement, team focused.
• Fluent in spoken and written English is required. Able to speak, read and write other languages would be an asset, especially in Mandarin.
• Cerficiated Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) would be an asset.

FTXT is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all qualified candidates to apply.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• North Vancouver, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Human resources: 3 years (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in North Vancouver, BC