Director, Labor Relations
$155,300–$213,510 year
On-site · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States or Portland, Oregon, United States
Job Summary
Director, Labor Relations leads strategic labor-relations efforts for a regulated utility, serving as chief liaison between management and unions. Responsibilities include overseeing collective bargaining across multiple CBAs, contract administration, grievance resolution, investigations, and policy development; supervising and mentoring a team; ensuring compliance with federal/state/local labor laws; and advising senior leadership. The role requires extensive experience in unionized environments, strong negotiation and leadership capabilities, and travel (approximately 25%+).
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in labor relations, Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience
- A minimum of ten years’ progressive labor relations experience within a unionized and regulated environment (utility industry experience strongly preferred)
- A minimum of five years’ experience of direct people management
- Ability to interpret financial models to facilitate economic analysis throughout the collective bargaining process and for monitoring of results thereafter
- Deep knowledge of labor laws, collective bargaining processes, and union-management relations
- Strong leadership, coaching, and team development skills
- Excellent negotiation, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to interpret complex contracts and legal documents
- Strategic thinker with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset
- Experience working with regulatory bodies and understanding of utility-specific labor challenges
- Leadership and teamwork skills to negotiate with and influence peers and management on policy and strategic issues
- Communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to manage and motivate employees, use oral and written communication to create a vision, communicate strategy, and effectively interface with other company leaders
- Understand and utilize the company’s strategic plan, regulatory and political environment, as well as the company’s policies, procedures and practices, and applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations to guide decision-making
- Travel will be required. 25%+
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