Senior Labor Relations Specialist

About the role

Responsible for implementation of policy provisions and programs affecting the hours of work, wages, benefits, and conditions of WTCC’s craft professional employees at the Waste Treatment Plant Project (WTP). Provide sound counsel, guidance, and professional support to project management on matters pertinent to labor relations.

Responsibilities

• Monitor labor relations activities daily and provide advice and guidance to management personnel in the resolution of labor disputes, grievances, and craft professional employee relations issues.
• Represent WTCC Project in meetings with local union officials to discuss such items as: the resolution of labor disputes, manpower shortages, referral of apprentices, minority and female craft professionals.
• Advise and provide guidance to project management regarding craft professional employee relations issues, work rule violations, disciplinary process and performance management.
• Develop and revise labor relations policies, procedures, guides and jobsite work rules as necessary.
• Establish and maintain a positive working relationship with local union officers and representatives.
• Interface with Legal, Employee Concerns, Contracts, Human Resources and Customer Labor Relations Departments with regards to craft professional employee issues and concerns.
• Serve as witness when required.
• Manage and administer the Project’s craft professional rating and ranking program.
• Review Project and project labor relations policies and practices and recommend changes for approval.
• Remain cognizant of all state and federal labor laws and related legislation applicable to craft employees.
• Interface with Project environmental, safety, and health management regarding development and implementation of safety related issues at WTP.
• Support the WTP Nuclear Safety Quality Culture by emphasizing the values of safety and quality in the performance of work to protect self, others, and the environment.

Requirements

Education and experience (one of the following):

• Bachelor's degree in business management, industrial relations, or human resources and 5 years of professional industrial relations or labor relations experience and/or Construction/Operations/Maintenance supervisory role or journeyman craft experience.
• Associate degree in business management, industrial relations, or human resources and 8 years of professional industrial relations or labor relations experience and/or Construction/Operations/Maintenance supervisory role or journeyman craft experience.
• High School Diploma/GED and 12 years of professional industrial relations or labor relations experience and/or Construction/Operations/Maintenance supervisory role or journeyman craft experience.

Physical requirements

Office Field Non-Manual (OFNM). Performs deskwork, including writing, computer workstation processes, and telephone operations. Arranges for and/or performs presentations, oral reports, planning meetings, and other formal and informal contacts requiring long periods of sitting.

Schedule

This position is located at the WTP Site (22 miles north of Richland) and works a 4 × 10 schedule, Monday through Thursday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Pay

$115,543.99 – $182,530.01

Location & security

• Must be authorized to work and remain in the United States without Amentum visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check which includes verification of employment and education.
• Must be able to obtain a Department of Energy badge for access to the Hanford Site (even if teleworking, must still be able to comply with security requirements to obtain a badge).
• Non-U.S. citizens from countries identified by the Department of Energy as posing heightened security concerns—including sensitive countries, state sponsors of terrorism, countries of risk, and other designated countries—are subject to additional security requirements.

Company background

Amentum is a global company with a heritage dating back more than 100 years and delivering solutions in nuclear energy, infrastructure, operations and maintenance, and national security. Our predecessors helped build Hoover Dam, protected fighting forces in World War II, and supported the Manhattan Project. Today, our teams clean up legacy nuclear waste around the world, manage the United Kingdom’s defense portfolio, design programs and tests for Navy submarine electronic systems, and provide integrated supply chain services needed in developing countries during the pandemic. Amentum has joined with Bechtel to create an LLC, known as the Waste Treatment Completion Company (WTCC). Join us as we make history at the Hanford Vit Plant, known as the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. We are designing and building a one-of-a-kind facility that will turn radioactive and chemical waste left over from World War II and Cold War plutonium production into a form safe for disposal. Your efforts will help protect the nearby Columbia River and the communities, salmon, and wildlife along its shorelines throughout the Northwest. Sitting at the confluence of the Columbia, Snake and Yakima rivers near two mountain ranges, our community provides access to year-round outdoor recreation, 300 days of sun a year, more than 200 wineries within a 50-mile radius, and the amenities of large cities just a three-hour drive (or short flight) to Seattle and Portland.