Senior Employee Relations Investigator

Location(s)

ZAPOPAN, Jalisco

Company

Koch

Career Field

Human Resources

Job Number

194034

Your Job

As a Senior Employee Relations Investigator, you will serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, HR partners, and Legal teams across Mexico and Latin America. You will lead workplace investigations, provide guidance on complex employee relations matters, and help ensure the consistent application of company policies and legal requirements across Koch businesses.

Our Team

The Employee Relations & Compliance team is part of Koch’s Global Employment Team within Legal. In partnership with Labor Relations and Labor & Employment Counsel, our team supports Koch companies around the world by helping leaders navigate employee relations concerns, workplace investigations, compliance matters, and employment-related risk.

What You Will Do

This role provides exposure to some of the organization's most sensitive and complex employee situations. You will regularly support leaders and employees through matters involving workplace misconduct, harassment, discrimination, workplace violence, employee conflicts, and other challenging workplace concerns. Success in this role requires strong judgment, objectivity, professionalism, and empathy when navigating difficult situations and helping others reach effective outcomes.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Demonstrated experience in employee relations, workplace investigations, HR or compliance.

• Demonstrated experience independently conducting workplace investigations.

• Working knowledge of Mexican culture, employment laws and regulations, and/or HR strategic practices.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both Spanish and English.

• Experience producing clear, concise, and well-organized investigation reports.

• Experience building collaborative relationships and working effectively in face-to-face and hybrid cross-border environments.

• High level of professionalism, objectivity, and discretion when handling sensitive employee matters and partnering with employees and leaders at all levels of the organization.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to define problems, assess complex situations, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make sound recommendations

• Experience coaching and counseling leaders and employees at all levels of the organization

• Experience in a business-related role (HR, compliance, labor relations, accounting, finance, IT, sales, or law enforcement) with the ability to collaborate and build relationships across teams and organizational levels

• Experience in a manufacturing environment

• Experience working with unions or in a unionized environment

• Bachelors’ Degree or higher

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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