Labor Relations Specialist

Overview About Us

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

• The Labor Relations Specialist will assist in developing and implementing labor relations strategies in alignment with the applicable V2X Leadership Team. The Labor Relations Specialist may interface with division leaders, company legal counsel, local union representatives, and regional and national union leadership. They also serve as a resource point of contact for management and HR Business Partners (HRBPs) at the unionized company operating locations.

• Ability to proactively respond and engage in all labor relations matters

  Key Responsibilities:

• Provide support in CBA interpretation, strategy development, planning, and execution of positive Employee and Labor Relations initiatives

• In-depth understanding and the ability to apply technical principles, theories, and concepts of the Labor Relations field

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of applicable employment and labor laws, reducing risk and ensuring regulatory compliance

• Ability to proactively analyze and interpret complex employee data to provide solutions to employee labor relations matters

• Provide labor relations subject matter support to the HR Business Partners at all unionized operating locations

• Assists the Corporate Labor Relations Lead on all Labor Relations issues

• Responsible for achieving goals around strategic labor relations initiatives, continuous improvement, and the professional development of self, as communicated by the Corporate Labor Relations Lead

• Fosters a diverse, inclusive, and equitable culture.

• Work closely with Corporate People Operations, the division, and cross-functional organizations to continuously improve service delivery

• May serve as a lead or team member on special project teams

• Support thorough and compliant labor relations investigations

• Proactively identify leadership development training focused on labor relations competencies

• Ensures cultural alignment with V2X’s core values of professionalism, integrity, and respect

• Assists in the development of the negotiation strategy that includes economic and non-economic impacts of the CBA

• Assists in the preparation of the negotiation strategy package to submit for corporate leadership approval

• Ability to utilize the entire suite of HCMS solutions to optimize labor relations service delivery

• Maintains a comprehensive library of all CBAs, MOUs/MOAs, negotiation schedules, strategy briefs, grievance & arbitration logs, etc.

• Assist with Step 3 grievance meetings and replies, and arbitration strategy planning.

• Recommends solutions to management to resolve grievances

• Maintains the highest ethical standards.

• Assist the Corporate Labor Relations Lead during the negotiation of Collective Bargaining Agreements in accordance with the corporate labor relations strategy

• Will require intermediate to advanced experience in the Microsoft Office Suite of Solutions, primarily Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to use project management skills to effectively complete all assigned strategic and tactical deliverables

• Ability to proactively respond and engage in all labor relations matters

• Develop the ability to moderate, mediate, and mitigate conflict situations in a professional manner

• Ability to make recommendations during contract negotiations to mutually agreeable terms and conditions

• Ability to use project management skills to effectively complete all assigned strategic and tactical deliverables

• Ability to identify and develop meaningful labor relations metrics that set benchmarks for service delivery

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or Business Management and at…