Labor Relations Manager (Aerospace)

Location: Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Company

hirify.global provides aerospace, industrial engineering, aviation maintenance, logistics, manufacturing, and government services programs.

What you will do

• Administer and interpret collective bargaining agreements across multiple business units, sites, and bargaining units.
• Advise operational leaders, HR partners, supervisors, and union representatives on contract interpretation, discipline, investigations, scheduling, overtime, and workforce changes.
• Conduct investigations and support grievance resolution through labor-management meetings, mediation, and settlement negotiations.
• Prepare grievance responses, labor correspondence, management briefs, arbitration documentation, and case summaries.
• Support collective bargaining, effects bargaining, MOAs, MOUs, successor contract transitions, and implementation of ratified agreements.
• Provide labor relations training and help develop enterprise policies, procedures, templates, and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, Industrial Relations, Business Administration, Employment Law, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of progressive labor relations experience in unionized environments.
• Experience administering collective bargaining agreements, handling grievances and investigations, and managing labor-management relations.
• At least one year of experience as a chief negotiator and experience handling 10 or more collective bargaining agreements.
• Knowledge of the NLRA, Service Contract Act, FLSA, and related federal labor and employment regulations.
• Strong investigative, analytical, organizational, communication, conflict-resolution, and confidentiality skills, plus proficiency with Microsoft Office, HRIS, labor tracking, and case management systems.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or advanced labor relations certification.
• Arbitration and mediation experience.
• Experience in government contracting, defense, aerospace, industrial manufacturing, logistics, aviation maintenance, or similarly regulated industries.
• Experience supporting large, geographically dispersed unionized workforces and government-contract workforce transitions.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional office environment supporting multiple departments and operational programs.
• Work involves sensitive and confidential matters, multiple priorities, and a fast-paced operational setting.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation policies apply in accordance with applicable laws.
• Preference may be given to Calista shareholders, descendants, spouses, and eligible shareholders of other corporations established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.